My wife’s employment (a national company providing services to homes) not only embraced the remote work that COVID forced her into, they closed down their central customer service call center to save that money.

This year they’re talking about taking all the administrative people out of the local offices and only needing the service people pick up supplies and having the remote workers pick up the volume.

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Most of my random DMs are some sort of business marketing pitch or slow burn confidence scammer. I wouldn’t volunteer any real information about yourself until you get to know them better. And even then, especially the crypto scammers, are willing to do the slow burn because they’re going for a larger jackpot of your life savings.

I tell everyone “I have a policy for never doing business with anyone I never met face to face.”

I also bought a lifetime VPN via StackSocial, and it ended up limiting the VPN to a browser extension. That VPN was IPinator, and it was a helluva time getting that refund because nowhere in the sale did it state the VPN service was only for web browsing. StackSocial and IPinator both pointed fingers at each other as responsible for the refund. Once I posted out to StackSocial that the “satisfaction guarantee” was also posted on their website, it was hard for them to back out and they eventually refunded me the money.

I deleted my bookmark to StackSocial and have never bought from them again.

This is a time where it’s hard to be away from politics. I switched to all tech news after the U.S. election, and the tariffs are strongly influencing the supply and demand, and the convict is skewing crypto ponzi schemes in his personal favor which has a lot of influence on hardware. He has Musk that’s trying to influence hard on AI which also impacts a lot of our hardware.

Can’t fucking get away from it, really.

That’s great, hopefully they don’t discontinue the line just like Microsoft did with their adaptive mouse.

I’m not sure what CNC means, but free use love usually means they don’t want the attachment of a single relationship. If you’re fine with sharing, and some people are open to that, communication and knowing boundaries of everyone involved is extremely important to maintain the trust. If you’re not fine with sharing, then it’s probably a bad idea to pursue that one.

Yes, I completely meant any dynamic where no one is an authority figure over the other. Student to student, student to campus coffee shop barista, student to visiting alumnus.

It’s okay to approach and have normal conversations with women that you don’t have business or school commonalities with. Even if you think you may have interest to eventually escalate it into dating. Just be genuine and don’t try to be someone you’re not. But once you make that attempt to date, if they say no, accept that no and don’t try again unless it’s blatantly obvious they’ve changed their mind.

"Klaatu barada nikto!“

Because gaming is slowly migrating over to PC as gamers see that while there’s a higher cost up front – but a longer lasting library at a cheaper cost to build it. PC tech journalists cover more than just videogaming so they can diversify their coverage when gaming is in a slow release period.

It’s always a question of money. It costs money to make quality content. YouTube has content because they share ad revenue to their content providers. That expands the more popular the content is because there are more ads displayed. That revenue lets the creators expand their capabilities with better gear and stage sets. Federated networks usually depend initially on volunteers and alternative ways of earning revenue for those instances besides ads.

I don’t fucking get the religious right in my country, all I can say is they’re so fucking gullible by the corporate mainstream media, facts and hit them in the fucking face and they’ll always move the goalposts. They form an opinion and never be swayed by it, despite the strong evidence against it. They picked a guy who cheated on every wife he has, a criminal past, massive security clearance violations, is the most un-christlike in behaviors… And they excuse it all because they don’t like being told they can’t do things that are harmful to ourselves, or they only like receiving socialism but don’t like the responsibility of paying into it. They’re selfish as fuck, and I’m sick of it.

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I see what you did there.

Nostalgia. Now it’s pretty much obsolete computer terms. When I was a kid, half of a byte was still relevant in computer programming on an Apple 2 Plus computer. One nibble (also can be spelled nybble) is equal to 4 bits.

Mostly the right-wing leaning Americans, who don’t like anything that costs them money even if it contributes towards a better society. They say they hate Socialism in all its forms, but had absolutely no problem accepting stimulus handouts. They are the pure leeches of our country.

Left-wing leaning Americans tend to believe science even if it comes as a slight inconvenience to themselves, that includes things that sometimes cost them money.