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Trainguyrom

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  • Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken

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  • I've previously predicted that Microsoft would slowly divest of Windows thanks to declining desktop/laptop markets and eventually as a cost saving measure cut over to just making a Linux distro with their own proprietary DE.

    As it is if the rumors are true that they're destroying their codebase with AI coding they'll have quite the job ahead of them to clean it all up once the AI bubble pops. They'd have two easier options essentially at that point: either roll back 2-6 years in their codebase and rebuild every update and change that they wanted to keep or rewrite from scratch (which they'd basically be looking at in order to clean up the AI mess) I could very much see a future where Microsoft looks at that gargantuan job and says "ehh let's just use someone else's work" and shifts to a Linux of BSD kernel

  • Screw it, I’m installing Linux

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  • Its been incredible watching him while my own IT career has grown and watching my networking knowledge continuously remain noticably ahead of his entire company's. They finally have an actual network admin on staff so maybe they'll actually have a network that isn't completely flat...

  • Full list of degrees not classed as ‘professional’ by Trump admin

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  • It is pretty expensive on the independent side ($6k+/month)

    So I'm currently working my grandmother through this process and we stumbled upon the most cost effective option for independent living which is to hire a care person to come by 10 hours a week (cost my grandmother about $400/week for 10 hours per week). They're there to help with cooking and cleaning which are most of what an independent living facility would provide. Throw an emergency pendant (something like $30-50 per month) and you have all of the of features of a $6k/mo independent living facility for less than $2k/month over their current housing costs

    I’m relieved that my parents will probably be able to afford to age in place, because I couldn’t stand them living someplace like where I work

    I'm not sure what to expect when my parents reach that age. At this point I'm more worried that they won't be able to retire given their horrendous financial discipline. My in-laws seem on track to die young given the sheer quantity of alcohol they consume, the frequency with which they drink and drive, and their predisposition to riding motorcycles to go bar hopping. My grandmother however needs to be moved into a memory care facility ASAP because she is at the point that she really shouldn't be living independently anymore

  • Full list of degrees not classed as ‘professional’ by Trump admin

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  • Hilariously Republicans are disproportionately more likely to have hearing problems than Democrats thanks to demographics (republicans more often work blue collar jobs which put them in contact with excessive noise far more frequently for example)

  • Full list of degrees not classed as ‘professional’ by Trump admin

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  • So basically those who are in the middle of studies right now can expect to be left high and dry next fall.

    Oh I'm sure they'll have plenty of private financing options with far less agreeable terms than federal student loans. Its just the federal government privatizing student loans one step at a time and thereby making college (literally the best dollar for dollar investment a government can make into its citizens) less attainable

  • Full list of degrees not classed as ‘professional’ by Trump admin

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  • Actually it's a bigger problem than that. Birthrates are declining and have been below replacement rate for some time. Without another source of population (such as immigration) in the long term there will simply be more and more old people and fewer and fewer working age people to care for them.

    Everyone who doesn't die young will get old, and as your body starts breaking down from age you're going to need help with things, and once the amount of help required exceeds being able to realistically live independently you're looking at a nursing home. With fewer healthcare professionals these nursing homes will become more neglectful and those employees who are present will be less caring due to sheer burnout. This is a problem which will affect everyone.

    Disability is the only class of people that anyone can join. Disability rights are everyone's rights because anyone can become disabled!

  • Americans with six-figure incomes are in 'survival mode'

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  • What are you even arguing anymore? Is it that important to "win" at this random internet argument?

  • Americans with six-figure incomes are in 'survival mode'

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  • Show me the place where you can both earn the $100k AND afford the homes

    That was your original comment. I listed off major cities with decent supplies of housing stock available below 500k

    You responded

    How many $100k jobs am I going to find in Milwuakee and Detroit?

    As well as pointing out that

    median household income in Pittsburgh is in the low $60k

    I pointed out that major cities tend to have high paying jobs available for highly skilled workers. You specified working in tech and demanded real world data, so I provided real wage data showing tech jobs and highly skilled jobs paying over 100k and in the interest of fairness I included some where the median isn't a full 100k but many workers in that field do make over 100k.

