suburban_hillbilly

joined 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I give it 3 more years, tops, until Windows is fully a subscription service. Hope you enjoyed the era of owning your PC because it's coming to an end.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Don't be ridiculous, they love their customers. You just ain't one of them. Their target demo continues to be people don't want to think about it and have enough money to not care about the difference between $8 and $80. Same as ever. It's also kinda hard to fault them considering how much fucking money they make.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I hope they've written a very broad definition of social media.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The problem is turning off wifi doesn't actually turn off the wifi, it just stops a subset of packets being broadcast and won't trasmit any data you want it to send. Among other things this is how 'find my device' works with the wifi and bluetooth "off". They're actually on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It also won't work since the service has enough precision to know whether you go in, and for how long. The real issue is that mobile phones are continuously broadcasting their location to any device that wants to listen, even if you turn wifi and bluetooth off.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

I would call legal and IT. It's outside the scope of my role to accept contacts on behalf of the company.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Zoomer tech literacy is on average almost as poor as their actual literacy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The unfortunate, actual reason is that people will pay more markup on the vacuum with useless shit added than it costs to add it. Explaining why humans are like this is unfortunately a less tidy and much more disappointing endeavour.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

If you or one of your friends can self-host, my group used mumble before discord. I still don't really know why we switched.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

CDs for me. If you buy a big disc binder they really don't take up that much room. Its about the same size as the 1971 compact OED that sits on the same shelf.

If I really wanted to get rid of them I'd just donate them to the local library system. The ones they don't want they'd resell as a fundraiser.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Yeah, because career-minded prosecutors and judges never fuck over little people for minor, technical, harmless violations of the law. 🙄

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