Gotta go put on your lady face and feel uncomfortable to use the restroom as a trans man now.

Can’t make the straights feel things!

And we certainly can’t have any ungendered bathrooms in public spaces. No siree.

/s (obv.)

Also speaking as a cis straight male, this is fucking stupid. Use whatever bathroom you feel comfortable going into, don’t be a creep and certainly don’t rape anyone… Those directives may be targeted at different groups of people… Just saying.

Be who you want to be.

I take it, you use arch?

I get it, you’re an optimist about it.

Nothing wrong with that. I try to take a more practical/grounded view.

In my experience, most people actively avoid thinking. If it involves any measure of mental effort, they would just rather not.

I see it every day.

I’ll say this: a lot of people using AI, are not thinking or making decisions.

Kek

They create a scenario in their mind that they think happened, then look for evidence and suspects that fit the story.

Happens far too often.

I’m pretty sure that they’re frequently creating crime.

Whether making it up on the fly, or accusing perfectly innocent people of wrongdoing, or… There’s a long list…

If we’re truly on the worst timeline, and the multiverse exists, I can take comfort in the fact that there’s a version of me somewhere in the multiverse that’s actually doing well…

Real fan?

Bitch please. We’ve put up with your crap for so long and we still play it…

Get out of here with that horse shit. Get fucked. Fuck you, and the horse you rode in on. At best, I’ll wait for a sale, at worst, I’m never playing your goddamned franchise again because you’ve run it into the ground with enshittification.

I’m not sure who they were trying to fool? Bluntly, if you’re keeping your passwords in a local repo using strong encryption via something like keepass, you’re generally not the kind of person to see “KeePassXE Pro ultra mega best edition” and blindly download it without vetting the source…

That’s the same in more… Socialized employment insurance.

We have government EI here in Canada, and if you quit, unless it’s for a very good and provable reason, you’re getting denied.

… In some cases if you’re fired with cause (eg, stealing) you’re also ineligible. You have to basically get downsized to get a payout.

Yay capitalism.

You think these golden parachute fucks are going to learn ???!?

Hilarious.

If profits go down, shareholders will just move on to more profitable stocks.

Any publicly traded company is going to be the same… Many privately held companies will also be the same, it’s just that the shareholders will be the ones running the show… Which might be worse in some cases.

None of this is wrong, however, management wants the more tenured (read: more experienced) people to move on because they’re earning more than others.

They believe, often incorrectly, that the skilled workers job can be filled in for by the rest of the employee pool, and they will just fill in the hours gap with a lower-paid newbie.

In reality, the higher paid/higher experience people are often holding things together, so when they walk out the door because you treated them like they were nothing, all hell breaks loose; often resulting in most of the team leaving.

On paper, this makes management happy, because the cost of wages goes down, but when the revenue also takes a dip because shits fucked and nobody knows how to fix it, they (hopefully) start to realize how dumb of a decision they made. Unlikely as that seems.

At a previous job, there was a fairly typical air of nobody taking about wages. I have and continue to be of the mindset: fuck that. If I’m making more than you, and you’re doing the same job, you should go get yours. If I’m making less than everyone else, I need to go get mine. If the current employer won’t pony up, then find someone who will… Anyways, as a direct result of a discussion I had at work, with coworkers, one of the longest standing employees found a better job. Good thing too. I wasn’t there for a while lot longer either (not wage related for me, but still)… It was not a great workplace.

What I’m hoping we see is that the highly skilled talent walks out, and they have to pay more to get someone similarly skilled to replace them in order to keep things running.

But that assumes these capitalist fucks learn anything at all. In my experience, few ever do.

What they meant to say is: “we don’t have money for raises if we’re going to add more value for shareholders (who are more important to us than you are)”

Does it really matter? It’s a shit looking vehicle that can’t drive in the rain if you don’t switch to carwash? Mode? I think?

The vehicle has so many design oddities, so many manufacturing problems, and it’s associated to one of the least liked billionaires in recent memory, so much so that people in the general public go out of their way to vandalize the vehicle whenever the opportunity presents itself.

What’s to like about it? Even if you don’t hate Elon, and don’t hate the look/design, the"truck" is a meme at best and a gigantic waste of resources.

This is exactly right. They’re worthless if nobody is willing to pay what’s being asked.

So what they’re “worth” is nothing.

It really doesn’t do much and the cost is barely pennies per user when you operate at scale. The largest costs will be for the DNS resolver service and the domain registration, both of which you are already required to have, in order to have a functioning presence on the Internet. The cost of the issuing intermediate certificate is probably the largest single cost of the whole operation.

To be fair to Plex, they run some intermediary (caching) metadata servers to offload the demand their users put on services like the tvdb and IMDb. Honestly, is probably not required… But they do it. (I’ve seen their caching system fail more often than either site, so, it’s not all good), but even with that, you can put most of that load into your existing webhost, and it’s unlikely to make an impact on performance.

When you do this stuff at scale, the costs of simply having it set up, usually cover the costs of using it for thousands, if not tens of thousands of users.

I have two pieces of paper from my time in post-secondary education. One says information technology, the other says business. I’ve worked in an IT field for well over 10 years in a B2B capacity. I’ve had to handle cost/benefit and ROI arguments with customers, and justify having them spend incredible amounts for their own good.

Are we done dick measuring about what we think we know?

Listen, we’re not going to agree on this. I couldn’t give any fewer shits if you do or not. Bluntly, I’m unbothered.

Good day to you sir.

I have a very good knowledge of business operations.

They already offered Plex pass to earn their income. Plex is an extremely price elastic product, given that alternatives like jellyfin exist. They are taking features away, and charging people if they don’t want to lose those features. That’s a really good way to piss off your existing userbase (or customer base). Better would be to offer something new, and charge for that. Keep existing products at the same cost, but have “better” products at a premium. You won’t get a huge number of people buying the extended product, but it will likely be more new paying users than how many you would get with the crap they’re doing now, and they wouldn’t lose any customers in the process.

When you understand the social and economic factors here, this is a super idiotic move. When you’re only looking at how many dollars you can extract from the customer base, this is a golden idea… I mean, it will fail, but it looks golden if you’re only looking at the money numbers.

I would question whether you know how a business works (or whether Plex does, for that matter).

As far as I’m concerned, Plex failed to read the room. They were already walking a fine line with the people in a legal grey area, which comprised a good amount of their customer base (those that are sharing media at least). There’s a nontrivial number of people who share media that are rather paranoid with reason. Nobody wants the RIAA/MPAA to have any reason to investigate what you are doing on the Internet. We all know how well that goes from the whole Napster thing. So now than a few are almost tinfoil hat level of paranoid. Many have already jumped ship to jellyfin or something similar. The rest are either unconcerned, not paying attention, or simply don’t care. I would argue that the numbers of people who run servers currently that host content using Plex, that are not looking at alternatives because of this, is pretty damned low.

Plex alienated the group that brought everyone into their umbrella. When the people who host media entirely abandon their product because of this shit, their client base vaporizes.

Can’t have a product or company with no clients. At least, not for long.