Geth

joined 2 years ago
[–] Geth 8 points 1 year ago

Today, yes, I agree. It's really hard to compete with them anymore. But 15 years ago when everyone was rushing to capture the market, there were many opportunities to do so. Steam and valve were never infallible, but at least they took feedback and stayed consistent, unlike their competitors.

[–] Geth 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They are a monopoly because they've had the best product on the market consistently for 15 years. There used to be huge resistance to them and their drm from gamers, but they have shown over many years that they are trustworthy, unlike others that have tried this.

This is not an Apple or Google store situation where proper competition could not exist. They were always up against giants like Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft or more recently Epic.

[–] Geth 3 points 1 year ago

Even with the unified roaming prices, to this day I don't have sms included, but I have 30gb of data.

[–] Geth 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is news to me. Everyone I know just uses WhatsApp or Facebook messenger or even telegram. I haven't sent a sms in years and only received from banks or telco operators.

[–] Geth 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. It's an easy fix. I haven't had a mouse break in the last 10 years. The coatings start falling off before the clicks are a problem any more.

[–] Geth 2 points 1 year ago

You can check blocked stuff here https://sopuli.xyz/instances. Your instance is not blocking NSFW so most probably you need to check your account settings. There is a "show NSFW" checkmark in there.

[–] Geth 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This and the duplication of communities and also the fact that my account is not just a generic, across the verse account, but specific to an instance that can shut down or disaaper and remove all my preferences and post history.

These things were what was confusing when I joined and what I still think are the biggest issues with this platform. The fact that I hypothetically look up reddit alternative, find Lemmy, join the first one that shows up in the results without knowing any better, look up communities and there's like 5 of the same ones or none because it's defederated from others, the instance blocks NSFW communities because they are prudes, is blocked by others for various reasons, and then they could shutdown a week later removing my account is just insane user experience tbh.

[–] Geth 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's pretty much the idea behind the scrum events, they should reduce the need for other meetings. As a note the weekly stand-up and 1:1 that show up in the picture are not scrum events.

Thing is, the scrum guide is pretty clear that if you don't follow the whole thing, you shouldn't call it scrum and you're on your own. It can still work, but only if the mindset is right and people involved know what they are trying to do with it. Which most times is not the case.

[–] Geth 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Most people in corporate have no fucking idea what they are doing and a good setup will have these meetings focus everyone on the same thing and making sure they are progressing. This setup may not be useful for coding untestable and undocumented code in your basement, but it's very useful in big companies. Unfortunately there are also many twats that abuse this in order to make themselves look useful so it's very easy to end up in a broken system if no one is keeping an eye out for this.

[–] Geth 5 points 1 year ago

Which is a shame, since they are so bad.

[–] Geth 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a joke related to you insisting on being disgusting. We're past communicating the point and into laughing about it territory. Good luck with your dirty bum.

[–] Geth 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You dont have to. I can smell you from over here.

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