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priznat posted:My co thankfully just does the social thing of taking us to lunch during a work day. Last co they organized stuff like “arrow tag” and poo poo but I begged off of that nonsense. Would honestly rather just be at work while everyone else is doing that. Oh god being alone in the office while everyone else is doing this poo poo is the best. I begged off on a rope course thing because of a bad knee years back and it was the most productive day I ever had pre-Covid. And then every day was that for 
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Charles Leclerc posted:I remember a place I worked that heavily encouraged us to socialise outside of hours until the accounts department cottoned on to the fact I had expensed circa fifteen grand on company plastic for friday drinks over the course of a couple of years lmao Doing the lord's work friend. my old job used to send us to a conference every couple of years and I soured on the whole experience pretty fast after they decided that the meal expense allowance couldn't be used towards drinks. I guess they weren't happy that I expensed a $2 junior chicken from McDonald's and then $73 worth of drinks one night lol. Pigma_Micron posted:There's a poo poo load of team building research out there and they basically all say it has to be this or they're, at the very best, ineffective. its pure management disconnect. You've got a bunch of middle and upper management putting in long hours with no social life so of course it seems like this great idea to them that the company artificially manufactures a social engagement that requires no effort or personality on their end since everyone is going to kiss their rear end either way. It's the exact same thing as people praising working in the office. If I could afford to live 5 minutes from the office I too would be singing the praises of some airlocked work environment where I can just focus on getting poo poo done when I need to but the reality is if I have to spend half an hour minimum each way commuting to the office the benefits are negligible if any.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Oh god being alone in the office while everyone else is doing this poo poo is the best. I begged off on a rope course thing because of a bad knee years back and it was the most productive day I ever had pre-Covid. Yeah I was still coming in to the office during covid too mostly and it was a paradise. Prime parking spot, make your own coffee how you like it, quiet cube area, no one messing up my lab space.. it was glorious. I am extremely pro WFH just because I want to come in while everyone else is at home 
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Pigma_Micron posted:There's a poo poo load of team building research out there and they basically all say it has to be this or they're, at the very best, ineffective. I can believe it. The few times I've dealt with mandatory fun at work that wasn't just an on site party during work hours, it's either resulted in cross-site teams being reorganized such that each location then just worked on it's own as separate team, or people being flown out for the get together, only for them to decide "yeah, I'm going to find a job that won't do that," and leaving the company for greener pastures within six months. That's incredibly anecdotal of course, but it does break the idea that it's anything close to a clear signal of a good place to work. If Linus thinks these events mean it's a good place to be for everyone, lol, lmao.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Oh god being alone in the office while everyone else is doing this poo poo is the best. I begged off on a rope course thing because of a bad knee years back and it was the most productive day I ever had pre-Covid. That reminds me of this one IT job I had years ago. During the summer they had a golf league, so everyone that signed up for it got to take off at like 1 or 2 PM on Wednesdays and Fridays, or something like that. All the upper managers and VPs were in it of course, and they had plenty of open spots for anyone else who wanted to join (and there was no lack of people who signed up for it). Of course it was mostly an excuse for people to smooch the asses of their bosses, but for me (who doesn't golf), it meant the help desk was nice and quiet for the rest of the day on those days, because most of the usual "troublemakers" were out on the links. 
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SHARTING BEAR posted:
I'm not watching a video to get more context but are they like... proud of those numbers? Because those numbers are absolutely awful. Like my company had mass layoffs last year and our numbers aren't that bad.
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:I'm not watching a video to get more context but are they like... proud of those numbers? Because those numbers are absolutely awful. Like my company had mass layoffs last year and our numbers aren't that bad. Yes, yes they are.
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just wait until corps find out that real team building happens from shared trauma
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Arivia posted:Yes, yes they are.
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I swear the "random person sending terrible messages" is like a get out of free card with every YouTuber. Yeah, you have a group of millions of people following you. Some small percentage is going to send mean comments no matter what with those kind of numbers.
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Triikan posted:I swear the "random person sending terrible messages" is like a get out of free card with every YouTuber. Yeah, you have a group of millions of people following you. Some small percentage is going to send mean comments no matter what with those kind of numbers. He should try being female, lgbtq, or basically anything but a straight white cis dude if getting mean YouTube messages bothers him.
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Triikan posted:I swear the "random person sending terrible messages" is like a get out of free card with every YouTuber. Yeah, you have a group of millions of people following you. Some small percentage is going to send mean comments no matter what with those kind of numbers. I'm at a point where I hate Youtubers going off about nasty comments, yes dude it's 2023 we've had this thing for 15 years now everyone knows what Youtube comments are like.
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Vic posted:His sister died when he was like 10 around the time he got Need For Speed 2. He pretty much said his nostalgia is tied to the time before her death. I lost my sister also, so this just makes me like Clint even more than I already did.
