But think of all the time you’ll save!
Instead of spending useless time bonding over the shared experience of going to the library - a publicly funded entity that is the only place in current society where you can just exist without buying things - and then the tedious time spent talking about and choosing books together, you can now have an AI care for everything. You can even use their AI to voice the story for you to remove the need to interact with your child at all!
From a generational perspective, you might find some folks who were born before 1975 who would go along with these concepts, but even then, they would be constantly looking for new positions.
For any later-GenX, Millennials, and definitely GenZ in the workplace, it’s not a thing, or incredibly niche.
In your GTA example, people will commonly push hard to meet a deadline, but it is entirely unrealistic to expect that to be the norm. I’ve had projects where I’ve worked until 1am, went home to sleep for three hours, and logged back in at home at 5am; at some point in a corporate career that is bound to happen. The Karoushi culture of not leaving until the boss leaves, or always appearing to do over and beyond isn’t sustainable to US mindsets, and just isn’t tolerated by younger generations.
To your other question about overtime: US labor laws can vary state to state, but jobs generally fit a few wage archetypes such as Exempt, Non-Exempt, Tip-based, or Gig-based. The key here is the Exempt v. Non, since the latter two can technically fit into Non. The exemption here is related to overtime. The standard week is 40 hours and any time worked outside of that 40 hours is considered “overtime” and paid at a higher rate, typically 1.5x a base pay rate.
Example, if you normally earn $20/hour, for any time worked beyond those first 40 hours in a week would be paid at a rate of $30/hour. This, however, is only the case for Non-Exempt employees. The exemption is due to the Fair Labor Standard Act which details the entitlement to overtime pay. Exempt means that the FLSA is not-applicable or just does not apply to the position, so if you are Exempt, you do not receive overtime pay. A Non-Exempt position means that the FLSA does apply, and you must receive overtime pay for hours worked beyond that 40th hour in a 7 day period.
If you’re working a Non-Exempt role, and the boss makes you “stay late”, the boss also has to pay you for every minute of time beyond 40 total hours in a week at a higher rate. If you’re in an Exempt position, however, the expectation is that you are paid “well enough” so that if the job requires more than 40 hours, you are already compensated. Some employers will abuse this by making hard demands on employees and this is where the staying until the boss leaves and sleeping at your desk thing comes into play.
All this notwithstanding, younger generations are generally less tolerant of the demands in Karoushi-style work cultures. We’ve grown to appreciate a proper work-life balance, especially within Exempt roles. If a project requires an 80-hour week for 3 weeks, no one should really blink an eye if you head out at 3pm on a Friday the week after the project completes. An Exempt role may not involve specified work hours, but rather more general availability.
In my position, I prefer to be available from 8:30am-5pm Monday through Friday, but I work with teams around the world, and if the India team is only available at 6am my time, and I need to present on that meeting, the expectation is that I’m up and working at 6am that day. If I log off at 3pm later that same, as long as I don’t have a meeting a 4pm, it’s not an issue. There is more flexibility in an Exempt role than there is in Non-Exempt because direct hours worked aren’t tracked and kept in some timekeeping system to ensure local, state, and federal laws are met.
While Exempt positions can be as open for abuse as they are flexible, a poor work environment reflects on the company, and not only will they regularly lose talent, they will also struggle to recruit talent as well, leaving them with only the people who have no other options to work in their abusive environments.
What they did to Evernote was unforgivable.
I loved that app. I lived in Evernote. I sought out other apps that synced to it solely because of that function.
Then these folks buy it and burn it to the ground with insane pricing. If they didn’t want the app, they should’ve just shut it down outright instead of going the route of pricing it higher than full productivity suites and making it less useful overall.
I’ve been years in Joplin at this point, but I’m still livid over Evernote.
Neat! Commenting so I’ll remember to revisit.
Which is such an amazing detail, and really is the clincher.
They would have to revert their AI “answers” until they can deliver consistent accuracy on their answers. Which isn’t even a possibility with AI.
I hope someone brings this to the US as well.
The Jellyfin official app for Tizen TVs has been available through the Samsung store for several months now.
