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  • Computer Update

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  • MacOS updates are free.

    A battery replacement for my iPhone 14 Pro is currently £95 and a new phone would be £1099. I just tried to book for a battery replacement but it advised me not to due to health being at 80%. Now I could go and pay them but they would advise against it until the health is worse to get more value for money.

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  • There wasn’t a time, at least since the invention of memes.

  • Sí más más

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  • Is there no Spanish word for “Variable”?

  • Meta greenlights Facebook, Instagram ads based on your AI chats

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  • Man if ChatGPT did this they would be showing me guns and the home address of Nigel Farage 😂

  • Hail Corporate!

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  • I literally told you it’s a time issue.

    Listen if that’s the hill you want to die on then crack on pal, but I’m just saying it’s not for everybody.

    In the grand scheme of things I’ve more important things I can channel by hatred of the current world than on what Operating System I use. Every minute I spend debugging is a minute I’m not doing something else.

    For what it’s worth it was Fedora that I tried and it sucked, as I said. The WiFi would just die randomly and even if it takes 5 mins to fix ive never had to do that on windows. It’s literally plug and play.

  • Hail Corporate!

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  • And this is my man issue. Time. Time is precious and I don’t want headaches where I don’t need them. That is phone and pc.

    Sure I’ll make life harder and more expensive by not shopping at massive companies. Or not using Netflix or Disney so I have to shop elsewhere and build a media server, on Linux, but most people just want to turn on a pc open stream and play Factorio.

  • Hail Corporate!

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  • Exactly this.

    He They told me, a software engineer, it’s a skill issue. For me it’s a time issue. Time is precious, in fact my most precious asset and gone are my days of playing with operating systems. I just want to load steam and play Factorio.

    The other thing these people don’t realise is a lot of engineers are using windows at work too. Our tiny company of engineers is all in on Windows and does exactly what we want. I’d prefer Mac but windows is fine.

  • Hail Corporate!

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  • I’m a software engineer mate. It’s not a skill issue, it’s a time issue. The last thing I want when I’ve finished debugging for clients is to come home and debug my own machine or phone.

    Maybe it’s a young man’s game. I have the same issue with my media server, I was happy to sink a few weeks into setting it up but it fills me with dread that something goes down and I need to spend more time fixing things. But I’ll do it with piracy as I see the benefit of not giving money to streaming services.

    Edit: all I want from this community is a little nuance in that Linux or Privacy centric phones are not for everybody and they should respect others peoples choices. I’d rather spend my time rock climbing and running these days than sat near a computer outside of work. Although it’s winter coming so I game more then.

  • Hail Corporate!

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  • Listen. I’ll be the first to pirate and the first to ditch giving companies like Amazon or Google my money.

    But I draw the line at my phone. I tried GrapheneOS and had so many issues with things like banking that it’s just not viable for most people.

    I love my iPhone for what I use it for and it works as intended. I listened to yall and removed windows for Linux and that was a shit show too. Nvidia drivers ugh. WiFi just stopping etc. easier to use windows to load the one app of stream I use and do some dev work.

  • What are your "must-watch" movies?

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  • So I believe they were there as they had intel an enemy would be in the area so the would just take over someone house to use as a base.

    Once all the enemies came the mission changed from kill some dude to not die themselves.

  • TIL that Toys R Us wasn't killed by competition, but by private equity companies

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  • Sadly we live in crazy town.

    Wait until you hear about using shorts to drive a company out of business or stock buy backs.

  • TIL that Toys R Us wasn't killed by competition, but by private equity companies

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  • Welcome to the house of cards that is globalisation and capitalism.

  • TIL that Toys R Us wasn't killed by competition, but by private equity companies

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  • Sadly the only way is a lot more Luigi’s. If more CEO’s start getting wigged off maybe they’ll lobby for change.

    Just sad that most people have it just good enough to not want to risk prison forever to murder someone, although if I could get away with it I’d have no issue in pulling the trigger on these ghouls.

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  • I don’t know that I would call it a Ponzi scheme, although I could argue for it based on current trends.

    Basically, the everybody pays in to the state pension with the understanding that it pays for retired people. So yes people paying in now are covering those that have retired.

    The thing is now though is that birth rates are not keeping up with retirements, understandably as why would you have a child in this shit hole, so that means each year it’s harder and harder to pay for the pensioners.

    The above is incredibly funny when you look at this silly anti immigration rhetoric, we need more immigration to sustain old people not less. These fools will be shocked when they ban immigration and retire and the state is like yeah we got nothing.

    What’s worse is it isn’t means tested which I would support but many older people don’t as they see it as they paid in expecting it back where I see it as paying in to support those that need it.

    So I have two bosses one is amazing and very progressive and has never done wrong by their 6 employees. The other is not so much progressive and is soon to retire. He is selling his house for £500k, has lots in savings already and is taking his state pension because, and I quote “ I paid in so it’s mine”, now I can’t fathom this behaviour as I don’t want more than I need and would happily not take money if I can support myself.

    Alas, these are the people that vote so we are fucked.

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  • Not sure this applies here as it was a private buyout meaning that there would be no stock to short.

    They could have shorted it before the buyout to get a better deal, but the banks didn’t buy it the just lent the money.

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  • So the Equity Holders (The Private Equity firms) were largely shielded from risk as they had taken out billions in dividends and they had a small equity state relative to the debt meaning their downside was limited.

    The creditors (large banks) were left holding the bag, but they’d had years of interest payments so they wrote off the rest and likely still made some profit.

    Employees, suppliers, and landlords. Employees lose their jobs, suppliers get pennies on the dollar for what they’re owed and landlords might have got some money but still not all.

    So in short it was the banks, but don’t forget they had years of interest payments and after all they took the risk.

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  • It’s cool. My intention wasn’t to call you out.

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  • Yes, that was one of them.

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    Basically, the company had to pay for its own buyout when private equity firms KKL, Vornado, and Bain bought the company for $6.6 billion, mostly with loans.

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  • I have no idea and it seems insane to me.

    I was looking for the same thing in my country, UK, thinking we can’t be as bad as America, but nope many of the companies that have died during my life have been due to LBOs. The world is insane and I don’t see how we can change it.

    In the UK I learnt that Asda one of our largest supermarkets is in a similar place due to two brothers doing an LBO to buy it. Now it’s saddled with debt meaning it won’t be able to innovate like Tesco or Sainsbury’s and thus will likely just bleed customers. Makes me wonder why these two brothers with more money than God would want to carry on, like I literally can’t comprehend wanting more than you need. Perhaps I have different motivations as I see time as my most precious asset and will earn less money than I could just for the easier life of being able to chill more and do the things I like.