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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Except how bad was it for Microsoft?

  They didn’t lose share. For the people that rightfully saw Metro as a painful dumb direction in Windows design language, they just stuck with Windows 7. Microsoft didn’t have upside they wanted, but they didn’t have the downside.

  They tried to pump life into their mobile platform by throughing their desktop platform under the bus. Because they have zero competitive pressure, they attempt to do that with essentially zero downsides. Just like now they can make their OS little more than an advertising platform for the Microsoft Store and Microsoft services without real repurcussion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Load bearing Tupperware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not familiar with AWS myself, but they seemed to be referencing something they vaguely characterized as ‘security infrastructure’, kind of as a handwaving for why they thought it made sense to be single point of failure because to enable distribution of it would somehow be insecure…

  I frankly wasn’t interested in delving deeper, because that excuse sounds pretty stupid, but I’d be trying to get details I don’t personally need about something I probably shouldn’t be arguing about. I’ve gotten burned too much by someone championing something stupid ostensibly in the name of ‘security’ to try to sign up for another one of those arguments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Load bearing Tupperware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m also skeptical that any payment processing networks were impacted. I would be surprised, but less so if they couldn’t manage their account online which might have similar effect. I’m not surprised at all of the grocery store or restaurants were significantly impacted. I know a lot of the apps were broken and I could imagine someone used to apping everything leaving their cards at home and unable to get lunch. Might have some aggressively “modern” establishments that are kiosk only and I could imagine them getting downed by aws outage.

  outside a single DC?

  I’m told that a lot of the companies did all the right things but still got taken down because some dependent Amazon services are tethered to that single DC and only Amazon has the power to change that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Load bearing Tupperware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  1.1.1.1 went down for a while not too long ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So a fan of squirting?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, that Steam Deck and myriad of PC handhelds I think is why I don’t consider the Switch quite so uniquely gimmicky… It’s a recognition that normal controller games can be played in a ‘tablet’ with better controls more than a particularly unique, possibly patent protected thing like the wiimotes, or the Wii-U tablet+main display, or the DS dual screens…

  In short, if they made their low-spec games ported to PC it’s quite likely to be a nice additional revenue stream without having to compromise the game to be workable on PC. If the Wii-Motes were still a big thing, then Nintendo would have a hard time trying to make PC ports without screwing up their console.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like with the Wii, I’d be with you and the Wii motes were super gimmicky. Also if the Wii u had panned out.

  But the switch is not particularly uniquely gimmicky. Pretty conventional controls, with maybe the residual gimmick of those NFC figures…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insuranace is a joke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When it’s totaled, then you get a cash payoff for what they declare it to be worth. It being the other person’s insurance does give you a bit more leverage than is it were your own.

  At least in my case, I was able to negotiate a bit and got the other person’s insurance to at least go up to paying the blue book retail for mint condition of the car. They also tossed in a few thousand for pain and suffering and covered a full month of rental car. In my case someone in the other car was unresponsive and needed an ambulance ride, and on my part I had been very thorough in documenting everything that legally would count including damaged contents in the trunk, missed work, and other things.

  However ultimately it is a check and car sales can be rough. So it may be that they were underpaid, or that the car’s general book value didn’t match their subjective value for the car, or they were thinking they should get what they paid for it. I could imagine if they bought a 2015 in 2019, they were probably getting a decent, off lease practically new car. Now they have a check appropriate for buying a 2015 of the same make and model and the 2015s now available are in worse shape than they kept their own, previous owners that neglected their car over a longer period.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Quit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI because its dumber than them and useless.

  I am much better at washing dishes by hand than my dishwasher. I still mostly let my dishwasher have a crack at things to spare me from usually having to bother.

  It’s a bit trickier with AI, as it’s more obnoxiously screwing up when it screws up, but at least upon occasion it’s able to spit out a few mind numbingly lines of code that would have taken me longer to type myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simpler times?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t suggest that people who are abused tend to go down this path, I’m saying of those that abuse others, they themselves were likely abused.

  I don’t know the percentage, but hypothetically if 2% of people abused go on to abuse others, this would be true without even saying anything about 98% of abused people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simpler times?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Abusers often are “paying forward” abuse they suffered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies always need to grow?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Note that even if by all practical terms a business isn’t growing, then it’s still growing.

  Part of the whole deal is that there’s an intent for the money supply to change for a roughly 2% inflation. In an oversimplified sense, the idea self be that everything gets 2% more expensive, everyone gets 2% raises, and investments at least generate 2% returns.

  We’ve basically decided that we need to trick ourselves into feeling progress by making “standing still” look like growth. So if someone had flat income year over year, they actually lost in real terms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spokesperson⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like I’m going to look it up. Feel like he went MAGAing recently and I haven’t heard he died, so I’m guessing he is still kicking.

  What would shock me is if someone pointed out a MAGA celebrity that has actually been relevent in the last 20 years, other than as a MAGA personality. Only one I can think of is Kanye West, but he clearly went deep off the end of crazy very publicly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spokesperson⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much all of the NAGA celebs are “people who you hadn’t thought about for least 20 years who are bitter no one cares about them anymore”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's official: EA is going private.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s gone public, then generally going private is a bad thing. It’s usually some investors that are going to do something bad with the company.

