wizardbeard

If things keep going the way they seem to be, we're going to end up back with the same thing as old cable channel packages and ads on all streaming services.

Hell, forget doing anything with the office. I don't want to go back unless you have an on site private spa, massuese, catered food, and laundry service. Make it legitimately better than being at home and I'll consider it.

Instead, the blue shirted girlfriend should be: "A valuable intangible workplace benefit that you can continue offering for free after you were forced to invest in it due to the pandemic"

People applying for my position will make job acceptance or denial choices off of whether or not they get to work from home. We're already split across three "back office" physical locations when we are in the office and we're more than capable of having a conference call going in the background throughout the day for chitchat and bouncing ideas around verbally if we really need to. We didn't just survive during total work from home, we thrived. And we already have all the technical infrastructure, policies, and procedures in place to offer full work from home.

It's like if they could offer health insurance to employees for free, but decided not to because upper management can't figure out how to do their jobs when people have it.

Fuck this boils my piss.

They crawl wikipedia too, and are adding significant extra load on their servers, even though Wikipedia has a regularly updated torrent to download all its content.

I kind of miss the ol slugdogs. At least back then no one was trying to tell us it was coming for our jobs.

Most of these trimmed down portable Wiis boot into a homebrew menu as they don't have the IR lights attached by default (the Wii "sensor" bar which is just two IR lightbulbs), needed to navigate the menu using a Wiimote.

It's a novelty. Hardware hackers have been making smaller and more portable Wiis for years, finding more parts of the motherboard they can cut off, ways to rearrange mobo parts and reconnect them without impacting functionality, discrete parts they can replace with more modern smaller equivalents, etc.

This represents the smallest they've been able to cut down Wii hardware, still have it be functional, and still have the core be the original hardware, not a general use CPU with an emulation solution running over top. It's not a commercial product meant to compete with emulators on existing portable devices like phones and SBCs.

Does anyone really go back and play the older ones after the latest installment comes out?

Personally I just stick with whatever latest one I picked up.

I just don't see it as the kind of series where "keeping up" by playing through the old ones matters.

Sidestepped that completely. Got 64GB when I built my desktop because RAM prices were low.

20GB used up by whatever other shit I have open? No problem, still enough left for whatever I'm actively working on.

Suffice to say this has not actually helped with the issue.

There's a lot more to this article than the summary blurb would indicate.

It's mainly talking about how regardless of actual quality of output, market forces around AI are now allowing manager types to require more output from "mid-upper" class workers, and it's all shifting those positions downward to being treated more like assembly line jobs than they have been for decades.

Concerning trends, driven largely by market forces instead of any true quality or capability of AI.

I've been through the hellscape where managers used missed metrics as evidence for why we didn't need increased headcount on an internal IT helpdesk.

That sort of fuckery is common when management gets the idea in their head that they can save money on people somehow without sacrificing output/quality.

I'm pretty certain they were trying to find an excuse to outsource us, as this was long before the LLM bubble we're in now.

I kind of love that Kanye had that breakdown where he released the Heil Hitler track and went to twitter posting all caps shit saying he was a nazi, and the internet's collective reaction seems to have just kind of rolled their eyes and move on. Just pure apathy. It's not shocking or contreversial, more "Yeah, we all figured that out ages ago. Fuck off."

If it helps it make any more sense, from other posts of this comic on lemmy, the original posts seem to be on pixiv, which is on paper a site for hosting art, but in reality seems to exist primarily to host a lot of hentai. Mostly hentai.

I've also noticed a small trend lately where adult artists fish for comissions by making strangely horny webcomics.