They have nothing consumers want.

Yeah it is but I guess there is nothing anyone can do about it now. People wont admit it but they know thats how most or all programmers will work in the future.

Yeah but foss has its own problems. Mainly financing. People are expected to work for free on most open source projects, and some do because they enjoy it. I do that myself too. Its fun.

But foss doesnt create products that require a lot of funding to get off the ground.

Its nice with chat bots like chat gpt but companies who bet on their own Ai… Or who believe they will be the next billion dollar Ai startup… I dont believe in any of that.

I think we pretty much have seen what is going to come from Ai. Chat bots. People will pay for those, specially programmers. But also other people. Outside of that… I cant see much value to pay for. Nothing in fact.

I stopped enjoying writing code completely, but its been interesting to watch everyone else who started to enjoy it MORE with Ai.

It seems to be a certain group of programmers who always were more motivated by getting the result out the door than the experience of putting code together in a certain way.

I suspect the era of high salaries as a programmer is over, since companies now feel they can replace people even easier.

To me, I dont care if my friends remember my birthday. I care if they are genuine friends and I have good conversations and laughs around them.

Someone remembering your birthday is just them putting a reminder in the calendar. Doesnt mean much, not to me at least.

So you have an actual human connection to these people? Friends could have a laugh over forgetting someones birthday, because its built on a real connection that doesnt go away over missing the small things.

“they required you”

Have you never thought that you can actually NOT do these things?

I mean, sure, maybe you had a good reason and you felt it was fine. But I wonder how many people just do what the screen tells them without realizing they can actually say no and be ok with the consequences.

Are they the police?

Would never upload picture to American big tech service and im surprised people think thats something they agree to. I guess the addiction is too strong, to these shitty services.

Thanks copie.

Copilot created this patch with pride.

Winter is beautiful. I take daily walks near the forest and it can be better looking than in summer.

The complexity of everything is just ridiculous now.

And its a moving target with constant new things to try and learn, as quickly as possible, while doing your already full time job.

I dont know. I think working in tech is definently mostly for 20-30 year olds now. When you have that desire to prove how smart you are, and the energy to learn everything.

The endless meetings and the return to office has also really killed a lot of good things about the job.

Doesnt really work in practice. If a community exists on Lemmy world, you are not going to have success running the same community somewhere else.

Its just the nature of things. Even Lemmy is mostly centralized to large instances, despite its federated technology.

Yeah im currently on a sabbatical and I dont think I will go back to working in tech.

But ive been working with it for 25 years in different roles. Im just tired of seeing the same thing being reinvented again and again under different names.

I dont feel excited about micro services or AI or blockchain. Its just more and more complexity all the time and its exhausting, not interesting.

Also the culture has changed. It used to be a fun profession for figuring out how to write the code to solve something. Now its telling agents what to do, and pressure to always work hard.

It wasnt like that before. The company needed your skills and they couldnt push or replace people very easily. Which meant they treated you well and didnt stress you.

Yeah stuff like that. Or “where is bennet? He is letting off some steam”. :)

They are going to use Ai to moderate, lol… That will be fun to watch.

I also dont know what that means. They are all epic.

Yeah exactly, they dont have downvotes and any upvote also requires karma, so you cant just create new accounts and bot upvote things.

But yes, its also a much more mature audience at that site. Many are older computer nerds. Lemmy has some of that too though.

They also have a moderator that is full time working on keeping the site clean, so there is that.

But yeah, I really miss discussions where you see unpopular opinions and they are not downvoted, because I can handle seeing that. I may not agree and then I will just ignore or comment, not downvote it.

Without good moderation, it will turn into 4chan though. So yeah, the extremes are not good, have to be in the middle.

I dont think more users is very important. Its not going to make Lemmy change from mostly memes anyway.

The mentality of the largest Lemmy instances is still to moderate away opinions they dont agree with, so this place is never going to be good for any discussions where people disagree strongly.

Most users downvote what they dont agree with. Its a circle jerk echo chamber where we all agree or get downvoted.

But we can all enjoy memes together. :) Its kind of nice. Lemmy is chill and easy. Even kid friendly.

I mean, also look at how windows installs programs. Its like a 100 step process taking several minutes, because just putting the files where they need to be is just too simple.

Or the uninstall program, cant just remove the files, no… Need to run full installer backwards to remove all the registry entries and even reboot the system to get rid of it all.