    So in conclusion, I listed off major cities where one can both make 100k and afford homes. Let's not move the goal posts anymore please.

  • Americans with six-figure incomes are in 'survival mode'

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  • Okay lets dig into some BLS data then!

    Since you brought up Pittsburgh, one of the largest cities in Pennsylvania let's look at the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics for Pennsylvania in 2024

    • Web developers in Pennsylvania make a median annual salary of $92,930, and the 75th percentile make an annual salary of $117,000 which oh look is over 100k
    • Network and Computer Systems Administrators make a median salary of $94,420 and the 75th percentile make an annual salary of $104,210 which again oh look is over 100k
    • Database Administrators make a median annual salary of $105,100
    • Data Scientists make a median annual salary of $107,450

    Is that too tech heavy?

    • Funeral home managers make a median annual salary of $100,080
    • Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers make a median salary of $119,550
    • Clinical and Counseling Psychologists make a median salary of $103,980
    • Pharmacists make a median salary of $133,720

    And because I listed the two largest cities in Wisconsin lets look at Wisconsin quickly as well:

    • Web developers in Wisconsin make a median annual salary of $92,930, and the 75th percentile salary is $117,000 which oh look is over 100k
    • Software Developers make a median annual salary of $114,030
    • Computer Programmers make a median annual salary of $104,080

    Too tech heavy?

    • Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers make a media salary of $92,790 with a 75th percentile salary of $104,430
    • Human Resources Managers make a median salary of $148,000 with a 10th percentile salary of $93,450 (so its not just super-high earners skewing the data, by the way the 90th percentile is $213,680)
    • Veterinarians make a median salary of $118,030
    • Pharmacists make a median salary of $141,090
    • Air Traffic Controllers make only a median salary of $108,330 (which is shockingly low for how famously high-stress of a career that is!)

    And lets just for the heck of it look at Montana!

    • Sales Managers make a median salary of $138,210
    • Software Developers make a median salary of $120,950
    • Data Scientists make a median salary of $111,490

    So my point still stands, looking at states with much lower cost of living and highly skilled professions are still highly compensated, many folks well above 100k/year

    Oh and before you bring up the median salary for all occupations in these states being 60k (an amount firmly in the middle class that you can live comfortably off of in these states) the median salary in New York and California, states with famously unaffordable housing in their cities, the median salaries are only $80k and good luck getting a house in these cities at that salary!

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  • The real challenge with DNA access is that there's too many nefarious things that can be done with that information. Without strong legal protections worldwide, some can use information from one's DNA to determine genetic conditions that they'd exclude from employment, access to social programs, or access to specific aspects of life even. Eugenicists freaking love DNA because it gives the perfect excuse, technical means and mode to carry out their practice, insurance companies could use genetic conditions to set rates in an unfair manner, and of course we could find ourselves with botique babies where certain aspects are spliced in or out in the attempt to make either the perfect child or more terrifyingly the perfect soldier.

    Open access to DNA simply enables racism, social casting and eugenics at a scale and scope that humanity has yet to see, and the idea of this possibility is frankly terrifying.

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  • Realistically he was just the right person at the right time with the right ideas to make a righteous mess and end and ruin so many lives in a surprisingly short timeframe.

    Also worth remembering that Hitler took heavy inspiration from Benito Mussolini, even coming to visit Mussolini early on to take inspiration from him (and later propping up Mussolini once the anti-fascists got too successful) even the Nazi sulute was inspired by Mussolini, who had lifted it from a series of silent films about a Roman hero which those films had likely invented the concept of the "Roman sulute" in one of the earliest examples of Hollywood fiction influencing reality

  • Do you like (AI) clocks?

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  • Would be funny if AI models are generating such wildly useless "clocks" because they ingested too many dementia screening tests in their training data

  • Americans with six-figure incomes are in 'survival mode'

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  • How many $100k jobs am I going to find in Milwuakee and Detroit?

