Elite was the reason I stopped buying early access. $150 for beta that was over hyped.

she later told me that I was anti-authoritarian and more likely to do what I thought was right rather than what I had been instructed to do. I am still baffled to this day about how that is an undesirable attribute

It isn’t unless you’re a corporation trying to keep employees down.

What the fuck. I used to go there for tabs all the time when I picked up guitar. Sadly I stopped playing but to hear that that website is all pay walled now is disgusting.

Nah. Report it as spam. Still gets moved to your spam folder and if enough people do it, they’ll be flagged by default.

Same. I had to stop because of them.

I won’t be forced to work 6 days again and actually a good 3 days off so I can recharge for once.

At the end of the day, as long as there’s two people left on the planet, someones gonna want someone dead.

-Sniper, Team Fortress 2

One of my previous jobs had an employee exercise room. Some people used it and management didn’t like that so they said we’re not allowed to use it during our shift and only after hours. It was a government position so we weren’t allowed to be in the building before or after our shift.

These places only use them to advertise to new employees how “friendly” they are.

Why are you here preaching to us about carbon footprints when you yourself are wasting electricity doing so?

Came here to say something similar. Currently hating life and fantasizing how I’d quit my job and burn this bridge

Yup. I’m using the chargers from my old phone

Next they’ll removing the charging cable and send us just a fucking phone.

Oh you mean like google did? I was pretty surprised and disgusted they didn’t include a charging cable with my pixel 7. All I got was a 6 inch data transfer cable.

Too real

I used to browse it about 15-20 years ago.It used to be a good place to learn tricks about all sorts of electronics. I’m not sure exactly what happened but it was like a switch flipped and they got awful almost overnight. Probably bought out.

What is a new person supposed to do to learn then? I’ve been stuck trying to figure out what the 5-8 different services, frameworks, libraries, and IDEs all do and I feel very overwhelmed.

At one of my old jobs I remember getting a 9.2 out of 10 on a performance report. When they called me in for a meeting I was thinking I was getting a pat on the back. Nope. It was “you could’ve done better”. That was the day I learned to stop trying and just say fuck it at any job since then.

They. Do. Not. Care. So if I’m going to be treated the same regardless if I put in 110% or 50%, then why bother?

Probably close to 20 years ago at this point, when visiting the official forums for a game I loved, my computer was infected by malware delivered by a malicious ad. This was not some seedy part of the internet, but a website hosted by a major game publisher whose product I enjoyed.

Going to guess it was Blizzard? I remember a huge fiasco about that. If you visited their forums you were at risk of getting infected for about half a day.

They never directly said what their criticisms were, but I can only assume they’re the types you wouldn’t elaborate on when trying to get people to side with you over “censorship”.

Which to me is funny because they know they’re wrong.

No one wants to admit they ate 9 cans of ravioli.

I deleted my reddit account years ago and lurked only because trying to interact there was a cesspool. Learning about the alternatives and seeing how well behaved it is over here on lemmy is a breath of fresh air. Sure there isn’t as much content yet but it’ll come. Reddit wasn’t an overnight success either.

I feel after the 3rd party apps get killed off we’ll start seeing a slow trickle of users after the initial flood once the ones that stuck around start realizing the content that’s left in reddit has become low effort bot posts and spam.