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That was nice.

If you have bad calligraphy, practice. Won’t hurt you.

Weren’t those a thing to admire? Chicken scratches on the ground could be more readable.

I don’t doubt you have a busy life. And that is not the subject at hand here.

What should concern us, collectively, is that we are constantly being pushed the notion that we do not have enough time and that tech is always the solution, when it is not.

I’m going to take a risk and say you write faster than you type and reaching for a pencil is quicker than launching a program.

Writing someone a letter is a very personal thing and you’re creating a memory. Something tangible, concrete, also weighs in on reality. Looking at a piece of paper with your handwrite makes you understand you’re commiting to something.

I’m a FOSS loon but the craze of making everything digital is absurd. I’ve listened to people criticizing others for using paper and a pencil to take down a memo, note or even journaling, when they can do it on their phone.

Is existing so dreadful nowadays? Does the notion of leaving proof of existence scares?

You want gold? Tons of it? Go mine the asteroid belt. But if it is to become plentiful what value will it hold?

Will cheap gold plated circuitry be back?

I’m in Portugal.

I’ve asked if such devices could be supplied and I was given pretty much the same explanation I supplied here.

Strangely enough, vehicles can be legally tracked, in real time, yet the company I work at has some union agreement that prevents such installation in the work vehicles.

It’s a mess.

It’s strange. Apparently it is one of those situations where the possibilty of something very useful being easily abused by companies to spy on their people is too great.

Meanwhile, I often work with immediate risk of death or injury and, by law, I can not be equipped with a panic button for rescue purposes, as it is deemed unlawful surveillance of the worker.

I am supposed to warn in advance what work I will be doing and agree on a reasonable time window for it to be done safely, before having to call in again to say I am not yet dead and if the task is done or not.

I followed the link of a video here on Lemmy just a few minutes ago and it opened in the browser.

Nothing shocking up to this point.

Then I get a prompt from the video saying “Ready to buy products advertised in the video? Log into the official app in order to.”

Direct purchase through the YT app is a novelty for me.

Newpipe all the way.

I don’t give two cents for the american auto brands but spare me the drama: try and make a proper car.

Looking at Ford: try importing a few models from the european line and offer it in the states. Small, economic, somewhat reliable, fuel efficient cars.

Stellantis has a slew of models that could be brought into the american market. They make good cars.

And I’m willing to bet GM as a few models they build and market overseas that would be guaranteed sucesses.

Amazon basically solved this problem for me: they locked me out.

We could just regulate tech companies and outright ban some practices but since we apparently don’t have time for rational solutions…

Well thought out sabotage can be written off to causality or involuntary human error.

Not giving notice of lay off is an abusive work practice and only shows how far we’ve allowed work conditions to degrade.

And that practice itself can be highly dangerous, if we consider a person can be midway into a complex task that can turn extremely difficult to follow by another: waste of time, resources, energy and money.

Small acts of sabotage are easy to write off to causality, if well planned.

Stupid question but what is stopping the software engineers to poison the well?

Insert malicious code, self destructing functions, have entire batches of code lost or corrupted, hardware damaged, etc?

I stand corrected.

That one.

Never used it for personal ends. But I’m curious to see if all the companies using as a work tool will divert from it.

Signal.

And IF I learn how to run Jammi, it will be my default communication application.

Does self hosting, at home, really pays off nowadays, or does hiring server space is a mandatory requirement?

I’m going to risk that going back to personal websites would be a blast. And people would enjoy it.