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Cake day: December 29th, 2023
  • Visikde@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription
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    3 months ago

    What’s a mouse?
    I use a trackpad
    The lenovo version of trackpad on my thinkpad has buttons on the top & bottom along with trackpoint that works when nothing else will…
    I even have a usb keyboard with a trackpad

    I bought a gaming mouse [not logitech] to set up a distro that wouldn’t install by trackpad for $12 once the install finished, it sits on a shelf

    A forever mouse is a solution in search of a problem

    The customer base of people who use mice is shrinking, most people use their phones or pads a majority of the time

  • Visikde@beehaw.orgtoSocialism@beehaw.org•The Great Neoliberal Burden Shift (Part II)- How Corporate America Offset Liability Onto Its Workers --- Citations Needed Podcast
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    4 months ago

    I lived this from the factory floor in the central valley of california from 1980-2010
    In my experience safety was driven by workmens comp insurance companies. The would be a clip board conga line a couple of times a year made up of representatives of our company & insurance company people, checking to see if their “suggestions” had been implemented & new threats [to the bottom line] identified
    Anyone who had a moderate to serious injuries were fired with the expectation the injured would sue the [insurance] company, requiring a lawyer who got a percentage of the award
    A fun bit of outsourcing that generates billable hours for the guild of lawyers & shifts responsibility back to the victim

    As time went on the monthly mandatory safety meetings became the perfect time for all of us to sign off on liability for normal operations

    I found the suggestion box to be a powerful tool
    Careful wording can force managers to answer difficult questions in front of all the other managers :D

    The primary dysfunction is corporate personhood, more than all the rights of a human, none of the responsibilities beyond the bottom line
    Socialize the costs
    Privatize the profits

    Money as speech has always been the case
    Having an impactful political opinion has always required one to have excess resources, what rules there might have been eroded by the guild reinterpreting founders intent

  • Visikde@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Get ready to hear more about "pre-internet" times
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    10 months ago

    Ancient
    I had an AM radio I listened to while delivering papers

    A Magnevox tv/radio/record player, with glowing tubes. You could stack up a few records

    8 track tapes were an infinite loop abomination. 4 loops of 2 channels = 8 tracks. I had a friend with a quad 8 track, 2 loops of 4 channels. the tapes started to drag after some plays, requiring various gymnastics to keep them playing. Recording at home was rare. Cost more than vinyl, lower sound quality. Let the enshittification of music begin

    Cassettes Had their own weirdness, pre recorded cassettes had crap tape, crap shells & higher costs. Pre recorded tapes shed the magnetic coating & dirtied up the player which would eat your tapes.
    Quality blank tapes cost about 1/4 of what an LP cost.

    Moving into the cd age I stuck with cassettes, as that’s what worked in my car/trucks. cd’s got recorded. my favorite technique was 3 albums on a 90 minute tape, cutting out the annoying songs.

    I got a computer in 2005 started making LP’s & cassettes into mp3’s. I pretty much try to keep the files under 5 minutes
    I still have a bunch of files without proper song titles as I got bored after artist, album, year. Itunes was my go to importing cd’s. Later I found out any of the metadata I changed was in a changlog or some shyt, not the actual files, there was very little rejoicing…