Remember, the only real separation in society is generated by the upper class!

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The difference being Facebook was buying an already up and coming, clearly successful business idea. Here, they’re buying a YouTube channel with basically no subscribers. So yeah, one sounds like a business decision. The other is delusions of someone who doesn’t know how to spend investor money.

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Huh. I guess I almost never go past 4 on this chart. Only rarely do I hit 6 and I think I’ve only been at 8 a couple times.

For anyone looking into this, I recommend picking up a “network appliance” PC. They’re low-spec, often fanless, and come with 4 Ethernet ports. You can often get them for roughly the same price as a router. You will need to provide your own WiFi AP with this method.

This is precisely what happened at both of my call center jobs. Started out great, with new employees getting a month of training before talking with a customer, but rapidly accepting as many customers as are willing to call in.

Then when they started to fall behind on support from the extra workload, they just outsourced it to a third party and didn’t teach them jack. KPI Number go up, but every customer I talked to recognized the significant drop in quality.

Sounds like a great way to increase their adoption of a competitor’s product

To be fair, the story is set a few years in the future.

What I would give to be able to comfortably give up MacOS. I don’t even hate it, but Ableton is about the only software that I need it for.

Sadly was taken over and no longer has the iconic voice and music. Now it’s just some crap TTS without the same level of whimsy.

I’ve been running an M1 for years now. So tired of the argument that Mac is underpowered. No, it’s not a video editing/compiling/gaming powerhouse, but it more than makes up for it with an 8+ hour battery life, best-in-class display, and silent running, going on 5 years now.

It still handles everything I throw at it just fine. If I need to bust out the compute power, Mac just isn’t the right rig for it. But that doesn’t make them useless.

I mean, that’s their model, yeah. That’s exactly what it is.

Exactly what I was thinking. If I were to be angry enough about this when it actually mattered and I could have steered the boat, I was way too young too even see that it was happening.

Not to say I don’t actively pursue and promote OSS all the time, but I feel like the impact is so much more minimal than it could have been.

They couldn’t afford enough electricity to run it in-house so now they just run a mandated botnet to make you pay for it instead. If this isn’t a page out of a George Orwell novel, it should have been.

Liquid Death has some great low-sugar sodas. I’ve been a strong fan of their Doctor Death. Their tea is also super low in sugar.

Who needs to add games when you have Block Dude?

Too bad almost none of that will actually be implemented and will instead be used to target those who disagree.

Dang. My work only got Microsoft 365 Copilot Mobile Plus Pro Ultra Xbox Edition for Teams