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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Forgot the part where management also says use it or lose it, your vacation no longer rolls over, and your vacation bank now has an expiry date. But thanks again for all your hard work.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Thank you kind stranger!

edit: Wow, didn't expect this to blow up!!!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

Classic Dutch beach volleyball sleeping positions

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

The author hopes for a future version of Windows that offers more user control and less interference from Microsoft's software-as-a-service products.

Currently there is zero incentive for Microsoft to do this, and only upside potential to keep doing what they're doing.

You'd need thousands of companies to abandon their dependency on Windows, Office, and the entire Microsoft ecosystem for them to change course now.

[–] [email protected] 277 points 4 months ago (45 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Nope, Windows will still not be my next PC. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, you can't get fooled again.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Too late. Linux is going from my hobby project to my primary OS by the time they stop providing Windows 10 updates, if not sooner.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Saying "you are product" just make people take it literally and think Facebook is wrapping people up and selling them whole package, organ and brain included, which is nonsense

You're the only person I've ever seen who has taken this expression literally.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Same with your side gig.

It is not a flex if your primary job isn't enough to pay the bills. It's a societal failure that wages have not kept up with inflation and that capitalism continues to filter the benefits of increased productivity to ownership at the expense of labor. Being forced to cope with your own exploitation, or worse, figuring out how to exploit others, is not the flex you think it is

And if it ain't about the money, it's definitely not a flex that you filled your free time with more work. Unless you're trying to make your side gig into your 9-5, there is a world of activities, hobbies, and pastimes to better yourself that you are missing out on.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (3 children)

From the article, the cop laments that telecoms are no longer handing over IP addresses when requested. Now police are being forced to obtain search warrants, like they would need to in order to tap your phone or read your mail. This seems like a consistent application of privacy law and a safeguard against law enforcement abuse of power. Seems like an absolute win to me.