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- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 1 week ago:
No, I didn’t expect that, which is why it was stupid to say it in the first place. You can’t turn this around and put it on the customer to have to read between the lines what the business is trying to actually say. How about, the multi-billion dollar company that has entire buildings full of lawyers doesn’t make claims that it can’t back up?
I’m not saying it’s right to expect that the Windows operating system was never going to have to have a paid upgrade again, but it was also stupid and wrong to make the claim that it wouldn’t. That’s on them. Nobody held a gun to their head and told them to lie to their customers and then later claim they didn’t mean it. And furthermore, why are you taking it upon yourself to clean up their mess for them? You think if you were in trouble because of something stupid you said, Microsoft is going to come to your aid? Is it being fair? To company that wouldn’t care if they accidentally bankrupted you with a forced update?
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 1 week ago:
He’d probably have an easier time with the lawsuit if instead of appealing to upgrade logic, he just went with, I don’t know…
THE TIME MICROSOFT PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED WINDOWS 10 WOULD BE THE LAST NUMBERED VERSION AND THAT THEY’D NEVER NEED TO UPGRADE OS VERSION AGAIN.
- Comment on Weird collaboration but ok 2 weeks ago:
I want to believe this is real SO badly, but it’s just too perfect… It can’t be… can it?
- Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry. The people who were really scared never stopped. They didn’t get their vaccinations (education) and are susceptible to all kinds of infections (bullshit).
- Comment on Why Are Silicon Valley’s Utopians Are Prepping for Collapse? 2 weeks ago:
Because collapse is coming.
There’s a book called “The Forge of God” by Greg Bear, and in it,
spoiler
the Earth is going to be destroyed by killer, self-replicating probes, and they’ve set the event that’s going to cause the end in motion, and it’s basically on a timer at the center of the Earth, and everyone is AWARE of it, but there’s absolutely nothing anybody can do. But it sets up this eerie part of the book where the world is completely screwed, but people are still alive and everything SEEMS normal, and they have to go about their lives. But it’s over, everyone knows it, and everyone is just kind of going around with this oppressive elephant in the room. That’s now.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 weeks ago:
And if your projection gets you through yours, more power to you as well. I’m just a guy on the internet. I don’t know why getting the last word here is so important to you, but far be it from me to deny you something you seem to need so badly. I’d think that high salary of yours would free you from needing the validation of making speculative personal insults at random shitposters who hurt your feelings, but hey, if you want it, you take it. Congratulations on your internet victory!
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 weeks ago:
Well, you’re right. Everyone has to draw their own line. I’ll agree with you this is probably less egregious than some, and I personally do make make purchases I shouldn’t from institutions I shouldn’t to get by.
But I do every single one of those holding my nose and acknowledging I’m contributing to a problem.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 weeks ago:
I made a general comment, and my opinion has not changed. You didn’t have to make it personally about you, but you decided to come defend your honor against a nonspecific shitpost. Just like MY opinion is mine, yours is YOURS, and you didn’t need to jump in here.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 weeks ago:
You are so cool. I am very impressed.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 weeks ago:
Look, I can’t expect your assessment of value proposition to align with mine - we are different people.
But if I were a paying Spotify customer, and they gave $250 million dollars to pay someone I think is actively damaging the world, and then started charging me MORE to pay for it, there is ABSOLUTELY no amount of cost benefit and convenience that would keep me there.
I will sit in a dark, silent room motivating on pure spite before I would accept such an indignity.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 weeks ago:
“I’m SO good at making money that I don’t care when people cheat me out of it for no other reason than because they feel like it. This is something I am proud of.”
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 weeks ago:
Lazy doormat Spotify users: “Okay… but this is the LAST, LAST, LAST TIME FOR REAL. Do it again and there’ll be a hashtag and a series of Tiktok memes!”
- Comment on Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ 2 weeks ago:
You know what? Seeing as how we’re getting it anyway whether we like it or not, I think I’d voluntarily take the surveillance state and censorship if it comes with rich people getting absolutely stomped by the government when they get out of line.
Maybe we can adopt the Vietnamese model where that billionaire either pays back $9 billion of embezzled funds or gets executed.
- Comment on YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy 2 weeks ago:
Oh, when I said “when she did it”, I don’t mean when she shot her puppy, I meant when she bragged about it.
- Comment on YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy 2 weeks ago:
Way ahead of you. I’ve known this since she did it.
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 2 weeks ago:
It takes a special kind of wishful thinking to think that any CEO is UNAWARE that their customers hate them.
Not a single one thinks any of these decisions are well-received.
They do it because people keep turning RIGHT AROUND and spending their money and attention anyway.
It’s a special kind of Stockholm Syndrome digital slavery because people can LITERALLY just walk away and choose not to.
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 2 weeks ago:
I CHOOSE “IT DIDN’T HAPPEN!”
I CHOOSE “IT DIDN’T HAPPEN!”
