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by qwerpy 1y ago
Agree. There’s no other place in the world where you can be a moderately intelligent person with moderate work ethic (and be lucky enough to get a job in big tech) and be able to retire in your 40s. Certainly not EU.
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by qwerpy 1y ago
Many dark patterns at work there. The popup uses misleading words: “continue” which is what you want to do, actually means continue in app and it takes you to App Store. The popup helpfully colors “continue” a nice shade of blue and the “st
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by qwerpy 1y ago
> unless you lose your whole Google account I’ve seen enough horror stories here that this can’t be handwaved away.
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by qwerpy 1y ago
It's an income tax in all but name because your income is taxed a certain percentage in order to fund the benefit. There was a brief window where you could get LTC insurance from any provider and use it to opt out of the tax. High inco
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by qwerpy 1y ago
It’s a stealth income tax. Most high income people saw through it and opted out by buying their own LTC (which isn’t indexed to income) and then canceling it once their exemption was recorded.
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by qwerpy 1y ago
My problem with Big Tech software isn’t code quality, it’s the deliberate user-hostile decisions they make. Leetcode-style interviews appear to be doing fine at getting people who can write code.
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by qwerpy 1y ago
I've been waiting for years for an acceptable way to run Onenote on Linux. The browser does not count, it fetches pages on demand and is painfully slow. There are some wrappers around the browser, those don't count either. Running
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by qwerpy 1y ago
I'll never buy anything other than Tesla (mainly for FSD) but some of the software can use some work. Apple Music sometimes can't connect, it saturates your internet uploading telemetry if you let it, and probably the worst thing
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by qwerpy 1y ago
Honestly I have not asked. I've poked around in the HR guidelines for companies I've worked for (big tech companies) and the provisions for less than full-time work are either non-existent or so full of unfriendly exceptions and a
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by qwerpy 1y ago
I sustained a five day workweek for more than two decades, but now that I have young kids it's hard. Weekdays are work + childcare, then two hours of being a vegetable, then sleep. Weekends are childcare, then two hours of being a vege
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by qwerpy 1y ago
Thanks for making this known. On the face of it, it’s a good deal. First party slick app with ad-free good quality news content, with a nominal fee. If you pay the Apple premium, they’ll give you the best possible experience and not clutter
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by qwerpy 1y ago
As a FAANGer, I'm acutely aware that I'm an expense line item whose days are numbered. Do people still think it's a flex? There are hundreds of thousands of us. Working for an AI unicorn is the new flex.
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by qwerpy 1y ago
Oh hey another "I'd fully be on Linux if it wasn't for Fusion 360" person. Although in my case I'm too lazy to maintain VMs, so I just use windows as my base OS. Microsoft may force the issue next year when my perfe
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by qwerpy 1y ago
I had a similar financial situation. Difference is we already had two kids. My wife gladly gave up her career to be a stay at home mom. She’s still independent, though. The “contract” is that I make the money, she takes care of home stuff a
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by qwerpy 1y ago
Not who you asked, but I do it “manually once a year or so” on a HA instance in a container running on unraid. It sometimes causes problems. Recently HACS (not a built-in part of HA but useful to get some extensions) broke on a HA update an
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by qwerpy 1y ago
Grandparent made a blanket statement without evidence, so parent made a blanket refutation without evidence.
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by qwerpy 1y ago
They learned from this but still couldn’t help themselves. There’s massive full screen ads in Apple Music to “preload the F1 the movie album”. At least it’s a choice to load it or not this time, but it’s still extremely disappointing that p
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by qwerpy 1y ago
On the bright side maybe the national parks will stop being so overcrowded. Better take my kids to Yellowstone soon while this is still the case.
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by qwerpy 1y ago
These issues are a big factor for me not using transit much in my area (Seattle metro area). The occasional filth, violence, and unreliability of the system due to various issues makes it so I opt to drive. I am eternally thankful that my c
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by qwerpy 1y ago
Yes because many of us pay the Apple premium specifically to avoid buying devices from an ad company.
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by qwerpy 1y ago
I was just complaining about this in my previous comment. You can block entire "channels" e.g. WSJ and others, who serve News+ content. But now Apple weasels out of it by telling you "Fine we'll block stories from here,
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by qwerpy 1y ago
Apple News and the Stocks app do exactly this. It's happy to clutter up your news feed with subscriber-only articles, despite knowing that you don't have a subscription. Predictably there's no option to not show subscriber-on
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by qwerpy 1y ago
I rage quit my Spotify subscription after my first "sponsored" in the mobile app. Some people may tolerate ads in their paid subscriptions but many of us won't.
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by qwerpy 1y ago
There's great content on YouTube but there's a lot of garbage. AI-generated slop, clickbait thumbnails/titles that actually don't payout, sales pitches, and plain old low-quality garbage. The lack of a thumbs down really
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by qwerpy 1y ago
Going from Apple Maps to Google Maps is now like going from ublock origin to a stock browser. Crap everywhere that you didn't ask for, slowing you down as you try to locate what you're actually trying to find. Meanwhile the maps&#
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by qwerpy 1y ago
7th gen from 2016. Noticeable is ok but it was too noticeable.
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by qwerpy 1y ago
Does the screen redraw faster on page turns? It’s the one thing that keeps me from using my old paperwhite very often. I would be willing to trade off considerable battery life for pages to turn instantly, which my iPad can do but I want e-
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by qwerpy 1y ago
Thanks for the link, I thought it was a good read. I assumed it would dance around the causes but he was pretty direct with it. Getting society to recognize what's happening and then take meaningful action seems intractable. Suppose th
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by qwerpy 1y ago
My house’s automation is pretty much additive but recently I’ve started getting more and more annoyed at the smart light switches. I bought a hodgepodge of switches from different manufacturers. They all work but have different amounts of d
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by qwerpy 1y ago
The people who are saying " just refuse" are humblebragging that they can afford to do so.

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