After some unfortunate interactions with older coworkers, I've started thinking that so many shitty aspects of our work culture exist because working men wanted an excuse to be away from their wives and children.

I think 25 years is plenty long enough.

The Atari 2600 was newer when the first iPod was released than the first iPod is now.

If only there was a good 4-year-old with a gun to stop him.

The internet.

Is "must make the dumbest fucking decision possible at all times" in the Mozilla CEO job description or something?

I have no CEO experience, but I'll make stupid fucking decisions for a fifth of the salary you're paying the current guy.

If ring-0 access is the only way you can stop cheaters, your game must be poorly programmed.

Well this thread is an absolute shitshow.

Jellyfin is great, but if you refuse to let yourself understand that Plex's ease of setup for remote access is a point in its favour - especially when sharing with non-tech savvy people - then you're just as bad as the supposed "Plex shills".

Plex is well on the enshittification train, and I've always been a bit concerned about how private it may or may not be, but there's absolutely no way I'd have been able to share a Jellyfin instance with my grandfather, especially as his dementia got worse.

If Nintendo has the power to brick your console, then do you truly own it?

This sort of shit needs to be illegal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_software_packages

Buy never software

...but then your clothes might look like you've worn them before.

What are you? Poor?

It’s some sort of perverse arms race built around a shared lie we all pretend we don’t know about.

There's a lot of that when it comes to work in general. It's like it's taboo to point out that the only reason people show up to their jobs is because they get paid for it.

Pretty damn rich coming from the CEO of a website that makes no content of its own.