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 2 weeks ago:
How dare you, sir?
The solution is to complain for a couple of weeks about a platform ON that platform, get it out of your system, and let it fizzle out without making ANY kind of changes, because people generally have the attention span of a goldfish and commitment of a dieter with a shopping cart full of ice cream.
Never, ever ask people to accept the inconvenience to bring down a tech monopoly because “muh followers!!”
- Comment on Scott Bakula Eyeing Star Trek Return In President Archer Series Pitch From ‘Enterprise’ Producer 2 weeks ago:
…gettin’ from there to here…
- Comment on Cutting sucks 2 weeks ago:
A fellow member of boiled, unsalted chicken club!
Don’t forget the tabasco.
- Comment on Nintendo sold almost 6 million Switch 2 units in less than a month 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 3 weeks ago:
Oh, I didn’t say anything about getting emotional. I am emotional about this. I hate this technology, have terrible experiences with it, and I won’t apologize for that. But as an adult, I can target my anger at the thing I’m angry at. I didn’t decide to turn it into personal attacks on YOU because your experience was different. That’s a path YOU took, and after this message, you’re taking it alone. Once again - have a good one.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 3 weeks ago:
😂
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 3 weeks ago:
The search bar is an absolute disaster that not only searches your phone, it also sends your search to Google, and if you have, like me, a 128 Gb microSD card, it’s also going to SLOWLY search through the unindexed million files on THERE, chugging along and MAYBE finishing in 2 or 3 minutes.
“files” is an unnavigatable crapshoot, offering “suggested” recent files that didn’t populate because the last 10 most recent files didn’t even get picked up by the scanning service yet, reordering any list of files bigger than 10 things takes FOREVER, half the directories are aliased in 12 places so you’re navigating a loop, and even if you FIND the file there’s no guarantee you can OPEN it because the directory might be protected.
Downloads is a complete freaking mess. If you have a flash card, your stupid Android phone will duplicate all the user directories on it and half your apps will download to the card and the other half to your system memory, and Google’s useless scanning service that’s supposed to keep track of recent downloads goes off on magical adventures for hours at a time so you can locate your downloaded file TOMORROW if it gets around to it.
You’re right… The fact that I can fight with the stupid thing for 20 minutes to get to my file doesn’t mean it’s literally “impossible”. It just means it’s broken, barely usable crap that I refuse to tolerate because I like products that WORK.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 3 weeks ago:
It’s impossible to figure out where your PDF downloaded on Android. And then if I miraculously DO find it, whoops - my reader crashed because it doesn’t have permissions to read from that folder. All modern mobile OS tech is a disaster.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 3 weeks ago:
You are absolutely right, but let’s be clear here… it’s not so much the lack of keyboard and mouse that’s the problem… it’s that these touchscreen devices don’t let you actually DO anything. The devices you can use a keyboard and mouse on ALLOW you to play, customize, make mistakes, and learn. There’s no reason a touchscreen device couldn’t provide that too, but iOS and Android specifically forbid you from learning anything - that’s a recipe for security holes! And THAT’s the real skill they lack. Real competence means bending the endless possibilities to your will - not just being given 5 of the most common ones and being locked out of the rest.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 3 weeks ago:
At least we could get the fax machine to do things. The touch screen is so many layers of abstraction away from any raw functionality it’s like the pull string on a See and Say.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 3 weeks ago:
I mean, technically competent people do too. “Every technology I don’t use is obsolete and insecure” is a badge for some people.
- Comment on I explained economics to my nine year old 3 weeks ago:
Oh, there are certainly very big ones, but even the big ones sometimes don’t have predicted impacts because at given times some things that USED to be drivers might not be just now. For example, a 2% sales tax increase, depending on the current state of people’s buying, could have a minor impact or a major impact. If people are already buying only what they need, the impact to demand could be negligible. If they’re splurging but wages are stagnant, maybe it has a huge impact. If they’re splurging AND wages are increasing, maybe it has a negligible impact again. The basic point is, even if you understand the major drivers, without a bigger picture of the macroeconomic picture and what specific forces are driving behavior at the moment, your impact could be anything from dulled to the exact opposite of your intention.
Also, some of those factors, front running, insider trading, and market manipulation, which are evidence of a more predictable market, BECOME additional variables that impact decision making because they themselves impact other factors.
Weather forecasting might not be the best metaphor here… it’s more like the human body. You might know that some protein causes some favorable condition that you want to boost, but increasing that protein production might ALSO increase production of an enzyme for breaking it down, reducing bio-availability of one of the building blocks, leading to a reduction of another protein that’s critical for immune function. All of these pathways function together in ways that are extremely hard to predict, and it’s natural that very often you’ll be wrong.
But that’s not to say I’m being defeatist… you build better models and you try things anyway - because that’s what we do. I’m just saying economics is very, very, very hard, and there’s not just a limit to our current ability to predict, there’s a limit to how much we certainty we CAN achieve.
