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its_me_xiphos

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  • Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy

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  • Yeah. I'd even say we went beyond late stage capitalism. We are now on the cusp of a feudalistic society more akin to the corporate dominance in Blade Runner or Eve Online, maybe The Expanse, then anything resembling capitalism. Corporations are more powerful than nation states, many people are indentured to their workplace via healthcare needs or non competes, etc. So there's that. This is an entirely new thread though so I'll stop it there. TL;DR - This shit sucks.

  • Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy

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  • Kevin, if thats even a real person at this point in media, is just pushing stories and discourse aligned with corporate speak. Let's consider it less stupid and more complicit, which I argue, is even worse.

  • Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy

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  • I bought an older Samsung and only use it for doom scrolling, 2FA, and podcasts. Its fine stripped down to nothingness. My next purchase, once the cracks from me dropping it spread, will be an older Pixel so I can run GraphineOS. I'm hopeful that like my Linux experience, it'll extend the devices life given my use case. Like buying old laptops and kicking windows to the curb in favor of Linux buys you tons of time and product life.

  • Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy

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  • I am not an economist. I am not an expert on anything consumer. It is, however, plainly obvious that companies are trying to squeeze blood from a stone at this point. They can't make money anymore with pay to own and innovation like they used to for a variety of reasons. From greed to enshitification. If you look at it with a different view, everyone is poorer because they are greedy, they've ruined everyone's lives but must make numbers go up. So they find new and terrifying ways of screwing you over for diminishing returns. Like this. Relying on turnover sales and nothing else.

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    how's your week going, Beehaw

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    how's your week going, Beehaw

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  • Doing OK. Have an interview coming up. Fingers crossed.

    Been getting into Enshrouded with friends and really enjoying the social connection and fun. Needed the brain break, as I feel burned out from the application treadmill.

    Finally, want to spend the time to learn a new skill. Mid life so was thinking R and getting further into Python to enhance my data science chops. Recommendations welcome on that front.

  • Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died

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  • Oh man, she was an awesome human! What a great gamer and person. She's featured in the Netflix documentary "High Score" which I highly recommend if you want to learn about the early days of video game development.

  • how's your week going, Beehaw

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  • Academic. 50+ applications to universities across the EU and UK. Finally got an interview but did not get the job. Inching closer! Its an insanely bad job market for academics, and an insanely bad job market generally. I'm going to keep at it but looking at alternatives. I am lucky to have my job through December.

    I've started working with a career coach to help me deal with defeatism. I'm also tired of the rat race - publish or die. Grant competition. Favoritism. AI everywhere and metric tracking everything. I've done everything right and am looking at finding new meaning that doesn't involve so much free labor and struggle.

  • how's your week going, Beehaw

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  • how's your week going, Beehaw

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  • Academic. 50+ applications to universities across the EU and UK. Finally got an interview but did not get the job. Inching closer! Its an insanely bad job market for academics, and an insanely bad job market generally. I'm going to keep at it but looking at alternatives. I am lucky to have my job through December.

    I've started working with a career coach to help me deal with defeatism. I'm also tired of the rat race - publish or die. Grant competition. Favoritism. AI everywhere and metric tracking everything. I've done everything right and am looking at finding new meaning that doesn't involve so much free labor and struggle.

  • The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

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  • Im going to start physical mailings and cold emails. I'm over this job market, its AI/ATS nonsense, and the people who think its OK.

  • how's your week going, Beehaw

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  • Not great. My job is ending in ~10 weeks. Academic. My market is saturated and some. The amount of rejection letters for applications rivals the post 2008 world. Tried everything. Trying to continue my work, seek funding, but I don't do grants and schmoozing for money well. I'm starting to wonder if I'm aging out or just so far down the pecking order that the surge of new and fleeing academics is making it impossible to continue. Lots of doubt. I get so much joy from my classroom, my students. And I may not get to do that again. Its terrifying and is shaping my day, overwhelming the good that is there.

    So I'm scared, doubtful, and its compounding.

  • What the fuck is happening at Reddit?

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  • I find some of the subreddits that aren't attractive for selling/marketing are ok. Otherwise...it's been falling faster than my self-confidence. Which is pretty damn fast.

  • Workout App Alternative

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  • I have yes. It's a hefty sub fee IMO.

  • how's your week going, Beehaw

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  • I made some stupid anxiety driven mistakes and luckily did not get hurt too much for it. A grant I was working on, rather rushed new organization, was shit and I was politely told just to stop as it wasn't going to work. 3 months of work, but learned my lesson to slow down and not rush forward. Now if I can only maintain that lesson for the rest of my days.

  • Workout App Alternative

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  • Thanks for the suggestions and info everyone. I have some testing to do!

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  • Perplexity wants to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion, twice the company's value

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  • Tree fiddy is the only price I'm willing to pay.

  • Your CV is not fit for the 21st century

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  • I'm not quite sure how to jump into this, so here we go.

    I've found myself unable to get new work but am in a position that I know my job is gone in 3 months. Academic, no funding.

    I've been using Claude to parse through job postings and help me tailor a CV or resume. I never, if at all, even get a rejection email. I'm sad to say but leaving academia is going to likely be a survival issue. The prospect of having to get passed AI screeners is insane to me. AI is ruining so much in ordinary everyday life so rapidly that I'm frankly shocked...and I did climate disaster research so I'm hard to shock.

  • how's your week going, Beehaw

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  • Thank you. I just needed to read that.

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    That word, Open, it doesn't mean what they think it means

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    Advice - Getting started with LLMs

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