Wow, they really did those poor bastards dirty didn’t they?
Wow, they really did those poor bastards dirty didn’t they?
I feel like some people in this thread are overlooking the tongue in cheek nature of this humour post and taking it weirdly personally
I actually stopped my subscription to Wired recently because the damn site never recognises me and login does not seem to support autofill or biometrics. Really pissed me off.
Anyway, the gist of this article is the companies are spending money on building AI and sacking people to save that money
No no, that can’t be it… The laws The laws of capitalism and infinite growth dictate that consumers must have infinite spending power
What an amazing read.
My god, this is a masterful piece of writing.
“Make the situation more of a commitment”
Amazing.
Much of the North and Wales are still not very diverse Part of what you were experiencing is the fact that you really do stand out.
Bristol is not so very far away from you, and it’s a very cosmopolitan city… No one there will give a fuck I do assure you.
Yeah, I did it and grew out of it. Being a teenager really sucks. She’s off to college soon where individuality is celebrated rather than making you a pariah so here’s hoping!
Hahah will do! There is hope for the next generation.
We won’t stop selling the other side weapons though… for…reasons?
Not now perhaps, but then it was. To me. I’d not pay them a farthing now.
100% I did pay for the premium version of Apollo and I absolutely would have paid about £20 a month for access.
It was the #1 most used app on all my devices.
I know, I snorted at that. Oh, shit we’re losing money because we pursued endless growth instead of the UX for customers….quick, uhhh….AI!
This is actually a thing. Worked in Apple Stores for years and saw laptops and phones full of rice. Whole grains and bits n bobs.
So before the rice you could actually do a modular repair sometimes. Swap out the battery or SSD.
Whole thing full of rice bits attached to every component? Forget it.
Also, once a device is liquid damaged, often rice will resurrect it but only until the logic board rusts through / goes dry. Copper oxidises over time.
On the other hand, if you can’t afford a repair or swap out, (contrary to popular opinion, Apple sell replacement devices through their service channel way cheaper than new units) rice might give your device a new lease of life. So sometimes worth the gamble.
Edit: missed the D off SSD which kind of changed the context!
Holy shit, thanks for that
I worked a job once where the manager instigated an ice breaking exercise… you know the sort of thing… tell me two truths about yourself and one lie.
One of his truths was that “he once licked sweat of Gary glitter’s chest.”
I kind of bet he regrets that disclosure, now.
Well done, this is exactly it. They are setting it up to fail via persistent underfunding until they can point and say “look! It failed. The public sector would do much better.”
Then they sell all the contracts to their mates from public school and the government no longer has a duty of care for the health of its citizens.
Yeah this is absolutely needed… I grew up in Devon and remember when the bus services were privatised and taken away from the council… For about six months the prices dropped as two different companies competed, then one company won the other company folded and suddenly it was a monopoly… Prices tripled overnight and then over the next few years the number of services declined to the point where it was impossible to live in the village that I did and commute to work by bus