RagingNerdoholic

Holy hell, why does anyone buy anything from HP?

I'm calling it now, this is just the first step and HP is going to start making printers with no USB port.

265.2 septillion, if I'm not mistaken. Mind-boggling!

Ah, it exists: !selfawarewolves@lemmy.ml

I've been feeling this way for a while, but it's like — and this seems largely endemic to the western world — governments are coasting on decades-old policies and mindsets that were great decades ago, but either fail or neglect to come up with anything inventive, effective, and successful anymore. It's just little baby step legislative things here with a sprinkling of token stimulus there, because they're afraid to cause even the slightest upset to anyone with a modicum of power or influence.

When was the last time a federal or provincial government implemented something that was truly solving a problem in a massive and permanent way? The only thing I can think of that vaguely qualifies is CERB, and even that was light-handed relative to revolutionary steps of the past. It was also popular and an easy political sell.

Many plausible solutions to the housing and personal income crises are easy to imagine:

• ban corporate and foreign investment properties, forcibly purchase existing ones and turn them into public housing or sell them to small time owners
• limit the
• limit maximum rent increases to a percentage of inflation
• raise minimum wage to a livable standard and legislate its increase tied to inflation
• tax the goddamn rich already
• implement basic income
• implement and enforce maximum highest-to-lowest earner ratios, accounting for all wages, salaries, bonuses, investments, etc., to prevent any corporate tomfuckery

But these things would piss off too many powerful capitalists, of which many legislators happen to be members by sheer "coincidence," so instead, we get piss-ant cheques every once in a while that ease the pressure for, like, three days.

I'm not saying any of these things would be easy to implement, but they're not even trying. "Not pissing off the capitalists" needs to stop being a concern for governments. The capitalists will be fine, and if they decide to pack up and leave for greedier pastures, good fucking riddance.

They have to want to fix the problem, not just make easy political layups that create a facade of "doing something" without fixing anything.

Because it's abusive and blatant rent seeking.

Look, if there's an actual service feature that continually costs money to provide (eg.: a cell connection for distant remote start, GPS nav map updates, etc), charging a reasonable subscription fee for that is totally acceptable. But charging ongoing fees for fixed features like heated seats is 100% bullshit unless you're going to include some sort of service benefits like free repairs (which I doubt they're doing).

Typical guilty shitheel tactic: play the "old and frail" card for sympathy points, just like how Harvey Weinstein busted out the walker for photo ops. He's still a rapist and Trump is still a traitor (and probably also a rapist).

What about it?

I don't get it. Companies want to make money. Study after study proves that WFH generates greater productivity on average and, therefore, more output and more money. Surely, it must be costing more to maintain massive office buildings and overpay useless middle managers to lord over employees?

#SyncMasterRace

Good. There should be no such thing as unserviced features that are physically present in a product and locked out against its owner. Not in cars or anything.

Is there a lemmy equivalent to /r/SelfAwareWolves? Because this fits.