Instead of having job security and working with a few H1B visa holders, now my entire division is apparently being moved to Bangalore. I definitely feel like I’m winning now.

24TB Seagate drives are on sale for 249 right now, actually a good time to stock up

Glad I got out when I did

My hosting costs are ~$500 a month. I get about $118 a month from Patreon subs. I also get $200 a month from a single advertiser. Still need to pay ~$200 a month out of pocket.

Ads suck, sure, but shit’s expensive for hobbyists.

I’ve made some DIY smart home devices with some ESP32s, I know how much premade stuff can be overpriced for sure. I still want to make a TOF sensor for my water filter salt tank

We’ve gotten too used to the price of tech being so low because we’re almost always the product. The Meta VR headsets, Alexa, Google Home, anything where data from us can be harvested, they’ll gladly subsidize to help get it into our homes.

I’m really hoping the HA voice stuff keeps getting better and better, we need it if we’re ever going to get people away from these data harvesting “assistants”

Y’all Qaeda

I’m pretty far left, but I wouldn’t say “liberal”, more like “this hexbear place seems pretty good”

As a lemmy.ml account holder… I’m a bit out of the loop. I’m not tied to any single instance and can move to a new one (any recommendations?), but what does ml do that’s bad? Honest question, promise, I don’t follow this stuff very much

Spirit isn’t that bad, as long as you know what you’re getting into. Frontier, on the other hand…

Pretty ballsy for a European-American

I will absolutely be playing this game.

I will not be purchasing it, however.

Same, I was a “green badge” among all the “blue badge” direct hires

A lot of people tend to forget, comparing SC’s timeline of development to other AAA games doesn’t work when those games are pushed out early, rushed to the finish line by publishers who don’t care about polish, only sales numbers, and are fine with compromise at every level.

Chris Roberts doesn’t do compromise. Every system in SC is created for hyper realism, down to working hydraulics and gears for the moving parts of ships. He wants everything to be perfect, and he’ll call it done when he’s happy with it.

And like you said, it’s technically playable right now. I’ve never before been part of an alpha development, able to make posts about bugs that actually get read, commented on, and fixed by the dev team. Most game “betas” are just a 3 day early-access where nothing will actually change.

The game is hyped up so much because we see the potential, enjoy playing what we can, and love having a say in it’s development.

It’s more gameplay than they’ve shown in the past decade, they’ve been very tight lipped with anything to date

Good

A lot of services have stopped accepting + addresses as valid, or even stripping them before saving. So at least for a while, - addresses could be more useful

I’m in the same boat, went from a software engineer at Intel for 6 years to “oh sorry, this entry level position requires a master’s and 15+ years experience” or “are you willing to relocate to San Francisco/New York/other very high COL area?”

I closed on a house 2 weeks before being laid off, I’m terrified.