Pika
@Pika@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 22 hours ago:
Yeah, and unfortunately, like you said, that entire practice is fully illegal in the states. However, most employees are unwilling to report it and then file the evidence of why it was done. Because while there is no mandatory vacation time in the US, if you are provided It as a benefit, it must be something that you can use. And if they are regularly denying your PTO because they don’t have the people to be able to cover it, then they are denying you a benefit which they are legally obligated to provide since they offered it as part of your benefits.
The amount of times that people just decide, oh well it’s only PTO. It’s no biggie. I don’t want to rock the boat. It’s insane. Like my mom lost over 600 hours of PTO because the business closed up and she didn’t fight that they needed to pay it. She doesn’t put two and two together that she’s overall getting paid less because she has the benefit of having that PTO. So if they were to not offer the PTO, they are just paying less.
Your PTO, if offered, is part of your benefits package, meaning that it’s part of your hourly wage calculation. So if you are given PTO and then not being allowed to use it, you are voluntarily being given a demotion.
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 1 day ago:
yea, which is the only real reason he posted about it. It’s just a normal day for him, but he realized he can capitalize on it and make it a PR stunt like always
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 1 day ago:
FOR REAL THOUGH. Like every person I have ever heard that has complained about PTO, are people who are in positions that either don’t accrue it, or accrue it so slowly that it’s never usable.
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 1 day ago:
I doubt he notices a holiday TBH, it’s just the same as the previous day.
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 1 day ago:
Remind me how “all these businesses” can be closed if only the federal government actually takes the day off for federal holidays?
Here in the real US (I.E not has make up fantasy land that he wants his user base to believe in), most companies were business as usual. As most companies only really close for Christmas and and maybe Thanksgiving and Easter.
Not to mention that most Federal workers are salary, and their pay includes holidays, if he were to remove the holidays as part of the package, he would need to spend /more/ money on the workers, so it’s not like it would be a plus even in his imaginary world. This is ignoring the fact that a good portion of the federal government is also unionized. so this entire plan would fall short before it even hit the water.
- Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 4 days ago:
I wasn’t aware there was a replacement that was suitable. I will have to look into that, thank you.
- Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 4 days ago:
Nexus Mods is far too late on the monetization aspect. The restrictions placed on mod downloading sucks, and it hard pushes buying a membership. Not to mention they basically gave up on vortex and its a buggy mess even if you run it native.
- Comment on New Nintendo Switch 2 Listings on Amazon Could Signal End of Feud 1 week ago:
One interesting detail is that all three games have a delivery-by date that’s a few days past the release date
Ah so basically worthless to a consumer if they wanted it release day then. So this will help existing games, but it’s not going to help anyone who wanted a game release day.
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass might be getting a price hike 1 week ago:
A price hike, after the new Xbox PC relabel launch?? Absolute shocker I tell you
- Comment on Steam Reviews 1 week ago:
it didn’t used to be that way, then steam just…stopped actually caring about the quality of reviews and forums.
Then they added the award system and its been downhill since.
- Comment on Did YouTube just disable video playback for people using adblockers or is it just me? 1 week ago:
It’s a cat and mouse game. They’re constantly doing this. Just wait a little while and ublock should find a way around the block.
- Comment on How do you charge an electric car without a credit card? 1 week ago:
If you have no driveway, where are you currently parking? Level 1 or 2 chargers just connect to an exterior outlet on the house, so you could just plug it in via cable, so you don’t have to have it in a garage. You may risk having someone steal your electrical cables, though, if you don’t have some way of locking the cable to your house.
- Comment on How do you charge an electric car without a credit card? 1 week ago:
Personally speaking, intentionally not using or collecting credit in this world is dumb. It’s shooting yourself in the foot for basically everything longterm wise. This can be from rental agreements to buying a house to buying a car. Anything that needs to show trustworthiness. It’s stupid, but it’s how this world operates.
I would highly recommend reconsidering your mentality that you’ve given up on credit.
Also recording the fraud. Hopefully you are currently mid battle on that because it’s not fair for you to have bad credit due to identity fraud and generally when proven that someone stole your identity they reverse all charges(for you) and reverse the credit score that went with it., After all, you never actually spent the money. But that’s a long and lengthy battle
- Comment on How do you charge an electric car without a credit card? 1 week ago:
I want to clarify, by prepaid I expect that you mean a secured credit card right because prepaid cards you can find at stores are meant to rip you off and charge large fees for usage and charging.
Personally I recommend discover, they offer stupid simple secured cards and after a year or so usually they give your deposit back and upgrade it to a standard credit card
- Comment on "Can i ask you for a favor?" Is it rude to say no? 1 week ago:
firmly agree. It’s all about the presentation. For example, using what was provided above the act of just saying no was a neutral sentence. Adding afterward that that’s just sus changed it from being a neutral to a negative because now you’re accusing the other person of being sketchy/sus,without providing the ability to prove otherwise. That I find rude.
- Comment on "Can i ask you for a favor?" Is it rude to say no? 1 week ago:
I think I agree with most of the replies here saying that the way it was handled was rude. If the opening response to me talking to someone was like that, I would feel like, okay, who pissed in your cheerios and I would have walked off.
