Do you think aws engineers use aws services to maintain aws?

Slick website + google ads + getting public reviews from early customers that I put on the website.

Be easy to contact. I made buttons on the website that shortcut to call, email, or whatsapp. Directly even, if on mobile.

After an initial slowness it all seems to have started to feed into itself. Search activity for my actual business name is increasing, not just the search terms for what I do.

I don’t want to rely on online advertising, tho, so I’m eventually gonna give some other forms of marketing a go.

I set up !ballisticng@sopuli.xyz. I’ve maxed out my skills, and currently working up the speed classes again, but with double speed turned on.

Also, get that PS4. Omega (or rather 2048 which is included) is IMO the best WipEout ever made. The way the ships in 2048 handle always feels barely controlled, and it adds so much to the sense of speed. The airbrakes on my favorite the Pirhana Speed, are the most violent in the game (save the prototype) and using them you get thrown around sideways, and you just have to learn to deal with it.

Redout 2 was a disappointment for me. I love the first game, it struck a balance between speed a technicality. (Basically a merging of WipEout and F-Zero). Redout 2 went too far into speed, with wider more sweeping tracks, rather than twisty and narrow with the occasional full hairpin. New tracks stopped being interesting very quickly with little to learn. It also has a worse soundtrack IMO.

Independent contractor.

I’m not sure the latter would have allowed me to get off the ground as quickly, but it certainly has the bigger income potential.

I don’t have any product ideas at the moment, but now that I’m up an running, I’m in a much better position to execute on one if I did.

I think we have shortage of options people actually like.

It’s not that people need more options, but the ones that are available are starting to exploit their monopolistic/duopolistic positions.

People hate it, but they don’t have any real way out. For something to supplant these big companies in a way where it actually served customer at volume, it would have to grow as big, without becoming as bad or getting aquired.

One of customers commented that a business he used before, that was very similar to mine, recently got purchased and merged into one of the sucky local giants.

I’m earning more than before, with more free time than before, while working more ethically than before.

I honestly can’t imagine ever working for a large company again. Modern corporate culture has made them utterly incompatible with the human facts of life, and having a desire to live a moral life is a competitive death sentence.

but customers are just so much easier to come by

That came as a surprise to me, too. I thought I’d have to convince customers to come to me instead of my corporate competitors. But no, within three months I had more people coming to me than I could handle, so I was able to reduce my advertising. And the customers I get are clearly happier, too.

I earn more while charging less, offering more comprehensive service than I ever would have been allowed to if working for some large company with shitty policies I’d have to abide.

Getting 5-star review after 5-star review should not be this easy. With almost every exchange I find myself thinking of ways to improve, but the customers are just utterly ecstatic to find someone who isn’t shafting them three times over every transaction.

I am so fucking happy my own business managed to get off the ground.

Job hunting suuuuuuuuucked. I knew I was good, but no-one noticed.

Now, my customers love me.

Edit: I just realized the other side of this equation means companies are expecting to get about 1500 applicants for every position they offer?! That’s insane, and there is no chance a human is reviewing every application.

I legit got a used ps4 for to play WipEout Omega, Gravity Rush 1/2, Horizon ZD (also later FW), God of War (also later Ragnarok).

All four are some of my most beloved games. For the hundred bucks I paid for it, amazing deal.

Still waiting for Omega and Gravity Rush to come to PC…

Music does not “require” physical effort or social interaction. The same goes for books, movies and tv. Would you dismiss those, too?

Video games are an art medium, with exceptions to every one of your points.

Motion control games require tons of physical effort.

Multiplayer games literally cannot be played without other people.

There are games for couples, friends, parties, and quiet alone time.

It’s an entire art medium, one which INCLUDES entire other art mediums like writing, music, acting, and more.

Your opinion is based on an incredible narrow interpretion of what video games are and can be. Or perhaps you haven’t checked in on gaming in around two decades.

Either way it’s resulting in absolutely horrendous advice.

