TheWilliamist

@TheWilliamist@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, this is not a humanity problem. This is a capitalism problem. Companies are not beholding to their customers, they are beholden to stock owners. It is no longer in their best interest to make customers happy, it’s in their best interest to provide ROI for their investors. Every software product hits a point of diminishing returns. There are no new amazing features to woo new customers, it is a mature product that only has incremental features. When this happens, you either flip to a subscription model and parasitize your user base, or sell to another vendor, management group, or some other entity who does it after you’ve been paid out. If we had better controls on mergers and buyouts there would be active competition to foster diversity and keep prices down, but when companies buy all their competition and all of the small companies who make products and enhancements for their base, it’s a lose lose situation for the end users. This is my jaded two cents after a quarter century of being in the IT/AEC field in the direct line of this enshittification process from multiple companies across the spectrum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never sent a postcard. Born in 1970.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This speaks for itself⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Code enforcement in cities and towns, especially more are more to blame for this than any other factor. Where I’m from the more affluent suburbs, barring in any kind of real individual expression or even signage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't we go back to small phones?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Galaxy Xcover series.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reported an issue with the name. I know I’m shouting into the void on this but a small poke in the eye makes me feel better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, most/all kernels are written on a hardware abstraction layer, although lot of that kernel was built off of VMS… 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t NT 3.x or 4.x run on a RISC CPU back in the day?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No beans, only dogs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The NJ ripped (deep fried) ones are missing. Also the Carolina is misplaced. The slaw dog originated in WV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell kills the XPS brand⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure IBM sold the branding to them since they were already doing the manufacturing. They still do the warranty/maintenance work, though based on the last two call outs I’ve had with their “techs” I might opt for depot repairs or taking it to the local Micro Center for warranty work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Clip] Golden Boy | EP1⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh holy hell, I remember that from back in the day. That was more than borderline inappropriate then, now? Yowza. I think the other horrific one was Battle Programmer something or another?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are the inside parts of toilets universal?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly, but as others have said variations exist. Another caveat is that newer/shorter tanks may need to removed to access the nut to change the filler valve.