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Oh shoot! I missed posting to this topic on my cakeday by 20 minutes, but me!

Came over after they killed third party apps because I couldn't use my beloved Sync, which is now never updated anyways.

I'm not ashamed to admit I moved to Reddit during the great Digg migration. Platforms come and go, you just keep on rolling.

In all seriousness, I do feel like content has got better here in that time and I enjoy the raw, early Internet vibes. There's still plenty of room to grow, but I feel very positive about it all.

Touch support really needs some love because OOF. I understand why it's maybe not a priority, but I have a nice little 2-in-1 and I'm tired of pretending like tablets don't at least deserve their niche.

Any good gesture support software I might be missing?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Touchscreen#Wayland/Weston

If I'm reading the wiki correctly, touch is just reduced to pointer input and yeah, that's exactly what it feels like

EDIT:

Yes, the writing is on the wall. X11’s upstream development has dropped off significantly in recent years, and X11 isn’t able to perform up to the standards of what people expect today with respect to support for multi-monitor setups, high DPI monitors, HDR, VRR, other fancy monitor features, multi-GPU setups, screen tearing, security, crash robustness, input handling, and more.

I glossed over it on first reading, but I guess there's a small nod to it there and that's something.

It's hard to pick what current AI application I hate the most, but music is right up there at the top.

It's absolutely ruined any sort of ambient/lo-fi/vaporwave/city pop mix on Youtube. And I think now it's coming for dungeonsynth too, AUGH!

Endless AI slop channels. You can tell it's AI because they all have AI generated logos, overly intricate but garbled album art, no individual track names or citations, and most tellingly usually seem to be pretty consistently 1 or 2 hours exact. I'm guessing this is a sort of limitation of whatever software or paid subscription they're using. You'll also notice them upload a new album at impossibly prolific rates; if not daily then usually at least 2-3 times a week.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/@ChillCityFM/videos

Most of them admit to using AI tools if you poke around the descriptions, I think they're obligated to if it weren't already apparent enough.

I feel your pain. I'm a big fan of the PS controller design as well. This isn't a serious recommendation as I haven't done it yet myself, but your best bet may just be to buy a PS5 controller with some HAL effect replacement sticks.

(Just using Amazon as an example, there are probably cheaper/better European options but it looks like a 2-pack would run you about $14USD / €‎12) https://www.amazon.com/PS5-Hall-Effect-Joystick-Replacement-2-Pack/dp/B0DN8T9KJW

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/DualSense+Joystick+Replacement/142488

Be warned as it looks like in order to do the replacement you'll need to desolder the old sticks and solder in the new ones.

This'll probably be my plan, one day, but I suck at soldering so I'm likely going to find a friend to do it for me and bribe them with some beer.

Social media, at it's heart, is inevitable. We will always find a way to share pictures, information, videos, etc. with each other. It's such basic functionality when you really think about it. We're social creatures and this is the most important thing we would do with technology.

The issue is specifically with platforms; how they consolidate power and who owns them.

I don't know what to do about it, it's one of the biggest problems we are going to continue to face in our time. I can't really armchair solutions for it now, but I think it's of the utmost importance that we recognize it and discuss it.

Social media is not inherently bad, it's the platforms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg5kB4UcAuA

If you've ever listened to Welcome to Nightvale this was one of the first weather reports. Was driving to work one day when it came on and just had to pull over and stare off into the distance for a few minutes.

I tried the DevOps pivot, but wasn't real happy with it. Maybe some of it is just being located near a big tech hub right now, but I found most of the roles tied to startups that were just going to reinforce the kind of burnout I'm in.

Cyber Security is the new pivot. I figure the sysadmin background will give me a good leg up and there'll always be a call for security.

Cyber Security. It's close to the IT/Sysadmin world I know so I feel like I'll have a good start. I figure there's no such thing as job security anymore, but there'll always be a need for strong security.

Hey thanks, I sincerely appreciate the offer, but I already have plans in the works 😊

I don't wanna dox myself too much here, but I'm getting ready to return to classes after a career as a sysadmin.

More than just politics, it's the lack of regulation in the tech industry (which is also politics, yes, everything is). I don't think people realize how rapidly the tech industry is eating itself alive. There is a gigantic crash coming and it feels like it's already started, we're just trying our best to keep the tower stable for as long as possible because no one really wants this crash.

But there's no place for me anymore. No one does internal IT because it's too expensive, everything is cloud hosted and MSP provided. And those MSPs are all onboard the AI train to further cut costs and offload support tickets. What little humanity is left is just grease to keep the internet going 24/7, god forbid you can't access the skibidi toilet fandom site without 99.9% uptime (oops, wait, we say 99.999% uptime now in the cloud). The economy is crashing and no one can afford the ever increasing prices of games and services so they're going to cut hard wherever they can which is just going to result in even more layoffs.

I'm done, man. I'm cooked. I'm in my 30's and I'm burnt out as god damn hard as I've ever been and when this is all done, maybe if I'm lucky, I can be the sysadmin for a rural little bank in Lithuania making extremely modest wages but enough to feed myself and my cat and buy what little books and games and tea I need to get through existence. It's not much, but I know I won't find it here anymore.

AI is succeeding at exactly the things it's supposed to: laundering accountability and responsibility. This measure will succeed in accomplishing that. Not everyone is a true believer, a lot of them just see the possibility of using "super intelligent AI" as a smoke screen to completely hide the need for statistical deaths to drive profitability/reduce costs and the responsibility of making those decisions while shutting out the average person's ability to engage with any system beyond that AI smokescreen.

I keep screaming about how the TPM 2.0 requirements of Windows 11 are insidious due to the ability to implement remote attestation now. I don't think they'll spring the trap immediately, but it's locked and set and you'd be a fool to believe it won't happen eventually.

Remote attestation allows changes to the user's computer to be detected by authorized parties. For example, software companies can identify unauthorized changes to software, including users modifying their software to circumvent commercial digital rights restrictions. It works by having the hardware generate a certificate stating what software is currently running. The computer can then present this certificate to a remote party to show that unaltered software is currently executing.