couch1potato @ couch1potato @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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That makes sense.

That makes sense.

Makes one wonder how sheinbaum made it through an election without getting killed.

California has PFL (paid family leave) which also applies to fathers. I don't know if there are more states with similar programs, but CA at least covers a lot of people.

I cross the border by car every day. I just assumed this was already happening.

For real tho anyone know a good guide to hosting an instance?

Are they taking donations 👀

Would be funny to see Disney sue him.

That's a pretty narrow view. I joined db0 for piracy discussion. Not everyone subscribes to all aspects of the instance next to their username.

Maybe. This isn't about me; i will always have a job. I'm not worried about that. And the article does highlight some issues that should be addressed, such as overcharging for or gatekeeping of parts.

But with the right to repair the military could train equally qualified people. It’s not like militaries don’t have specialists.

Maybe. But it's a trade off. They're going to be continuously training people for repairing the same stuff because they have a constant turnover of personnel baked into the system. People like me are pervasive in industry to the point where we follow the system even if the contract for that system changes hands; for example, if Northrop Grumman somehow won the contract for the system my company currently works on, i would be one of the first on their list to offer a job to and i would probably go. You're not going to replace system SMEs with training enlisted personnel. Can enlisted handle some basic repairs? Probably. But when you start talking about software (in the article), or rack mounted equipment, or fiber termination, is when I start getting skeptical.

With a properly negotiated agreement those specialists could do the repairs on site, faster, and cheaper.

Maybe. But now you're baking more stuff into the initial contract: the proprietary system provider now needs to also provide (and maintain!) detailed maintenance and troubleshooting guides, and maybe provide training on those items (over and over again). And we still need to be available if/when repairs get borked.

I posted last night before I went to sleep, so I also forgot one of the main things being outsourced here is liability. People's lives are frequently at risk when talking about these things. It's easy to imagine a company interested in renewing a contract has a higher incentive than a short term enlisted in seeing things are maintained/repaired properly instead of just to a level of "hey, it works again".

Could right to repair work for the military? Maybe, for some things. No, for a lot of things, in my opinion. It's something that should be weighed and measured on a case by case basis which I do not at all trust anyone in the current administration to do properly.

Lol. There's a reason the military doesn't repair their own stuff. The majority of them are kids that take some basic training, do their time, and leave after four years.

I've been working on the same proprietary system for 9 years now, and in my industry for 17 years. I'm a subject matter expert. I troubleshoot and fix things when they break. There is absolutely no way 99% of the enlisted people who operate the system i work on are more qualified than me to fix their shit.

This will be a mess and ultimately result in a) future job security for people like me and b) even more wasted military spending.

Not trying to hijack here but I've encountered this as well with a tv show called Gringolandia, I think it was on Netflix. Was a super funny show about 6 episodes long and I can't find it anywhere.

Ryanair are scumbags. Never flying them again.

Shout out to pdfgear.

Does almost all the pdf file manipulation anyone needs and it's free.

I always put stuff in the same spot so I don't have to look for it or think about where it is. Everything in my wallet has a place, everything in my pockets always goes in the same pockets, my work ID goes in the same place when not in use, my sunglasses have a spot on the counter at home, and on and on. Greatly simplifies things and reduces stress not having to think about where stuff is or might be.

Indeed. I have done so.

Seems like a cool idea but I feel like if you're buying rack hardware you should be able/willing to buy a metal frame to house your stuff in.

He's capitulating because he'll go through the same shit meta and Google are going through: antitrust/monopoly breakup lawsuits

Ill be ok. Been 100% in a vtsax equivalent for 10 years... not retiring any time soon

Yeah. We'll see i suppose. The markets holding back a lot of suppressed upward mobility that we saw when the fake "tariffs are off" tweet happened. One whiff of good news will have us going up again.

In any case, at least I mitigated some of the damage. Can't win 100% every time.