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njsykora posted:I'm at a point where I hate Youtubers going off about nasty comments, yes dude it's 2023 we've had this thing for 15 years now everyone knows what Youtube comments are like. And then there's making it a regular segment on your podcast.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I lost my sister also, so this just makes me like Clint even more than I already did. Yeah. He talks about it in his "Remembering the Classic Need For Speed Games"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD4_BLk1AzE&t=735s
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njsykora posted:I'm at a point where I hate Youtubers going off about nasty comments, yes dude it's 2023 we've had this thing for 15 years now everyone knows what Youtube comments are like. them complaining about the business model as a whole is pretty annoying in my opinion. Its not my issue if your channel traffic is down or you got a copy right strike dude, I just want some loving light entertainment to pass time in-between meetings.
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What other channels besides LGR is everyone watching for weird old tech? Really enjoy him and Michael MJD
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It's the same idea that companies try to do my changing terms like "company" to "family" and to refer to your coworkers as "family". The people watching this stuff are typically on invested as much as they need to be to enjoy the material, most don't give a poo poo about anything much beyond that. People had fun and entertainment before LTT existed, they will after as well. Nobody is special!  Harminoff posted:What other channels besides LGR is everyone watching for weird old tech? Really enjoy him and Michael MJD Techmoan, of course. Sometimes Technology connections goes that way too
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Harminoff posted:What other channels besides LGR is everyone watching for weird old tech? Really enjoy him and Michael MJD The Computer Chronicles is my main one. It was a PBS series headed by Stewart Cheifet and Gary Kildall that ran from 1983-2002ish, and they have entire episodes of the series on Youtube. The computers weren't retro at the time but it's fascinating to see how much computing has changed in my lifetime. RIP Gary Kildall. Retrospector78 is a channel I've looked at on and off. Similar to LGR but maybe with a bit more of a hardware focus? F_Shit_Fitzgerald fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Aug 26, 2023 |
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Harminoff posted:What other channels besides LGR is everyone watching for weird old tech? Really enjoy him and Michael MJD Nostalgia Nerd https://www.youtube.com/@Nostalgianerd/videos
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Harminoff posted:What other channels besides LGR is everyone watching for weird old tech? Really enjoy him and Michael MJD This Does Not Compute: Heavy Mac and laptop focus, often going indepth on maintenance and repairs. Macho Nacho: Old console modding and repairs. Cathode Ray Dude: Long videos on various old computing stuff.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:The Computer Chronicles is my main one. It was a PBS series headed by Stewart Cheifet and Gary Kildall that ran from 1983-2002ish, and they have entire episodes of the series on Youtube. The computers weren't retro at the time but it's fascinating to see how much computing has changed in my lifetime. RIP Gary Kildall. I really need to revisit this, been a while since I watched it.
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The Computer Chronicles being all on Youtube makes me with there was a complete run of British equivalent Micro Live on there. There is a lot of Tomorrow's World though which is worth a look if you're after some future predictions from various decades.
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Tiny Timbs posted:just wait until corps find out that real team building happens from shared trauma When I worked at Fry's circa 2005-2006, that's how we all legit bonded. Just drinking being in early mid 20s and hating where we worked. Gaming their systems was one of the only perks of working there, having a Supervisor label something on clearance when it was some fancy new DLP TV for someone as long as they bought the warranty to make the store numbers look good, or keeping a processor that was in super high demand for someone so they could get a discount on it. And then just getting absolutely blasted at a bar after closing. poo poo retail is probably the only time I could see after hours drinking and bitching about work be any kind of helpful.
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njsykora posted:Cathode Ray Dude: Long videos on various old computing stuff. He recently quit his job to focus on making videos, and he's a queer ally if not queer (not sure, the rainbow flag is featured often in his videos) - but most importantly, when announcing that he's a full-time content creator, he promised to continue doing exactly what he was doing instead of promising to do a whole bunch of more stuff, thereby avoiding setting himself up for burning out.
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:Seconding Cathode Ray Dude. His wife is trans I believe, and the flag you see in his videos is a custom video cassette box with the tape code E-420 which greatly entertained me when I first saw it fully.
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njsykora posted:His wife is trans I believe, and the flag you see in his videos is a custom video cassette box with the tape code E-420 which greatly entertained me when I first saw it fully. I don't know them well enough to say, and I don't see any reason to speculate - I just wish them happiness, because there's too little of that going around. More importantly, he doesn't pretend to be the worlds foremost authority on the subjects he covers - which I think sets him apart from most content creators, who'll make it seem like they are even if they aren't.