    These are literally major cities with populations measured in the millions. There's plenty of high paying jobs to be had. And the best part is, since home prices aren't measured in the millions you can survive on a lower income.

    Also I work in tech too. I've interviewed for jobs making $80-120k in some of the listed cities. I know people making over 100k in some of the listed cities. Median income is just that, the median. Some people are going to make more and some people are going to make less. Highly skilled workers in any major city will make high pay. Sure you might shave off 10-20% from your expected wage in your sector in a lower cost of living city but your housing costs will likely be literally be half or a third of that when compared to LA, New York City or the San Francisco Bay Area, plus with that lower cost of living comes more options if you become burnt out from your highly paid and likely high stress job, you can afford to jump ship and change careers

  • Americans with six-figure incomes are in 'survival mode'

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  • I meant it not in terms of pay but in terms of personality. There's a few too many Salesforce admins with personalities like what SethTaylor@lemmy.world described

  • Americans with six-figure incomes are in 'survival mode'

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  • So the thing with Salesforce Admins, is its a sub-career within IT that requires minimal technical knowledge to be good at, plus by the nature of the job you end up working with vendor support, so if you're really not good at your job you can simply pass everything to the vendor to do and just get paid to manage the projects and pass them between the business and the vendor.

    I worked with a Salesforce admin who did exactly this and he collected a crazy salary for about a year while his boss tried to convince his boss's boss to fire him for not being able to demonstrate the skills that his resume implied. I also later learned that he was also working at his brother's Salesforce consulting firm at the same time, so extremely unprofessional and a clear conflict of interest.

    Anyways, my point is, I'm not at all surprised that your sister who sounds like they're kinda disconnected from reality works as a Salesforce admin. That's just the aura that some Salesforce admins give off!

  • Americans with six-figure incomes are in 'survival mode'

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  • It's all a numbers game really. But chances are the savings and spending you made while working a high paying job will greatly work in your favor when shifting to a much lower paying job. 5 years of 12% 401k savings (6% plus employer matching) while working at 100k will save equivalent to 10-15 years at 50k thanks to compound interest. Nice furniture, clothing and electronics you bought while working a high paying job will still be there while you work a lower paying job. Ultimately if you can downshift your spending, you can downshift your income, and cost of living is going to be a massive factor. If you can move from a HCOL area to a LCOL area you can kinda become a big fish in a small pond. I know a person who works remotely for a bay area tech company while living in rural Wisconsin. They have the biggest house in the town they live in because they make 4-6x what a local middle class household would want to make to live comfortably.

    But for such a shift you have to be prepared to make changes to your spending, to how you view values of money, etc.

    One side note: if you do move to a rural area, you have to plan on spending more on your vehicle. When you live in a rural area you might easily find yourself with a 40 mile daily commute, or going to a town 50 miles away for a specific store or service regularly. When you look at a rural area vs a city the age of folks' vehicles drops dramatically because of the sheer number of miles people are putting on their vehicles

  • Americans with six-figure incomes are in 'survival mode'

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  • My in-laws are the country version of that. They make around 100k living in the sticks outside of a tiny town nobody outside of the area has heard of. The kind of place where you can live comfortably on a 30-40k family income with a bit of budgeting.

    It all gets spent. ATVs, brand new cars, a camper, a gigantic 3k sq foot house. Heck after their very reasonable and modest house burned down they spent $3k in one go just on Christmas decorations. My mother in law is constantly getting scammed and constantly buying so much shit they don't need nor really seem to want. My father in law will probably never be able to retire either due to the way she spends (she has been living on disability for quite a few years and now that that's expired she's just retired). I feel sorry for them but these are ultimately problems that they've made for themselves

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  • There's quite a few major cities in the US where houses are averaging around 300k which a 100k salary would easily cover the purchase of. Pittsburg, Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Madison, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, St Louis for examples just off the top of my head. And if you look in rural areas between these major cities you can easily snag a 100k home so if you ever find yourself burnt out from your high paying career there's that option too

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  • She works in IT. Her main tool is Salesforce

    Why am I not surprised that she's a Salesforce admin?