I’m not saying there wouldn’t be layoffs without it, but it certainly would be better. I know from experience that a lot of the people that were laid off were a critical part of the team, and those that remained had to bare that load. It has burned me out several times, because I’m doing work that should be done by two or three people.

I’m a DevOps engineer, if that counts.

It is, at least in my experience. Further, my recently laid off colleagues have been trying to find work for months, some of whom have been applying for jobs that would require pay cuts, with no luck.

Pretty much every job listing in the tech space gets hundreds if not thousands of applicants because the layoffs have not stopped for three years. You can see what I mean at layoffs.fyi. In tech, 60,000 so far this year, 153,000 in 2024, 264,000 in 2023, and 165,000 in 2022.

That’s not even counting those that graduated in the last couple of years. Those people are in an extra bad spot because they have a large amount of college debt with no way to make their payments.

All of STEM is suffering because of corporate greed and rising anti-intellectualism.

Sure, it’s just even worse with big tech.

who cares

Depends on the meat, if it’s beef, I don’t. If it’s poultry or pork, yes, because I don’t trust myself enough to not get food poisoning.

There will definitely be more, especially as the economic situation in the US continues to worsen. Big tech works under the unsustainable model of unlimited growth, and even if profits increase, if they don’t increase “enough” they lay off workers. They could save a ton of money by laying off execs, but they’ll never do that.

I’ve found layoffs.fyi to be pretty up to date with tracking how many people are laid off in the tech sector. It’s no wonder that it’s nearly impossible to find a job in tech, and these execs and boards are to blame.

I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t considered a career change, not because of the work itself but because I’m exhausted from worrying about if I’ll have a job to pay the bills tomorrow. The only thing stopping me is that I have no idea what I’d do otherwise.

Personally, I’d rather not have a card that could catch fire or have missing ROPs.

Does commercial drone flying pay well? I’ve been thinking about getting my part 107, mostly for wikipedia and OSM contributions though.

Yeah, but worth it for important backups since they take a long time to degrade!

I still use them (in M-DISC blu-ray form) for encrypted backups.

I would love to avoid plastic, but it seems inevitable that I’ll consume or inhale it in some way. It’s probably contaminating my drugs which come in plastic, I likely breathe it in while driving, it’s in a lot of clothing these days (even if I wore all cotton, people around me still would likely have it on them), and any time I eat out, something in my food will absolutely come out of plastic in some way.

We should never have allowed oil companies do this to us and our planet. It’s too late now, and we’ll be dealing with the consequences for generations.

Yep, you can pay with monero for faster direct downloads

They stole people’s identity, so yes, while they duped the banks, they were stealing people’s mail at the same time.

In no way does Signal prevent conversations from being archived. For all you know, a recipient could be screenshotting all of your messages, and they could even be using the official app when doing so.

If you don’t trust your contacts, probably shouldn’t be messaging them anything sensitive.

Yikes.

That implies that the other tariffs made sense. None of them do, so this shouldn’t be shocking to anyone.

I don’t deny that they should’ve only sent it to affected users. But it’s an important thing to point out. In another thread, OP argued with multiple people because they thought the users would have to pay, before finally stating that even if the users didn’t have to pay, it was upsetting that the emails were sent.

Thus my comment about it not affecting users where the server owner had Plex Pass. Both Plex and OP were mistaken imo.

If it was just my parents and I using it, that’d be fine, but it’s not. In my experience, nothing is quite as simple as “always on”, and if something breaks, even unrelated to tailscale or anything I set up, I’ll be to blame even when it wasn’t my fault.

It just wouldn’t work for my users, unfortunately, and I don’t want to be responsible for endpoints on networks that someone else owns. I’m not denying that it’s possible or that it works for some people.

That’s the real benefit of a solution like Plex - it makes it so I only have to manage my own network, and if I want to invite someone new, I just ask them for the email attached to their Plex account, and I’m done.

I also am curious where you’re finding rpi’s for $35.

I’m very aware, that’s why I said that. OP’s users are unaffected. Everyone got the email. It doesn’t mean that everyone is affected.