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  • This is exactly it. When I was a bit younger I worked hard. I couldn’t understand why others were not as hardworking as myself. Luckily I learned pretty early on that this is not the way. I was able to travel the world for a bit. After that, I took a leap of faith, quit my job, and just moved. After I quit my job, I started to think about how people would think about the work I did and what I left behind. And I realized, they probably won’t think much about it at all. Some other person will come in and pick up where I left off. They will probably cuss me out because of some of the things I had to do. At the end of it, there is no legacy I will leave behind. No one will care. No one will remember.

    These days, I am still pretty good at my job, but I don’t really go above and beyond. So what if you get some award at your company. They don’t mean anything. I go to work. Do my job and that’s it. I try to chill and take it as easy as possible. I get paid to produce a certain amount of output and that is what I give. There are people that will still get rich off of the amount of work that I do, but I don’t care. I have enough to get by in life to where I am content. Luckily, if I am ever in a situation like this post, I can tell them to go fuck themselves and quit.




  • Most people don’t understand that Walmart is a huge contributor of this and that most places, especially fast food places, will only allow their employees to work so many hours so they don’t have to give benefits.

    I have a friend who is all about Trump. I will continue to try and convince him that there are better people out there. Another friend posted a Tshirt he was going to get him for Christmas. It was a DT shirt, basically making fun of him. My maga friend replied with a commie mamdami shirt. I’m just like is that supposed to be an insult? Do you not want affordable housing and living wage? Do you want to keep working 2 jobs?

    I think there are a lot of people out there like him that play into the media. They blame the poor and immigrants instead of the rich. They see far left or a person with any other view as their own as far left and a liberal fascist commie. They are pissed at the previous democratic administration (which I don’t blame them), but if you ask me Biden is just a Republican anyway. Go back 30 or 50 years and he would be a Republican. They want the same things, but see the left “far” left as commies and the previous administrations did nothing to help their situation.

    I say all this to say, that yes, people are poorly educated and are shooting themselves in the foot because of what the media has told them to believe. This includes the propaganda found on Facebook, tik too, need sites, and other social media outlets. It’s a frustrating time right now


  • Is it a monopoly though. Monopolies are there to protect the consumer, not really the seller. A developer does not need to use steam at all. I really don’t think steam can control the pricing like that. Like, if steam started to raise prices on people buying the games, then I feel like people would still jump ship. Places like gog and itch.io exist. There are plenty of game stores as well, Microsoft, Nintendo, ea.

    The problem developers have is they feel if they make a PC game, that they have to put it on steam and no other platform or they won’t make money. But the developer still has choices and I feel like steam is pretty reasonable with their cut and the tools they offer developers. A developer can even sell their game on a different platform at the same time they sell it on steam. They can even sell steam keys on their own website if they wanted to.

    To call steam a monopoly is a bit of a stretch. People still have plenty of choices and steam isn’t circle jerking their consumers.









  • Can you explain your reasoning why you think steam is gouging devs? While you think it may not be fair valve has offered a lot to devs. If it wasn’t for steam, we probably wouldn’t have as many indie games as we do now and it wouldn’t be feasible for some developers to even dream of creating their own game.

    Steam does the marketing, they have a way for devs to interact with players, they store and distribute their game to include updates, they have a store page for every game, they have a payment system, they have drm and anti cheat if you want, they have analytics tools.

    You can even sell your game elsewhere with steam keys and they won’t take a cut. If devs were that worried about it, they could do that themselves and market it themselves.

    Just because a business is a business and trying to make money, doesn’t mean they are gouging people.


  • You have a lot of responses here, but I’ll tell what k8s actually is, since a lot of people seem to get this wrong.

    Just like k8s, docker has many tools. Although docker is packaged in a way, that it looks like it’s just 1 tool. This is docker desktop. Under the hood there is docker engine that is really a runtime and image management service and API. You can look at this more if you wanted. There is containerd, runc, cri-o. These were all created so that different implementations can all talk to this API in a standard way and work.

    Moving on to k8s. K8s is a way to scale these containers to run in different ways and scale horizontally. There are ways to even scale nodes vertically and horizontally to allow for more or less resources to place these containers on. This means k8s is very event driven and utilizes a lot of APIs to communicate and take action.

    You said that you are doing kubectl apply constantly and you say feels wrong. In reality, this is correct. Under the hood you are talking with the k8s control plane and it’s taking that manifest and storing it. Other services are communicating with the control plane to understand what they have to do. In fact you can apply a directory of manifests, so you don’t have to specify each file individually.

    Again there are many tools you can use to manage k8s. It is an orchestration system to manage pods and run them. You get to pick what tool you want to use. If you want something you can do from a git repo, you can use something like argocd or flux. This is considered to be gitops and more declarative. If you need a templating implementation, there are many, like helm, json net, and kustomize (although not a full templating language). These can help you define your manifests in a more repeatable and meaningful way, but you can always apply these using the same tools (kubectl, argocd, flux, etc…)

    There are many services that can run in k8s that will solve one problem or another and these tools scale themselves, since they mostly all use the same designs that keep scalability in mind. I kept things very simple, but try out vanilla k8s first to understand what is going on. It’s great that you are questioning these things as it shows you understand there is probably something better that you can do. Now you just need to find the tools that are right for you. Ask what you hate or dislike about what you are doing and find a way to solve that and if there are any tools that can help. https://landscape.cncf.io/ is a good place to start to see what tools exist.

    Anyway, good luck on your adventure. K8s is an enterprise tool after all and it’s not really meant for something like a home lab. It’s an orchestration system and NOT a platform that you can just start running stuff on without some effort. Getting it up and running is day 1 operations. Managing it and keeping it running is day 2 operations.



  • This is why I can’t stand Kickstarter and why I won’t ever use it again. It’s no risk to the people asking for handouts and it’s the people giving their money away that take on all the risks.

    You pay for something, but you may never actually see it. The product fails and you get nothing. The product succeeds and you get the product you were hoping for, but it may not be 100% what you expected. Also, it’s not like you would get anything more than that, you are not an investor.

    If I’m an investor, I take a risk and I could possibly lose all my money that I put into it, but at the tail end of that, if it’s successful, I will get my money back, plus more. Same risk, but better outcome.