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Have they sent out Dev kits yet? I know a game dev who is making a VR game on steam and he’s had nothing but radio silence from valve.

No, not really. But if you don’t sell you don’t get a lot of money and mostly that’s what people want, that’s why the startup exists.

My personal feeling about companies like this is that there is very little reason to assume that requesting my information be deleted will result in it actually being deleted. So at best I’m paying to be ignored.

If I could 100% guarantee that my personal information would actually be deleted upon request then sure it would be worth the money. But we all know that companies violate the law on a regular basis and nothing happens to them, especially if they’re US based. So why bother?

All that nonsense can just hit my spam filter like it’s been doing for the past 20 years. It’s not like I answer the phone to unknown numbers either, so I’m not sure what I’m paying for here.

Trickle down is based on the mistaken assumption that rich people will spend all their money in the local community. When often they don’t spend their money at all and just save it, and when they do spend it it’s on expensive yachts in Monaco. They’re not contributing to the economy in which they live.

The millionaire class were delighted when they saw this idiotic take and pushed its narrative knowing full well that it would be to their advantage.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard it called a trickle up economics but yeah, it would work because most people have no choice but to spend locally. If I got some money from the government I would buy food in the local supermarket or get my house redecorated by a local tradesman.

Various tests of UBI have shown that it doesn’t really increase laziness beyond the base level it was already at, after all it’s mostly the rich who are lazy anyway, as they’re the only ones who have the resources. All it really happens is people want more time off work because they can subsidise their income with UBI, but that is an expected and desired outcome as it means more people will be employed to cover the difference which gets more people in work and therefore paying taxes.

Do they mean latex gloves like you might use in a hospital or do they mean actual rubber gloves you would use for washing up. Need to makes any sense.

I had to send an email telling people that part of the installation process of a new application is that they need to restart the computer. Restarting the computer involves clicking the power button and clicking shutdown, closing the lid and then immediately opening it again is not restarting it.

I’ve worked there for years now and I’m still unclear on the hierarchy. I think they’re both the same level of authority but I honestly could be wrong, the organisation is an absolute mess.

You can tell when you work for a big multinational because it’s never clear who’s in charge. If you know what’s going on you’re not working for an important enough organisation.

So to be clear I “report” to the manager that I actually like. What I’m supposed to be doing I have no idea about. Given that I’ve never actually got in trouble for withholding information I assume that the other guy isn’t my direct line manager. But it really is all up in the air.

One of my managers is like that, I’ve known him for about 5 years and he’s been the biggest idiot I’ve ever met the entire time. But ever since AI came out he’s turned it up to 11.

Fortunately my other manager can’t stand him, and they have blazing arguments, so generally speaking if he tells me to do something I don’t like / want to do, I go and tattle tell.

It’s not that we think that everyone on a .ml instance is a bad person it’s just that if you don’t watch your back you end up talking to a bunch of people who think that mass murder and war crimes and acceptable as long as their friends are the ones doing it. And they are unfortunately also on .ml and to tar everyone with the same brush.

It’s why a lot of instances are defederating which sucks for you of course because none of it is your fault.

On Reddit you will get quarantined or shadow banned quickly with anything politically charged.

Just pick your instance and you can get that here. Unfortunate number of tankies running around on here.

Labour are far left are they. I feel your political compass is somewhat misconfigured.

Does the Linux build of GeForce experience not do this, because if it does then it’s still a problem

Oh it’s utter garbage, it straight up doesn’t work in Firefox. I’m not going to switch to Chrome just to use the app I shouldn’t have to.

It’s kind of sad that you’re so terminally online that you think that everyone else must know who the hell this guy is. All I know about him is that he’s some YouTuber I have never watched any of his content nore have I really heard anything about any controversy.

I didn’t know he was a Nazi I just find him annoying.

Presumably the price that they’re quoting is for everything to be maxed out then. Seems like a really odd way of doing it.

Why has it got 40Tb of storage? What’s this for

My cat brings me leaves and pine cones that he’s “killed”. He’s always extremely pleased with himself.

My company buys it. No idea what they use it for since I work in IT and I don’t use it for anything.

I am fairly sure that the comic isn’t that old. So I think usb-c is what it’s alluding to.