Bunch of air traffic controllers blaming their teammates for EVERY crash incoming

This is just the answer for me because I’ve had to think about this a ton since Covid.

I’m sad and depressed with work. It should not be the case. I’m a Data Architect and make decent money. I have family, house, and essentially everything else.

I realized that my main problem with tech work is how useless it is. I got into this because I like to make things. That first time your code works and does most of what you want is a high I still remember.

Nowadays, I’m in meetings 60% of my time and the rest of the time I’m working with on-shore/off-shore contractors. Even our own company junior and senior staff has a decent amount of people that got into Tech because it pays well. So we have a lot of people that are chasing down someone to help do their job for them. So the other 40% of my time is spent pointing or even giving people the answer.

I can’t point at something at work over the last 5 years and say “I had a hand in that” while believing it.

So I’m working for people in middle management that mainly care about padding their resume. They work for people that could not give a single damn about me. On top of this, it’s all pretend work to make people happy. So I stopped pretending any of this is satisfying

Was not watching the World Cup already because it felt like just shady rich people used it to fill their pockets. Guess we’re done pretending it’s shady and gone into broad daylight corruption

Is there a place a person could go to find a list of reliably cracked games we can use? Didn’t realize this was possible if I’m being honest and now I’m worried about getting real cracks versus the reposts with a bunch of malware

Sorry if this is a repeat but I was just about to go to bed.

I suspect I’ve saved this image to use as a joke to my family multiple times over the years and never remembered to use it or that it exists until the next time someone posts it here

Man. I know you are joking. But you are also saying the quiet part out loud that a lot of us are thinking.

Who would notice if a few compatible with Trump immigrants disappeared at the border? Would you believe their friends? Or would you just assume the cartels got to them?

That’s always my fear as a minority in the USA post 9/11. Due process seems somewhat gone now too. They could send me to Uganda and people around me (friends and neighbors) would probably assume I did something to deserve it or… not even notice.

This does not look real. I can’t put my finger as to why. It looks like good CGI but the lighting off the robot does not feel perfect.

Came here to say that if you like this concept, Peter Hamilton has a book series called Commonwealth Saga in the science fiction category that is excellent. Lots of pseudoscience from early 2000s in that series.

I understand. But then how would others in the channel interact with my Soundboard and trigger it? Now I have to write a bot if I want others to interact with it. Have to write rules so people can submit their own sounds and manage the volume on each one of the sounds.

Also, discord soundboard does seem to somehow stream or play the soundboard item locally at a higher quality than what the voice channel provides (default for most discord voice channels is 64 kbps bit rate).

It seems you are pretty stuck on the soundboard as an individual feature instead of a sever feature that works regardless of me being around or participating on that server.

My argument was more around feature users now expect in a noIM platform. In my experience within my own life out of every 30 people or so, 1 or 2 will truly care about privacy and security. This is with having a career in IT, with some family members also in IT and most of my friends are IT or IT adjacent. Most people are looking for tools that provide with the richest set of features they can easily use while giving the users the semblance of privacy. So for a new platform to welcome them it has to be very feature complete with its competitors or offer something beyond the lost features the users truly value.

Yeah. Soon as I realized that at some point Discord either has to sell or IPO the platform was eventually going to deteriorate.

It’s already got some odd limitations. Character limits. Very tight file upload limit. And streaming limitations. But hey, Nitro/Boost fixes it.

Worse part? If most of the limitations were removed for the price of $1 or $2 a month it might be more acceptable (at least for me). $10 feels steep for nitro. When I see that price tag, it signals I might not be the target audience. Which is weird when I’m pretty sure I’m a subset of the target audience.

Yeah. I could simulate my own. But for the average pleb who already wary of trying unpopular applications, telling them they are “losing” features is usually a no go.

Discord has become this place where I hang with multiple different groups of people from work, personal life and random online acquaintances. We game, talk politics, plan family/kid events and often it’s the fastest way to get a hold of someone. The soundboard as silly as it is one of the many meming features and my friends are usually into meming on each other.

It’s to the point where when I propose to even my other Tech buddies that we spin up matrix or revolt server, one of them just offers to boost whatever server we’re on. People would rather pay than lose what they are used to using on Discord

I’ve not logged in on my Reddit account since that big group boycott and switching to Lemmy.

If Reddit didn’t hold some specific info for certain video games or just a much larger group participating in Tech/Selfhosted subreddits, I’d rarely have to visit the website.

Honestly, to me the Reddit demise was happening organically anyway. For a lot of weirdly specific topics, Discord has become a good alternative.

Now just don’t get me started on Discord and how it will eventually have to better monetize the platform and ruin that too. Wish Matrix had a soundboard for voice chat 😢