Derangel

The way the emails are worded is incredibly shitty and arrogant (as expected), however I don't really see anything wrong with requiring workers to be in office. If Tesla is seeing reduced productivity with most of their office staff working from home, then it makes sense to have people work in the office. One thing I do find interesting/troubling (but, also, unsurprising) about the emails is the mention of a minimum of 40 hours and saying that it's less than they expect of faculty workers. This seems to mean that both office and factory workers are being required to work more than 40 hours a week. I hope they're all being adequately compensated for all the mandatory overtime being put in, and if they are not I hope they all sue Tesla. On another note: The tone of the emails certainly say a whole hell of a lot about how Musk feels about his employees and likely how he treats them. I have to wonder what moral is like at Tesla and how that plays into the QA issues related to the vehicles. I've seen a lot worse from companies regarding employee treatment, but it really doesn't feel like something that's going to increase employee engagement or make them happy to come into work.

A lot of what Sega is doing with this collection is really garbage., which is a pity as I was somewhat interested in the slightly upressed versions of the games. As it stands now, however, I'm not even going to bother. Pity. Though, OP. I do have one question. Why do you keep saying Nintendo instead of Sega? Nintendo does a lot of their own shitty things, but they have no involvement in the shitty things Sega is doing.

While it's possible I don't really see Apple going that route. In typical Apple fashion, they'd be more likely to find a way to spin the change into something that makes them look good. Let's not forget the whole "brave" marketing around removing the headphone jack or the "reducing waste" nonsense around removing the wall plug. I also wouldn't be surprised if they still found some kind of loophole that would allow them to make money from this.

Here's the thing: We don't want individual companies coming up with their own proprietary crap. This does nothing to stifle innovation as any new charging standard will be developed by consortiums, like all modern cable standards are. It has been a long time since any singular entity created their own connector that became an industry wide standard. The USB-IF won't stop working on new versions of USB due to this ruling, the IEC won't cease adopting new cable standards due to it either.

Apple’s cables are garbage. The braided ones don’t have that problem. Apple’s USB-C cables likely have the same problem, but they haven’t been out long enough to become as noticeable.

They could try to fight it with a lawsuit, but I’m not sure how effective that would be. This ruling won’t allow them to use dongles to get around it. They really can’t redesign the phones to make them too thin to have a port. They can’t go portless. There really aren’t that many options left that aren’t just going along with it.

I agree. There have been so many rumors and leaks around Apple dropping Lightening the last few years that I’d be very surprised to learn that they haven’t been sitting around and waiting for the EU to make this move.

iPads are incredible mobile devices and I'd argue they have some of the best slim keyboards on the market. If I didn't prefer mechanical switches for my desktop, I'd 100% be using Apple keyboards.

An adapter to go from USB-C to Lightening, because they've used lightening for so long. I was hypothesizing how Apple would deal with things when/if they are forced to adopt USB-C ports on their lightening devices.

Only if they want to watch their stocks crumble and lose many, many, tens of billions of dollars in revenue. Apple made over $80b from the EU in their last fiscal year. There's zero chance of them refusing to sell products in the region. Theoretically, there is nothing stopping them. I'm not sure how much sense it makes practically, however. Apple can be petty at times, but I'm not sure if they'd be that petty. More likely, they'd make the change and then try to market it as something "brave and innovative" to make themselves look good, or they'd sell it at another "we're trying to save the planet" thing like they did when ditching the charger. Maybe they'll throw in a super cheap USB-C to Lightening adapter for a generation or two.

I'm all for anything that gets Apple to ditch Lightening, but I'd rather the EU stay the hell away from standardizing wireless charging. Basically every single notable wireless charging device already uses Qi (yes. even Apple devices) and getting rid of great optional things like MagSafe would really suck. Apple is moving away from the "as thing as possible" design philosophy. It would take at least a couple generations for Apple to making anything thin enough to bypass this requirement and without some pretty significant structural support the phone would bend just from the heat generated from charging it. If Apple can't find a way to fit it, they'll likely just go along with it and that'll be that. They're already moving most of their devices over to USB-C anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if they were already planning on migrating iPhones away from Lightening at some point in the next couple generations as is.

That is not entirely correct. The legality of recording entirely depends on the state. Every state has their own laws regarding phone recording. In states with one party consent laws you do not need to announce that you are recording a call because you are the only person that needs to consent to it being recording, it does not matter if the other person or people on the line do not give consent. There are states where all parties need to consent to being recording and in those you need to announce the recording.

Yes. That’s the fucking point. That is specifically why I said that the Bethesda launcher was not competition to Steam and that no single publisher store would be.

If you bothered to reply to my entire statement you would see that I already addressed EGS. Also, EGS is not a single-publisher store and is irrelevant to the part you were quoting. Try again.

It really wasn’t competition. No single-publisher launcher is ever going to be competition to Steam. EGS is the closest we have and even that is a pretty far 2nd place really only surviving because Epic has bottomless pockets. While Epic continues to do the bare minimum to improve their store it’s going to remain that way, no matter how much they spend on timed exclusives.

It’s good to see a big tech channel call out Newegg. They’ve been doing this shit with motherboards for over a decade, even before they were bought out and went public. Their returns team is utter trash and always blames their own mistakes on the customer.