  A company that starts and stays private may be all the better for it (but that’s hardly assured either). If they are a success and didn’t bring a lot of investors, then it generally means they actually care about the work intrinsically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1919 (correctly)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t speak to the ‘or whatever’ as there may be things I know that are truly urgently needed, but blood type isn’t really an example of a phone type emergency.

  Ambulances frequently don’t even carry blood, and when they do, they usually have a small amount of O blood. The question of blood type doesn’t even come into play. Similarly at the hospital, while they may prefer to match blood type, they will use O blood at least in the short term, with a blood typing test being a matter of a couple of minutes to get the information directly instead of relying on pulling up and using the emergency contact information. This is assuming their medical record doesn’t just already have the information.

  As said, I try to be available, but it’s largely ruined by the volume of bullshit calls making it impossible to be at the beck and call of any random caller while also living a vaguely sane lifestyle. So I’ll usually send to voicemail unless it’s someone I actually recognize that I know will only call over an urgent matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1919 (correctly)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s an actual emergency, call 911.

  If it doesn’t need 911, society needs to accept that people are sometimes just not immediately available and be accommodating.

  I will answer my phone if one of a handful of people call me if at all possible, but sometimes it just isn’t in the cards. It’s convenient to take care of seemingly urgent matters that way, but it’s not the end of the world if it has to wait a bit for someone to be actually available.

  The world survived for centuries without the ability to immediately get a hold of everyone at a moment’s notice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1919 (correctly)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really depends case by case.

  If back and forth starts going, then it’s time for a call.

  However text first to establish:

  • Is it shorter to take care of in text. Particularly if one party of the conversation tends to be needlessly verbose, text can be a godsend to let you skim their BS and cut to the chase.
  • If there has to be a conversation, when would be a good time.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American media is freaking about homicides on transit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, he’s just saying deaths are big, but even bigger disparity is seen if you include non-fatal incidents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨N. 5⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Johnny Five?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh Jesus he is cooked⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically enough, this shows how Kirk was actually at least somewhat better than most of the right wing pundits.

  He would actually allow others to have the mic. He actually lets the dude speak. If not for that, you couldn’t have a video of him being made to look the fool.

  Most of them will refuse to interact, shouting down questions, trying to cut off counterpoints, only interacting via one-way streams and speeches. Generally cowardly refusing to vaguely risk a difficult talking point arise.

  He said vile things, but he at least let others speak. And now the right wing is on a crusade to try to suppress any voice that would have stood against, rather than letting them speak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Got This Right, Right?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Think that’s a fair assessment. On the one hand we are more connected than ever and sentiment travels fast and echo chambers let dangerous extremist thought fester. On the other hand, Germans were experiencing just a much worse actual living situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Got This Right, Right?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d even say all indications are that his leanings don’t matter in the specifics of this event.

  It’s probably more informative that folks can credibly have theories for either leaning to lead to this event. Lots of reasons that could believably drive any political leaning over the edge if they are close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Got This Right, Right?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I will point out one thing that should be obvious, the shooter was only 22. So it’s possible he doesn’t have a very baked and stable political ideology. I knew a hard core outwardly homophobic conservative at 17 who came out as gay and did theater by 20. I knew a fairly liberal person when she was about 18 that over the years got to a place where she publicly praised Trump and called COVID a hoax and the vaccine a conspiracy. No idea how that happened, even as I saw it first hand.

  Given the situation, it is at least clear he was unhinged if he would get to this point, either way. I would have hoped this would be a lesson for people that people get dangerously moved by angry rhetoric, but a lot of folks are ramping up rhetoric instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Birthday!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, but it says “Mario”, and that was not the first game that featured the character.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Of all the people I was worried about materially contributing to the mess, Charlie Kirk was pretty low on the list.

  He said vile stuff, but he was not himself a wielder of power. His rhetoric and words had power, he did not. His death in this manner has given strength to that rhetoric and those words without removing any of his meaningful influence to the system.

  Better that these folks suffer the fear of what they court, to have their own MAGA fanatics turn against them with violence that scares them, but leaves them largely intact to have them retreat from their position without becoming martyrs.

  Now if some folks actively wielding the power in harmful ways meet some ends, I might have a little less mixed feelings about it.

  I will confess to perhaps not celebrating, but appreciating the connection between his sociopathic stance on gun deaths and he himself joining a group he himself said we shouldn’t be so concerned about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, worried about this and the punishment doesn’t fit the crime, and too much room for his death to be weaponized, like you say.

  Would have much rather him taken a few to the vest from a handgun from a pissed off obviously MAGA person. Give him some pain and a good scare to have him realize personally just how risky the hornet’s nest is that he is stirring. Something that might be a close enough call for others to see without becoming a rallying cry and a clear link to the violence of the rhetoric without a chance to blame ‘the other’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I will have empathy

  How dare you dishonor his memory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DEI, more like DIED⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, without knowing context, you might think it’s someone admitting that we need gun control, but no, his point was that we shouldn’t care about the gun deaths so much…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Related: https://lemmy.wtf/comment/16937362⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, he probably was constantly being cursed/hexed by someone or another.