Fun story: I’m an electronics engineer and have been working as a manufacturing engineer for the last 15 years. The company I’m with right now is basically forced me into software development. I learned c++ and python in school but never really did much with them professionally, work on a bunch of side projects at home but software development has never been a part of my career until the last year and a half. I’ve been asked to start developing production tests and other production applications in our electronics assembly department. Mostly this is creating small python applications that program and test pcbas, nothing large maybe a half a dozen files and a couple thousand lines of code. But now they’ve asked me to start developing an integration with our erp and they want it to real time push production data from each bench, operator scans a PCB loads it into a jig presses a button it gets programmed and tested, “my” software reads the erp and pushes all of this information back into the erp slowly moving jobs forward eventually closing them out as operators hit counts. My new manufacturing execution software was written entirely with cloud code and is now two dozen files and almost 100,000 lines of code. No one at work cares. But it all works, we haven’t found any real problems yet. I’ve been encountering bugs as operators use the mes but it’s dumb stuff like not understanding operator behavior and trying to code around that, ie I didn’t log out I didn’t scan a unit I forgot to do x y or z… I am both incredibly impressed and insanely worried. This new system changes money in our erp, and no one who actually knows software development has ever looked at this ever.

They pay me well, I get to work on things I enjoy and my boss doesn’t actually manage anything so I can kind just do my thing and no one bothers me. Not sure how solvent the company will be so I’m just riding it for now. But it sucks. I fucking hate my boss, not to mention he is magat asshole.

I work for the absolute LAZIEST engineering manager I have ever known right now. Like dude has Ages of Empires open on his desktop all day at work. He is last remaining engineer from a team long ago that created the wireless technology that put us on the map. This was maybe 15 yrs ago, he was obviously the dumbest member of that team because he is secretly hiding the fact that he can no longer get the original source code to compile and he is slowly running out of ways to bullshit around it. We are now owned by a VC so upper management could not care less, but this guy creates tech debt out the wazoo! Him and the 20 yr old EE make changes to firmware, PCBs, mechanical designs CONSTANTLY and dont document any of it. it is crazy. They break production all the time. Nothing is documented, basic assembly, programming and test documentation for production is a decade old, if it even exists. They just do not give a shit, the engineering manager is already checked out, and his protege has never even seen what a good company looks like, or what engineering design control is. I feel really bad for whatever company gets suckered into buying us as that is the only concern of the VC, cut costs (primarily labor by laying a bunch of people off) as much as possible to make the company look good. Whoever buys us is going to be in for huge surprise! lolol

Technical debt is very real and can complete fuck companies.

This looks good

And I am proud of you for that! Here here!

That’s not my narrative at all. What I am saying these people CHOSE to work at meta, hense are likey devoid corporate moral standings and would likely get swooped up by the next shitty company that wants to treat humans like profit cattle and since they’re STILL at meta, they would likely be okay with it. I’m not generalizing about high skill workers, I’m shitting on people who work at meta.

What a bunch of BS. Yeah, I’m sure people working at FACEBOOK are destitute and have no options for any other jobs or employment, they’re completely unskilled and just have no fucking options. /S with a CAPITAL S

Fucking disgusting. The people making these decisions should be responsible for every person this causes harm too.

Wow, what a way with words… Deadbedroom? Love it.

Got a non paywall version!? I am SO FUCKING TIRED OF PAYWALL ARTICLES. GET FUCKED IN TEN THOUSAND ASSES.

Couldn’t communities desiced themselves if they want their forums to be indexed?

I wonder what the active dev community on Lemmy looks like? These are problems that could potentially have solutions?

Nice! I have a similar build! I recently discovered proxmox and now have my home assistant, Plex server, and a full arr stack up on it. I should look into automated backing up of photos 🤔. Turns out, hording all my old gaming PC hardware was the right call. With component prices these day it feels like a small fortune having extra hardware, drives, and ram laying around! (The wife finally agrees lol 🤣)

I knew it was the beginning of the end when they dropped the free API access. Corporate enshitification.

I did not know what Lemmy was a couple weeks ago. Reddit pushed me out. I don’t want to be logged in or have an account with the way they harvest data. I got tired of weekly rotating ublock origin scripts and using incognito mode. You don’t want me if I’m not a willing data whore? Fine, I’m gone! I am now actively trying to NOT even look at reddit when a random Google search sends me there!