Alatain

joined 3 years ago
[–] Alatain@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

If you think the average person can understand what it is like to give up ultimate control of your life in 6-year chunks, I have some bad news for you.

People in the military are bound by law to do whatever is necessary for the mission regardless of the cost to them. For over 20 years, I lived moment to moment assuming that with no notice, I could be sent to the other side of the globe without my immediate family. During my time in, I was deployed to a remote country, in a war zone, with no notice, while my wife dealt with the consequences. During that time, I had very limited contact with my spouse, and what time I did have was regularly interrupted with literal attacks that could have killed me.

Beyond my experience there, my spouse had to deal with the fact that I would occasionally just leave in the middle of a call, because rocket attack.

So, pardon me if I am skeptical of your claim that most people can understand that I now drive past litter on the side of the road cautiously because it might be a bomb. And that is just the start of the weird differences I have experienced transitioning from military life into being a civilian.

[–] Alatain@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

As a deployment manager that made dog tags for a few years, we didn't care. Jedi, Pastafarian, Dudist, whatever. You are doing your country a service that most people can't really comprehend. I'll put whatever you want in that section as long as the other stuff that actually matters is correct.

[–] Alatain@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I worked on a green missile system. This is very accurate

[–] Alatain@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't really see how that is better than the count to 1035 that you get from binary though.

[–] Alatain@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

KDE connect all the way. Runs on Linux, Android, and Windows (I think). Good way to share files, notifications, and clipboard.

[–] Alatain@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I mean, I take giving someone a less than honorable discharge so they can stand trial in a civilian court where they got a forty year sentence as more than "Jack shit"...

[–] Alatain@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

And he was discharged, tried for murder and sentenced to over 40 years in jail.

What do you think should have been done by the military unit that would have made this better?

[–] Alatain@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Every org is going to have extremists, but you are talking about a former military member that was discharged with a less than honorable discharge, who then committed and was sentenced for murder.

What do you think the AFB should have done here?

[–] Alatain@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Just as a heads up, but if you did enjoy the Princess Bride, the book/Audio book "As You Wish" is legitimately delightful.

A good amount of the cast get together to talk about all the interesting things that went into making the movie.

[–] Alatain@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Hence why I went with "simply charge for the OS". They are moving from monetizing the software to monetizing the user.

But yes, red line must go up

[–] Alatain@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It pretty much comes down to wanting to monetize the user experience instead of simply wanting to charge for the OS in the traditional way. The user becomes the commodity instead of the software.

[–] Alatain@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I wasn't disagreeing with you, I was just asking what two options you were talking about. It was just a normal question with no motive.

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