Controlling people’s media experience to push political propaganda that helps powerful people and harms individuals - that seems really shitty.

I can’t think of any app developer or political party who would do that.

(This is an attempt at surrealist humor.)

I’m sure they will grow out of it, by the time they turn 21

(This is intended as an amusing reference to DOGE’s habit of hiring surprisingly young professionals.)

“$450 is an insanely high price for a new console, so I’m going to buy a $400 2 year old console instead.”

Sure. But it’s also a choice between a library that will forever cost $70 00-$90.00 per game, and a game library infamous for game sales so good that an average player cannot finish their library because the seasonal sales are too good to pass up.

I would welcome a utility that makes it easy to find donate links for my software packages, based on my Apt, Flatpak, and F-Droid package lists.

I’m a developer, so my chances are pretty good. But I take your point.

Even if I weren’t, there’s enough software options out there that I don’t have to pick between paying for proprietary software and living with abandonware.

So I think the need for this security is exaggerated.

Of course. I used proprietary software for a long time. Having things I relied on get abandoned got old, but it worked.

I just expect more from most of my software, now.

I’m happy to pay for software, but I want more than just permission, I want long term security that my investment in the tool will last.

If IntelliJ would open source their oldest versions, I would make my boss buy me a copy of the newest version every year.

And to every other bidder, too, of course.

I can explain this chart: SO and AI both give me questionably useful example code, but AI isn’t as much of an asshole about it as the average SO user.

Docker Compose brought “works on my machine” to the cloud.

The issues should be central, but it would be nice for my reputation as a contributor to migrate between instances.

Needs more chains and walls between groups in the top picture. And maybe some ransom notes.

(This is more to try to make you laugh, than useful feedback, sorry. I don’t have a very good idea how to actually include these concepts in a simple diagram.)

That’s a great way to handle it.

I like to pass them the ticket and schedule the next open hour on their calendar for them to teach me how to do it, if they’re a developer. Sometimes they do, because I was genuinely missing something easy. Usually they get to awkwardly discuss why they don’t have it done yet, either.

When the person isn’t even a developer, I’ll explain the usual process between developers, and give them a chance to beg their way out of it.

If they don’t beg off, I schedule them anyway and see if they can actually at least “rubber duck” me through the problem. (Sometimes it even works.)

I’ve had a couple peers discover (or rekindle) their love for development this way. Most just make up a reason not to make the meeting, though.

They worked well for us

Yeah. I used story points successfully for years.

After learning about the above data, I asked my team to trial just counting tickets for velocity, and it also works fine.

The outcomes weren’t noticably different, so now we just don’t spend the couple hours each sprint that estimating story sizes was costing us.

My team was hesitant to give up story point estimation, because they didn’t want to give up the communication with leadership about which stories were XXL.

So we kept using the XXL issue tag, but dropped the rest of the estimation process.

What now?

Some options:

• Gadget Bridge allows connecting most devices fully locally
• PineTime simple, but cheap and free of corporate nonsense
• RePebble (coming later this year) - I just learned and it in this thread, but it looks promising.

Ooh. Thanks. Today I learned about RePebble. If it doesn’t deliver, there’s still also Gadget Bridge (connect most devices fully locally) and PineTime (another spiritual successor to the Pebble).

The idea with story points is you assign them consistently, so the team’s velocity is meaningful.

Yep. But then we got some data and it turned out that story point estimates reliably create a lower quality velocity then simply counting tickets, ignoring their obvious massive size differences.

Any time spent estimating story points, creates negative value.

Sources:

• Story Points Don’t Work
• No Estimates - An Introduction

It’s actually not a crime to mercy kill and dispose of the body of anyone who says “Well, it’s a simple task. Are you having difficulty?”.

It’s an obscure and weirdly specific law.

(This is a joke, of course.)

I’m just learning this is an option, but Matrix Signal Bridge.

Best I can tell from the documentation, we add the Matrix server bot to a signal account, and it relates messages between the two platforms.

Welcome!

Let’s see, what useful welcomes advice can I share…?

1. You’ll find lots of Linux users here, but we’re harmless.
2. I’m not sure our interpretation of Star Trek’s Gowron has any remaining relationship with the original character, but I guess he’s one of our mascots, now.
3. If one of us starts to go on about how federation works, it’s okay to nod and back away slowly. Federation works just fine without understanding it.

Is there a way on lemmy to have small communities new post always come up on the top of your feed?

Choosing “all/new” gets the job done.

And many Lemmy clients have more options with additional cleverness to get a feed with a mix of fresh and familiar.

It’s worth pointing out (to communities thinking about moving) that there’s nothing algorithmically suppressing new content here.

Getting (and staying) noticed is way easier, here.