Yep. Every company I’ve worked at had a marketing team with a social media team.

And social media isn’t just fucking around on Twitter posting food pics. It also making a dozen fake accounts to share how your company is way better than this other company. Or write bad reviews about your competitors. Or shit on people who like a particular product while boosting yours.

Oh is that against the law? Only if it’s enforced. Which impossible.

Right here.

Talk is cheap. And people are stupid.

Stop going to events with Ticketmaster.

I bought a $300 fake Roomba thing. It was on clearance.

And i fought against it for years. But ended it up coming in clutch for a lot of reasons.

It did not have an app, just a IR controller. Its pretty dumb. It bumps into everything. It gets stuck under things. I sometimes have to create a maze so it cleans a specific spot.

Its been a habit of mines to avoid anything with an app that requires internet access. But the product lines are shrinking, and I know at some point, if I want a Roomba, I’ll need to invite always-on AI or whatever.

Download the toaster app so you can make toast from anywhere!

In addition, Narayanan says he uncovered a suspicious line of code broadcasted from the company to the vacuum, timestamped to the exact moment it stopped working. “Someone — or something — had remotely issued a kill command,” he wrote.

“I reversed the script change and rebooted the device,” he wrote. “It came back to life instantly. They hadn’t merely incorporated a remote control feature. They had used it to permanently disable my device.”

In short, he said, the company that made the device had “the power to remotely disable devices, and used it against me for blocking their data collection… Whether it was intentional punishment or automated enforcement of ‘compliance,’ the result was the same: a consumer device had turned on its owner.”

They kill switched it remotely. Yikes.

I treat it like, “Ah I see you shared an opinion in public that is the reason your family abandoned you. And here you are, alone in society - still holding on to your shitty thoughts, and you will die alone.”

We had to buy a new (used 2022) car after we ran out old car into the ground. The touch screen controls temperatures. There wasn’t a single variant of the car that didn’t have a giant ass touch screen. It makes me really uncomfortable when the screen no longer works.

There’s also some other things that piss me off.

But Some of the pros (and why we accepted that trade off):

• all wheel drive
• fancy sensors when someone is in my blindside
• it opens when it senses the key is nearby.
• heated seats with controls. (Used to bring hot packs because it gets cold here)
• cameras for the rear
• it does that cool thing where it breaks if it senses you might collide. I hated it at first but I’m old now and it saved me once from collision.

Either way, fuck cars and if public transportation was better here, id use that.

Controversial take:

If Autodesk products is how you make your money - Just use the OS your work provides you. Unless you’re a freelancer, of which that’s your work computer, and lock everything else down.

Work computer is not my problem. Nor am I putting anything personal on there. Microsoft wants to mine my company’s info, let those two deal with that shit.

This was my mistake when I started self hosting a few years ago!

I went all-in on FOSS. And my God, it was constantly a maintenance nightmare for some apps. Some would break with updates. Some times I felt I was playing wackamole replacing one set of problems with new ones.

Then I met a swlf-hoster who has been doing self hosting for two decades and he helped he unfuck my stuff by recommending commercial and paid services. And honestly, it was awesome because I’m too old for this shit. I just want working services.

Anyone who travels quickly discovers how backwards America is for so many things compared to other modernized cities.

At my company, most of the IT team are hardcore Trump supporters who do not see a problem with working with LGBTQIA people and being polite to their face, while also wanting them to have less rights.

Yes, they are all white men. And yes, all of them will tell you how hard they worked to get there, completely oblivious of how much an advantage they got to get there.