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  1. Comment on Survey: The temperature in my room now is _____ and it feels _____ in ~talk

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    It's 25C, but at this point that's mostly the fault of my gaming PC, unlike recent weeks where the outside temperature leaking in would have brought it to 28C/29C. It's an improvement, but could...

    It's 25C, but at this point that's mostly the fault of my gaming PC, unlike recent weeks where the outside temperature leaking in would have brought it to 28C/29C. It's an improvement, but could still do with being less. My ideal is like 19C I guess.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn’s “thought leadership” content mill in ~tech

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    So many job forms in tech have a mandatory field for LinkedIn profile these days even. Having been involved in interviewing, we never really looked at it because we got the actual CV which is what...

    So many job forms in tech have a mandatory field for LinkedIn profile these days even. Having been involved in interviewing, we never really looked at it because we got the actual CV which is what we looked at (I can't rule out HR looking at it in pre-screening though). I asked a friend that works at an ATS company why their product seems to require it and they said as far as they could tell it was because it let them populate avatars in the CV list to make their UI look better.

    3 votes

  3. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    Ha, the praise for the house/area makes me feel kind of guilty for disappearing.

    Ha, the praise for the house/area makes me feel kind of guilty for disappearing.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Give me your culture clash stories in ~travel

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    Tried that in San Jose once, we have smaller motorways than the “local” road the hotel was on.

    Tried that in San Jose once, we have smaller motorways than the “local” road the hotel was on.

  5. Comment on AI job grief in ~tech

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    The articles assumption that only knowledge workers experienced job-as-identity seems suspect to me. Like if you look at deindustrialised regions in the UK and Ireland, or former auto workers in...

    The articles assumption that only knowledge workers experienced job-as-identity seems suspect to me. Like if you look at deindustrialised regions in the UK and Ireland, or former auto workers in Detroit, it’s not like these are generations that have died off and there was a lot of this career grief if you talk to them. And sure some of this may be from the material effects of these once high paying jobs going away, or for what that means for their lives and self image outside work, but plenty of it was also that they had their identities in their jobs too.

    25 votes

  6. Comment on Deltarune Chapter 5 is out now in ~games

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    So after undertale became a thing, toby fox and ZUN have collaborated on remixes: U.N. Owen was Hero and more recently, Necrolovania

    So after undertale became a thing, toby fox and ZUN have collaborated on remixes:

    3 votes

  7. Comment on British cities are a game design nightmare in ~transport

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    The part time YouTuber might be a full time YouTuber in the near future.

    The part time YouTuber might be a full time YouTuber in the near future.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Are there any video games that are/were popular in your country, that the rest of the world hardly knows about? in ~games

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    From Ireland here. I think what we got was always a subset of the US/UK market so the only game I think of as specifically Irish was Gaelic Games Football for the PS2. In retrospect people had...

    From Ireland here. I think what we got was always a subset of the US/UK market so the only game I think of as specifically Irish was Gaelic Games Football for the PS2. In retrospect people had mixed views of its quality as a game, but it was at almost as widespread as FIFA that year here and sports game fans liked it for trying to make a GAA game at least.

    4 votes

  9. Comment on Are there any video games that are/were popular in your country, that the rest of the world hardly knows about? in ~games

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    They were also in the first two humble bundles which is where I learned about them.

    They were also in the first two humble bundles which is where I learned about them.

    3 votes

  10. Comment on What do you think the top three most used apps on your phone for the past week are? in ~tech

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    Firefox, Fastmail, Discord. I mostly don’t install native apps on my phone as so many offer little over web apps and use that extra access to spam me with notifications or track me for ads. Add...

    Firefox, Fastmail, Discord.

    I mostly don’t install native apps on my phone as so many offer little over web apps and use that extra access to spam me with notifications or track me for ads. Add YouTube Music, antennapod and WhatsApp and you’ve got the full list.

    1 vote

  11. Comment on Caught the cycling bug. Anyone else? in ~hobbies

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    I got really into cycling around 2021 - it started as trying to be a bit more fit, especially as the city I was then living in had got a bunch more bike lanes and also the reduced traffic made...

    I got really into cycling around 2021 - it started as trying to be a bit more fit, especially as the city I was then living in had got a bunch more bike lanes and also the reduced traffic made things less intimidating.

