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“We have the money to fix the problem, we really just don’t want to.”

Everyone always says homelessness is a complicated issue due to addiction and mental health and then that’s it. full stop. in many peoples heads those TWO groups are the ONLY groups that make up the homeless population. but after volunteering I know better. you have students, you have women escaping domestic abuse, you have the elderly who can no longer afford rent, you have kids who are LGBTQ+ that have been disowned by their families, you have refugees, and you have people who simply lost their jobs and fell through the cracks.

allowing students to sleep in their cars is not a solution. it’s another band aid applied to a massive gaping wound. And this isn’t just an America issue, several countries are guilty of band aid “solutions”. I mean hell here in Canada the government is talking about investing $1billion into AI for fucks sake. That $1billion could be better served in providing people with homes. There’s never any long term planning here, always short term “solutions”. Wouldn’t it be advantageous to governments to ensure people have homes in order to get them back into the workforce thus paying taxes.

Call me a heart on the sleeve soft liberal all you want but I’m of the firm belief that EVERYONE deserves and has the right to a home and food and if they can’t provide either of those things for themselves than we as a society, as a community, need to provide it for them. And I firmly believe that the majority of our society feel the same and wouldn’t mind their tax dollars going towards that. It’s just that the powers that be don’t want that.

so 2025. instead of wearing stars of david or getting tattoo’d with numbers you get a watch.

Hey Americans, when do the gas chambers and ovens start up?

you should really watch some of these videos on youtube, there’s quite a few of them and yes you’re 100% spot on that if I recorded myself doing this stuff I would be fired but some of these kids go into great detail as to what issues Amazon is having, the details of said issues, and potential work-arounds/fixes their seniors suggest to them. When on call only the new hire is paged and it’s up to them to page a senior or someone else on the team when they’re stuck. The problem is these kids don’t want to admit they’re stuck to their seniors or other team members because they feel it’ll impact them negatively. They admit to it. So I’d say 8 times out of 10 the tickets they get paged for don’t get resolved and are passed on to another team in the morning. So the whole thing is pointless.

In one video I watched they do have a shadow but it was reversed. the senior is the shadow and ONLY during the day. the new grad hire is still doing all the work. and after office hours they’re no their own. I wish I could find the video again as it was awhile ago but one kid recorded himself working on a ticket at like 3am and I was almost screaming at the screen like “NO DON’T DO THAT OH MY GOD PLEASE CALL SOMEONE!”

It’s like when AWS went down a few weeks ago I was thinking “probably one of these new hires at 2am trying to fix something”

OR They want Vance to be prez but think having an Indian wife ain’t going to help so they’re all “ok JD, pick someone other than a couch” and JD was all “Kirks wife wears leather pants” and so Charlie had to go.

one of the many reasons I switched to codeberg and my own forgejo instance.

Github is garbage. if you can, get off it.

they don’t. I mean for example Amazon puts all new hires on “on call” status for like a week every month. the LAST people I would want working On Call and waking up at 2am to try and solve something are fresh grad hires. You can actually watch videos on youtube of new grad amazon hires doing this, they actually document themselves, and the vast majority of them are “well it’s 1am and I just got a call…I’m going to try and fix this ticket but really I have no idea what I’m doing” annnnnd generally nothing gets fixed or they break it worse. So they end up being sleep deprived, going into the office the next day and sleeping at whatever workstation they can find available and it leaves you wondering “what’s the point?”

I personally am of the belief that being on call for stuff like this is pointless when you’re world wide and could literally just transition the stuff to a different team in some other part of the world but I guess Amazon treats it as a sort of initiation process or whatever.

I’d rather use Omarchy than Manjaro that’s for sure and I absolutely hate Omarchy.

I daily driver QuteBrowser and have for awhile now. I like it. does everything I need it to do and the vim style navigation is awesome.

Sure there are some quirks that can be solved via userscripts and trust me I have a lot written for it but everything that requires an extension in firefox or chrome i have working on Qutebrowser. I don’t get adds with youtube in fact dare I saw I have it set up better than what you could get on Firefox or Chrome, I have my password management via bitwarden, it all just works. And the dev, The Compiler, is great and is always on top of issues that come up.

there’s yet to be any site i’ve come across that just doesn’t work.

