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Nobody likes a sucker, especially the kind that fall for fruit tarts like you. I knew there was trouble. I could smell it on the hot evening breeze. Fortunately for me, trouble is my favorite thing… Because I’m Joe Milkshake. I kicked down the door with one swift, decisive motion.

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RootBeerGuy,
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You posted that last week. Not really necessary to post it again unless you had a major update going, which I cannot tell from this post.

RootBeerGuy,
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Ye, another vote for exploding console rocks!

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Finally deleted my LinkedIn account!

After putting my account into "hibernation" for the past few weeks, I finally closed it. But I'm still looking for work. Thankfully I can still find positions (SRE and software dev) by just going directly to the company's site and finding a Jobs page.

Good luck to everyone else out there looking for work!

@privacy

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Its been turning into Facebook for a while now. I used to have a relevant work feed, but more and more I have these feel good posts and even memes popping up.

Oh, and its pretty toxic in content too. Had this post the other day where some woman director of some company posted how tough it was to lose her husband to some disease, how tough it is to take care of the kids alone, finishing with how it helps her to be engrossed in her work.

Like half of that was about her work actually. A very very weird read.

Another post on woman’s day celebrating the working women who open their laptop again (for work) when the kids are in bed.

Such things, just ugh. And those gets lots of likes too.

I used to see such things only in the linkedinlunatic subreddit , but now I see it my feed.

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I think its OK if you are looking for a job, yes. Not fully minus the feeds really, because I used to also see a lot of people advertising jobs in th feeds or saying they are leaving their jobs and looking for something. That is drowned out slowly by those shitty posts I mentioned.

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To be fair, company culture is a lot of self promotion. But there are OK ways to do that and terrible ways, what you describe is more of a terrible one.

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So I am definitely not trying to defend LinkedIn but a lot of arguments you make are basically: other sites or services can do that too. Which isn’t a great argument to make since monopoly on these will not lead to more usefulness.

The last one I can give a counterargument. You should care because if you are looking for a new job you can try and find people to talk to, which can help figure out if a job you didn’t consider so far might be interesting. Maybe the area you work in is not helped with that. I work in R&D and had students reach out to me via LinkedIn just to ask about what kind of work I do at this company and what does the day to day look like. Now not everyone will be happy to talk and not everyone will give you useful answers but then you just go and message the next person.

Downside of this is that LinkedIn makes it artificially difficult to just message people, either promoting their paid subscription or not allowing you to contact people because they are 3rd rate connections or worse. So that’s crap again but if you get enough relevant connections this might be better. You can also get sneaky about it and just email a person on their work account by sending a message to firstname.lastname@companyurl.TLD. This you can also only do if you know who works where.

What non-FOSS software have you been unable to quit?

For me, Google video search, Google books (Internet Archive is good, but doesn’t always have the same stuff), Adobe InDesign (but in the process of learning LaTeX), and Typewise. As for the Google stuff, I liked Whoogle a lot, but almost all their instances seem to have been blocked or shut down. Also, apologies if this is...

RootBeerGuy, (edited )
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Jellyfin is FOSS. You can by the way just install it and point it at your library to see if it recognises everything. It won’t change your file layout. If you have your movies named "title (year)“ and series in a folder format like “series title/season x/s0xe0x” (x being season and episode numbers), it should actually automatically recognise it all.

But I admit, if you have deviations from that you would need to correct those first and it seems from what I read that Plex is not as picky with that as Jellyfin is.

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I would never again install a big social media app on my phone. I am actually just using LinkedIn via a browser shortcut, they keep bugging me about installing the app but that’s definitely not going to happen.

RootBeerGuy,
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Uh no. I have been using it for navigation for the past 5 years, probably even longer. It is hit and miss in some areas but it works OK.

RootBeerGuy,
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Its not a notification like that. I open the site in the mobile browser, not a PWA in case you are thinking that.

There is a small “pop-up” at the bottom then that asks you to use their app instead. But its not even layering over the site so you could just leave it be.

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Flapping your wiener in the wind like god intended. Just its the god of death, probably.

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Sounds like they got a six demon bag in there.

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I understand like 10% of what they are written. Most of it reads like incoherent babble. Interesting.

RootBeerGuy,
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Borg, Vorta, Star Trek is everywhere. Why did they name these for the evil guys? Could have named it “The Sisko”, everyone know he is infallable.

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It’s like that with a lot of things you could buy for your little one.

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What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss

RootBeerGuy,
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You don’t need a better replacement. People just need something that keeps them in the app longer, these sort of “dark patterns” that are often mentioned. The app can be total shit, as long as it manages to engage users. That’s why something like Lemmy or Mastodon is not succeeding with the general population because they explicitly have been made not to utilise such things.

RootBeerGuy,
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saying “nobody in history has ever succeeded” in suppressing the will of Russians

Nobody except you

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At self checkouts I get it, its annoying but at least makes sense. But there is a Willy’s grocery store near where I live where they do that for the normal cashier checkout too. I forget every time I need to keep my receipt to get out. That’s just bullshit.

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Check out the big brain bangs on Brad Bradine!

RootBeerGuy,
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But you don’t have to worry if you got nothing to hide… /s

RootBeerGuy,
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I am not Canadian but sounds like not giving her airtime on news or articles in papers is a start. You are just helping her with free advertising.

RootBeerGuy,
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Timeless comment.

Not saying I agree, but nothing is more Trek than “not liking the new Trek”.

RootBeerGuy,
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I think these either need the beak to be a bit irregularly shaped or needs a black line inside the beak to make it more clear this isn’t just a big hole in the face but an actual bird beak.

But other than that its great! And that’s of course just my personal opinion, you do you!

RootBeerGuy,
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Probably an AI generated post. Either way, I hope this is not a tenured professor.

RootBeerGuy,
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Because you are furiously masturbating on the train right now?

RootBeerGuy,
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Are you fucking joking that a hospital is on the stock market? I know, its the company that owns the hospital, but its still fucked up. Should not be allowed.

RootBeerGuy,
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You can hate everyone, no need to restrict yourself.

RootBeerGuy,
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There have been examples of the past where martyrs did change the direction of history. Maybe he hoped it would be similar and I guess we are at the find out stage.

RootBeerGuy,
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You are pretty optimistic they would pay $100k for this job. It is probs far less, which makes this even worse, they are not saving that much money really.

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In what world is that an answer for a reasonable person?

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But they are also out in the sunlight. So not sure rules apply.

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