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- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 5 days ago:
They made it the default option for businesses that routinely buy computers with less local storage than their users need. Pretty much every company I have worked for.
They then pushed it out hard into the consumer market when SSD came out and the average storage space on lower end models dropped by 75%.
I see why they did it, how they did it was in usual Microsoft fashion, idiotic.
It’s sort of their pattern.
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Introduce new changes.
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Screw it up royalty.
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Fix the features that are salvageable and revert most of the remaining except: Double down on the shitty ones that they think will make them more money.
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Rinse and Repeat
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- Comment on Dead Tesla traps toddler in boiling hot car as electric doors fail 1 week ago:
It’s just stupid design and should not be allowed on the road.
- Comment on Red Lobster files for bankruptcy 5 weeks ago:
Those other factors that created that massive debt load. A leveraged buyout in 2014.
Which of course created years of underinvestment in the company as all of its fucking profits went to the executives and the loans.
- Comment on Men over 30, have you ever been in a legit confrontation with a stranger? 2 months ago:
My size and build has pretty much stopped all confrontations since I was in my early 20’s and bulked up 60lbs. All through high-school and college I was the tall really skinny guy. Then over the course of a year I put on 70lbs without changing my waist size.
My tiny wife takes shameless advantage of it (I am 18" taller than she is). She runs her mouth off and then comes and hides behind me.
- Comment on Just horsey things 2 months ago:
Had two ponies growing up and 15-18 horses on the ranch.
The two ponies were absolute assholes. Vicious aggressive beast who hated people. The farrier charged double for them.
The 17 hand paint was a big puppy. He’d follow us around looking for loves and your sandwich. He would beg for a PB&J.
- Comment on European mind cannot comprehend this 2 months ago:
As a highly paid professional this is bullshit. Most insurance plans in the u.s. are costing more and covering less every year. They have introduced all sorts of fun things make it more brutal. Evaluating a companies insurance plan has become a critical exercise in evaluating any job offer. Some major companies offer shit benefits packages.
Things they have done:
Raised deductables: The insurance basically pays nothing until the deductible is met. In many plans, this is $4,000+. I have seen them as high as $10,000.
Increased out-of-pocket maximums. This is the maximum amount a person can pay in a year. These are important for chronic illnesses or serious accidents etc. it used to be $4000-$8000 in a year. Now I see plans that have $30,000+ as the maximum.
Decreases the percentage they pay. When I started working a most “good” insurance plans would pay 90% of the bill. Now 80% is the standard with many “bad” plans only offering to pay 50 or 60%.
Limit medical networks that they do business with. You want to see a Dr or specialist who is not in your network. You are fucked.
What has the government done? Introduced the HSA plan. Basically you can save money out of you paycheck tax free to pay for all these ballooning costs. The plan just happens to be an investment plan in the stock market with high fees and lots of money for Wall Street.
- Comment on European mind cannot comprehend this 2 months ago:
Insurance and medical care for my wife with another autoimmune disease has been as high as 30% of our income.
She started a union job with better negotiated insurance. It’s down to 10% of our income now.
- Comment on A disease that makes crops inedible would be so much worse than any pandemic 2 months ago:
Not to scare you but it happens every year, constantly. There is always another new disease or an new mutation to an older disease that is attacking crops.
It’s only by constant research, phytosanitary processes and breeding efforts that our food supply is as secure as it is.
- Comment on My moon is in Silty Loam but my Sun sign is Clay. 2 months ago:
It makes more sense if you use it as intended. It’s designed to be a simple way for farmers/gardeners to classify the basic soil composition by particle size.
Take a cup of dirt, put it in a mason jar, fill it full of water, put a lid on tight and shake the hell out of it. Come back in 3-4 days and measure the layers.
This comes in helpful in applying pesticides and basic water management. It’s pretty much pointless for anything else.
- Comment on Peak technology 3 months ago:
It’s just a bottle of ink that you pour into the tank. You can find generic ones for $7-8.
My wife prints 1-2 boxes of paper per year in color. About 10% of those are photograph quality. A laser printer wouldn’t cut it for the photographs so I got her an ecotank.
The tanks hold 130ml of ink so they last a long time. The largest HP cartridge held like 49ml of ink of I recall correctly. Most of them had under 10ml.
If you print infrequently or an absolute ton (like an office) a laser printer is better. If you print a case or two of paper per year and photographs, the inkjet is better.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Legalization with regulation, education, and free accessible healthcare including mental health.
It decreases overall usage of all drugs and the decreases the crime rate. Addressing the reason people take drugs seems to work better than punishing them for using them. Go figure.
- Comment on To the top 1% truly smart people the other 99% are dumb as a box of rocks. But exactly how fucking stupid is that 99% ? 3 months ago:
What most people think of as being “really smart” is polymaths. These are people that suck up knowledge from many fields and make novel connections. It is believed that they are extremely rare. Some even argue they don’t exist
Modern academia focuses on a high degree of specialization which excludes most polymaths. So we have specialists that are highly intelligent in their narrow field of expertise but ignorant in most everything else. The bulk of the “smart” 1% are these types of people.
- Comment on Study finds anti-piracy messages backfire, especially for men 4 months ago:
I have yet to listen to all the music on my SD card in my phone. I will get around to it eventually.
After that I will test out Spotify.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 4 months ago:
Pointing out significant flaws that are holding the systems adoption rate back is never popular. Most of them are very techy and don’t have a clue what the average user needs. It’s a great way to get them all riled up.
