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I’m a Millennial/GenZ cusper and I think its just the desire to go back to a simpler analogue lifestyle. I’ve also bought a few cassettes from concerts at times when I couldn’t carry around a full vinyl the rest of the night

Oh hahaha fair enough

I hate that BestBuy killed the FutureShop in Canada

Maybe this is outdated information but I remember Home used to limit the amount of RAM it was allowed to use :)

The whole concept of sororities and fraternities is so weird to me

https://zed.dev/ recently became good enough for me to switch to full time

You can spout dangerous conspiracy theories but you can’t say the words “shit” or “fuck”

Can the US just break up already

I’m not European but I am Canadian and I don’t know if Americans realise how annoying it is that any general community like “politics” or “news” is specifically American as per the rules. I was really hoping we’d leave the US defaultism behind on Reddit

So what’s the real story

My current job had me pretty much interview with every member of my now team. It was insane and I’m happy I didn’t have to do it while unemployed and desperately searching. I can’t imagine going through that repeatedly

Or setting up an interview and then saying “sorry the company decided that they’re not looking to hire anyone right now” a day or two before. Why does that keep happening to me?

The PIN thing really confused me when I visited the US (right before Trump got in again). Like even the places that did support chip would just accept my payment without having me enter anything. First time I bought something I thought the machine glitched because I didn’t even realise a payment could be made without the PIN

Unfortunately…

In Canada they just bring you the payment machine and it asks the percent you want to tip. There is a physical bill but its only used by the server to know what to enter really

About time

The US will do anything and everything except try proper gun control

I know Lemmy seems to very anti-AI (as am I) but we need to stop making the anti-AI talking point “AI is stupid”. It has immense limitations now because yes, it is being crammed into things it shouldn’t be, but we shouldn’t just be saying “its dumb” because that’s immediately written off by a sizable amount of the general population. For a lot of things, it is actually useful and it WILL be taking peoples jobs, like it or not (even if they’re worse at it). Truth be told, this should be a utopic situation for obvious reasons

I feel like I’m going crazy here because the same people on here who’d criticise the DARE anti-drug program as being completely un-nuanced to the point of causing the harm they’re trying to prevent are doing the same thing for AI and LLMs

My point is that if you’re trying to convince anyone, just saying its stupid isn’t going to turn anyone against AI because the minute it offers any genuine help (which it will!), they’ll write you off like any DARE pupil who tried drugs for the first time.

Countries need to start implementing UBI NOW

Bugs did really like dressing as a women though didn’t he? He seemed to have done it constantly

Copilot is shit

Yes and no. I find its terrible at solving more complex problems but its great at writing out tests for a function/view that covers every flow. My team went from having like 40% (shit) coverage to every PR having every case tested (inb4 they’re not good tests, they are good)

With that being said, fuck CEOs and fuck AI. At least you could (mostly) escape the blockchain hype