But how will I get emotional validation from a group of anonymous strangers?
nickajeglin
joined 2 years ago
You're damn right it's too soon. My beloved dead steam controller is barely cold, and to make it worse, they're discontinued.
Yeah, the DMCA only works one way :(
I used to use Relay for reddit, and jerboa feels really familiar. It's development really picked up last release too. Still having an issue getting back to a comment context from a reply in my inbox, but I think that's a bug from last release and there's a pull request already.
Maybe not the place to ask. But you seem knowledgeable. Is kbin a Lemmy instance or a different platform that can federated? I could Google of course, but I like talking to humans.
Wow, thanks for such a detailed reply. I was sitting here thinking something like "just take what the server does and uh... distribute it", but it's clearly not trivial.
I'd be wary of the trades as well. I am now an engineer, previously a welder. Unless you operate your own business, a trade is super unlikely to match the standard of living that a couple JDs would be used to. Also, most EU countries have very regimented training and qualification systems for tradespeople that start when you're pretty young.
In the US, there is a labor shortage of skilled tradespeople and manufacturing workers, so there is a huge push to get more people into it. The nasty secret though, is that there is a labor shortage because pay has not been rising and benefits are a joke.
Corporations push high school kids and laid off tech workers towards the trades with promises of good prospects, high wages, and solid benefits. The reality though, is that most of them will end up trapped in mind numbing dead end jobs where their labor and emotional/physical health will be exploited until they aren't useful to the company any more.
Manufacturers in particular are extremely reluctant to give their floor workers a bigger piece of the pie. So expanding the labor pool is an important long term strategy to ensure that wages stay low and that they can continue exploiting their workers as efficiently as possible.
Not trying to be a bummer, but I've lived both sides of this. The Association of Equipment Manufacturers, chambers of commerce, etc have a very strong and widely accepted narrative when it comes to the manufacturing labor shortage, so I think it's extremely important to spread a counter narrative when I can.
On the positive side, there are some really simple things that can be done to help alleviate the labor shortage: increase pay and benefits. We finally started to see a tiny bit of that during covid, and I'm hopeful that the trend will continue. It's frustrating though that it takes a near collapse of industry before manufacturers will even consider raising compensation.
Seems like this post is helpful for other people with the same question, and a good basis for discussion about what the community sees as acceptable norms with regards to self promotion.
*Looks up GDPR... "EU law"
Womp womp :(
I'm not really up on the intricacies of the federation philosophy, but why isn't it just distributed p2p style?
So there would be 1 forward facing thing that you interact with, but all of the backend functions would be spread across all the volunteer servers/instances. Like torrent seeding.
Maybe that's not even feasible, but I've been wondering since I joined.
Eventually your computer chair and counterstrike posture give you chronic shoulder pain. Then you have to migrate back to the couch and the gamepad. It's the circle of life.