thawed_caveman

True, i should have mentioned transaction fees maybe even as the main point, and transaction time too while we're at it. In the moment when i was writing that comment all i was thinking of is trying to not write an essay, which you easily fall into when writing about crypto, so i omitted some pretty crucial points.

Speaking of points, i'm surprised it's upvoted too, that kind of contrarian rant doesn't usually garner sympathy

I've been helping a Chinese company and it includes getting on the phone at 9am to talk to them right as they're leaving the office. For an international team there can be time zone issues like that, but if you can find overlap between Europe and China then you can find overlap between anywhere

I haven't had a normal job since before covid so i'm not super qualified, but:

I think big companies tend to think rationally in terms of cost/benefit

I think they sometimes do, but not always. The reason being that companies are made of people, and people sometimes but not always think rationally.

In this case, my guess is middle management may be fretting about leaving employees unsupervised. What if they play games or browse Twitter on company time? You can't monitor them when they're not in the office!

Inspirational wish-wash like “we value the power of working together” strikes me as common corporate wish-wash. It's sort of along the lines of "we're a family here". They're trying to make employees emotionally invested in the corpo so they'll put up with more bullshit.

My dudes, the fact that cryptos are fundamentally fucked and unusable by design is nothing to do with politics, it's to do with technology. You don't get to brush it off as "oh they're just being woke", it's a business decision necessitated by the fact that it's really annoying to get paid in crypto.

There's a lot to say about this, but in this case specifically, the value of all major coins fluctuates massively, so if you accept them as payment then you have to look at it as getting paid with a speculative asset. It's like getting paid with a barrel of oil hoping that the price will go up. I guess some businesses would be willing to make that bet, but maybe not a 501c like Wikimedia.

And the reason the prices fluctuate is because miners validators and holders straight up want it to, they want the price to fluctuate because they want to speculate and get rich, not actually use it as a currency. Even if normies were to require payment in stablecoins, enthusiasts don't tend to use those because the price fluctuation is part of the point.

We could have a thread about it

Kdenlive is still not up to pro standards. I make do with it, but if/when i'm editing for someone else i'll have to switch to a proprietary solution.

And that's besides the fact that everyone else is using it, which is usually the reason to prefer proprietary over FOSS. It's the reason i still have Photoshop installed alongside Krita.

I don't know, but Mozilla (the org that makes Firefox) also makes a VPN, and you can set it to apply to Firefox only.

I've been getting my Galaxies from Craigslist

I wonder if they're old enough to have been there. For people within a pretty narrow age range, it could be interesting to react the way they saw adults react around them, except they're adults now.

I wouldn't have much to contribute, i just remember people talking about something i didn't undersatnd but retrospectively seems to have been 9/11

I've never worn them, but Crocs would have gotten sued out of existence if they were as slippery as my knockoffs

This is the only reason i bought crocs, it's exclusively so i can wear them with socks.

Actually they're knockoff crocs. They're super slippery, it rained today and i was risking death with every step

Physical buttons. Sometimes an app or the OS itself will fuck up and not show you the home or back button for example.

I would miss headphone jacks but any phone worth buying still comes with those... for now