    I started with the city's bike share bikes for about 6 months, then got my own Giant Escape 0 bike which I'm using still. I've moved more rural since and it's pretty much perfect for getting across the smaller town I live in now, and I've taken it a bit more down country lanes and similar too.

    I'm actually considering getting a second gravel bike now. One part is to see what all the clipless pedals and drop handlebar fuss is about, one part is my current bike is pretty configured for town use (racks, panniers, etc) and it would be nice to not have to reconfigure it back and forth when I want something a bit lighter.

    The options in local bike shops are (depending on the shop) some selection of Giant, Trek, Cube and the bike shaped objects, so I'm leaning between either a Giant Revolt or Defy for the new bike. I'm probably more leaning towards the Revolt for the less aggressive position and wider tyre support, but I already basically entirely use gears 6-12 on my escape so that has me wondering about a faster bike. Also even the tyre on my Escape is a physically strenuous activity to get on/off so I'm a little worried that even wider tyres might be worse there.

    The outside option is to get a folding e-bike because the full size bike spaces on the train to the city get booked out quick these days, but given how rarely I go to the city it feels like I may as well just grab a city bike while I'm there when I can't get my own there.

    1 vote

  12. Comment on Arch User Repository compromised, 1500+ packages affected in ~tech

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    Also AUR helpers are not in the arch package managers specifically for this reason - if you want to get one you'll have to at least manage to do the process manually once.

    Also AUR helpers are not in the arch package managers specifically for this reason - if you want to get one you'll have to at least manage to do the process manually once.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on Tildes Survey #8: What is your favorite video game? (Results) in ~talk

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    So for the football manager fan: any reason for 2008 in particular? I played 2007 until I upgraded to 2011, don’t remember it being that memorable

    So for the football manager fan: any reason for 2008 in particular? I played 2007 until I upgraded to 2011, don’t remember it being that memorable

    1 vote

  14. Comment on Any fellow software engineers using paid GitHub copilot? in ~comp

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    So in 2021-2023 I was kind of drifting into being a manager and I want enjoying it, so I did a purposeful reset back to a more hands on role…. Just in time for that role to turn into basically the...

    So in 2021-2023 I was kind of drifting into being a manager and I want enjoying it, so I did a purposeful reset back to a more hands on role…. Just in time for that role to turn into basically the same focus just directed at AI but without the personal connections or advancement opportunities…

    1 vote

  15. Comment on Bungie announces final update for Destiny 2 in ~games

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    They probably won't delete any more content now, but with no dev team to port the deleted content (especially pre-BL content) I wouldn't count on it coming back. Theoretically BL-TFS seasons...

    They probably won't delete any more content now, but with no dev team to port the deleted content (especially pre-BL content) I wouldn't count on it coming back. Theoretically BL-TFS seasons should be compatible but if they're even shutting down the rotation of seasonal events, I can't see them bringing seasonal stories back

    7 votes

  16. Comment on Bungie announces final update for Destiny 2 in ~games

  18. Comment on Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn’t exist: ‘Those problems disappeared when I let them go’ in ~tech

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    Oh, not the estonian/european taxi/micromobility app Bolt.

    Oh, not the estonian/european taxi/micromobility app Bolt.

    7 votes

  19. Comment on Lifetime Plex Pass will cost $750 USD after July 1st in ~tv

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    Jellyfin has had hardware transcoding since the beginning, it was part of the initial feature set it inherited from Emby

    Jellyfin has had hardware transcoding since the beginning, it was part of the initial feature set it inherited from Emby

    2 votes

  20. Comment on What stock do you put in gut feelings? in ~talk

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    I think it's easy to remember the times avoiding your gut feeling lost a positive outcome, but equally it can go wrong the other way too. Like I sold all my Nvidia stock a few years ago, figuring...

    I think it's easy to remember the times avoiding your gut feeling lost a positive outcome, but equally it can go wrong the other way too.

    Like I sold all my Nvidia stock a few years ago, figuring the crypto craze was somewhat of a local maximum for some time, especially with AMD looking like they were clawing their way back into the GPU game.

    Needless to say, in reality nvidia's trajectory was somewhat different.

    6 votes