Something good? In THIS timeline?!

My career goal is ending up in a position like that

Wfce!

Like, on BlueSky, I have *one* login, it was very easy to reach a good feed - smoothest onboarding I've ever had, actually - and it just… works. Sure it's not fully open. That's a pity, but it's not even remotely close.

The experience of interacting with anything outside of your instance is genuinely so clunky and convoluted, you finally end up having one account for "area of interest", fundamentally killing / nerfing the whole point of federation, and being way way wayy too scattered around.

That's what did it for me. Mind you, I'm a Linux user with no Windows anything and a Linux server at home with self-hosted FOSS apps. Even I still found Mastodon to be too much on the inconvenient side for me. Getting an interesting feed from several interests has a barrier that's far too high.

I am NOT even doing this on purpose 💀

Hah, on my powerful Ryzen ™ 7 laptop I just need to open a browser to be able to use the laptop as an hand-warmer. Android Studio also activates the Jet Engine™ feature, creating a white (?) noise that helps you focus I guess (?)

It's poetic. They shouted victory by taking control of one of the largest social networks, then they watched it quickly fade into irrelevance (just another Gab) while everybody else moved on to a new social, where they are not welcome. They ostracized themselves in a corner of the Internet. Love it.

So personally I am pretty disillusioned by the idea of a performant and powerful laptop, I think I am going to switch to a beefy desktop + lightweight laptop thin client without large performance needs as soon as i feasibly can tbf

I did that, and after a few months it turned out my laptop model has a design flaw where the liquid metal seeps away from the CPU die overtime, reducing performance over time. Out of 55 W real TDP, 45 W minimum guaranteed by tolerances, I am getting like 37-39 W of actual TDP after just 6 months :/