If you stick to killing strangers you’re golden.

GenX here. I poison their data every chance I get.

I taught my kids never to touch a gun unless the owner cleared it in front of them and showed them the empty chamber.

The Half Life demo was 50MB. Took me 4 tries to get it over dialup. Played till the sun came up!

In America, and other countries, it used to be backed by gold.

Best ELI5 here!

The juxtaposition of life giving water and the utter lifelessness of the desert always has me staring at pics like this. Logically I get it, but it’s hard to wrap my head around it emotionally.

Women could change the world overnight if they’d ban together on denying sex. There were two warring tribes in Africa (last century, I forget) where the woman came together and said no poonanny until you boys are at peace. Instant peace.

They’re probably not selling enough consumer RAM to be worth it any longer. Saying they’re pivoting to AI sales is pure C-suite talk to keep investors not only docile, but excited.

People just aren’t building and upgrading PCs much anymore, present company excluded.

I honestly think most of these bugfuck crazy views stem from we humans not having evolved to deal with the modern world. People feed us the simple answers we crave.

People aren’t buying, building and upgrading PCs like they used to. Crucial’s using the AI excuse so as not to panic investors. And lemmy, as usual, bought it hook, line and sinker.

This is part of what Forrest Gump was about. Think Forrest and Bubba would have made it to boot in the first place?

FYI: A “school shooting” is anytime a gun is discharged on school grounds. If I go shoot the soccer field on a Saturday afternoon, that counts.

And the San Francisco shooting? That was one kid purposefully going after another. It was a fight with a gun involved, not some random kid shooting the place up.

set their sights long-term, aiming to keep their employees happy in order to build a stable future

Funny, that’s how it worked at my last job. And then there’s Quik Trip, an untold story.

As to the working hard part, I think you’re missing the “move on” part. Gain experience, QUIT. Lemmy in general, if not you, has this victim take on employment. As an old supervisor used to say, “Fuck me? No, no, no, fuck YOU!”

“They’re getting rich on our labor!”

“What if I told you, you can withhold that labor?”

If one’s job is that shitty, they can easily move on for the same pay at another shitty job. The least we can do is punish bad behavior.

Anyway, capitalism was pretty OK when we had unions (back to the punishing bad behavior bit) and didn’t allow megacorps to monopolize every sector of the economy. Most here are probably too young to remember those days. :(

Sorry, but planning a Linux PC sounds hilarious to me.

“Meh. This piece of crap will do great.”

Yeah, I would say so.

Huh. I called it “singing through your teeth”. That’s how I karaoke 90s songs! Had no idea there was was a word for it.

At my last job HR announced that they had found studies showing increased productivity and employee satisfaction when people had one 3-day weekend a month. From there on we were given a choice of any Monday or Friday off, but we had to take one.

My friend: “Yeah, that’s fucked up not paying you.”

“It’s PTO.”

“That’s fucked forcing you to use your PTO.”

“It’s on top of our PTO. We get an extra 12-days a year now.”

I’m sure someone will find a cynical take on this story.

Lemmy: CaPitALisM!

Gosh! I left out a really important part! That business wasn’t part of a monopoly or cartel. Well, ironically, we did have a basic monopoly, no one else did what we did, but we weren’t a subsidiary of a megacorp, if you get my drift.

LOL, two years in a row our CEO told the board we would lose money on purpose to build our people and products. They applauded him. We fucked around and made a profit anyway. Got FAT Christmas bonuses!

If you think that’s a one-off company, you should hear how Quik Trip stores operate. Imagine people dedicating a career to working in a convenience store. That’s another story. (And an amazing one.)

Work hard, get experience, stack resume, move on until you land at a solid employer.

When my two friends and I moved to NW Florida, we knew no one, had no family. One guy started at an oil change place, way below his skill set and experience. Kept quitting and moving to better jobs. Within a decade he was the top service manager for the top car dealer in the area, clocking 6 digits, treated with utmost respect, seat at the table.

Everything Copilot in my Start menu is asking for an install. AGAIN, I have yet to see these things I’m supposed to be suffering.

Your turn. Tell me what MS has jammed up my ass that I’m unaware of and issues I’m having that I’m not.

I can’t defend MS here, but the lemmy hate is ludicrous.

There are use cases for AI, but the people that can use it are already doing so. No one else is signing on and they can’t force it. End.