I’ll let you know if I do! It’s sad how hard it is to find stuff. The best place I’ve found so far is tumblr and a few of the hashtags there. But even then, it’s hit and miss.

I wish I lived in a country where the internet wasn’t restricted, at least then I’d have Reddit. My VPN is blocked by Reddit. Though I’m planing on buying a cheap VPS to circumvent this issues

I think there’s a missing point from the “Brain drain” part of the post:

Yes, brain drain is real when using these tools. But its brain drain and the fact that this gravy train bubble will pop soon. And once it does? Prices for these tools will skyrocket.

Even if the bubble doesn’t pop, they’ll have to increase prices to remain viable. At which point, you’re dev infrastructure will be entirely dependent on AI slop, and you won’t have developed any of the skills to cope without it. This is a slow motion car crash waiting to happen. If you outsource intelligence to private corps, you WILL get screwed.

This is just corp-speak for “we will burn you the fuck out”

So much better than riftshare! Its great.

This is exactly the kind of job I’m looking for. The software industry is full of the vilest exploiters. I don’t care if I don’t get paid a bunch, I just don’t wanna fuck up our planet or our people.

It’s just unfortunate that most tech companies are full of the worst people to walk the planet. (I am being a little hyperbolic here, but honestly I’m so sick of all the experiences ive had)

Worse yet are the brits who think we’re better than the US and think theyre crazy. and like, sure. But, we literally colonised the states and started half this shit. Not to mention that we’d do exactly the same given half the chance, influence and resources.

When America coughs we catch the cold.

Edit: To be clear: i’m very well aware we colonised practically half the world too, and left unwavering damage in our wake. Even more recently too. My point is just, I feel like the UK has successfully whitewashed ourselves from the conversation about colonialism sometimes and it really frustrates me.

why not just have an AI play the whole game for you? sounds great /s

Not surprised.

In my last job, my boss used more and more AI. As a senior dev, I was very used to his coding patterns. I knew the code that he wrote and could generally follow what he made. The more he used AI? The less understandable, confusing and buggy the code became.

Eventually, the CEO of the company abused the “gains” of the AI “productivity” to push for more features with tighter deadlines. This meant the technical debt kept growing, and I got assigned to fixing the messes the AI was shitting all over the code base with.

In the end? We had several critical security vulnerabilities and a code base that even I couldn’t understand. It was dogshit. AI will only ever be used to “increase productivity” and profit while ignoring the chilling effects: lower quality code, buggy software and dogshit working conditions.

Enduring 3 months of this severely burnt me out, I had to quit. The rabid profit incentive needs to go to fucking hell. God I despise of tech bros.

But… Do we need laptops any lighter than this? Like, I’m not moving around my 13 inch Macbook and thinking: “oh god this is a beast”. My biggest issue with laptops now days is battery life and performance, both of which my Macbook meets perfectly. Not that I like the OS or the company tbh, especially as a FOSS enthusiast.

I can’t disagree with you fully there… but I’ll say that: after 6+ years on Mastodon, yeah the bot problem has gotten worse, but the core of its magic? It’s still there. I feel like that’ll ring true for PieFed and Lemmy too.

Can’t speak for your situation, but I honestly think it’s because of burnout. No one I know in the coding industry is doing well right now… everyone is burnt out as fuck, stessed and overworked as hell.

It was so bad for me that it worsened my disabilities in October and I’ve not gotten back to work since. Though tbf, I have been working in my FOSS project. Making that a part of my portfolio so I can move on to employment rather than bargain basement freelancing that’s killing me.

Ugh I’m sorry you had to go through that, honestly, what bullshit!!!

I really hate the lack of respect that the whole “phase” narrative treats trans experiences with. Although I guess the micro aggression is the point. But ugh.

I feel like I’m missing out on the mint hype train tbh. I’ve never tried it before but there’s an ignorant part of me that’s like “how much better could it possibly be than Ubuntu with Cinnamon?”. I know it must be because so many people default to it and rave about it, even after using Ubuntu.

My default ol reliable used to be Solus Linux. God I loved that distro. I had an install that lasted 4 years straight, no issues whatsoever.

But in recent years I’ve taken a major liking to Bazzite. Oh my god it’s incredible: immutable OSs are fucking amazing. I shouldn’t be trusted with accessing system files, it never ends well. So this really helps.

This puzzles me especially when it’s a trans or enby person on a dating app… I’m like: girl wtf

They’re also just fucking weird as hell. The stuff they obsess over, they frequently attack each other too. Ironic really, considering these people were trying to escape their AGAB that imprisoned them so much… only to create another unnecessary prison out of being trans. Bizarre.

Shhh!! Stop drawing attention to the systemic problem that’s causing these statistics! Young people bad!

The fucking nerve of these genocide enablers to withold aid in a country that’s not even theirs. How anyone can look at this and be fine with it is literally beyond me.

Ohhhh I thought it might be something like this! Thanks for investigating 💖.

Also thank you!! I just wanted an easy feed to collect all trans communities together and that seemed like a good way to do it ☺️

So I guess… with relation to the big government thing, I think another comment has got me on side with what you’ve said here. But I still… Idk I struggle to see it as more effective because I suppose I don’t know of any examples. Like the way I’m seeing it right now is: my country has had 20 years of crippling austerity, of which I’ve fallen victim to. Don’t get me wrong, mutual aid is amazing, but I don’t feel like there’s enough of it in our communities to be as effective right now . But then, I guess that’s more of an “there’s not enough people doing it yet” kind of thing than anything else.

I think that’s why I’ve become a hell if a lot more keen to build local community, particularly with people who engage in mutual aid. So that we can all be in community together and provide for each other.

Yes, communalism! I’ve read about that, it’s really resonated with me. I definitely want to learn more. Will have to pick up some more books.

Thanks for your response, it’s very thoughtful provoking. Particularly the point about big governments and small vulnerable groups slipping through the cracks. Because I very much agree with that perspective.

I have a lot of learning to do, but I’m excited. Thanks again! ☺️