Sounds like a lot of the adults in my world lol, although there is more subtlety in the ways that they will kick you in the head and ask for a sandwich.
Portlander here since the late 90s. Downtown for much of it. I think most people are very aware, but just aren't really too concerned about it. Well, about drugs anyway. A certain degree of "live and let live" and just general anarchism is embedded into the DNA of the city. Everything going on in Portland today are the same things that have been going on in the city for decades, it's just become much more visceral and in your face over time as the American landscape has changed. Drugs are harder now. Resources are more constrained. Everything is more competitive. It's just not nearly as easy to get by. Guns are a different story, however. I think everyone of all stripes are pretty collectively worried about that. I don't know what the answer to all these problems are, but I think it comes from US society as a whole becoming more introspective about how we ended up here to begin with.
These kinds of experiments get even more interesting when you also pipe the IPs into Shodan and find out that a lot of the malicious login attempts are coming from pwned DVRs and other devices.
While I can't say that I have noticed anything out of the ordinary yet on my Pixel 7, I will say that I have been a diehard Google phone user since the Nexus 4 days and have been really disappointed with how things have turned out with the more recent iterations of Google phones. Terrible battery life, bugs, poor quality fingerprint readers, questionable design decisions in general. The phones used to be a fairly reasonable alternative to the Apple offerings, but these days I feel like there is really no competition and am very close to switching to the other side. I really want to stick with what had traditionally worked for me, but I keep getting burned year after year now.
I was also big into Android and the Google system starting in the same era, when the Nexus 4 was taking the nerd world by storm with its crazy value. And stuck with Google devices from it, to the Nexus 5, the Nexus 6P, the first Pixel, and the Pixel 3. But the constant cancelling of service, rebranding, overhauling, and feeling like I'm paying to be a perpetual beta tester I finally bought my first iPhone in 2020 when the 12 line came out (the 12 mini was incredibly enticing)
The one thing I thought I'd regret with switching from Android was the unlimited photo backups with Google Photos, and within a few months of my switch Google announced they were axing unlimited photo backups, even when you bought a Pixel. So they don't even have that to lure me back any more.
I still keep up with what's going on in the world of Android and it seems to only be news that gives me even less reason to switch back. They're trying to turn it more into iOS but with zero of the grace of Apple, and continue to have the corporate equivalent of ADHD with their lack of being able to focus and commit to a plan.
It's no surprise more and more people -- especially young people -- are switching to an iPhone. The iPhone keeps getting better and Android keeps getting worse. For the sake of all consumers, I hope they can continue to compete in the future, but as it is, I don't know who Android is for other than people who staunchly don't want to use an Apple product.
My 7a is better than my 6a, but they're both very poor compared to the dedicated scanner on my Pixel 3 (which was also able to be used for actions, like pulling down notification bar). I miss it a lot.
I was about to say, I've brought friends from the US to Mexico City on a few occasions and it seems like the altitude (and maybe the pollution) has had strange and unpleasant effects on most people during the first couple days. A vertigo episode definitely doesn't sound far-fetched.
I've found out that chewing coca leafs is an excellent way to combat side-effects from changing altitudes. Mostly socially acceptable in central/south america as well, so don't have to worry about that. Doesn't hurt that you could replace your coffee-intake with it as well :)
Haven't poked my head in there in a while, but in my experience it was more the opposite where much of the discourse is dominated by tech-left influencer types and their followers who migrated from Twitter. Choose your echo chamber I guess.
This article was somewhat revelatory to me in that I can now see that the source of my frustration with the direction my career has gone in recent years is that I spent much of it cutting my teeth at a SV-style company during the 2010s before it was bought out by traditionalists, and that subsequent companies ended up being more solidly traditional, even if they initially appeared SV-like on the surface. I think I had naively assumed that SV-style was the norm, and the experience of discovering this to not be the case has been a little alienating.
I haven't done a ton of Scrum in my career, but my observation of it, in concept at least, is that it's supposed to be sort of like training wheels for agile, which seems innocuous enough. What I have found particularly horrifying about some orgs adopting it is that the agile part (the part that's trickier to execute) gets thrown out the window in favor of what is basically waterfall with sprints, and then people eat it up like there's nothing profoundly wrong with the picture. Something like that is definitely a cancer.
That is reality. Agile made a straw man out of waterfall. In reality, no one practiced waterfall the way the Agile Manifesto claimed that it did. In reality scrum is waterfall with a new name. There I said it. Now I will face the agile inquisition.
