MeepsTheBard

joined 10 months ago
[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The IPO announcement w/ shares being offered to Reddit users. Also, the deal with AI training off of user data without consent. Hard to keep track these days lol.

[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 8 months ago

The people making the big decisions aren't the ones working. They're the ones put in charge to make money for investors, who want monthly returns. Not "here's what will get us 1XX% growth in 6-8 years," but now.

And you'd think this would only be the case with public companies, but private equity is gobbling up quality companies and milking them dry by cutting costs and abusing their brand's good name. People want returns on their investments QUICK these days.

[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 130 points 9 months ago (4 children)

"AI isn't good enough to replace workers yet, but it's good enough to convince CEOs it can."

[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 9 months ago

I think they were commenting on how people seem to be zealots for Firefox on Lemmy, despite having some (reasonable) flaws. Despite this news, I'd bet a lot of them will continue. Not a pro-Chrome stance by any means.

(I had to block the Firefox and Linux subs day 1 because of how much anti-Chrome/ anti-Windows I saw).

[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

2001 + 19 = 2020. Typos can be overcome using context clues.

[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 months ago

Gonna wait for performance info at launch, and grab if it runs well. There's basically no point waiting for professional reviews, since it's such a love-it-or-hate-it gameplay loop. I really liked the first one (doing a replay now), so unless it comes to light that it's now a MG:Survive clone or something, I should be alright 🤷

[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 months ago

I already have tech tips, thanks tho

[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Just had to open a link in Teams and it ignored that Chrome was my default to launch Edge, then tried to set itself as the default for anything clicked in Teams.

I can easily see Microsoft doing something comparably shitty for people opening links in Word or PowerPoint. If not for Apple's even more egregious ecosystem practices (among other things) I'd be very tempted to switch.

[–] MeepsTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 months ago

It's environmental geopolitics 🤷 seeing widespread adoption of a policy that the US (Reagan) ignored get traction in Ireland helps highlight how shortsighted that view was. Considering the US has had a small hand in building the world's energy supply, it seems at least tangential to remind people why such policies have existed.