I was considering a Plex sub to make things easier to share my collection with family and friends who aren’t tech savvy enough to sideload stuff and the second that the Tizen app was approved, I closed the Plex chapter of my life forever.
If you can figure out a way to add an LG TV connection that will also change the TV’s inputs, I’m there. Otherwise, the age old problem remains.
I’ve been meaning to check them out! Cheers!
As someone who had been doing exactly this setup for a years, even before streaming was a thing, the key issue is the lack of ease.
When I was watching my own collection just streamed through local intranet, using VLC and a “remote mouse”, the problem always came down to the interface or the remote. It is vastly easier to navigate through menus, etc. on a TV using a remote than even a remote-shaped keyboard. Even when you had everything set up reasonably well in Kodi or something, there was always the issue of having a remote to control the TV and then a remote to control the TV’s PC. Using a keyboard, even one of the small mouse-keyboard combos is a hassle and is ripe with issues when trying to manage anything that needs to be navigated at the PC’s resolutions, especially if you are 8-10ft away from the screen on a sofa. Then, trying to let friends and family use your setup is not even worthwhile. It’s easier to just say, “I don’t have TV” than try to explain.
Case in point, a few years ago, I discovered Jellyfin and it completely changed the way that I watch media. Instead of ensuring that the TV laptop was properly connected to my main desktop where all the drives were connected, and running all shows and movies through numerous playlists, I had Jellyfin doing all the heavy lifting. When it came to adding Jellyfin to my TV, I added the app to the TV, and it all worked exactly like Netflix. One remote, one simple interface, working on nearly every device (PS5 interface can get fracked 😤).
No more ensuring that every TV in the house has a cheap laptop connected to it. No more buying the extra TV-PC remotes with scattered connections and continually having to reconfigure each time I decided to try something else in the setup. No more ensuring that playlists were accessible to each laptop, updating all the laptops, Windows internal connection randomly stopping on the downstairs laptop, trying to duplicate favorite film and TV to extra drives to have on hand in case I’m watching something with friends and the network folders stop registering randomly. Everything just works. Add Jellyfin app to the TV or Roku, or iPad, or whatever, and I have access to my entire collection with ease.
I’ve been doing this for literal decades at this point, and the ease that comes with “install the app and watch” is the reason that people don’t just connect a PC.
George W Bush came to speak at my high school, BEFORE he was President; this was just on the campaign trail.
Aside from getting a chance to speak to him (“to the rank”), what image has remained with me 20+ years later was leaving school later and looking back at the sight of these men running back and forth on the roof of my school carrying HUGE guns as part of the security. It really resonated with me that I while I was shaking that man’s hand, I very likely had one of those giant rifles aimed at me…just in case.
And, this was just on the campaign trail.
I’ve just tried it. I can type these things and do searches, view the videos, whatever.
I will note, however, that my TikTok settings are very customized, even being on iOS. I’ve gone through every single setting, both within the app and within the iOS settings, and I’ve turned off anything and everything that can be turned off. TikTok sees virtually nothing. So, maybe I’m not blocked because all TikTok knows is that I’ve got an iPhone, I may or may not be in the US (I keep on VPN), and that I’m Trekkie who enjoys ASMR videos at night, but that’s about it.
PR, so you’d have to build Wine manually to make this patch work, but still incredible progress.
My hope is that within the next year or so, we’ll get some of these major Windows/Mac only apps running without having to run through virtualization.
Running windows is like playing with an action figure. You take it out of the box and it does what it’s supposed to. Linux I consider more like a Lego set. Sure you have to put some stuff together before you really play with it, but it’s YOUR creation by the time your done with it and you can modify to suit your use case
I really love this analogy, and plan to steal it for future use.
Slightly better than my path.
I bought a house this year, also age 40. To get there, I took a job with a large soulless corporation that is slowly destroying all of us, and then borrowed against all my retirement to get my down payment money.
I just keep saying, “At least I have a house…”
But, only after not getting an answer from Copilot.
But, my long-time sole password of TrustNo1 should be good right??
Won’t somebody please think of the economy?!?
Michael Scott vibes.
“Brand New Plasma TV. Fits right into the wall.”
Or…if she’s going to be a writer…she could learn to write.
Must be serious if he didn’t wait for Taco Tuesday.