Maybe this says more about me than anything else... But for me, I'd rather be judged by my work than appearance or credentials. The worse I can look in a corporate environment and still maintain a reputation of a great engineer the more authentic I feel my reputation is.

When I retire I aspire to be well respected by everyone in spite of looking like a category 5 dumpster fire.

If you and your friend get into a argument over something on the playground, instead of going to a teacher, you both agree to tell your stories to another friend you both agree will be impartial. You then both do what that friend says without involving the teacher.

That's when you form a union inside your union... Which the union will then try to stop...

It's unions all the way down 🐢

I'll meet you half way with some CO2-infused milk.

Aluminum oxynitride exists now

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxynitride

Buy/collect used books off students after they finish the course... Remove the ink, resell undercutting him by a ton and make a huge profit!

OAML!

This is basically the plot of Waterworld

The connection isn't for you. It's so the TV can fingerprint the content you watch, and then send that utilization data back to the company.

You don't need much bandwidth to do this.

So with no wifi connection, and a blueray player, if you play Star Wars, they can fingerprint a few frames, send them back to Roku or whoever over sidewalk via your neighbors ring doorbell, and know you played star wars... Even with your completely offline setup

Not anymore with sidewalk and other similar corporate networks bypassing any requirement for the consumer to connect the TV to wifi

So what you're saying is... we are going to enter a dark age... and we could use a Foundation to lessen it's impact on humanity?

Using sync for Lemmy feels identical to using sync for reddit... It's fantastic!