Like others have said, there’s more to the solution than a yes or no. I personally think “depends on the favor” , is a very appropriate response, or a “maybe what do you want” Or if you’re planning on saying no regardless, without calling the other person creepy, that’s just extremely rude statement to make to someone with no indication of being a creep imo.
- Comment on Tech disabled and locked NTP to profit if RTC is wrong 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, and even then, if you’re worried about it triggering the alarm, just contact your local dispatch ahead of time and be like, hey, I’m trying to modify my alarm and my service company is not being cooperative with me. So if you get an alarm to my address within the next like two or three hours, disregard it means I messed something up. Local dispatch will be more than understanding
- Comment on Tech disabled and locked NTP to profit if RTC is wrong 4 weeks ago:
the inability to manage my own system would be a solid “yea never mind this isn’t what I wanted” and shipping the device back. it probally wouldn’t be a full refund but, that’s the cost for me making a mistake like that. I’ll be damned if in not going to be able to access my own alarm panel. I would be firmly against any setting not being in a user accessible location regardless if it’s a time thing.
Hopefully op had the tech enable all settings on the main panel cause that’s such a shitty money grabbing practice. Just lock the ability to change time behind a service code on the main panel. incorrect code = alarm is triggered.
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 5 weeks ago:
is that Dvorak I spy?
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 5 weeks ago:
I’ll do you one better. The target redcard credit card doesn’t allow non-standard special chars, max I think it was 12 chars and gets pissy at using known SQL special chars. If it wasn’t for the fact it required a credit check prior to getting to that screen I would have ran so hard.
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 5 weeks ago:
let me just get on that real quick 😂 I’m sure that the lack of people engaged in it doesn’t mean it’s hard or anything.
man if only it was that easy
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 5 weeks ago:
the last paragraph took this post from “that sucks” to solidly “yea this didn’t happen” territory It’s just more pro corporate slop meant to keep people on the platform instead of going out and looking for local jobs or going to actual websites to find open positions
- Comment on Hacker advertises alleged database of 89 million Steam 2FA codes 5 weeks ago:
Steam is one of the few apps that I’m fully okay with having on my phone and using for 2fa. I especially like that when I go to login it’s like Discord where I can scan a QR code to confirm from the App instead of having to type in a number that expires. Like it would be nice to have the other functionality as well but I’m content with their current system
- Comment on Hacker advertises alleged database of 89 million Steam 2FA codes 5 weeks ago:
Okay so where’s the value here? Like I’m sure the phone numbers are worthwhile but including the 2fa codes with the phone number doesn’t seem like worthfull information, unless steam doesn’t properly have OTP setup and they don’t expire in a timely manner, but I’m willing to bet that a company like steam has a properly configured system
- Comment on Ori Studio Head Says Review Bombing Might Force Studio Closure, Then Takes It All Back 5 weeks ago:
I don’t regret buying them, they are good games, but I don’t Condone shitty practices. If you restricted yourself to moral or ethic right companies only you would have nothing to buy sadly. You buying a game != you accepting the ideologies of the leadership of said game.
Just get games you know you enjoy, and ignore all the dramatics that are involved. Life’s to short to lock yourself down with it all.
- Comment on Ori Studio Head Says Review Bombing Might Force Studio Closure, Then Takes It All Back 5 weeks ago:
yea for real… like I didn’t even know it /was/ being review bombed, but as an avid fan of the Ori series… this puts a real sour taste in my mouth
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 5 weeks ago:
For real though, like I don’t see their monetary gain here. The only thing they’re encouraging is people to just not bother buying the switch in the first place in favor of other projects. I believe if they manage to go through with this and actually enforce these new terms, that were just going to see A Renewed effort of a completely independent emulator that can run their games. One that would allow third party modification and firmware
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 5 weeks ago:
IANAL but, If I’m understanding this article right, it sounds like their new terms are going to give them the authority to brick your Nintendo console if you reverse engineer it. If this is the case I firmly expect this is going to be challenged in court because if I understand the current laws right this directly contradicts the end users right to reverse engineer Hardware that they own. Nintendo would be allowed to terminate your account and block access to the network with them over it as that’s something that they actively maintain, however I don’t believe they can legally remove access to a piece of Hardware that you purchased, soley due to the fact that you reverse engineered and installed a third-party software to it.
Now don’t get me wrong, they can definitely refuse warranty if(and only if) that modification caused a malfunction, however it’s a big jump to go from we’re not going to repair your device and you’re no longer allowed to access our Network to this $400 object that you purchased is now a brick.
- Comment on Palworld had to remove game features because of Nintendo lawsuit 1 month ago:
I don’t think I understand your argument here.
I think a better comparison would be am I going to feel bad for the kid who got punched in the face with padding on, then decided that getting punched in the face was OK so they removed the padding. And the answer is firmly no
- Comment on Palworld had to remove game features because of Nintendo lawsuit 1 month ago:
I put a negative review for a company making their game worse, because that’s what they did.
The fact that they did it without a court decision saying “yes defo in the wrong here” didn’t help the decision making process.
I am firm in my decision, a game as big as palworld was, just bending over backwards to a patent bully like Nintendo doesn’t deserve a good review, and nothing is going to change that.