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No they hid my post about it and every mention of lemmy on their sub.

No it's okay. I completely understand the sentiment and it's the reason I tried my damnedest to avoid defense entirely in my job search, but with my skillset and the absolute cutthroat competitiveness of the space exploration industry, I had to broaden my search eventually. A lot of people that design the death machines also have similar reservations (I have met some that think explosions and death are cool but they are the minority...), but it's usually those far outside the industry that hold such vitriol to those that work in the military industrial complex.

The problem isn't the people, it's the system and I try to remind people that when I see them attack me or others for working in defense (hopefully I can transfer out to space flight soon). Be mad at your representatives and politicians for voting for the ever expanding defense budget. Be mad at the CEOs and shareholder boards that push war for their war profiteering. Be mad at capitalism that forces the labourers into jobs they'd rather not have. Don't be mad at the 23 year old fresh engineering grad that couldn't land the job at NASA and Raytheon handed them a fat check to pay their loans back with.

I believe that if the younger generations are put under enough pressure, revolution will eventually happen. That, or total economic and societal stagnation.

Lmao my femdom, math undergrad fiance in a nutshell.

I don't operate anything in the field but I design and build the stuff. Fortunately, I haven't had to build any weapon systems or combat vehicles yet because I also have some moral apprehension to that as well, but I try not to shame those who do work on that stuff if I can avoid it. It's a pretty standard meme that wide-eyed aerospace engineers with dreams of space travel get stuck designing missiles to pay the bills. I'm sure there's not that many engineers in weapons tech that wouldn't switch to rockets or self driving cars in a heartbeat if they could afford to and had an in.

I'm a cigar guy, but I've wanted to learn to smoke a pipe. It's a bit more involved and ritualistic and that seems appealing on occasion. They are also beautiful little trinkets compared to a cigar.

Also, nice scenary in that pic.

I try to comment as much as I can just to increase activity for now. Anytime I feel I can add just a little bit of insight or discussion I comment rather than not even if it's not substantial. Like this comment, for example lol

Rarely in my line of work but we do do it sometimes. To your point, outside of what I do I'm not sure how often game controllers are used in situations like passenger flight or submarines where you can't just mash the e-stop button and bail out.

I work on robotics and drones for the military and we use game controllers for teleoperation all the time. There are some times we use more rugged and robust controllers, but they are essentially just expensive, yellow Playstation controllers with e-stop buttons on the bottom (look up Fort robotics controller).

I think you'd be surprised at how often the military uses game controllers for mission critical tech. The convergent design of game controllers has kind of solved the problem of minimal, handheld, input-output machines that are capable of commanding difficult procedures.

Even after all this time and updates it's still just very meh. Almost painfully mediocre for the most part.

I think eventually storage density will scale beyond data size growth and we will reach a point where even videos are nothing and then distributed video hosting will be possible, but it's probably a ways off. Think about how much it took to just store text files or music like 30 years ago vs now. We aren't there yet but it may happen.

Just use Plex, my dude. Plex is so pretty and easy to set up and works great. No, it's not an open source project and it's owners by a big company, but it just works well and if they ever fuck things up you can go back to Kodi. There's Plex apps for almost everything by default but not for Kodi. It's great for me who uses my playstation as my media center on my living room TV.

It's also free and if you ever do want extra features, Plex still offers one time purchase prices alongside their monthly subscription prices (I'm always afraid they'll take that away soon like every other company but you can still get premium for life for like $120; $99 when it goes on sale). You don't need a VPN for it either. Only need a VPN for your torrents if your ISP is an ass like Comcast.