[-] [email protected] 3 points 59 minutes ago

Works fine on eternity

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Frankly you don't even need to use AM/PM for casual conversation... "I'll see you at four" almost certainly doesn't mean 4am unless it's very clear from contextual information, same for verbally booking appointments

It's just things like travel timings etc which are likely going to be written anyway where you actually need that clarification

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

The difference is people still write Java, regardless of whether it's a dated pos or not, so the use cases have evolved

Then there's the use of the JVM/JRE which have evolved even more due to Scala, Clojure & Kotlin

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

My apartment is from 1865 but "own" is a little tenuous... Beyond that it's probably down to probably 20 year old cutlery or my tv stand which is actually a crate that's around 100 years old

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah, it's a classic of locking you in and hiking up the prices, and the people capable of porting those sheets are probably way too overworked dealing with supporting the vast majority who have no idea how they work to spend time on it (or getting fired by Elon for not doing anything while being the single block that supports the tower)

It sucks, but I wouldn't give up on trying to get them to convert, just be aware that it's very possible that this will be one of the biggest technical (as opposed to administrative) blocks.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Yeah, now AI can produce infinite slop there's no need for human-produced slop anymore

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Most users of word & powerpoint are fairly basic users, but if you're using excel for work then there's a surprisingly high likelyhood you're using a sheet written by a wizard with arcane skills in it with the number of VB macros, pivot tables, and things most people don't even know exist.

Even if you're just a user and not creating them, and their functionality would better work in a dedicated program or a database, chances are it'd still break unless you're very lucky.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Most likely a skiing/mountain biking/car/surfing/hiking/tragic boating accident would be my best guess, other than cancer... If you're not suicidal, a risk taker or into extreme sports it's most likely going to be cancer though

[-] [email protected] 151 points 3 months ago

It was all about "Encouraging more digital adoption by nudging customers to go online to self-solve," and "taking decisive short-term action to generate warranty cost efficiencies."

If you wanted customers to go online to self-solve, you'd write proper manuals, provide well-documented and granular error codes and allow people to run diagnostics on their own devices... By not providing either it's clear the warranty cost efficiencies they're talking about are people giving up on trying to resolve their issue and just buying a new one

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[-] [email protected] 97 points 2 years ago

As much as Meta shouldn't be relied on for news, Canada creating legislation which stops Meta showing news then crying when Meta doesn't show news is frankly laughable and I don't know how their government didn't see it coming

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[-] [email protected] 124 points 2 years ago

The best way to never go extinct is to be usable by humans

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Meta exist to make a profit, however they're never going to be able to advertise to most people in the fediverse, who also happen to be some of the most knowledgeable people in some fields. If they accept that they're never going to be able to advertise to those people, they go for the next best thing: monetising their content. Some here may rightfully have an issue with a corporation monetising their content, however by federating with the fediverse and being the first company able to monetise the content within it, Meta have a vested interest in not extinguishing the fediverse.

Complain about their privacy violations or them monetising content they don't generate as much as you want, but remember they're smart & money hungry, and the smartest thing they can do in their position is to make money out of people they otherwise wouldn't be able to.

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