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> So what are the alternatives?

A dumb TV you can buy for cheap on Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist with an Nvidia Shield or a similar streaming device running Android.

Only a matter of time before enshittification comes for Apple TV.

You have the Trump administration and the Congressional Republicans to thank.

With Xbox's planned "reinvention" under the new CEO, consider the Plex app's days on the console numbered.

> Anyone wanna take the opportunity to share their favorite brands and models of dumb TVs?

You can find them in your local Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist region.

Top shareholders aren't concerned with "the culture."

> OpenCode has a generous $10 plan for open weight models

No point if one can't use Anthropic's models.

How do we minimize our exposure to this IPO?

> I am very lucky to be ensconced right now within a team and a company that views the current LLM mania with a similar level of disdain as myself.

It only takes one person, someone with enough power, to fall for the ai-equals-productivity-equals-profits trap to bring the house down.

When the funds dry up, he'll be back.

There will always be a crop of people who can only program because they can't afford land to take up farming.

> I guess tech has been good enough to provide some kind of economic cushion that you can retain a reasonable life style as home depot as your only source of income.

It certainly has. There are other instances of former tech workers who subtely brag online about "moving to the countryside" to "raise chickens," "write poetry," or another performative lifestyle using profits from the industry they're quitting.

The equivalent of posting a screenshot of a Notes app entry on Instagram.

> How do people find jobs?

By tapping into a network you've ideally built over the course of your career. In the 2020s, people get good jobs from whom they know, not what they know.

Do you play with any mods?

It's about pride at this point.

> E.H. promised her investors a magic cure -> sharlatan

*charlatan

Access to drinkable water is pretty important.

The great thing about Bitwarden is its ability to sync passwords between multiple devices seamlessly. KeePassXC is the next move here, and I'd like to know how people made syncing work, especially for iPhone users.

> He surely got good money for selling FiveThirtyEight

Yes, he did: https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/residential/cny-na...

Let us know when this isn't a Chrome-specific tool.

One-track mind.

> mostly awarded to mainstream mouthpieces

Small newsrooms you've never heard of have a history of winning Pulitzer prizes.

Did you read the series?

The winning stories were published before Bezos made the cuts. A good chunk of the writers in that collection aren't at the newspaper anymore. We'll see if the layoffs impact what they submit for next year's competition.

> How would learning about cutting-edge tech ruin your career?

The year-long gap in his resume could be a red flag to recruiters.

> hanging out on BoardGameGeek dot com

What does this entail?

> I’ll happily tell you who they are - get in touch

Don't be a coward. Name and shame.

> Shipped a couple of small projects, got some revenue trickling in

What did you ship?

> You have to accept that 5-15% of the people who would show up to something like this are genuine weirdos you probably don't want to be around.

How have you handled this in past meetups?