w3dd1e

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[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Same. I have a low paying white collar job that I don’t enjoy. I thought I would start learning development just in time or AI and then layoffs. It makes me feel really sick and scared for the future.

A lot of posts and videos have been put up about how it will be fine. That AI won’t take jobs and even with the layoffs, they say head counts are still up, but it feels pretty hopeless to me.

I don’t know what else to do, so I’m just going to keep trying and keep pushing myself to be a better dev. Maybe I’ll get there someday.

[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 34 points 9 months ago

lol. Cybertrucks are looking like my sink.

They should invest heavily in Barkeepers Friend. Works pretty well on the sink.

[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I just used my regular credit card. But I know you can get a prepaid card for international purposes like this. I don’t remember what that’s called. I think it’s green, lol.

There’s a lot whole subreddit about getting YouTube premium for affordable prices with good info.

[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

That is exactly what I did. If you Google it, you can find a list of the cheapest countries. Some of the cheaper options didn’t work for some reason related to how payments are processed in those places but I found one that went worked on the 3rd or 4th try.

If I remember right, I was able to use Ukraine. I think Argentina is the cheapest around $1 a month.

I’m happy to pay for product and services I use at reasonable prices. It makes me angry that they can offer this service for much less and still make.

[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago (7 children)

I’ll be honest. I did. With a VPN. It costs me $2.50 a month.

[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I use it to get around website article limits when they try to force me to sign up.

[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why would they think this is okay?

[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 35 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Audible replaced a version of a book my boyfriend bought with a completely different version of the same book. I mean a different narrator and everything. He had purchased the book a few years earlier but he didn’t manage to get a refund from them.

[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

It’s weird. When I moved from KS to MO, MO was less crazy but now that I’m here it feels like KS is calming down and MO is now losing its shit with all this stupidity.

Am I the problem?

(I know KS isn’t perfect either but they just seem less bananas, lately; with the gambling and abortions and what not)

[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Also, I really want malls to be turned into mixed use facilities. Like all the small stores are apartments and the big anchoring spaces on the ends of the mall would be grocery stores and shopping. Imagine you forgot to pick up milk after work so you just walk to the other end of the mall and buy it. I love that idea.

[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

This. I work in commercial real estate and it’s kind of hard to turn into house. It’s cheaper for them to just knock it down and start over.

The issue is the electricity and plumbing. In a commercial building these tend to run up and down the middle or just one side of the building. Apartments need to equally have access to utilities so they’d had to do a ton of construction to move plumbing and wiring into the correct places.

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