BizarreByte

I felt that way about the master to main debacle, but some angry people online won anyway.

“Therapy doesn’t work” is always refuted by this claim that you just haven’t found the right one yet.

It’s tiring honestly, you are not allowed to criticize therapy in the current year.

All kinds of pseudoscience makes people believe they feel better. Without proof therapy works it’s no better than homeopathy.

> but you need to use buzzwords like these to convince executives.

And yet we’re told execs are smarter than the rest of us and deserve to make so much more than we do.

Someday I pray the executive class gets its comeuppance.

Okay? You aren’t required to like any particular city, but your dislike of it doesn’t mean others can’t prefer it.

So 1) have money, and 2) have money. We also don't know what you look like which is a hugely important factor, maybe even the most important with app based dating where the swiping decisions are made in fractions of a second.

I'm not trying to downplay your experience but these kind of anecdotes don't mean much, especially when we're missing so much information.

It's no more victim blaming than being honest about what happens to people who visit Singapore with pot.

> random student that just took a poster as a souvernir.

Let's not mince words here, he stole government property in a country with some of the harshest laws on earth.

Did he deserve to die for it? No, but it was an incredibly stupid thing to do.

> Stuff like this is why Europe will always forever be extremely economically uncompetitive.

People will argue any workers rights and protections at all make countries less competitive.

Honestly though? So be it. Corporations don't have a right to exploit people as they see fit and protecting the weaker party, the employee, is more important.

"We could have infinite growth and make way more money if only we could abuse you more"

It doesn’t get updates, but I’m not overly concerned. It’s running WP10 and security would be a bigger concern if any apps supported it to begin with.

I don’t bank on my phone beyond checking my balance with SMS. If I need to actually move money around I’d rather do it on my computer.

The phone is used for calling, texting, mp3s, the weather, the calendar/reminders, and very occasional maps. I do have my gmail setup via imap with is probably the biggest risk I actually take.

I’ve written half a dozen of my own programs for specific things I need, but otherwise there’s nothing installed.

I know there’s some risk but I’m well aware of it and accept it.

I have a Windows Phone and it’s a decade old. Very outside the norm to still use it, but phones can last a long time from a hardware perspective if they’re allowed too.

My 830’s saving grace has been the ease of changing batteries. If the battery was internal I’d have tossed it years ago.

This was my immediate thought, it's the beginning of the end.

Maybe I'm becoming bitter and cynical, but all I can see are things being ruined after IPOs and the like.

Using RISC OS on an RPI was as close to using a computer for the first time as I've ever gotten again. So many ways of doing things are not bad, but completely alien if you've never done it.

It actually gave me an appreciate for how computers must be for those who aren't used to them.

All I want is to be able to put the dock on the right side of my middle screen but that remains impossible.

> We so absolutely need paths to move away from what we have today.

Why though? What necessitates our move away from what we have?

> Find the copes that get you through the day.

Adderall for working hours, weed to calm back and destress down after working hours. It can be really difficult to navigate and contort ourselves to a world that has little tolerance for mental differences, but alas we have no choice so copes are critical.

> Fight yourself. Fight yourself all day as the world doesn’t revolve around you.

As I can personally attest to, sometimes this just leads to complete burn out and mental break down rather than self-improvement.

OP: Keep going to the person who diagnosed you (or a therapist who focuses on things like ADHD) if possible and absolutely look into getting medicated if you aren't. Medication isn't a silver bullet, but it's been invaluable to me.

> but it's a bit of work to maintain and can break occasionally.

Which is a major problem because my tolerance for my bank's app not working when I open it is so low it might as well be non-existent.

I personally gave up this fight.

I've done it before and it's easy assuming you 1) keep track of every screw (egg trays work nicely, and 2) have a lot of patience.

Haven't killed one of these machines yet, nor have I ever had "spare parts" after.

They've never made any sense to me, but neither do my country's sentence lengths. Ours seem too light, whereas the US's seem extreme.

I guess I'm really not sure what value there is to locking up someone like this for 25 years when in a sane system/society there should be far better options.

> Are tech job interviews really such a nightmare?

They're awful and I avoid interviewing at all costs these days. My current employer is going to have to fire me to get rid of me because I'm not willingly putting myself back into that meat grinder.

It's ridiculous both iOS and Android largely have no way to record calls/try to prevent it, especially when some of us live in jurisdictions where we are well within our legal rights do to that very thing.

These devices attract the very kind of people who cause them to get banned. Sure the device is fine, but not the assholes who want them to fuck with other people.

10.3 and 10.4 were the best ones and I still use one of those two to this day.

> my brother laser printer is such a piece of shit.

Mine has been going for nearly a decade with no issues to report and almost no one has anything bad to say about them, so I'm curious what issues you had?

This isn't surprising to anyone who has used an HP printer in the last decade. They're total crap being sold by a company that actively hates its customers.

There a better options. Friends don't let friends by HP printers.

It's so hard to tell on HN. A lot here will do anything to defend leadership.

I don’t disagree, all I was doing was reminding people it doesn’t show the whole picture.

Things are worse than many think.

Yes, which means it isn't an accurate reflection of tech layoffs.

> I feel bad for the CEOs.

I don't. They know exactly what they're getting into when the take the top role and frankly? They get away with a lot of stuff they shouldn't.

I feel bad for all the lives negatively impacted by the leadership at companies.