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Comment Tesla? (Score 2) 150

Why is Tesla on the list? Is a car company. How is the entire company that is trying to combat global warming and move to a sustainable future a threat to democracy?

Or are they just talking about its CEO and tarring the entire company for him?

If they hate Musk, X is a more appropriate thing to list. But Tesla?!

Comment RTO is disproportionately a big company phenomenon (Score 1) 163

I work in a central business district, in the office most days of the week. People being back even 3 days a week, and especially 4 or 5, seems like something you see in big companies, with tech and finance being the strongest sectors - the ones that have deeds or long-term leases for a whole building or several floors of one. Small and medium businesses have been far more likely to either give up the office or downsize it. It's a distinction between being stuck in a long lease and trying to make the most of it versus having a shorter lease that you can eliminate to cut your fixed costs without losing employees.

Comment Re:You know what would have been better? (Score 1) 97

"But then, I have said the same thing about Amazon and others, that people should simply stop buying from them, but since that is so simple to do, it won't take place."

People don't not do things because they're simple - they don't do them because they don't have a problem with them. I like Amazon - the prices are good, they don't fuck me around if there's a problem and the whole process from ordering to delivery causes no problems.

Likewise, if you don't like reddit or think they should be tolerating people scraping data or accessing APIs for free forever, don't go to reddit. But I couldn't give a fuck about all that - I just want to follow a few subreddits from time to time. This protest was obviously going to fail because reddit would have lost money if they did, and no normal person is going to be remotely interested in APIs or third party apps etc.

Comment Re:Never got RGB PC lighting (Score 1) 119

The lights can be useful in limited ways. A backlight can be nice in the dark, like on a MacBook. My Kinesis keyboard can blink or change colors when you hold down the function key, which can be helpful in knowing it's pressed (I suspect you can set up similar for other modifiers like Control or Command, but haven't really played around with that yet). The more elaborate effects do seem like they would be annoying and distracting for work or focused gaming, though.

Comment Good riddance Google (Score 2) 89

Their usefulness for me finding answers to tech problems has nose dived lately due to SEO shenanigans to get these tech solution pages full of ads to top of results.

Like no matter what error code you search for lately you get the first page full of

"The problem you searched for" [SOLVED] ... then a bunch of pages that say to run SFC /SCANNOW, the trio of DISM commands and if that doesn't work, try system restore.

It's gotten so bad I get better answers if I just append "site:reddit.com" to any issue I want to look for.

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