fred-kowalski

Not denying climate change, but there is more here than just the ambient heat. I grew up in Phoenix, and we didn't have a/c in our house or any of our vehicles. Even smaller stores didn't have a/c. We did have adequate ventilation, a crapton of fans and evaporative coolers and the good sense to take it easy from about 2 pm until sunset. We also had less pavement, and ironically a bunch of green lawns. The lawns were untenable from a water-resource perspective, but if the wind blew from your yard through the house, it was degrees cooler. I still visit, and the a/c has become a single solution to replace many.

I call either Shenanigans or invasion of privacy. Work is hard enough. We do what we do to get through.

Wait, I thought the whole point of moving your factory to Texas was to get away from those pesky unions.

I’ll be in a status meeting with my Canadian colleagues. I sense an opportunity to mess with them, here.

I think as the enshitification cycle speeds up on the net, the tolerance threshold from users will go down and they’ll switch earlier. MAYBE this will help interoperability. Trying out being less cynical lately and I’m not sure I believe myself.

Dunno about CA, but our US terrorists are generally domestic. We have international ones but we call ‘em “contractors”.

Thing is, the folks that are pushing these technologies don’t give rip about safety OR jobs, just profits. The government should be considering all these things, they mostly are concerned about getting re-elected and scoring culture war partisan points. Tech doesn’t work in a vacuum. It is naive and dangerous to think is neutral.

Many good points here. While many boomers are conservative, conservatives are less and less boomers as they doddle off to the old folks home. At some point, blaming the olds is just a distraction.

I chose not to have kids. You can have my carbon offset.

Individual guilt for systemic problems plays well to the elites (ultra-wealthy). Unless you’re a billionaire. Then I want my offset back.

Yes. Digital Ocean was suggested by a colleague. When I looked it up it just took too much work for all the platforms I use. I’m happy to see all the suggestions I’m getting tho.

I wonder what the enshitification track looks like for a cloud data hosting company. I use it because it is convenient, has good coverage (iOS, windows and Linux (kinda)). Not secure, but I treat it like a big post card repository. What are folks using instead?

This hits the intersection of “it’s easier to get buy-in for acquisition than maintenance” and climate change requiring more maintenance than before. That said, native plants in the Portland area have always had to be drought-tolerant. Babies need extra care tho.