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I play some native games on a M4 Max using Steam, with good performance. Baldurs Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Crimson Desert, No mans sky, Darkest Dungeon 1,2, Warhammer Rogue Trader, a…

I use Gemini, and rarely ChatGPT (usually once or twice a day). I ask very narrow, pointed questions about something specific I would like an answer to. I typically will verify tha…

I'm glad they've been able to do this, looks like a huge improvement for HD2 on PC. I've been on PS5 since launch and aside from Baldur's Gate 3, it's been the best game this gen I…

I’m 48, started as a web dev at age 30. I’ve been at a non-profit for quite awhile so not big tech and not big tech $ but I like my job and coworkers.

LinkedIn does this and it’s gross. I’ve unsubscribed from at least 3-4 different types of emails from them already.

Typically 0.5 to 6 (max) in a single workday unless there's something urgent that needs fixing. I also have meetings during the day, learning I want to do, etc., that takes up my 8…

I heavily agree. It’s something I had at my first office job. I had no email address, no messaging app, everything came through my PM or manager. Ive never been as productive as th…

Can we stop seeing their job postings on HN every other day now? I don’t know how you don’t get blacklisted after something like this.

I'd personally be OK with hybrid or (near) full-time back in the office if housing wasn't so expensive near cities. WFH has worked well for me but I can tell some of my coworkers r…

Remember EverQuest? Maybe I'm just old, and I don't get it, but I feel like EQ was way more addictive than Fortnite and explicitly developed to be so. The intermittent reward struc…

Chicago is a good choice but a lot of people wouldn't be able to tolerate the winter. It can be brutal to get through. The bonus on the other side of it is that the summers are ama…

You can’t have affairs and avoid your family if you’re WFH.

Remember, a fine (typically insufficient) is just a measured cost of doing business. How many times is it going to take for them to actually take this seriously?

The Stadia closure sealed it for me. Such amazing tech for what it was, completely unable to see the long-term and stay dedicated to a tech that's obviously going to have increasin…

If it helps, an ex-coworker reconnecting with me to discuss job opportunities would be fine with me. It wouldn't bother me. We both know we're talking about jobs, maybe we were goo…

Because a "guild" sounds more appealing to nerds? I wish I was joking but a union sounds like blue-collar work while a guild sounds like something cool from D&D and medieval fantas…

While I agree with this perspective, these companies go out of their way to market to their employees to make the job their whole identity. They are not blameless.

Agreed, I see plenty of tech jobs in the public and non-profit sectors. Problem is that they're not paying what would be considered acceptable to a big tech worker. I saw a 20-some…

If it helps, Laravel feels like the Rails of the PHP community. I've used it to build ~5 websites and it's been very solid. The docs are pretty good and it does most of what you ne…

The org I work at has existed for over a hundred years. It's probably not going away for the foreseeable future. The work, my coworkers, the perks and work environment (low stress)…

TikTok? TikTok is a behemoth and it really kicked off during the COVID lockdown when people had nothing better to do. It's the latest, and best optimized, social media algo dopamin…

I slacked off more in the office, got up from my desk more, walked around more. When I was actually at my desk, I would browse random websites more than I do at home. There are too…

Android and Chrome... so it looks like around 2008-2009?

No hate to any of the engineers there, but honestly, it would be a net positive for society. The level of vitriol, hate, and performative outrage has reached up to the gods on Twit…

It's a funny thing. I thought that I would have regrets playing World of Warcraft for years of my life, but looking back, I really enjoyed my time playing it even when it felt a li…