Concrete goals, and reasonable steps to achieve them.

I feel like lately we’ve hit a weird speculative investment period in tech, where we have a bunch of tech that’s created because it can be, but not because it’s needed. Do LLMs, crypto currency, or NFTs have actual uses? Very possibly, but nothing concrete enough to satisfy the bubble that formed from them.

We live in an age of unreality. Give us something achievable and genuine, we get excited. It doesn’t have to be complicated, just real. Hell, I’m excited as fuck over solid sodium batteries, and that’s boring as shit.

I legit have never been more happy to be unemployed.

Was relocating a $10k piece of networking hardware and dropped it into another 10k VM server. Server was fine, network hardware was not. It was during a project that was a real mess, thought it was a stupid mistake though.

We were able to work around it, though we did lose the contract we were trying to make. Honestly though given how rushed and panicked that whole three months was though, we were lucky nobody suffered anything worse. Real shitshow.

I don’t hate the technology, I hate that I cannot chose where and when to use it. Consent is quite important.

God I hope so, but the next thing will likely be even more stupid than this, NFTs and crypto.

I agree with this. We already have a situation where we don’t have feasible alternatives to the primary method, Google search comes to mind. With Linux, even if every company in the world goes down, nerds will still want to play with the technology.

Oh for sure, I was kind of meaning the whole concept of worth and how we’ve become this weird cult of potential worshipping tech priests, but yes also that.

God I’m fucking sick of this loss leading speculative investment bullshit. It’s hit some bizarre zenith that has infected everybody in the tech world, but nobody has any actual intention of being practical in the making of money, or the functionality of the product. I feel like we should just can the whole damned thing and start again.

Random story, in one mission while I was searching a database for a client, I fat fingered the name and it gave me back a different person’s record

IT WAS MY FULL REAL LIFE NAME

Spooked the shit out of me.

Honestly with how that company is going you might be better off getting a cheap rig and installing your favourite flavour of Linux. I’m still salty their implementation of surround sound and video decoding can’t use the actual power of the chip it’s running on.

Fuck me sometimes I felt like I was the only person on the planet to play that game

Nah fuck you I laughed

That’s pretty much it yeah

I tried to look into this for a bit, but unfortunately nothing yet matches the Chromecast experience for me just yet.

I found my old Chromecast just wasn’t running current versions of the streaming apps, let alone 4k. I ended up getting a new one, it does run a lot better and more independently than the one I had from 2013. I have hooked up vlc on it to a file share on my PC and the convenience is extremely nice.

Heh, Darth Vader is an imperial unit.

Can’t help but feel like we’re getting there already with most sites having the exact same problem. I think Facebook might be the only site that actually makes money due to always prioritising money, everyone else has dominated the market by operating at a loss for the past 2 decades and now suddenly oops we decided we need money.

That’s a good tip, it probably can but I’ll need a bit of learning to figure it out. The Linux audio situation is a hell of a learning curve sometimes.

Would love to use it, it has the incorrect channel map for my surround sound system which apparently cannot be changed like it can in pulse? After that gets sorted then sure.