And yet (at least from an outsider perspective) libertarians are closer to democrats than republicans

I’m an outsider too, but here’s my take on this

For the most part (certain exceptions exist, like guns), democrats seem to be about individual freedom from government, but they want government to regulate corporations.

Republicans are more about corporate freedom from government, but they want government to regulate people they don’t like (women, LGBT, immigrants).

Libertarians ideally want corporate AND personal freedom from government, but a lot of people only want personal freedom from government if it applies to “their kind”. So they’re really republicans.

And while the church wanted a tithe, the manor lord required you to work one or more days per week on his field, using your own tools. This was rent. There might’ve also been monetary rent in addition to work rent. And in addition to the church tithe, the manor lord wanted a tithe too. You couldn’t choose to rent somewhere else, either - while the manor lord didn’t own you, he owned the piece of land you lived on, could dictate your terms, and you’d have to pay a fine for moving away to another manor lord’s service. If he sold the parcel of land, you’d have to do all the same to the new landlord. If you could manage to hide in a city for a year + one day, you’d be free. But if you got caught, you’d be imprisoned until your lord came and picked you up.

These were the general rules in my area, others would differ. Obviously they changed over time and so on. And much of this is from the chronicles and those were written by the Order, so the real situation might’ve been worse even.

There’s plenty wrong with our current situation and we seem to be sliding back towards serfdom, but serfdom is definitely worse than what we have now and we can NOT afford to go back.

I also failed to look at the year, I went by the fact that I’d seen it long ago lol

Eh wasn’t this one like over a year ago?

IDEs have had subscriptions for ages. The build server is a cloud service because local machines can be slow to compile and not everyone has an on-site build server.

That’s just your opinion. To me, clothes are tools and there’s no reason to personalize - just wear black everything, that’s what I do. Other people don’t seem to share my opinion and that’s fine too.

Which one of them is the one that referred to workers as niggers in their codebase?

It’s Japan. If anything is promoting drug abuse, it’s the work culture.

What’s trump got to do with toilet paper? I don’t like the fucker, but I live halfway across the world and we had the exact same issue here, people bought up all the toilet paper readily available in stores.

I checked, fully expecting it to be a joke lol

Google is allowing the app developers to choose (for now?). With Apple, developers never had the option to allow other stores or sideloading.

Hexagons are also the bestagons

Ours has decided that she’s no longer a princess, she’s now Skye. I think mommy was Everest and I’m Rubble. It’s funny, because I always associated myself with Rubble the most, particularly after watching the Mighty Movie where Rubble goes “what, did you think I was going to watch the space thingy of a lifetime without snacks?” (exact wording may differ; I have to watch it in Estonian)

I live around 60 degrees North :)

Eh I can barely breathe at 30. 40 is certain death. Except in a sauna, where 100 is no problem and we throw water on the rocks to make it feel hotter.

I know, it’s weird. I’ve got pictures of me lying around in a pile of snow in a t-shirt, trying to cool down. At -15.

That’s only half the story, too.

The phone with the $1300 launch price is also obsolete, it hasn’t gotten a major Android version update since 13, released in 2022. The phone itself was released in 2021.

Apple also discontinued support for some older phones with their 2022 OS release. Namely, they dropped anything older than the iPhone 8, released in 2017. So the oldest Sony I to get a major OS version update in 2022 was made in 2021, the oldest iPhone was made in 2017.

By the way, this comes from someone who used to love Sony and still does. My Arc S was awesome, it was even designed in such a way that if you dropped it, nothing would happen generally (okay, the battery would fall out if you dropped from high enough). But they’ve really dropped the ball on software support.

I’m lucky enough that both of the shareholders of my company are software engineers; one has transitioned to sales and project management, the other is still an engineer, he’s also the CTO.

Was discussing office chairs with our team lead/office supplies person (it’s a really small company, some people have multiple roles) and when I mentioned that my chair gets really creaky when leaning back but otherwise it works so it really just needs some lubrication, she asked why I would even lean so far back in my chair and the CTO told her “There’s two sitting positions for programming. The writing position and the thinking position”

TL;DR: Takes an engineer to know how engineering works. Turns out that you have to spend a lot of time just thinking

Celsius isn’t all that different.

-30 is really really cold, 30 is really really hot.

0 is just about perfect.

See you say this, but anyone who bought a cheapo Galaxy S20 in 2020, stopped receiving major Android version updates in 2022 whereas anyone who bought an iPhone XS or XR in 2018, will still get a major iOS version update in 2024…

Oh wait, what’s this, the S20 was a flagship device, comparable or more expensive than the iPhone 12 at the time? Well that’s a bit embarrassing…

Barely 7 year old device

I mean yes, but also Android manufacturers are only NOW starting to catch up to Apple. Used to be you’d buy a flagship Android device and get 2 or 3 years. My Oneplus 7 Pro from 2019 (5 year old model) hasn’t gotten a new major Android version since 12 which came out 3 years ago. That was my last Android phone (for now - I might go back eventually) and now with iPhones, I’ll just give it to my mom when I get bored with it because she doesn’t have a huge budget and the phone will keep getting updates for years.

When it comes to iPhones, Apple has never been about planned obsolescence, or at least hasn’t been as bad as Android manufacturers. It’s the stupid ass users who judge people based on having older models. Luckily those types are a minority of Apple users, they’re just loud.