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I think its enough to just say he's a good man, and very loud and open about being a fundamentally good man. He's not someone I'm ever left mentally hung up on because of some weird joke he made. Also like you said his usual references to Youtube comments are along the lines of "Check the comments for corrections on everything I got wrong because I'm not infallible" and not "Those loving comments always telling me how words are pronounced".
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:I'm not watching a video to get more context but are they like... proud of those numbers? Because those numbers are absolutely awful. Like my company had mass layoffs last year and our numbers aren't that bad. i think they probably are proud but it doesn't really matter because the audience is going to see those numbers and think 'wow they're doing great' which is the whole point
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Also man, MichaelMJD did another video on something that's just been covered by another Youtuber (this time the iOpener LGR covered last week). I like his videos but it really feels at times like he's heavy on the trend chasing and burning concepts out too fast. Like the OS-tan videos he did a while ago where one video really hit big and he did like 5 more within the next few weeks with rapidly declining results. And then did the exact same thing with weird Wii softmods a few months ago. Spread these ideas out my dude for the love of god, I'm really hoping he doesn't go in on the buying clearly fake stuff from Temu thread after that fake Pokemon video exploded because those videos are the exact opposite of what I want to watch.
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here's some good content wherein optimal ali proves what many have been speculating about custom ducting and airflow design being the key to getting air cooling results that fully utilize the case fans instead of throwing them at the bulk of air inside the case. plug flow versus well-mixed, if you've done that kind of modeling before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cehXZftIYok
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Does anyone watch StezStix? He fixes various electronics like old and new consoles, handhelds, bluetooth speakers and stuff. His videos are only about 15 minutes tops so it's easy to dip in and watch a few videos of him troubleshooting and soldering/desoldering components.
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:She's a trans woman, sure - but depending on their story and ones perspective of queerness, that could mean he's either queer or an ally. no need to speculate, he spells it out on his personal twitter  e: would it surprise anyone to learn that his fursona is an anthropomorphized zx spectrum repiv fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Aug 26, 2023 |
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Sydney Bottocks posted:And it's also tough poo poo if none of those activities appeal to you. god, the drug factory I used to work at had a box at Isotopes Stadium with the stipulation that if you drank alcohol at a baseball game on one of your days off from spending 12 hours in a cleanroom, you would be terminated on sight. about 5 years before I started working there, one of the compounders got hammered and told the c-suite what she really fuckin thought about them in that box. I never went, because I can't imagine being more miserable than hanging out with people I spent more time with than my family at a baseball game, the most grueling spectator sport, prohibited from drinking a beer. I would have been very, very angry if attendance had been compulsory.
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njsykora posted:I'm at a point where I hate Youtubers going off about nasty comments, yes dude it's 2023 we've had this thing for 15 years now everyone knows what Youtube comments are like. Creator brain means a thousand good-willed comments don’t matter because a single nasty one will stick in your brain and drive you crazy I know Vinny on Giant Bomb has talked about that
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MrQwerty posted:god, the drug factory I used to work at had a box at Isotopes Stadium with the stipulation that if you drank alcohol at a baseball game on one of your days off from spending 12 hours in a cleanroom, you would be terminated on sight. Wait what the gently caress--like they'd fire you for drinking alcohol even when it wasn't a work day for you?
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Tiny Timbs posted:Creator brain means a thousand good-willed comments don’t matter because a single nasty one will stick in your brain and drive you crazy Yeah, that's the reason he's given for disabling the comments on all nextlander videos. The crew knows that it would be better for algorithm optimization to leave the comments on, but they decided that it's just not worth sacrificing their mental health to deal with the comments, even if it means sacrificing some channel growth. I respect it.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Wait what the gently caress--like they'd fire you for drinking alcohol even when it wasn't a work day for you? the box was rented by the workplace, and considering that the woman who went off on the c-suite continued to be employed for 5 more years after the incident because there aren't just perfect contract manufacturing injectable chemo drug compounders lining up at the door in Albuquerque, NM; they determined that the box is technically the workplace because the events were officially sanctioned (which is true), therefore all the work rules applied to the box. I know people who'd go and say it wasn't that bad, you just had to go get a beer and drink it away from the box and any of the supes/managers who were there that day. To which I would always respond, "they fire people for writing the wrong date on paperwork at 12:01AM too many times." MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Aug 26, 2023 |
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this allusion meant posted:here's some good content wherein optimal ali proves what many have been speculating about custom ducting and airflow design being the key to getting air cooling results that fully utilize the case fans instead of throwing them at the bulk of air inside the case. plug flow versus well-mixed, if you've done that kind of modeling before
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Well, it's hard to say how much of the improvement came from flipping the unducted fans and how much came from increasing the RPM of the ducted ones. It's an interesting project, though you can get similar results by just using one of the "brute force" cases he mentioned with good airflow from the start.
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