Information overload has been known about for centuries. There’s a lot of stuff to it, but one of the results is that it effects a person’s ability to make decisions. It can lead to people making a lot more snap decisions or being unable to figure out what the best choice would be. The human brain can only hold so much information at one time, our memory is very finite. When the brain is feed too much information it gets jumbled and it’s hard to sort everything out. As for the other part about repeating something repeatedly to make people believe it: That’s quite literally an aspect of brainwashing. You see it used all the time when dealing with religion or cults.

Not really. Humans are not equipped to handle the sheer volume of information being fed to us by these platforms and repeated exposure to ideas is going to cause people to believe them, especially people that are already vulnerable. This has a direct effect on how they vote, causes they support, and so on. The insane political discourse that has torn friends and families apart has been pushed by social media. Social media has helped to spread misinformation. Flat Earth bullshit? Harmful anti-vax nonsense? COVID conspiracies? All that shit has been spread via social media and none of the platforms do more than the absolute bare minimum to prevent it from spreading out and influencing others. Social media companies could design their algorithms to filter out a lot of this stuff, but that would mean less engagement so they do just enough to look like they're doing something but not enough to actually deal with the problem.

If it was strictly related to on-site activity it wouldn't be bad. It's not the best case scenario because I do not want all of my god damn information and life being shared by megacorps that are harmful to society and actively contribute to the hellscape we currently live in,

Don't play the victim here. If you wanted to actually make a real point about security and updates, you could have replied solely to the original person stating you disagree with them and calmly explaining your point. When it became blindingly obvious that they weren't going to budge from their position that's the end of the conversation. Harping on it and getting pissy with every single other person that isn't just toeing your opinion makes the topic worse and makes you look bad. Flying off the handle with claims that were never made in the post you're replying to doesn't help either, by the way.

Oh for fuck's sake dude. Drop it. No one fucking cares and you're doing nothing but making this topic even worse. You're only making yourself look bad.

Let's put this in more perspective: If you use one of their mobile apps or use scams like the Honey extension, then they're not just using data gained from you browsing their sites or clicking on ads to feed you ads. They're using EVERYTHING you do on your device or on your browser. Google doesn't need to mine and purchase off-site data to feed your relevant news articles. They could easily just let you set topics and sites you want to see news from and then use on-site information like what articles you click on or topics you search to further refine your news feed. My FB account exists solely to look at local marketplace stuff and occasionally sell items. It's never followed anyone, never had anything posted to the feed, never liked a single page, never done anything except engage with markeplace. Yet today I'm seeing ads for vision stuff. Why? Because last night I was researching lasik, on my tablet that has NEVER been logged into FB nor even had the FB app installed on it. Yet in the slightly more than 12 hours between me looking at that and now Google has sold my search and browsing data and I'm being fed personalized ads. Fuck that shit. Also, despite having no personal information on FB they've still managed to mine enough data on me to recommend I follow family members despite there being literally nothing on my FB linking me to them, I've even seem them recommend former classmates and current and former co-workers despite that info, again, not being on FB and not even being easy to find online. And it's not like I have an uncommon name either, it takes some very specific searching to even find myself on Google because my name is rather common. That is the level of data mining these fuckers engage in to deliver you personalized ads. Oh, you think you have to actively engage with that shit to get it fed to you? No no no. Look up a controversial or trending topic on Google? Not only is Google itself going to feed you links to conspiracy theories, but they're going to sell the search info to social media sites. From there It gets automatically added to the algorithm, then matched to you, and suddenly you're being fed it because the algorithm believes it will drive you to engage further with the site. Happen to follow family members on social media that post about conspiracies or controversial topics? Welp, that's all in the algorithm as well and factors into what topics you're fed. This is even more common if the algorithm believes you will get angry about certain topics because an angry person is far more likely to engage with both the topic itself and the other people replying.

Exactly how common are those accidents? Less than 1% of the time? Maybe even as high as a couple percent? You make it sound like people are constantly dropping their phones in deep water or accidentally letting them sit in water for hours all the time. Higher IPC ratings are nothing more than marketing gimmicks. It’s just another thing that’s useless to 99.9% of people, but it sounds good so companies use it to make their devices look good. And if a person is routinely taking their phones places where they can fall in deep water or go unnoticed for hours at a time, they’re still better off with a water proof case over. The, utterly stupid and pointless, thinness race has lead to phones being far less structurally reliable. There is absolutely no way to deny this. I could bend my iPad Pro with my bare hands! I’ve seen cheap keyboards that have more resistance to flex than this tablet. Lets not even get into the myriad of phones that bend incredibly easily. Yes, there are things that can be done to mitigate some of the structural issues caused by making devices overly thin, but it doesn’t make the thinness race any less dumb nor can you completely eliminate all the drawbacks. Also, I wouldn’t exactly call MBPs “one of the sturdiest family of laptops”. They used to be incredibly strong, but that’s definitely changed over the last few years. They’re better than a lot of other similarly thin laptops, but nowhere near the sturdiest models on the market (even if we ignore the laptops specifically designed to be tough). Thin aluminum is not exactly the strongest material.

Well, that song is stuck in my head now. Sadly, this stuff happens everywhere when certain topics happen. I usually avoid Apple topics but decided to brave this one due to being curious about what the news post was about. Apparently that was a mistake.

Why do you want targeted ads? The fact that these companies have so much data mining is terrifying. You do realize that they use it for more than just ad targeting, right? They also use the data to feed you topics, especially ones they believe will drive engagement. You think people accidentally stumble on conspiracy theories or other topics that either anger them or make them believe stupid things? Nope, social media companies feed this shit to drive clicks and engagement. The more that they’re banned from doing the better.