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[–] Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Just do in what I do. Don't join meetings most of the time. That way when you do it is noteworthy to the meeting stakeholder.

Yeah sure my manglers through the years try to have 'the talk' but after awhile of training them via sheer apathy they shut the fuck up.

I solve complex problems, get my tasks done, I'm independent and I stay busy because I'll get bored. Most meetings could just be an email. There's no real collaboration except managers or scrum masters asking what your blockers are but not actually doing anything about it. If I think the meeting will be a waste of my time I just don't show up.

[–] Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Flatpak doesn't come with more libraries to interact with other flatpaks. It comes with libraries that the application's flatpak you're downloading requires. However, when installing the flatpak those libraries do not get installed if they are already on the system.

So widget-flatpak needs lib-a and lib-b. You're system already has lib-b that flatpak is using for as another flatpak.

You install widget-flatpak. lib-a gets installed but lib-b does not because you already have it.

[–] Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (10 children)

I know that. That still misses the point. The point of the law is to clarify that on digital storefronts that you make purchases for licensed digital goods, that you can't imply to the consumer that they actually own those goods. It doesn't matter if there is an offline installer. It doesn't matter if you can 'keep your installers forever'.

[–] Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (12 children)

It doesn't really matter because it doesn't change the point that people think they own digital goods when they don't. GOG may have a more consumer friendly system in place but it doesn't change what has happened with people's music, movies, shows, games and music in games at these digital storefronts, where people have clicked "Buy X" and later on, it's no longer in their libraries anymore. This has happened even when the business still exists and is still providing digital goods.

[–] Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Right, if you download the offline installers, then they can't stop you from doing whatever you're going to do with it but you don't own them. Legally, you can't sell them, transfer them to someone else, etc.

There are other sections that make the lack of ownership by you clear and that you still have to abide by the publisher's/developer's licensing agreements but Section 10 states the situation outright:

Section 10 of the GOG user agreement says:

GOG content is owned by its developers/publishers and licensed by us.

[–] Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago (23 children)

It should because their use agreement makes it clear that you don't own the games but are licensing them. That's pretty much why they had to clarify what they said I'd imagine. IMO, proving the point of the law, really.

[–] Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

So, for ventilators, I'd definitely prefer a DIY repair attempt and rolling the dice instead of having a ventilator that doesn't work, especially when you absolutely need them but don't have them.

[–] Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

You might as well criticize someone that uses a mirror in spite of blind people existing.

[–] Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The Elder Scrolls 6: Skyrim 2

[–] Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I don't want to keep replying to this but in response to your 'this is from a .mil site specifically ...' I linked to the DOD's actual gov website.

This article is relevant for NAVPERS 18068F because the Navy has all of this annoying traditions, like referring to '-' as Tack like they are pretending to be a flagman from 1835 on a ship and refer to a snackbar as a gedunk and blah blah blah.

But they still have a military rank. Sure, if you ask someone enlisted person what their 'rate' is they are going to respond with "PO1" if they are a Petty Officer First Class but if you have a CAC ID, under RANK it is going to say PO1 with the USN's seal in the top-right. Because it is their military rank. The USN can call it a rate as well and traditionally it can be known as a rate in the USN but it is still a military rank. It will even say that on your ID card if you have one or have had one. As I recall, this is also true for the old green ID cards.

[–] Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

OK, let me just break this down for you. Rates are a job in the Navy. For example, in that wikipedia article, a Fireman recruit is a rate -- their job. Their rank would be a Seaman Recruit. Their paygrade would be an E-1.

In your example, a Constructionman would be an E-3. Constructionman would be their rate. Their rank would be Seaman.

You can see this better at https://www.defense.gov/Resources/Insignia/

They don't list rates, because there's many, many, many different jobs in the different branches. The Navy is odd in that they usually refer to each other by rates, not ranks. In every other branch, people usually refer to each other by rank and not their MOS/AFSC/Whatever. It would be weird in the USAF for example to refer to some Airman First Class as 2A33C or whatever.

You can see this further explained at https://www.military.com/navy/enlisted-rates.html where they list the rates and talk about them but then they list the ranks and talk about them. They are tied together by paygrade.

And once again, in the US Navy, an enlisted person can literally not have a rate and be called Unrated until they are assigned a rate. Usually this happens to very junior enlisted.

[–] Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

They have pay grades, rank and rates in the Navy, though there are actually also unrated enlisted that get all assigned all the crappiest jobs until they get assigned a rate.

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