If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said “faster horses.“ surveillance capitalism.

@pooky55@lemm.ee - best practice is adding [2016] to end of headline

Lemmy’ll let ya edit it now still!

You want affordable food, you WILL pay them with your data. Always on location please! Oh and precise as well, thank you.

• Discord has ~1,000 employees… let’s say 0% remote (heh, is it 100% or what?)
• Avg of ~65% of employees (650 employees) drink coffee
• Average of 3 cups of coffee per day per employee
• 260 work days per year

Cups per year:

• 650 employees x 3 cups per day x 260 work days = 507,000 cups per year

• For medium-sized office of 100 employees, cost of a turnkey delivery service is $15,000/yr ($0.68/cup)

So for Discord:

$0.68 per cup x 507,000 cups per year = $344,760 per year

we have a bot that downloads tiktoks/Instagram/reddit videos and uploads them to the channel

Would love to see the implementation!

I like bringing stuff to the fediverse by way of cobalt.tools -> catbox.moe (shoutout Catbox for so much 100% free hotlink bandwidth) (also the owner’s trying to find a CSAM content ID solution that’s not super expensive FYI y’all)

Guessing at one reason:

It feels good to know that you’re not signing up for someone’s instance that they’re just trying out admining for the first time and maybe if they’re too busy to do the proper updates next weekend they’ll just close shop.

(And by shop I mean fantastic free volunteering effort of course!)

Valid argument for sure

It would be sad if therapists kept telling him that but he could never remember

I’m sure he won’t mind. Worrying about that doesn’t sound like working.

I work from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed. I work seven days a week. When I’m not working, I’m thinking about working, and when I’m working, I’m working. I sit through movies, but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about work.

- Huang on his 14 hour workdays

It is one way to live.

That is great to hear. Do you still have to pay the Apple tax if you want the full experience of say using your computer with the AirPods, getting a phone call which pauses your music and having them automatically switch over to the phone until you end the call?

Shiny new AirPods + shiny new iPhone = minimal issues. Certainly preferable to cords for many, even if no dongle were required for many corded headphones.

In fact AirPods + iPhones have been all but rock solid for years, at least since first gen kinks were worked out… so five years worth of high reliability.

Oof

Also, tracker removed: https://youtu.be/kFSR6OuWVQ4

teleological

I will thank you

about a million words from now

State ballot deadlines aren’t quite too partisan

sub pixel text rendering, so text looks far better on 1080p and 1440p monitors.

Why would you need that? Buy an Ultra Pro Retina Max Display and please get the stand if you don’t want Apple to go out of business.

you’ll never find anything gross in Burger King food!

We can! We also know how to use web search, read an FAQ, interpret posted policies…

Some folks can’t find buttons under “My Account” but can find the chat box in the corner.

Also I suspect traditionally, you’ve been able to protect features from [ab]use by making them accessible to agents. Someone who would click a “request refund” button may not be willing to ask for a refund. I wonder how this will change as chatbots are popularized.

There’s a big claim from Klarna - that I am not aware has been independently verified – that customers prefer their bot.

The cynic might say they were probably undertraining a skeleton crew of underpaid support reps. More optimistically, perhaps so many support inquiries are so simple that responding to them with a technology that can type a million words per minute should obviously be likely to increase customer satisfaction.

Personally, I’m happy with environmentally-acceptable and efficient technologies that respect consumers… assuming they are deployed in a world with robust social safety nets like universal basic income. Heh

Apparently about 10% of people are getting your sarcasm

Go pay some surgeon […]

…go on…

I do wonder if there’s also people whose current TV dies and they think “thin” is a great attribute for some reason and prioritize that over image quality or reputation or something else. Maybe someone with a small apartment or living room wants to maximize available space?

It still might be silly sometimes/often but perhaps not purely an obsession with replacing working tech with marginally “better” tech.

Is $6 too much for a bag of Ruffles?

After nearly three years of price increases, signs that buyers have had enough are starting to mount. On Thursday, the food and beverage giant PepsiCo reported a 0.5 percent decline in revenues in the second quarter in its Frito-Lay snack business from year-ago levels, a result of a 4 percent drop in volumes in the category.

I think maybe we voted with our wallets against $6 chips but you could probably convince me otherwise in a paragraph :)