I spent a few years as a process flow and bug finder for some programmers building a proprietary internal system. Then I trained non-tech savvy people on how to use the system. One of the most difficult jobs I have ever done. Bridging the gap between the two of them was brutal.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 4 months ago:
That’s not a problem with windows it’s a feature. Even the barely tech literate people can use it to bumble their way through to get the job done, eventually.
They don’t use it well but they still use it. They also rarely break it anymore.
Those of us who worked with these people with win 98 and XP… Shudder. They ways they screwed up the system was truly remarkable at times.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 4 months ago:
No it doesn’t.
My last attempt was six months ago. Still had a few key programs in a tarball. Dow
Then there’s always the random hardware incompatibility. This last attempt it decided to flip the screen upside down on my laptop screen. Fun times…
It’s come a long way, but for the average user, it’s not anywhere near polished enough.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 4 months ago:
I have used Linux off and on for almost 20 years.
I install it, see if I can do everything I want.
Get lost in terminal hell.
Give up and uninstall it.
Until I can browse to a webpage, download a program and click on an icon and have it install and work, the OS is shit for the general user. It’s not that fucking difficult of a concept.
- Comment on Spotify just changed TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks 4 months ago:
Make the policy change, see if they can get it to hold up in the courts. AKA normal business practices for corporate America.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 4 months ago:
They successfully reverted adding a custom toolbar to the taskbar. I create one for each of my cloud drives and one for the desktop. It turns a folder into a menu.
I organize my files in nested folders. It allows me to open files/programs much faster than searching using the mouse hover on the folders
For example:
Clouddrive^research/2023/ file.
Older files or less frequently used ones are buried deeper in a folder tree. Actives ones are very shallow so it’s fast to find them.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 4 months ago:
I had to purchase new computers for my wife and son. So W11 home edition it is. $12 for for the family pack of startallback and the PC’s run as they should. It’s so stupid that I have to do it, but it clears out all the annoying shit so it’s worth the few bucks.
I have been using classic shell/open shell since Win8 anyways. My screens look the close to the same since Win7 and I am not changing anytime soon.
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 4 months ago:
At my last job all the default company phones where iPhones. So all the windows laptops had iTunes pre-installed by IT on them.
Having refused apple products due to poverty and being forced to use a Mac desktop at a previous job (clusterfuck) I had not seen it in years.
It’s one of the the most poorly designed, confusing dumpster fires of a program around. The company of “it just works” my ass.
I swear it was like 4 different uninstalls to get rid of it. Only to restart and see another mysterious program appear. I have gotten malware that was easier to get rid of.
- Comment on Americans rack up $19 billion in credit card debt in one month 4 months ago:
So it could be either rising usage or increasing debt load or likely a combination of both. Just how much from each, we don’t know.
The number that matters next will be number of bankruptcies.
- Comment on Americans rack up $19 billion in credit card debt in one month 4 months ago:
Is that just straight usage or outstanding balance?
My usage of credit cards has changed over the years.
It used to be I used them very sparing for infrequent large purchases. Then paid them off in installments.
Now I use a credit card for most regular purchases because of the cash back and security if the card number gets compromised. I also pay it off in full every month.
So my usage has increased by 10x but my outstanding balance is 0.
- Comment on How is Russia not Financially Crippled? 5 months ago:
Most companies don’t bother to setup a shell company. International businesses often have an existing distributors in several different countries.
When one country gets sanctioned a distributor in a neutral country suddenly increases their local sales by the same amount that the one in the sanctioned company used to have.
I used to work in international business a decade ago. I learned about a customer on the Saudi peninsula who purchased a huge amount of product (1,000x more than their entire market). It was strangely enough to cover Iran not that far away across the Persian Gulf.
- Comment on Recycling 4-year-old 737 memes (Part 5) 5 months ago:
Mostly still grounded planes in need of repair.
There are a few planes that were ordered by Russia and Ukraine that can not be delivered due to the war. There are also a few planes that are unsold.
- Comment on Recycling 4-year-old 737 memes (Part 5) 5 months ago:
4 years later around 150 new airplanes are still sitting on the tarmac as the crews fix around 6-7 per month.
It’s pretty bizarre to drive past where they store/repair them in Moses Lake and see them all.
- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 quietly took off while everyone was looking at AI 5 months ago:
Sounds like the usual introduction for a new wifi protocol. It’s a niche market until enough devices become compatible. Then a rapid adoption as things reach their normal end-of-life and are replaced.
So wifi 7 will be widely adopted in 5-7 years if it proves stable.
- Comment on 4202 g 5 months ago:
Coincidentally, this also blocks most of the importation of chicken and beef from the U.S. giving their domestic producers an almost exclusive market.
A happy little accident I guess.
- Comment on 4202 g 5 months ago:
Chickens do not receive any hormones. It’s been banned in poultry in the U.S. since the 1950’s when it was tested and shown to be ineffective. Beef commonly gets hormone implants in their ears. No hormones are approved or used in feed.
The rapid growth of the birds is mostly due to selective breeding and nutritional improvements. The growth rate and adult size in animals can be massively changed by breeders. Just look at the Great Dane and mini-yorky in dogs.
They also use antibiotics in the feed to reduce the bacteria load of the birds. This does increase the growth rate and reduces sick birds and deaths. It is not a good idea when it comes to antibiotic resistance buildup in bacteria however.
- Comment on Hits me right in the feels 6 months ago:
2009 with the $8K tax credit. My wife and I purchased our first home then. Nothing but foreclosures on the market. Most prices had stopped by 50-60% from the peak.