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  • Yes, absolutely.

    The nice thing about Reddit was that if I saw a new TV show, read a new novel, or picked up a new hobby, there would be an existing community of people already talking about it. Lemmy is great, but it doesn’t have the critical mass of people needed for that to be possible.




  • They were pretty astonished when they heard that she had installed a GPU by herself (which most people here know is trivial). Which gave her enough confidence to fix her VCR by herself.

    Anyone can learn any skill if they actually invest the time.

    And regarding the older brother, you learn pretty quickly working help desk that users generally don’t care what the problem is or why it happened. They just want to get back to work and not have it happen again. After a while you get conditioned to just be friendly and solve the issue without explaining what you’re doing or why.



  • Godort@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlWhat’s stage 4?
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    This makes perfect sense to me.

    At the start of your career, you want to be important enough that people will care about your opinions, which means getting invited to meetings where things are discussed.

    Stage 2, you’ve been there long enough and know how things work so you can offer input and help make decisions.

    Stage 3 is the point at which people will come to you for input outside of meetings because that’s easier. You just want to do your job and generally don’t care about decisions anymore unless they bring sweeping changes.



  • Ubisoft’s bean counters had some trouble reading the market on this one.

    They left Steam because they felt the 30% cut that Valve takes for sales on their platform is way too high, but didn’t account that users of Steam are really entrenched into that platform and don’t want to leave just for the chance to play an Ubisoft title. So instead of seeing 70% of Steam sales of their games, they saw 0.




  • It’s a known phenomenon.

    As it happens, people don’t often post their failures on social media, so if you’re comparing your life to someone else’s, you’re at an inherent disadvantage because you only ever see results.

    If you hang out with people in person and involved in their lives, then you get to experience the process leading to the results with all the failure baked in. It’s the difference between porn and sex.