Mmm, I bet that was delicious!

I mean it’s NY Post, it’s a rag reporting outlet that uses outrage to get clicks because they don’t actually have any journalists. But it seems to work, seeing how many comments even on here it has generated.

I wish that was the case, I am starting to see it sneak in more and more over there as well. It’s even more awkward, as they will pre-add a 10-15% tip and then you have to ask for it to be removed. Can’t we just pay people a living wage and end tipping all together? Yes, at least in the US a whole lot of restaurants will fail, but they should. Businesses that can’t pay people what they deserve need to go the way of the dodo.

Are you genuinely having more fun now than with good games from 10years ago? Even 15years ago??

I mean yes? Certainly I can put another 1000+ hours into a game from 10 years ago or 15 years ago, but people aren’t playing those games any longer, and those who do in a team setting are so far beyond anything a casual player can do it’s not even close to being remotely fun. LAN parties were amazing, but they existed because most of us didn’t have incredibly fast internet and we wanted to show off the PCs that we had cobbled together.

These days it’s easy to fire up Discord or whatever chat you want to use, play a new game with your friends that looks great, that plays well (enough), and then you can buy a new game. I’d rather play Doom Dark Ages over the original Doom. Or to go to the 10-15 years ago metric, I would much rather play Doom Dark Ages over Doom 3. But hey, when Doom 3 came out, this exact same conversation was happening, because Doom 3 wasn’t easy to run.

Are there programs for Windows/Mac or Linux that make search of everything quick and instant? I can’t think of any that don’t involve pre-indexing or massively fail to find what you are looking for (or are slow).

Unihertz literally sells a dozen more powerful phones for less than $500. Their cheapest phone currently which still is a better offer is $100. And Nothing’s cheapest phone currently is $419, still cheaper than this vaporware phone.

They won’t ever get to 90%, they have slowly moved up from 35-40% over 20 years.

Maybe they are using OpenBubbles or something.

Isn’t there a whole lot of small volume ‘phone’ companies that are charging far less? Nothing Phone, or the plethora of Chinese companies like Unihertz come to mind.

Sure, they do virtual credit cards, but I haven’t seen credit card companies that do it quite like Privacy does. It’s super simple to make individual cards for different ‘bills’, then pause them or get rid of the card as needed. And you don’t even need to use your actual name or information on these virtual cards, so the merchant doesn’t get your information.

Is Apple’s profit margins on hardware 90%? I thought it was still high but around 40%.

Yeah, one time use card is great for things like this. And since you can use any zip code or any information, you can avoid certain additional costs as well.

Privacy.com’s virtual credit cards are pretty great for this. Sign up, pause or one time for the card, and then you don’t have to worry about it. I am sure there are other websites that offer similar services.

What I have seen, it’s basically the right wing group of the Swiss government trying to pull a soft ‘Brexit’, if they have a population cap, essentially it ends free movement, so they would effectively be able to pull out of EU agreements. It’s an insane move that I am glad to see has failed.

Isn’t that basically every ‘all you can eat’ model though? 20% of people will fully max their usage, causing a loss, but the 80% of users will use far less than the purchase price, netting $$$ for the company. When that balance shifts, most places just put more limits to that ‘all you can eat’ or raise prices. Sure, I have unlimited internet, but it’s difficult to symmetrically max out my 5gbit connection to get that full ‘cost’ each month.

As long as OpenAI has a health amount of money in the bank ($50 billion it seems), they have a long time to burn money, and then you just keep getting people to invest. Pretty sure that’s been the model of every tech company for a long time. I think Uber took almost 15 years to be profitable, and had almost $50 billion invested. For a company that owns essentially zero cars, pretty wild.

Oh that makes sense, I typically use a headset and avoid the built in trash that most laptops have and it seems to work pretty well.

Yeah, I just use the web interface, so I end up having a cheap PC with a keyboard/remote which works pretty well, then it doesn’t matter the TV and get’s away from Google altogether.

The phone calls part is one of the better parts at least for me) for Teams. It has it’s own number, works on all the devices, can forward, and works well. I don’t want to carry a work phone, and don’t want a desk phone in the office (even though we have ones that connect to Teams). If there is a better solution that’s ‘cheaper’ all for it, but seems pretty sold.

For me it’s kind of JellyFin + TailScale, but that probably isn’t going to work with less tech savvy family members or on all devices. Plex works well enough, but then again it’s the same thing that someone has to be responsible for the ‘media’ portion, and a lot of people enjoy live sports, which seems difficult through the open source things.

What are they transitioning to? It seems difficult to fully escape MicroSlop in the office environment and get everyone onboard, especially when my IT group double checks everything they do with CoPilot first. 😡