A whole ecosystem of unnecessary middlemen baked into laws and policies.

which the government is notoriously excellent at solving!

I'm able to see I have voicemails not able to listen to voicemails in Teams. Same issue?

Yeah VMs are stored as email attachments

Not true in the case of states without common law marriage.

Totally agree with this take.

Unfortunately, losing decades of your hard work for a less than a three year marriage makes for unbearable suffering and loss of any hope. The person losing that realizes they no longer matter.

One decision can ruin your life very quickly.

There is no confusion as to why suicide feels like the only option to so many.

...for now.

All of these types of articles for me seem more like hopium than sustainable mindsets.

Given the massive gains of capability in software for AI over the past couple of years it's only a matter of time until this too will be needed less and less.

It may be time to look beyond these small hills to the mountains of possibility before us.

Eh. Between the 40% price increase and this, I cancelled.

So many times AI has been misleading at best for cooking. I don't doubt there could be benefits but at this point the trust factor is completely missing.

I started on a Ti-83 and better yet could take other programs online and load them and then modify to my desire.

When the teacher said show your work I wrote out the program I made to calculate the equation. They banned calculators altogether.

Once there was a computer I traded sleep to stay on it. I worked professionally for almost 3 decades and it ultimately cost me my health and mental health. It was often my own insecurities and anxiety that led me up the ladder.

I left the field and went to work for something I believe in and my tech skills are like wizardry to these folks.

There is a lot of blue sky to explore for people in tech.

I lost the TI-83 I used in high school after a physics final during my first year at university, and with it, all of the programs I had written on there. There are two data loss incidents that make me wince, and that is one of them. Not because they were great. They sucked. All in TI-BASIC, I was too stoned to wonder "how do the games I installed get away with not being all in TI-BASIC it would be too much to write" and get pointed towards learning assembly at a much younger age than I did, but still, they were Genesis, Book I for me.

What field did you go into?

Got into tech from help desk (to be fair it was partially supporting UUNET and Usenet so it wasn't a clueless end user all the time), all the way to top level engineer doing devops type work.

Left to work in the arts.

Say more! Fine arts? Music? Theater? Non-profit? Commercial?

TI-83 was also my gateway drug into programming. Good memories!

TI-84+ for me, though I think it was fairly similar to the TI-83.

They also keep the masses busy with frequent, mundane, repetitive tasks.

The basic install of Kodi on LibreELEC blocks the ads on YouTube. I left Roku after using it for a long time, and the experience with Kodi is far better. Simple setup, too.

For mobile, I use NewPipe which allows background YouTube as well.

Might not work for everyone but I never see an ad on YouTube.

The acceptance that life has to be primarily work as a sociatal norm is the true issue. If the norm was ~20hrs/wk work this issue would vanish. I have no illusion it will improve from here.