I dont think its at all productive for us to compare responsibilities and measure. I invite you to consider that the level of responsibility in one's life varies a great deal from one person to the next, even within the same demographic group.

In your own post you stated that you never had a time where you couldn't game without prioritizing it, and in my post I stated nearly the opposite. Either one of us is lying, we have a very different baseline level of "priority" for gaming, or we lead different lives in which mine is busier than yours.

People often are dismissive of people's responsibilities they have no way of knowing and offer the empty platitude, "You have to make time for what's important to you," but it is just that, a platitude. Everyone experiences a finite amount of time, and it absolutely can all get used up on critical things before leisure things can be considered. I know I personally have many important things I'd very much love to stop leaving idle, but there are, quite literally, not enough hours in the day. As I've aged I've gone from needing 4 hours of sleep to at least 6, for example. That's 2 hours per day that are simply deleted from my calendar. Once you get to 24 hours, there's no more hours.

That whole line of thinking seems to me to be in the same family of thought as blaming poor people for not working more or harder-- it ignores a mountain of circumstances that make that impossible or irrelevant.

I wish it were true. For me and I'm sure others, leisure activity must be planned, scheduled in advance, and coordinated with several people. Even then, it is not uncommon for it to be interrupted.

I find it strange how many people find it unbelievable that there are people much busier than themselves that do not have time for impromptu leisure activity. I feel like I'm being punked.

Agreed, but I already watch maybe 1 hour of TV per week, and wouldn't even have one if I didn't have kids. Trust me, I've already looked for low-hanging fruit; I do not love being this busy.

I am using that word as follows:

Prioritize: to adjust the priority ranking of something to a higher level than it was previously.

not

Prioritze: to assign something the highest priority.

Maybe I am using the word wrong, but I believe both definitions to be valid. Sorry for the confusion.

What I meant was that I do not have anything on my docket that I think a reasonable person would demote in priority to make room for gaming. That day may come, but it has not for many years now. You may be surprised how wildly varied people's level of responsibility is and how busy that makes them.

Exactly, thank you. Of course I could prioritize gaming over nearly anything, but no reasonable person would for important things. I guess I have more things I feel are important going on than this guy and some others find believable. I assure you, I am not making up a story to earn fake Internet points that could not have less meaning.

I guess I dont see how assignment of blame plays into the equation here. If I have a work phone with only work-sanctioned apps on it, and one of them has bad security and gets compromised, that's very much the employer's problem because it is happening to their system via their device over an attack vector they told you that you could or must put there.

They can choose to blame you and discipline or fire you, but that still doesn't make the app's security flaws affect your personal security, because those flaws didn't let the attacker into anything of yours or see any data you own. Blaming me for that may happen, but that's just bad management and an entirely separate issue.

Airgapping your work and personal lives makes a lot of sense for this and other reasons, and it makes even more sense if your employer is trash.

That's a good tip, thank you!

I know older gamers too, and can tell you firsthand that the amount of "busy" in a person's life varies wildly. I am the second busiest person I have ever met, and the busiest person does not have children and I do, for example.

If I were to carve out more time for leisure, something else would absolutely have to suffer. Sure, that is a choice I could make, but I dont think any reasonable person evaluating the trade-offs in good faith would consider that choice to be on the table, hence why I used the "ackshually". It is technically a choice to a pedant, but not really a choice to anyone acting sane.

If you're asking us adults, most of us wouldn't know. Most of us dont have time for it anymore.

Those are all problems for the employer.

In this case its the US government so it ends up being a lot of people's problem, but in the context of the employer and employee, its all on the employer.

If they screw up the work phone with their requirements, its theirs. If that compromises their IT security, that is also theirs.

None of that makes a lick of difference to the employee unless they use their own device or carry their work phone around outside of working hours.

Ackshually, we don't. If we prioritized gaming, we would not have any money for the games and hardware or the place to hook it up and use it.

I dont think cosmetic surgery is limited to making people look like onii masks.

Except he was great.

Shut up and take my money!

I heard it has Sailfish. Maybe its just an option but not default?

All of this leads back to an old rhetorical question I've often asked. Why the fuck isn't the whole entertainment system and car connection just a standard touchscreen and communication protocol?

The fact that I need these proprietary patent-gated apps to use parts of my car, instead of just a driver that could work on any device with the right port, is overtly user-hostile.

Totally possible with an open standard. Do you have to tinker when you plug in a monitor? Not really. How about a mouse or any other peripheral device? Generally not beyond installing the app, which would be the same with a car.

Friction in the user experience has everything to do with lack of attention and time spent on that development goal, and nothing to do with it being open and standard.

I didn't see any video of it up until now, but I believe you're right that this step should not have been done without an ecological survey. Another poster noted potential concerns about altering the floodplain and damaging the microbial biome with such actions, which seems a legitimate one.

That said, we're discussing a symptom rather than its cause. I believe we should be asking ourselves why we allow our commons to go to shit to the point where unskilled vigilantism is taking the place of absent public works. these guys got so tired of their government allowing their beautiful natural environment to collect garbage that they felt the need to set up this project.

It is much harder to fault them for overstepping or failure to consider these environmental details when the people who are supposed to be doing it are asleep at the switch. At its core, this is government's job and they're neglecting it. It could be argued that anything bad that happens from this is directly caused by that inaction, even though those doing it share that blame to a degree. Anything the volunteers did wrong was done out of ignorance, whereas the government's role is one of negligence, a worse and intentional offense. The solution is to replace the elected officials until you get ones that do their job.

It is rhetorical because that answer is self-evident to many, but you are exactly right nonetheless. It is a major exhibit in the case of why companies must be regulated to act in the public interest, because every time we don't, they pull this same rent-seeking crap without fail: the "sell me a hammer and charge me when I swing it" routine.

I think it is very much both. I think that many people being clubbed and beaten by this AI stick know that someone's swinging it.