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solsangraal ,

socialize the costs, privatize the rewards

solsangraal ,

the people who profit and benefit from this don't have to worry about living in a barren toxic wasteland, they'll just make their serfs build them a hardened fortress on every mountain summit, away from the stench of the unwashed proles who serve them hand and foot for table scraps

solsangraal ,

i always start ordering something for delivery and then get to the checkout screen and see the price and am like LOL NOPE CANNED BEANS AGAIN

solsangraal ,

it helps me to think that someone somewhere is getting paid by corporate to go through all the data from website analysis and heatmaps etc, and seeing that i added a whole bunch of shit to the cart only to nope the fuck out at the very end when they show the total

solsangraal ,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/7d24fb08-7706-4769-96fb-c60bae868b12.webp

solsangraal ,

i mean troompa loompas have been getting conned by king con-man conning them for years-- why shouldn't other con-men get a slice of the pie?

solsangraal ,

speaking as someone who worked a drive thru window during morning rush: LET THE FUCKING AI WORK THE DRIVE THRU

solsangraal ,

i can't wait till the day i never fucking hear about twitter ever again

HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware (www.tomshardware.com)

On May 26, a user on HP's support forums reported that a forced, automatic BIOS update had bricked their HP ProBook 455 G7 into an unusable state. Subsequently, other users have joined the thread to sound off about experiencing the same issue....

solsangraal ,

i rarely victim-blame, but if you're buying HP anything, then yea...

solsangraal ,

Most people are more likely just looking for any sort of laptop to buy and aren’t caring about the make of laptop

absolutely. there are also people who believe "a car is a car" and then are shocked that a hole has rusted through the floor of their brand new dodge

i gave up trying to advise people on researching brands and quality before larger purchases--they don't care

solsangraal ,

to everyone who invested in this douchecannon: LOL

solsangraal ,

putting people in debt is how people with already too much money make even more money from people who never had enough

This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI (www.wired.com)

When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed the new Windows AI tool that can answer questions about your web browsing and laptop use, he said one of the “magical” things about it was that the data doesn’t leave your laptop; the Windows Recall system takes screenshots of your activity every five seconds and saves them...

solsangraal ,

don't worry they'll cancel the whole project the instant some idiot crooked corporate executive asshole gets his incriminating data stolen and used for blackmail

solsangraal ,

told them to go fuck themselves and canceled my subscription yesterday. they really didn't stop to consider just how many options people have for music

Instagram's unskippable ads test causes outrage among users (www.techspot.com)

Instagram has long been accused of stealing features from platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter/X. It appears that the company has looked to YouTube for its latest idea: unskippable ads that you have to watch for a period of time before being able to scroll further....

solsangraal ,

they're stress testing the user base. they don't give half a flying fuck how outraged you are. they only care about whether you'll quit the platform. which you won't.

solsangraal ,

no one does enshittification quite like the masters of it at ms

solsangraal ,

what, you don't want fake friends fake liking your fake glamorous vacation photos?

solsangraal ,

they might be under contractual obligation to do what the record label says

solsangraal ,

i was never a fan anyway, couldn't care less

solsangraal ,

after h&r block wrecked my taxes and cost me months of back and forth with the IRS, i take every possible opportunity to steer people away from them

i sat there and had to repeatedly correct the ancient walking corpse they hired part time to do tax filing as she kept entering wrong numbers on the computer. who knows wtf they did after i left

fuck h&r block. after that bullshit experience, i signed on with an actual business accountant and never had a single fuckup in 10+ years

solsangraal ,

https://i.imgur.com/jKcE2ZU.jpeg

solsangraal ,

this is the textbook definition of government overreach, forcing everyone to play nanny state because republicans can't control their little shitlings internet use

the fact that you think for one second that this bullshit will stop kids from accessing porn demonstrates how clueless all these cromagnon chuds are about how the internet actually works.

solsangraal ,

Its time for the law to step in

funny-- people say the same thing about guns, but the reply is "NOOOOO but what about the LaW aBiDiNg CiTiZeNs"

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