Only a tiny number of the games I play and have played, are ones I would hold off on until I’m over 30 and married. Some people find their spouses because of gaming.

A LOT of games I played had their biggest impact around my 20s.

Thefuck?

Games are a hobby. If they give you pleasure and joy, then there is no “better” thing to be doing.

How much of your time at 18 should be spent on hobbies is a different matter, but to dismiss games as an unsuitable form of leisure at that age is insane.

The games people play growing up and as young adults can be formative and massively influential.

They tell stories, frustrate, entertain, let you form social bonds, and even enlighten you in ways no other form of media can by allowing you interactively explore the thoughts of other people.

Plus, I’m not even 30, I am already noticing a decline in my performance in terms of precision and reaction time when it comes to the competitive genre.

Extremely.

But he was also narcissistic enough to basically drop hints the whole time, even as he actively hides. While he knows he needs to stay hidden, he yearns for everyone to know that he is Kira, and to worship him for what he is doing.

He wants to openly taunt his detractors while never giving them actual evidence, but that’s stupid as fuck.

He nailed the lie to start, but fucked himself because of his arrogance and ego.

“Cut through the enchanted woods, they said”

Used?

As in adopt from a shelter?

Probably massive overkill for OP particular, but if you wanna listen across several devices, the best option.

That’s not what I’m saying.

Obviously not everyone needs to code. Once I write a bot, it could potentially be used by anyone.

Only a small percentage of mods need to also be developers. But since that group isn’t big enough yet, the solution is growth.

Not asking the platform devs to do even more. They too, are volunteers.

I’m not against any of that.

What I disagree with is that this is a priority. It’s a nice-to-have.

Once mod actions are supported, and an API exists, any imaginable automation can be implemented by anyone with the impetus to do so.

As such, the priority of further integration drops drastically and platform developer attention can and should move elsewhere.

Mod tools are best created by the people who use them. Even better when they are created for the needs of a specific community. As such, more advanced features should be deferred until later.

Once communities grow large enough that there are a significant number of moderator-developers around, it might be worth creating a generic bot that can be configured as needed. (As has happened with reddit, discord, etc.)

Asking for these tools before then, is inefficient, because the people who ideally should be working on them, haven’t shown up yet, and the platform developers time is better spent on other things.

Indeed.

My core point is that when it comes to moderation, I would prioritize actual mod actions (such as a mod being able to mark posts nsfw instead of deleting them outright) and API support for those actions, over built-in automod features.

Once you have an API, anyone with the skills can implement whatever automation they need.

After that, I would priotize a bunch of other things, too, before ever coming back around to built-in automod features.

If everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.

By now I’ve written four bots using the lemmy API.

Any one of your ideas is doable in a weekend if I ever feel the need for a modding bot. But I haven’t. Several communities and instances already have them.

Honestly that’s how it should be. Modding can have such diverse needs depending on community that just implementing every possible eventuality into lemmy itself, is a huge ask.

Any large community on discord, reddit and other platforms, make extensive use of automod bots. Because using the API, you can write bots that do whatever you can think of.

Modding is volunteer work, but it is work.

If you need tools, find them. If they don’t exist, create them. If you don’t have the skills or time, then don’t volunteer.

Asking some volunteers to do more than they already are because you think they are letting down another set of volunteers just risks burning out a different set of volunteers.

and if I got into this situation two-times in a row what’s guaranteeing that it won’t happen again

Absolutely nothing.

The way I like to put it, is that most people are nice, but there are assholes everywhere.

It’s not that everyone is a douche, just that there is nowhere you can go, where there won’t already be some, or where they won’t suddenly show up later.

As such, it’s good to try and learn to deal with them, avoid them, or outlast them.

At my last job, my two first bosses were great, then the third was a nightmare. But he got fired two years in and then the fourth was good again. That job lasted me seven years. 5 out of 7 is not bad.

Overlay that with all your colleagues, and yeah, you’re almost bound to have at least some of them be bad… It’s a numbers game. If most of your colleagues are reasonable, then you’re probably in one of the better places to be.