Notices by soapone (soapone@pone.social)

@Hoss never got any 100oz bars myself, there wasn't really a price break compared to 10oz bars

@Forestofenchantment @anemone
I'm teaching a couple friends how to use their CNC mill starting next week

typically machine shops don't like hiring somebody green, but 6months to a year of shop classes will get a good job with an incredible occupation.
It's one of the few things where small business is a vibrant ecosystem in USA. Even a little one-person "business" can easily get work from huge companies. The parts just need to be correct.

@anemone
should have chose a good occupation.
I can walk into any shop, probably in the world, and get a job

@lord_nougat @PurpCat @RustyCrab @Matty
you know its going to be bad when all the liberal people go to it.
how do they not see the dumpster fire of signalling so hard that everything breaks? Similar is happening in the linux world now too.

@lord_nougat @PurpCat @RustyCrab @Matty @jeffcliff
rust fans are... well, the compiler code won't let you use terms like man, boob, and other names for variables.

@jeffcliff @PurpCat @RustyCrab @lord_nougat @Matty
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/tools/tidy/src/style.rs and search for "problem"

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is the list

@taylan @PurpCat @RustyCrab @lord_nougat @Matty @jeffcliff
ubuntu picked up corutils re-written in rust even though those packages are not flagged as stable. It is breaking ubuntu, but obviously more important to be inclusive.
you can't hate rust enough

@skylar @RustyCrab
donno.
I still write checks to make payments for a lot of things. personally I don't think cellphones should use anything on the internet anyway, and have never used the mir compatibility layer

do banks actually prevent you from testing their application in an emulator somehow? I'd guess if it can't be ran on a desktop android emulator then it can't be run on sailfishOS.

@RustyCrab
I know you have talked about sticking to iOS or android or whatever. I don't really blame you. However there are two very usable operating systems and ecosystems outside of the big two mentioned.

Purism and SailfishOS

Have you actually looked into either one?
https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
https://sailfishos.org/

@RustyCrab
well, when I was in college those two things didn't exist.

so the answer is no, you haven't looked?

@RustyCrab I know for SailfishOS they have the mir compatibility layer they built. When you buy their cellphone or operating system, that is actually what you are buying, the compatibility layer to be able to run android programs.

Not sure about purism, but they put just as much effort into their operating system and making sure everything works in an ultra free way. Never used it, but never heard anything bad about it.

Pretty much all the other projects are white noise (pinephone, etc.)

@Hoss
gabe newell did the same for steam out of pure spite of microsoft.

Maybe he will make a payment processor out of pure spite of mastercard and visa

Things are moving in wild ways.

@sapphire @Forestofenchantment @Cocoa @sun @ThatWouldBeTelling
sometimes its a legit decent car too but they need the money fast for whatever reason, or occasionally don't need the money, just the space.

overall though, yeah, "cheap" car prices have gone up mostly with everything else.

@Forestofenchantment @Cocoa @sun @ThatWouldBeTelling
I only look on craigslist and for manual transmission cars. last one I got was $2k and only had 66k miles, 1999 vintage.
replaced the alternator in it, and now I'm doing a timing belt change.

@sapphire @Forestofenchantment @Cocoa @sun @ThatWouldBeTelling
it was in the middle of covid, when nobody wanted to meet up to do an exchange.

I still see beater cars pop up for $500 around here. presumably they work fine, but most of them are automatic transmissions, so I don't bother.

@sendpaws @Forestofenchantment @sun @ThatWouldBeTelling
found another big car thing that collapsed
https://news.dealershipguy.com/p/tricolor-the-messy-collapse-of-a-subprime-auto-lender-explained-2025-09-16
tricolor is completely kill
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/huge-car-dealership-chain-collapses-leaving-borrowers-banks-and-investors-facing-losses-091525.html
and plenty of other articles about it.

@iamthemostnormalhumantrustme @sun @ThatWouldBeTelling
Yeah, a good chunk of the gaming industry is slowly dying too. Thankfully valve is still good as a major hub of that industry scraping away microsoft marketshare from sheer hatred of microsoft

When government decided it could tax unsold product, companies spun "produce on demand" as a good thing. that was one of the major reasons for the long wait times we now see, and the move to make different models every year where nothing interchanges

@ThatWouldBeTelling @sun
a couple of the more recent examples is bed bath and beyond. There was another more recent one I read about but forgot which. Carmax dropped 20% stock value over night a few days ago because nobody is buying cars. Pretty sure the entire car selling model will go out the window and forceably switch to by-order only. Maybe not now, or soon, but sometime. The only way that changes is if the government stops yearly taxing on inventory.

@sun that was right around when hiring practices changed from "you look like an upstanding person who can carry a conversation" to "you need a dual masters degree in sociology and physics before even considering to apply for a job".

I wasn't even born yet.

There is a reason why large businesses are "randomly" collapsing. There won't be anything left of the car industry pretty soon: I can't wait for that day.

@Fash-E is that one of the battlefield games?