I manually start it when I want to play something.
I shut down the computer when I’m done for a while. Like before bed, or if I’m leaving the house.
But if I play a game and then spend some time on the computer doing something else, I don’t explicitly close steam.
Capitalism has always sounded great in theory,
I dunno, “People who don’t do the work get rich” sounds kind of shitty.
People use the word “capitalism” to mean different things.
If you ask someone “Should someone who doesn’t do any work get money from people who do?”, a lot of people would say no. And they’d probably think you’re talking about welfare or communism. But that’s capitalism. The guy who “owns” the company can sit at home and watch netflix while all his office workers make stuff, and he keeps the profits. If you frame it right, you can get people to agree with you or suffer some cognitive dissonance.
But none of that is what some people are thinking of when they think capitalism. They think “free markets” and “competition”. They often don’t really think about how that trends towards monopolies or cartels. Either because of magic, or “the government will prevent monopolies.” But not too much regulation. There’s got to be a few decades of suffering before an intervention, typically.
There’s also a lot of binary thinking. Either capitalism, or total state ownership and oppression.
I’m pretty happy with libre office. Not keen on AI code
Retire. Don’t like my job. Tech is circling the drain.
Other people posted some details but essentially if you’re not an idiot you can park that in safe investments and live a happy life.
I get so frustrated when I read about people who like win a few million, blow it on like stupid cars and houses, and end up poor again. Just don’t do that.
Agree with the other poster - too open is a net negative. There’s like 3 games I don’t want to play for 1 game I do.
There’s an RPG meetup I go to sometimes. They list some games on their blurbs so people know it’s not just a DND hangout.
Personally I would want to know what kind of games. There’s a wide range. Monopoly? Catan? A six hour indie extravaganza? Same with cards and video games. Like I would go to a sekiro tournament but avoid a CoD thing.
I dislike AI. It’s like the one ring. Stop trying to use it. But all these people think they’re stronger than Boromir.
Haha get fucked DoorDash. I’ll pick up my own food before using them.
Yeah. I wouldn’t bring it up as a non sequitur but it’s pretty important.
We’re a stupid country rules by assholes and morons.
You just know if someone tried to make a serious push for it, all the fox news types would go into a frenzy. It’d be an easy way to whip up their idiot base.
I’ve had several girlfriends who were like “you play video games? Like… <worried expression> call of duty?”
They were all relieved when I was like no.
Less relieved when I got them to play cuphead co-op.
I accept that your job likely has different cadences than software development, in addition to personal preference.
Most software engineers I’ve talked to don’t like being interrupted in the middle of some deep thought. Especially if it means shelving current work to check out something else
I didn’t mean I need them to keep it digital. I meant I don’t want my train of thought interrupted. A “take a number” and “now serving” sign would work fine, if it gated the conversation until I was ready. Or just they send a message asking to talk and wait for me to say “ok come on over”
poor heating/cooling. Usually offices aren’t a comfortable temperature for everybody.
not getting compensated for the commute. It’s a pay cut. Fuck you, management.
people that just walk up to your desk and start asking questions. Send a message like “can we talk about XYZ?” and I’ll get to it when I get to it. Though this maybe is a learned behavior from people who are bad at responding to messages.
I had a pair of coworkers that would chat over slack all day. One of them had a laugh. My other coworker at the other side of the large office would message me “what’s so fucking funny over there?”. I never knew because they never shared.
Shouldn’t be allowed. Companies shouldn’t be allowed to buy each other. We already know what happens with consolidation.
Desktop: 0. It’s off. I close the browser when I’m done
Phone: the number says 64, but only 25 “active”. I should probably prune.
Everywhere I’ve worked that did micro services it was kind of a pain. One of the places I’ve worked had a simple monolith backend and it was great.