most of the reason I’m cancelling … beyond sick of hearing some random bullshit I didn’t ask for, nor want to hear. Everytime some trash pops on, I close the app before it’s even close to done playing the song… I boot up vlc player on my phone and load my mp3s like it’s the 2000s…

just reconfigured my audio on Linux, and have been essentially ripping songs from Spotify nonstop. once I’m done with the obscure music I can’t find elsewhere, Spotify will be officially dead to me.

wtf is 1 beer costing 5 dollars for …

it’s not about the ads… it’s the quality of shows/movies. I honestly don’t care for any of it. it’s not interesting

lol have fun with that. I personally hate music videos, they ruin the song by adding audio that has NOTHING to do with the SONG, then people start uploadign that version of the song places. I don’t want my music to start 60 after the track starts, I don’t want to hear live music either unless the crowd screaming is muted somehow… I want the audio, that’s it.

that said, my Spotify subscription is going to be cancelled anyways at the end of 2025. beyond sick of listening to music, then some random artists songs are injected into my playlist, some of which literally don’t exist. clearly ai garbage. no thanks… stop trying to tell me what to like. I don’t care what any company says. the albums I want are being saved, and the entire platform can frig off

I already use VLC in my car to play my mp3s.

cause I just woke up, had a good and the new shit is pushing on the old shit

I haven’t been to Best Buy since I caught them jacking the prices on laptops for boxing day ‘sales’… that was 10-15 years ago

haven’t been to GameStop in about the same timeframe when I stopped sinking money into consoles because they were/are more expensive then pc gaming in the long run.

also haven’t turned my 65inch tv on in about 2 years. it’s all streaming on my desktop with pihole so clean watching.

I was with BNI for a bit… nonstop spam from people in countries which aren’t mine, trying to sell me crap I don’t need. so glad I don’t participate in this, it only COST us money in the end… plus the nonstop spamming garbage like this post.

you assume it’s fear …

AI answers and results, ALWAYS need double checking because it lies, gives false I formation, pulls random bullshit sources from. shitty blogs that also lie, things change and it pulls the old information then trys to double down by saying it’s sorry, and how we are wrong…

it’s not fear at all, ai is inherently stupid because it’s sources are also stupid.

all ram is nearly double the cost from 10 months ago… feels stupid quoting people $160 for 1 stick of 16gb ddr5 5600mhz when I myself bought 32 for less then that months ago.

when the country starts respecting me, and fights for my rights to PROPER LIVING wages, taxes the rich like galen westin (ya know… the corrupt individual responsible for price fixing breads and probably everything else, and is also working to destroy public healthcare by pushing maple nonsense)… then maybe I’ll respect this country enough to fight for it/volunteer.

currently… hard no.

exactly, if they can make ai slop movies, I might as well just make my own and disregard their shit. at least it’ll be curated to my own tastes lol

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yeees, I want to buy from someone, not something. It drives community which feels nonexistent

thoughts on preparing;

basic research about the company and verbalize some facts about them in the interview.

provide clear and concise answers to their questions.

ask them questions about temp/perm, team sizes, typical workday for the role, software/programs used, typical hours, THEIR expectations for first 3 months/probation.

,…

now depending on the job, I might already have a small package readily available with some jobs/things I’ve deployed but I would never go farther then that. they want me back for another interview, sure … taking tests? MMM… maybe… doing actual work? Ill walk out of the interview unless I REALLY need the money, or it’s triple my wage.

step 1: Use a multimeter

step 2: USE A MULTIMETER

step 3: wait for a professional who is already going to show up assuming you don’t own a multimeter

edit: Jimmied isn’t an electrical term… what the heck did you Jimmy?

I just block anyone posting corn. beyond annoying

working on it, might be euro, might be Southeast Asia, haven’t fully decided yet but I would like to visit my mother’s homeland in Maastricht

yeah just giant slabs of concrete with a huge building filled with stuffs… same thing really.

maybe I just don’t like this modern world lol

amazing news, thank you! I’ll checkout Germany and plan a driving route to Netherlands or something. doesn’t seem that far of a drive tbh. (I drove 7 hours 1 way just for an Xmas party a few weekends ago. lol… 14 in total for a 5 hour party). I know, absurd for Europeans to think about :P