Also, working physical interfaces for everything where possible.

Lights that come on auto-magically are great, low light after bed time, that shuts itself off after you stumble back to bed, etc.

But you also need to allow overrides, like someone double taps the lights on you override the automations for an hour or two to handle corner cases like when your 6 year old pukes all over the hall and bathroom and you need cleaning light not stumbling light.

Also, light switches and lamps should work like light switches and lamps for guests, because these interfaces aren’t bad, they work, well even.

They still federate with some instances. They’re just like everyone else, but have strict rules about not being a jerk.

It’s way more fun to pretend hexbear and .ml are super dark and scary than to admit what they mostly actually are: leftist memes and shit posting.

Notice Beehaw’s not on the “good” list anymore? Wonder why they’re not on there…

They’re pissy cause it being open source and more efficient means that it’s gonna be more cost effective for people to use. Which is real bad if your company overcommitted to the slop and needs to recover losses.

“bezos can’t die until he earns his current net worth at minimum wage. And he has to live on what he earns.”

And roadkill! Last winter they spent months on this deer in a field near the road.

It’s even better if you know what bald eagles sound like.

I’d make way more money in defense. I’ve actively avoided it in my career. I spent one summer at LM as an intern. Never went back.

I lived there for years and didn’t know this! That’s insane!

Additional fun fact, Kansas has in the past attempted to annex Kansas City, Missouri.

The metro area being split between MO and KS has also caused a race to the bottom for certain kinds of regulations and taxes because for many businesses the cost of moving between the two states was essentially moving from one side of State Line Rd to the other.

Such a strange metro area.

They didn’t want to compromise their ability to spy on us easily.

My former officemate grew up in Russia in the 80s, he hated a shitload about growing up in the Soviet Union. He raved consistently about two things: the education system and gender equality.

His mother was a mathematician and computer programmer, and he didn’t have issues with school there until after he’d been here (the US) as an exchange student and had some… Cultural differences with his teachers.

“People who smile a lot in Russia are considered to be unintelligent”

So, do what you need to do for your family. But I’ll say this. I spent time looking into this last go round because I knew Biden was a temporary reprieve. I’m the parent of a trans kid, we did not leave the country for several reasons.

The entire western world is experiencing this dramatic rise in fascism. There’s no guarantee that you will actually avoid this long term.

Many countries (especially the UK) have draconian immigration rules, see above note about fascism.

We ultimately decided to move to a blue state, from a red one, primarily for safety reasons, and made it happen over a couple years. We are far happier in this situation and are now able to help extract other loved ones from similar situations.

Again, do what you need to do for yours and your family’s safety, but you’re in for a tough go of it regardless of what you choose.

ETA: I went as far as interviewing for some jobs in Canada after building my immigration profile and starting the job search in NZ.

In response to that…

Try this on

I startled my dogs laughing at that last bit.

Last time I dealt with Matlab much was like fifteen years ago when I was helping some people using it for quick interpretation of data. We just kept finding bugs that caused calculation errors (which they fixed pretty quickly TBF) and it was so much slower than any other general programming language we tried. It could be way better now, I wouldn’t know, I haven’t had call to use it since… A circuit simulation class?

Oh it shouldn’t, seeing as how it’s a scripting language and not actually for programming lol

Ooh! Ooh! Who are the three most communist friendly Lemmy instances and do they want to be friends?

Well shit.

That parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It is an ex-parrot!

Aka: the harbor freight method. I’m a big proponent of this one.