[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 82 points 4 months ago

Most people over school age in the US do not get a summer vacation. Most are lucky if they have enough vacation hours to rub together to cover a random illness so they don't have to work while barely able to function for being too sick.

And I'm not even close to joking or exaggerating.

It's fucking bad here. We're horribly jealous.

I'm extremely fortunate for having 5 weeks of vacation per year, and half of that is only because of working extra on the weekends to bank extra time. And good luck getting approval to take more than about a week of it at a time.

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 88 points 5 months ago

Worse, the harder they try to stop it, the shittier the experience gets for their paying customers, but not for the pirates really. At that point, why would anyone want to pay for a crappy experience being treated like a thief when you can save your money and actually be a "thief" (at least in their eyes) while being treated like a paying customer?

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 7 months ago

Feels like they should, I'm not exactly thrilled by the idea of my tax dollars going into Musk's pocket just for the hell of it

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 63 points 7 months ago

I mean... The kernel is called NT, not Windows, but okay

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 66 points 8 months ago

That one wasn't the customer feeding it exactly what to say, though, it was the customer asking how to get a discounted price honored, what steps they would need to take, and they followed the chat bot's instruction... A customer using a company's bot in good faith to understand how a process works (one of the things it was supposedly meant for) is not the same as one blatantly abusing the bot's design to get money for nothing.

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 74 points 9 months ago

I just got that on my Roku device and clicked through it without even realizing because it was the exact type of pop-up and position and timing as when it informs me that the micro SD card has successfully mounted, and it took my brain a second to register that 1) the pop-up was much larger, and 2) I briefly saw a word that looked like "arbitration"

How can this be a legally enforceable contract?! Especially considering if I didn't agree, my device that I've already paid for and have been using would cease functioning and they sure as hell aren't going to refund my purchase from years ago if I refuse

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 77 points 9 months ago

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out if Panera workers aren't even making as much as McDonald's workers... I suspect they'll either pay it in spite of the exemption or be forever understaffed

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 76 points 10 months ago

And this is exactly why I don't make those jokes to people unless I know very well they'll get it

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 83 points 10 months ago

This, exactly.

Discord sucks at what it wasn't designed to do... Shocker. That doesn't make it bad.

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 79 points 10 months ago

Oh thank goodness, having to spawn a full admin terminal every time you need that is such a pita

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 69 points 10 months ago

Wait, they still have devs? I thought they fired all of them already...

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 78 points 1 year ago

Is this news? This is expected, it's what they did with 7 and XP after those reached full EOL, which happened on the day they said it would for 7 at the time 7 launched, and a few years after the date they said when XP launched.

The 2025 date has been known since 2015 when 10 launched and is the standard Microsoft ten year support cycle for operating systems.

And yet, in spite of this, every single time the tech media published these breathless and shocked articles about how horrible it is that Microsoft is suddenly dropping support for their ten year old systems.

These articles are like clockwork. I'd say we'll be getting them for Windows 11 in about seven or eight years, but they have a new "modern" lifestyle they've adopted for it that's more based on last major update release or something and it'll probably come sooner than that this time around.

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