Arch on a Thinkpad. you did good.

I really need to find another used thinkpad, friggin love those things.

Gentoo is a fun hobby tinker thing on some laptop you don’t really care about. I will say kudos to people who do use it as a daily driver as they have way more time than I do and I envy them for it. If I had the the time to dedicate to it I would use it as a daily driver.

been doing it for years, decades even, I mean hell when I was in high school in the late 90s I could get people to open an exe I sent them so I could open their cdrom tray and mess around with them via notepad.

I’ve always said LLMs are fantastic rubber ducks. But taking said rubber duck and telling it to build something end to end or hitting tab without verifying anything is going to lead you to a world of hurt. the person doing it won’t know the world of hurt is coming because they simply don’t know any better. the company won’t know the world of hurt is being built around them because like the vibe coder they dont’ know any better.

then suddenly it’s finished, pushed to production, and there’s your world of hurt.

but hey I get paid to fix said world for them so keep on trucking I guess. at this rate I’ll be retiring by the end of the next year.

yup this is what companies are going to pivot to and I’m already seeing it. I’ve recently had potential new clients reach out to me not to code review their vibe coders AI slop but rather something similar to “verification debt” i.e. they want to stay the course with LLMs and vibe coders BUT have someone else on board to verify everything.

I’ve told each and every one of them no, I won’t do that. Why bring someone else on board or even a team of people to verify the slop when you can can just circumvent the slop, fire the vibe coder and cancel your LLM sub, and just have the people verifying actually write the shit instead.

These places simply refuse to ditch AI. they’re too deep into it now. they’ll continue to utilize AI and Junior Devs to build their crap from end to end and then hope that someone can come in and make sure whats been produced actually works and scales. It won’t, it never will, so build times will take longer and end up costing them as much if not more than when they had a team of devs.

They all drank the linkedin tech bros kool-aid and refuse to admit they were actually drinking tech bro piss.

“people were literally crying laughing” I’ve never wanted to punch someone in the throat more than this ass clown.

yeah I agree Terry was extremely talented, I’ve seen what he did with game animations and it blew my mind.

This distro however does reek of being built by a crazy person as they rant about how Ubuntu was based on Gnoppix and rails against tech journalists and Kubuntu for some reason.

what repo do you usually use for your Steam package? try a different one? try flatpak?

I don’t know but all I can say is last week I switched back to Arch and noticed a few programs I usually use the packages from like multilib were absolute garbage, just didn’t work anymore.

but it’s odd that it’s only No Man’s Sky multiplayer and your other games work fine.

this distro is just shady all over. even going to their site they said the project was based in Germany but states due to EU regulations had to relocate to the US BUT if you go to their jobs page they state they’re now a “Japanese Linux Open Source Project” BUT if you decide to look even further into it the thing looks like it’s NOW based out of Singapore. Also look at the sponsors in the page…Valve? Tuta? Google? I don’t buy it.

Then you look at their “forums” and it’s just…AI slop news articles?

This feels like a distro built by a crazy man almost on par with TempleOS.

I wouldn’t trust this thing as far as I could throw it.

there’s just no point any longer. the days of console exclusives, other than Nintendo, are over. the PS5 has a grand total of like 15 console exclusives, that’s it, 15! what’s the point? Why pay for a PS5 when I can play the same games it has for potentially cheaper on a PC? I mean hell even former Playstation exclusives I can now play on PC. There’s absolutely zero point to throw down money on a Playsation or Xbox when better and cheaper options exist to play the exact same games.

they announced a new one awhile back but I don’t think it’s going to go anywhere. but yeah Andromedia was bad, I couldn’t even make it past the very first planet.

mass effect? honestly that’s all I can think of off the top of my head. They’ll start pumping out more Battlefields, more sports, more money into UFC games and I would bet good money they’ll try to buy the license for WWE games from 2k. Saudi’s love their WWE.