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The middle ground is an open dialogue where people can coexist with opposing views and debate. The fast that you took me as meaning that everyone needed to be some kind of die hard centrist instead of just listening to opposing worldviews for once in your life is a great example of the problem.

In most companies, most of what a devops "role" does would be handled by backend devs anyway. Plenty of crossover between a devops role and a backend dev role. The important thing is to get some work experience anywhere in development to make yourself look way more appealing in future job applications.

Na, there really have been issues lately where the sheer mass of data accumulated is adding up to some pretty massive bills for the data giants like Google. I think they just realised that a lot of dead accounts are giving them no value whatsoever, and so many of them have piled up that deleting them probably saves them a nice pile of money in infrastructure costs.

Same, but tbh if you haven't touched one of your accounts in >2 years then you're probably fine to just make a new account next time you need it.

IIRC when I first heard about this, it was clarified by Google that any accounts with YouTube videos on them will not be deleted. Can't risk deleting abandoned channels that are still bringing in views.

Damn, I kind of hate that this would absolutely work on me.

I feel attacked.

There are apps you can install to manage it for you on android, automatically cutting off charging when a given percentage is reached.

IPhone maybe? I know they restrict your battery capacity with software as your phone ages, so the short lifespan has nothing to do with the actual condition of the battery. Iirc some other brands do it to, but I don't know which ones.

I'm pretty certain it's not a rule there, everyone just kind of assumes it's what you're meant to do when they post, because they see every other post.

Kind of a self enforcing unofficial rule, I guess?

I would argue trying to find news on social media is the big mistake. It's absolutely bad on Lemmy, but it's not that much better on other platforms. Any story that isn't a "win" for the larger portion of people on the platform will naturally struggle to get attention.

There's a whole rabbit hole to go down in trying to find a way to get a solid, rounded and accurate view of current events, but imo step one should be to throw away social media as a news source. It's only popular because the algorithms on other platforms will tell people what they want to hear.