Thank god we don’t have a law that allows some lines of work to basically be unpaid, which forces tipping.
That’s the thing us Europeans have to remember. People who work for tips actually need tips or they make no money.
It’s an incredibly evil and dumb system. But a foreigner huffing about it while visiting the US isn’t going to change the system. Tip.
Children. Once there’s children you have 0 hours to look after yourself. It requires a Herculean effort for both your partner and you to carve out 30 minutes per person per two days
Constructed vs evolved.
I think authentication will be huge.
Lots of commercial alternatives are starting to bet on the future (eg https://swear.com/), where something gets fingerprinted and the fingerprint gets signed and put on an authentication block chain (something block chains are actually useful for).
I imagine a future where this gets built into browsers (ie “this picture was verified by NY times, and it went through this editing chain, starting from a canon camera which recorded on this date”) and you can switch over to have unauthenticated assets highlighted.
Well, he’s a great filmmaker and a fantastic actor. I don’t like his personal politics, but I do also tire a bit from having to immediately throw everything through a lens of “do I agree with this person” before I’m willing to engage with anything they do.
My worry isn’t that we will have a rational war. War isn’t rational to begin with.
My worry is that we will have an irrational war. All it takes is a button push to end the world.
100% this is a jump-the-shark moment.
I sort of think what they’re releasing will stay free for a long time. That’s not my concern.
My concern is that since they’ve been acquired by Canva you can tell how Canva is thinking about Affinity; it’s a pure subscription driver towards Canva.
So given this is what Canva wants to do with Affinity, I have no doubt that Affinity will focus on shipping features that drive towards Canva subscriptions. That means other features will atrophy and that the future of affinity is one where you’re increasingly finding it diffficult to use, if you’re aiming to use it as an alternative to Adobe, without a subscription.
So this is subscription software by another name - it just creeping subscription, slowly boiling the frog in hope we won’t all jump out. Make no mistake, the fire has been lit and it won’t be long before the water gets warm.
Enshittification here we come.
Going with the spirit of the question, not the text (I don’t really think we are forced to pay for “extra” things, it’s all choice):
But one area I cannot comprehend is people buying cars on finance only to keep up with others who buy cars on finance.
This endless separation into “managers” and “not managers” is so unproductive. Everyone manages something. That’s why you’re employed.
This is actually worse. It’s copy/paste with an AI “correcting” any view that doesn’t conform to Elon’s view.
Vigilant team of right wing AI bots correcting any “libtard bias” as soon as it occurs.
This really solidifies the US’ splitting into two. Now there are two versions of “truth”. It breaks the heart.
I think people, and this paper, misses a few elements.
4K encoded content often has significantly higher bitrate (well, duh, there’s more content) and often higher than the simple increase in pixel density would suggest. So content with heavy moment (flocks of birds, water, crowds etc) still looks better than 1080p, not because of the increase in pixel density, but because of the decrease of compression artefacts.
Second, high dynamic range yo! On a still picture on my TV it’s hard to see difference between 1080p and 4K but it isn’t hard to see the difference between SDR and HDR.
So I still vastly prefer 4K content, but not because of the resolution.
It’s different if you’re away from family though. Oil rig workers, navy folk, logistics etc. When it’s just you, running that kind of lifestyle is doable (speaking from experience). But good luck being a human/parent next to that commitment…
6 hrs on average I’d say.
Would love 8 hr average. Feel a completely different person on 8 hrs.
We have four kids (4, 6, 15, 18) all still at home, so once the little ones are in bed, there’s lunch boxes and teenage dramas to sort out, plus getting some time with my wife and some time in the man cave. It’s easily past midnight every night before all needs are seen to, often gets closer to 1am.
Unfortunately my job has a quarterly cycle which destroys 4 weeks every quarter; during that time I get less, probably 4-5 hrs. Brutal. But hey, everyone’s fed, warm, healthy and happy - that is what parenting is about; paying back what your parents put into you.
The world is definitely worse for younger people. I’m raising four kids and I weep for them.
Smart phones and social media have a LOT to answer for. I know that won’t necessarily be a popular opinion but that’s where I find the root of the problem. Well, that and FPTP election systems.
I’m still rocking a license from early 2000s
Fastmail. Getting better and better, profitable and charging for services.
Posthaven. Not getting better and better but started good and staying good. Profitable and charging for services.
Unraid. Getting better and better. Not cheap, but a lot simpler to operate than TrueNAS for day to day stuff.
Kickstarter. Yes they’re a virtual monopoly but so many awesome things I’ve joined through it (though fuck you Eve/Dough for roping me into your shitty monitor which never really worked).
Virpil controllers. Rock solid, made by fanatics and rightly loved by fans. Cannot speak highly enough about their hardware (though their attitude to customer service is … Eastern European).
Affinity products. They might be cresting though and about to roll steeply downhill towards enshittification valley. But I still love them for now.
Linux. What’s not to love.
Lemmy. In fact so so many open source products. Honestly, it’s hard to grasp the quality.
And in the darkness bind them?
Yes tipping in Canada is weird, agreed. But from the time I lived in Toronto I didn’t feel it was as mad as the US is nowadays.