I was a highly dependant customer on eBay , started buying cassette decks from germany (I'm myself spanish living in spain) in 2006 and discovered a huge second hand market there, this thing pushed me to also check daily and hourly ebay spain for everything else. I was so familiar with ebay that I used to buy new stuff from there, like everybody else does from amazon (for example). I also was a seller, though not as active as a buyer. I didn't enjoy paying for selling things, but I did because eBay was de de facto second hand market, and finding buyers if the price was right was easy.

But then fees went up, and dishonest sellers who charged price on the shipping costs to avoid fees made eBay charge fees even for the shipping costs, so If I had to sell a 10 euros shit and pay fees for 20 because the shipping cost was 10, I ended up losing money, At this point I moved to other second hand websites, very susccesfull even before I jumped. These sites are much more fair with fees, they don't force this or that type of paying nor shipping, they can arrange the shipping if you want, charging for it very little, I didn't look back when i moved. I've been buying second hand photography equipment in Spain since 2017, and by 2020 I was struggling to find good deals on ebay. I moved to other sites, and when I ocassionally check eBay now The listings are terrible, there are ver few items and even fewer at 1 euro son I don't bother following items there and the ones i'm following stay there for ages, and only that is what makes them still listed in my favourites.
i find that someone at ebay is only interested in earning money today, just like i see in the rest of the american business and enterprises, they don't give a fuck about fairness, long term strategy, etc. Not only fees and conditions are too restrictive and painful, but also when you see a listing, you find it hard to read the seller information, it's all ads over the screen, "see also", other items, etc. I used to take seconds to grasp the information of an item just finding easy to see the pictures and description. It's not anymore the case now.... disgusting saturation of unnecessary and not wanted info.

What was once the reference for second hand prices of everything is now a crashed business.
just my thoughts

Some big one has to test people before this becomes mandatory. this time has been discord. They'll learn and rework the propaganda to make us all register to track our comments better

They won't be able to count how many genders are

They are more interested in threatening and imprisoning individuals than blocking opinions that many people agreed upon. Everybody knows how evil UK has gone against its citizens. They just want to cut necks of those more prone to revolt. But they need to know who they are first.

Sometimes slashdot is not the best site to comment a headline like that.

Being profitable means selling at a higher price, getting more needed cash to compete in the cpu tatami. If the cpu division falls, the whole intel will fall no matter how good these bussines units are. So selling profitable units might in the end save the company.

We live in a simulation. But not in an unattended simulation, God or whatever is in control of it, is observing us. Whenever we research and make discoveries, god introduces new laws of physics compatible with previous that scale down or up (universe) beyond our observations and comprehension of previous laws. That keeps us busy for a while, until new observation produces new data which we can use to explain how things work. As humanity advances in physics, new terrible and bigger weapons are produced. The day we discover the last pack of laws that god has ready for us, he'll trigger someone to start world war N leading to our extinction or a cosmological extinction event, so he can start over with a new civilization. We're just competing to get there in shorter time than previous and latter civilizations. Winners will have a good hood in paradise. Sadly we're going to be some of the worst, just see what a physicist earns vs a football star. .... Now prove me wrong.

True, but also There is little need to do anything about culture, leadership and managment when you have a monopoly and earnings are constant. In the long future it could destroy the company but historically Microsoft has been able to be afloat with the worse team, the worse products and the worse managment, only thanks to the Windows thing. Market dominance works better than good staff.

For all of these data consent agreenments, the collector (totoya) should , in addition, have to show the blob of data gathered and issue a consent request to the customer for that and every data blob to share, indicating the nature of the data, timelapse of it and the receiver of the data. So let's say thay every year, Totoya asks the customer for a permission to send the collected data during that year.

My application runs fine with 2Gb of RAM in Windows XP.
My application runs fine with 4Gb of RAM in Windows 7
My application runs fine with 8Gb of RAM in windows 8
My application runs fine with 16Gb of RAM in windows 10
My application doesn't run fine with 16Gb of RAM in windows 11.

Clearly your application needs 32Gb of RAM and it's your fault, not windows's, which doesn't run tens of processes in background doing things you didn't ask for, wasting resources.

Hey!!! I wasn't even running an application, I just wanted to boot and see the desktop, but the requirements needed for that evolve the same

You don't live in USA, yet you know more than US citizens. Who are you? God? Enlighten US with your incredible knowledge! Oh! You nothing more than a TV watcher who takes his opinion from the TV, but doesn't suffer US internal policy. That's why it is so easy for you to have such a strong opinion, you just need to believe what the media says... the same media that is owned by strong democrat party supporters

Well. I don't know in other countries, but in mine, ebay charges a lot to sellers. Also, thantks to dishonest sellers who used to setup higher shipping costs to avoid fee over article price, now you pay a percentage of your sale including shipping costs (some products worth 5€ may get a shipping cost of 10 euros, you pay 11% of those 15 euros). Besides, there is a forced policy of paypal only payments movement. People has moved to other second hand sites where you are free to sell your article however you like, some of them also include integrated paying and shipping as an option, you can choose to pay/send with the site (extremely convenient and easy) or with another method agreeded with the buyer if you don't like website conditions _at__no_extra_cost, no comission, no fee for the website. 4 years back I was reluctant to abandon eBay for my photography obsession , I had bought a large collection of used gear since 2006 mostly in eBay, over 400 things between cameras and hi-fi. and sold about 250, Nowadays I rarely look eBay, it's dessert, And I've totally switche to others, and so have done many many people I've met online and physically. eBay is dead in Spain, and only some physical second hand shops keep listing used gear. It is only interesting for new local products, not even chinese gear you can find aliexpress or others.

Whenever, in any forum, either in spanish or english forum, some suggest to use Linux, the very first response I always see is "Linux is a mess to install/ I've been unable to install it, doesn't have hardware support" and alike. I'm starting to believe there is an army of volunteers ready to throw up the always effective "truth" about linux. They try their best (and succeed) to create an poor opinion about linux. Then In real world, linux installs like a breeze on regular hardware and delivers good performance with 0 spying and plenty of freedom to do what you can from the software it has available. GRanted some distros break here and there, but overall you can expect success and easy of use... except for those who always fail to install linux

Excellent! Now windows can be 29% more inefficient. and web pages can have 29% more compute requirements to show the same information.

Windows 11 needs these fantastic SSD to have boot times comparable to those of Windows 05 on a 1995 speced computer. Yeah! Microsoft is driving progress ahead.