The fact the industry is going digital only with licenses that allow purches to disappear with no reimbursement I don't ever see them filling the hole retro gamers are looking for. Personally I have no justification to buy a AAA system. They don't make anything I want. Maybe that is what they should focus on.

They are always the ones who mess it up. It becomes popular because its "easy."

As someone who could as a kid I never understood why I would be kicking that high. I would in forms but when in daily life did i ever need to kick someone's cowboy hat off their head?

Should have had one of those then.

Just a reminder I married wrong.

It depends on the problem. I host my personal site on Gemini first and HTTP second (via a proxy). The way I fixed the LLM issue on the HTTP side was to setup my proxy to require a cookie. Without the cookie you get my Terms of Service agreement.

I'm still working on a Gemini solution. I think Identities with a set value in an optional field might work.

Agreed. But there are essentially preasure points in manual labor that compell contracts to be written pro-union and to follow contractual rules. I don't see that happening in the development side of tech. The only fear these companies have is that in a walkout they would lose money for a very short time. Tech is already a high turnover sector. Most companies use turnover to reduce costs.

The companies can also uproot themselves much easier and with everyone working remotely and the economy sucking, what tech company couldn't have you replaced in 48hrs?

The only reason many of these companies even allow unions is for PR. Either to sound good or fear of backlash. Today people get angry but then the next story comes on the news and we all move on.

Again I'm pro-union in many cases. I just don't see the forces that would make this work for the vast majority of tech companies.

I've worked in a vast range of tech sectors over the years, with people being laid off and companies shutting down. I cannot think of a single time in 25 years where someone was let go for a reason that a union could have prevented. The whole "righting the ship" concept is what took nearly all of the jobs. Poor planning by management, failures in the industry and global economics were the causes and for that reason all those workers had negative ROI.

I like the idea of a union. Especially in an industry where businesses are lowering the requirements for entry (i.e. bootcamps replacing degrees). The problem is that tech can be fly by night. Especially when it is a purely software based solution. The money and time investments to start up and maintain aren't comparable to those of manual labor. Building a factory puts a company in far more of a bind than renting some cubical space. Meeting OSHA standards, logistics, permits, etc. All things that force companies to the negociation table. When your company is software and you outsource hardware to a product mill in China it is way easier to fire a ton of people because the projections look bad.

I'm staying for the same reason. I have jumped around a bit but I found a position that doesn't pay as well but there really isn't stress, no real fear of losing my job, etc. Still at the far low end for my position and years in the industry. But with less stress I guess it is worth it. Still can't retire, still can't afford to go on vacations. But at least I don't want to die anymore.

In the words of Radiohead

You do it to yourself, you do And that's what really hurts

He did have a brain worm. Was it on accident? I don't know.

Oops. fixed it.

I meant to say "made it acceptable to say it is too difficult."