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by baz00 3y ago
Yeah agree there. I had a 2010 MBP that I rather liked. The M1 era isn't looking good based on the number of bricked/dead and iCloud locked machines I see on eBay either corporate discards or damaged and not worth repairing. Also
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by baz00 3y ago
Windows 11 is horribl.e My exit plan is to move to windows 10 LTSC. I have some MSDN keys. I'll worry about that one day in the future though. I just exited the Apple ecosystem so I'm still getting my stuff together. I also don&#x
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by baz00 3y ago
That's not normal for Dell. Believe me. We bought a boat load of very recent Precision series and getting 12-18 months out of them would be considered a miracle. I've got a dead 5550 in the cupboard (thermal failure) and my 7670 i
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by baz00 3y ago
I think the same is true of Apple stuff. I mean the current line of soldered SSDs, RAM and pain in the ass to remove batteries is quite frankly annoying as hell. And Apple service isn't much better (it has been 2 weeks and I'm wai
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by baz00 3y ago
I love the discussion we had about RTO at my company: Company: What are your thoughts on returning to the office? Staff: What are your thoughts if we all say fuck off? And that was decided.
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by baz00 3y ago
I don't think it's that at all. The real cause is just some entirely institutionalised academics wrote the textbooks and everyone else is copying it rote as if it's the way of doing everything because that's all they kno
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by baz00 3y ago
They saw Apple get away with it and tried to do the same.
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by baz00 3y ago
I can beat that on annoyance level at least. I still get postal junk mail for Mr Qwe Rty after I put it in a test form when I was a contractor in 2005. This got onto a database somewhere and was sold to someone and I just get junk mail galo
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by baz00 3y ago
So do we get fractional scaling that works and Gnome 2 back for that money?
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by baz00 3y ago
I don't care if I am or aren't stealing. They face no consequences for blatant GDPR and privacy violations. Why should I take the moral high ground if there isn't one?
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by baz00 3y ago
Google game plan: 1. Push people to stop using ad blockers via client side tech so they can harvest and profile our data. 2. Push out a browser with a trusted computing model around it that prevents ad blockers from being used and allows tr
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by baz00 3y ago
I can't watch that unfortunately but I know someone who should have. I worked at a shitty hardware store when I was a student and someone got an air conditioner dropped on them off a forklift palette. It wasn't secured to it. Poor
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by baz00 3y ago
Even us two people using Edge on Android get that!
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by baz00 3y ago
The 12 was the least crappy.
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by baz00 3y ago
It's not that simple though though. I have never got through an entire day with an iPhone (XR, 12, 13 Pro). I'm just hitting 2 days easily with my Pixel 7a with the same crap on it. My daughter just took an iPhone 15 back because
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by baz00 3y ago
A monkey could work that out in thirty minutes.
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by baz00 3y ago
Just look for the smears of shit over everything. They're over there.
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by baz00 3y ago
I'm taking time out of the industry and doing other stuff. When it finally works out that it's not a viable approach for perhaps 90% of the products out there I'm going to come back and sell exit strategies.
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by baz00 3y ago
Sorry I didn't think past listing the horrible things I'd done. Perhaps I should have stuck my business hat on and gone a bit more Cervantes to fit the mould of startup culture? "One man scorned and covered with scars stil
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by baz00 3y ago
I dunno I'm an atheist and I've thought about starting my own cult occasionally :)
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by baz00 3y ago
I suspect the bastards are already well known and accepted bastards. What is going on here is the EU doesn't want to look like it consulted bastards and is coming up with arbitrary reasons to hide that.
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by baz00 3y ago
Well the people who don't give any fucks want to make their life easier so they do a minimally competent job and are usually supremely skilled avoiding pain. The disconnected people don't actually do any work at all. The incompete
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by baz00 3y ago
That's mostly because all that empty office space looks bad and it's worth nothing now.
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by baz00 3y ago
I suggest people read the full decision from the ombudsman: https://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/decision/en/176658 It shows what an absolute bureaucratic mess it all is.
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by baz00 3y ago
I am passionate about the things I'm interested in, not all the unnecessary fluff around them :)
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by baz00 3y ago
Definitely correct. I'm glad you extrapolated that point.
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by baz00 3y ago
At no point did I say I don't like this. It's absolutely the best career I could think of. No heavy lifting, no dealing with bodily fluids or excrement, no harsh weather conditions, low to no risk of getting killed, no dangerous c
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by baz00 3y ago
Hahaha thanks for the perspective. I feel a little better now at least :)
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by baz00 3y ago
Because that means I have to justify not being a "team player" then. And I can't be bothered with that. I'm not creating conflict for the sake of it.
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by baz00 3y ago
Yes I agree. I don't make FAANG money but I live comfortably. I think what is important is optimising for a fair balance of happiness in life, which despite my negative outlook here is pretty damn high and taking home enough cash to en

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