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I used to work for Amazon in a division I didn't feel grimey for. Spent over 7 years of my life in that division, doing great things and recurringly got top performer review status and was even awarded role model on top of that on several occasions.

Then they laid me off in 2023, after my latest review of "top performer" & award of "role model".

About 2 weeks ago a recruiter reached out to me for a role in AWS and I responded with, "Amazon shouldn't have laid me, a top performer and role model, off if they'd like me to work for them."

ATCs should give this response to Musk.

Having worked retail sales earlier in my life and working as a developer in e-commerce in later parts, single day drops mean nothing. They're often a statical anomalies, even when there is a "reason" for it. If the business is short on monthly or quarterly goals they can always make up a single day loss with a strategic sale or product marketing & placement.

If we really want to hurt these companies, we need to orgaize larger than a single day of "fuck you". A single day might be good for awareness, but TBH, it's comes across more as virtue signaling and enabling social media bragging "I'm doing my part for TODAY".

All that said, I am doing my part for today, and have been doing my part for quite some time now, and will continue doing my part for the coming months and years.

I was on the fence of asking for one for my birthday late last year for exactly this reason.

What tipped me over was that I took a look at my Steam library and realized I literally have hundreds of indie and AA games that I've never played or have less than 4 hours in that I always meant to go back to. And that was it, I decided the Steam Deck was going to be my indie gaming experince platform. It has been amazing at doing this, and I've been chewing threw my indie game library like crazy, and have picked up so many more that I'm loving gaming again! I can see myself keeping the current steam deck around and will be used regularly for at least the next 5 years.

If you're looking for a portable machine that'll tackle most modern & higher end games, either look at the alternative SteamOS portables or wait for the next Steam Deck (the touch screen, D-Pad, Sticks, and dual touch pad make it the best choice for best I out options for game compatibility).

However, if you want a great machine for indies, AA, older AAA titles, and console EMU, the current hardware is amazing and worth the price

Do they feel good though? Or are they in a perpetual state of fear and believe that there is nothing else out there but a zero sum game where everybody is out there to win at their loss?

If you just repurpose for housing you just wind up with 40,000 people needing transit and overloading the system you're trying to promote.

We need to think beyond housing and towards having communities that largely provide the needs of the people living with them. Shops, offices, other non-office/shop jobs, and recreational activities need to be considered as well.

Finish? I think you mean the layer of oxidized skin over the "stainless" steel?

What I find hilarious is all these companies doing this shit after all the advancements in programming languages and paradigms in the last few years.

Thanks to tools like Node.js, React, Flask, Reflex, OpenAPI Gen, GoLang, and more, people that are fed-up and have the know-how can stand up competing technology in record time.

I look forward to see what comes out of this corporate power grab. Hopefully there's not a lot of pain and suffering alkng the way.

Guess I won't play Diablo 5 either. POE is better anyways.

Windows: Let me show you an Ad, endeuntured beta tester.

My I7 7700k is a good processor. It serves my needs from office work, to software dev, to gaming, to video production. I'll eventually retire this machine, but that's at least a year off, and even then, it'll be repurposed since it's an extremely capable machine.

I shouldn't have to upgrade because MS made an arbitrary decision to not support capable hardware after telling me Win10 was the last Windows OS. Nah, I'm switching everything over to Linux and using the hardware I have now instead of creating e-waste.

Something tells me this is a 1st ammendment violation that won't matter.

A buddy of mine I play some x-play games with only has a PS4/5. He had some money issues a few months back and couldn't pay for Playstation online renewal for a month (I believe he pays yearly?). I was shocked to learn they're still charging access to play online. I keep urging him to pick up a Steam Deck with a dock, but he's been hesitant.

I couldn't imagine having to pay for access to online play for Steam/GOG/Ect. It's one of the reasons I stopped buying PS and Xbox consoles.