Because happy people don’t talk about why they are happy.
Just like kids. People usually share the hardships unless prompted to share the good memories.
We like to share our struggles and commiserate so that we feel better. When we are happy, we don’t need to do that.
Both can be true. You’re getting older and lots of products are a solution in search of a problem to solve
Because tech should be boring. Just like politics.
But companies shove tech in our face with fancy bells and whistles to make us buy more.
I mean, just look at PC where RGB is everywhere. I want a silent PC that I don’t see.
I am not in the US. Seeed shipping would kill me
The official Pico, I can only find them at 9$. I am not in the US.
I can find an arduino nano clone for 3$. There are use case for ultra cheap electronics like that.
You can get an arduino clone for a lot cheaper than you can get an rpi clone.
Sometimes, you just need something very simple and a cheap arduino is the right choice.
Arduino is also a lot more user friendly for newcomers.
It’s a shame that Qualcomm will be the end of it.
Arduino has its place for self-taught hobbyists. For a lot of projects, a simple code is more than enough, so there is no point of going into the more advanced mcu like esp32 or stm32.
The issue isn’t the tech itsefl but the corporate world and its effects throughout society.
There is a lot of cool tech, but used for the most asinine products. 2015-2016 was especially terrible with the accessibility of IoT. Everyone and their mother had a Kickstarter with a common everyday item with wireless capability tacked into it.
No, my bottle doesn’t need Bluetooth.
I fucking hate this phrase. You have the choice to not participate and be a normal human instead of a sociopath.
Hate the players because they perpetuate the game.
It’s because there is no such thing as optimisation anymore. Websites are bloated to the gills with terrible animations and tracking scripts.
76 is a fun brainless Fallout multiplayer. I’d rather have a real Fallout MP instead of 76, but I can’t lie and had over 100hrs of fun.
Cleaning other people’s mess is okay for a while. But making a career out of it is too much for me.
I do firmware for embedded systems and every mechanical, electronics or general engineering issue is shoved down in my court because it’s easier for people to take shortcuts in the engineering process and say “we’ll fix it in the firmware” since I can change code 100 times a day.
Slop is the embodiment of that on steroids and it will get old pretty fast.
I don’t want so spend my career un-fucking vibe code.
I want to create something fun and nice. If I wanted to clean other people’s mess, I would be a janitor.
Having the capabilities to take on debt helps to garner investments.
You can do a joint venture, take on a bit of debt but get more money of it.
And we’ve seen many mega corpos finance their venture throught debt (see Uber business model).
So I’d say that it was true in the past, but corpos are getting bolder.
The point is that major shareholder will try to hide insider knowledge to sell their stock before a big crash.
They pump the stock value as much as possible and sell it before it crashes. They make a shit ton of money and some suckers are left holding the bag.
Because higher stock value means more collateral for debt.
You’d be surprised on how much debt is used in even small companies.
There was a meme going around a month or so ago of 5 AI companies jerking off, representing the circular financing that this article talks about.
From the moment these “investments” were announced, people were already raising flags about circular investments.
Grim Dawn is not a live game service.
Last Epoch promised to only have MTX and pay only once to get the full experience. That’s not the case anymore.
Last Epoch studio got bought out and people were afraid they were gonna get enshittified and it is happening right now.
Capitalism has carcinisation for rent. If something stay solvent long enough, it will turn into a rent seeking subscription.