Any of the businesses that have hopped on the AI train. $200/month is basically the price of a single Indian call center employee. A company can pay for the AI subscription and fire 90% of the call center, using humans only for escalation.

That’s nothing to a business.

Not sure what you mean. The McChicken bars are not showing a 200% increase regardless of how you slice it.

They’re not. The $3 bar is not 3x the height of the $1 bar next to it. The $2.99 bar on the right is higher than the $2.99 bar on the left. Someone just free drew the bars and it’s extremely noticeable and annoying.

I’m neither financially ruined nor unhealthy, so…

I could change it to “anything” and still make the same point.

Article is paywalled for me. But the ultra rich CEOs don’t receive much of a wage anyway: they draw a nominal wage and amass most of their wealth via stocks.

It’s time for this silliness to come to an end. You must ride a bike. We all must. It’s not a weird fringe form of transportation that only people in Portland and Colorado do. It’s just simply the way we all get around for moderate intra-city distances.

Ah yes, because we all live in areas where everything we need to access is a moderate intra-city distance away.

They got an iOS app?

Nope

I wanted ad-free videos.

Arctic for Lemmy. Also have Peertube app but there’s not much hosted there yet.

That tropes are not bad, and overusing them does not automatically make a work bad.

Lawyers hate this one trick.

This same trick was actually a plot device in That 70s Show (S1E11). Red learns to use it, and immediately starts making sales.

I might be in the minority, but it is painfully obvious and pisses me off when companies do this. I’d much rather get an apology than a comment on my own emotional regulation while taking zero accountability. They’re basically saying it’s my fault for being annoyed.

I don’t think a retail manager would appreciate, “Thank you for remaining calm as your car took unexpected damage” over “I’m sorry I hit your car,” so why do they think I’d prefer the former for them making me wait?

My bad, I thought you were making a joke about Pika saying “planned obsidence” instead of “planned obsolescence.” I did not realize you were making a genuine inquiry.

Planned obsolescence is when businesses intentionally design a product to become useless after a period of time.

For example, imagine a high end camera company that also sells replacement parts. They change their lens shape every model, and only keep the most recent models’ lenses in production. When an older model’s lens inevitably breaks, the customer cannot buy a replacement, and thus has pressure to buy s new camera, and the company hopes that most customers will buy from them again.

We see this in tech with smartphone companies only giving OS updates for a few years, causing older phones to go end of life, so even if the phone is fully functional it needs to be replaced. Again, the company hopes the customer will again buy from them rather than going to a competitor (who is likely running the same scheme.)

OP suggests Microsoft’s TPM requirement is there to force new computer sales, which will include a purchase of a Windows 11 OEM license bundled with the PC.

The planned obstinance lawsuit.

What lies were people fed about Tuxcart?