Not how the union works. But thanks for trying.

Found the guy who never worked a union job.

Reality doesn’t care whether you care to play or not.

There’s a limited amount of resources, you can’t hire everyone on Earth, you can’t give everyone an unlimited salary. Everything past that you’re making decisions as to who gets what.

And by the way, if you make enough poor decisions eventually everyone loses their jobs.

Its a very true dichotomy.

Hey let’s hire Ashok for this position! He’s really good!

Oops, sorry. Bob Whiteman has been here for 30 years. He’s just good enough not to fire but he has seniority so he gets first dibs on the job.

Hey, let’s give Ashok a raise! He’s really good!

Oops, sorry. Bob Whiteman has been here for 30 years. He’s just good enough not to fire. It he’s been here the longest so he gets paid the most.

The false dichotomy is assuming your choices are a massive adversarial bureaucracy or not making a living wage.

That doesn’t have anything to do with what I said.

Do you want to pay people more because they’re better at their job or do you want to pay people more because they’ve been warming a chair longer than anyone else?

I’m no big city doctor, but it seems like the people who were strong enough to decide to pack up and leave won.

I don’t think its too bad, but it probably depends a lot on a lot of factors.

Since I first started my hardware got a lot stronger, and nextcloud, php, and mariadb have all improved and so my experience has gotten pretty decent.

Remember though, there’s a ton of biases here, so I could be wrong…

“we only jerk each other off on union hours!”

My experiences with Nextcloud have been on another level in general. Really positive. I use it for a lot of things including notes, and its been really solid.

Nextcloud Notes has become my go-to (Oh look, SJ is advocating for Nextcloud again! How original!)

If Lenovo had better marketing, their decent lower cost phones should be dominating the market totally.

A creepy looking billionaire isn’t totally in charge of ActivityPub and can’t get more power out of politicians by lending favors to them using it.

I’m cheap.

So far, Conduit is the only answer for me, since I don’t own any quantum supercomputers.

Steve Jobs died in 2011, the headphone jack disappeared from the iPhone 7 in 2016.

The person who decided a headphone jack is superfluous should be found, tarred, feathered, and left naked and alone deep in the alaskan wilderness covered in pigs blood for the wildlife to enjoy.

I think it depends a lot on the federated service.

For mastodon, you follow individual users, so if there’s a million users or ten million or a hundred million, their instances will only be contacting other intances they’re federating with so it’s quite scalable.

For Lemmy, you follow communities, so every server pulls all the posts and comments the common community. This means that for an instance like lemmy.world hosting lots of different big communities, every new server hammers the one central instance.

A strategy for improving the situation I think would be to spread the load. Instead of everyone piling into megacommunities, if people spread out into smaller more tight knit communities over many different instances. Of course, this isn’t really compatible with the purpose of having communities like that.

It does seem to suggest that ActivityPub isn’t necessarily the most appropriate protocol for this purpose, even though it’s what was used because it’s the de facto standard on the fediverse.

In my country, you don’t get free upgrades anymore. You have to put them on a plan that adds a bunch to your phone bill every month. I know I haven’t even considered replacing a perfectly good phone after that (which is probably what things should be like anyway, but still…)

It’s important to remember that not every litre of water is the same as every other liter of water.

It’s really important to watch water use if you’re using groundwater in Texas or California, but water is a renewable resource in many places and it isn’t a problem to use water as long as it’s properly managed. For example if you remove water from a river, purify it, use it for something benign like cooling making sure not to add anything to it, process it so you’re not impacting the ecosystem, then return it to the same river, then you’ve used water, but you didn’t really consume anything.

On the other hand, if you polute that water, or you damage local ecosystems, or if you’re pulling water out of non-renewable sources, that’s a problem. Environmentalism must be local, there are few universal answers.