Yay! The megathread is here! And a wiki!

That took me too long to get lol

Is there a data hoarding community on Lemmy or is this basically it?

Paying for a roof isn’t work. It’s not producing anything, transforming anything, or doing labor, and it takes no time. It takes 30 seconds to cut a check. And they’re using money I and other renters have paid them because we can’t afford a house, despite very much wanting to, because of how expensive housing is due to landlords buying up all the properties lol. You can tell it’s not a real job because a lot of landlords have full time other jobs. Or it’s why being a landlord is also a great way to get money for old people who can’t work and maybe haven’t saved for retirement nor have a pension.

I 100% agree that the problem is that housing is an investment. Real estate investors should not be buying homes to make a profit at the expense of available housing. I haven’t heard how the situation is in Germany, but that’s good. I heard Tokyo also does it right, where housing depreciates like a car, because they have so much.

My landlord doesn’t do that, they have a property manager that does that stuff. Ive never even seen my landlord. If the landlord does it, then they are not doing landlording, they are being a property manager and landlord, but they don’t necessarily have to, and one doesn’t require being the other.

Tbh not sure I would want that. I think each type of content out there deserves it’s own best way to interact with it. It feels like everything would be half-assed instead of one type of site down full ass.

I don’t know if this is peak mildly interesting, or too interesting to be mildly interesting 😂

Peak mildly interesting content

Woo! Group trip!

Also, for anyone else like me who’s dumb and didn’t know what Diamond Dust is. I guess it’s like ice crystals glittering in the air at ground level. There’s a cool video in the Wikipedia article. Image searches just kept bringing up literal diamond dust lol.

New bucket list goal: See this.

Will add it to seeing a total eclipse and seeing the Northern Lights with cool sky phenomenon I want to see.

It definitely seems like a good idea for education services, weather services, local municipal services, and basically all important government institutions to make important announcements and updates via a service they can host themselves or is more distributed, like Mastadon, instead of via Twitter where they have to obey the whims of people like Musk.

One day I’ll pull that off…

Ohhh okay! That party sounds pretty good actually. There are a couple episodes of some TV shows I’d love to have that I’m missing lol

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I imagine that qBittorrent doesn’t automatically search for better versions of your media, automatically rename and move files to your specification, automatically evaluate search results to choose a download that matches your desired quality, automatically search for desired media when it is released (like new episodes of a currently running TV show), automatically import subtitle files or extras to your library, or automatically grab metadata for all your media.

Those parts do sound pretty good lol

What’s the advantage of downloading these over setting up the qbittorrent search function to search multiple torrent sites when I type something in there, as it does for me now?

Wow that’s an old one lol

Thanks! Haha ya, it may be a little misguided, but I think we were allowed to do this partly as busy work to give us something to do between releases. We’re kind of in a transition period, and it’s something to do while my higher ups negotiate contracts for further work, stakeholders and customers prioritize next items for the next release, etc. Admittedly, these transition periods kinda scare me in terms of you never know when you’ll lose work or something, so even if they think it’s busy work, for me it’s shoring up my resume with tech and leadership experience I should already have that the rest of the industry will be looking for just in case the worst happens lol. I think I’ve been working at this place too long now, kinda got complacent, but been more interested in looking around and catching up on what I’ve been missing as the company has been looking to modernize and we’ve been simultaneously approaching the release of this version of their software.

( Funny enough, I was initially hired to work on automated testing since I had done some at my previous company, immediately got placed doing other dev work to catch up on our schedule. Now it’s been years and I’m trying to remember how this all works lol.)

Right now, we’re mostly just doing happy path testing tbh. But that’s a good point that we should look into our tools to see how it signals code coverage and everything. That might be some reading up I have to do. I think it’s a combination of MSTest, or whatever comes with Visual Studios, some Telerik Just Mock and Test Studio tools our company already had licenses for, and Selenium.

You’re right that a story per test is probably a bit too much Jira. I was more thinking of a story per class, but even that’s probably a bit much with how big this legacy application of theirs is now. I don’t want to overwhelm us all in backlog management paperwork, so now I think I’m leaning towards zooming out a bit and doing a story per module.

Netflix turning off account sharing is what sent me to the high seas. Disney+ doing the same will push me over even more.

Neither was the Western population at the time, but it scaled up fine. There’s nothing saying alternative systems of land ownership can’t scale up either. The only reason we went with the current one is because it benefited the people who killed everyone else.

I’m pretty sure the Native Americans didn’t believe in land ownership, at least not individual land ownership, more of a communal version, and it worked out well for them. They had huge societies, vast trade networks, and were able to feed themselves fine. It requires a different, non-capitalist, non-Western mindset, but it can work.