I canceled my account.. but yes, sad trombone noises all around.

There were no test rings for this one and it wasn't a user controlled update. It was pushed by CS in a way that couldn't be intercepted/tested/vetted by the consumer unless your device either doesn't have CS installed or isn't on an external network.. or I suppose you could block CS connections at the firewall. 🤷‍♂️

Can confirm, I'm only here because Sync released. I tried using Lemmy sooner but I only browse from mobile and use a foldable, I couldn't live without fold/2 pane portrait support (I had also stopped using Reddit for the same reasons).

I'm a nearly 40 year old who decided to have a kid at 30 because my career trajectory looked promising and none of my siblings had kids/my wife and I wanted kids. We're those silly optimists who think if we can raise someone who loves this world and is part of the solution, we can make a difference.

I make roughly 3x the average salary and with just one kid.. I feel like I'm killing myself, doing permanent, irreversible harm to my body and mind with how much I work and how little down time I have.

I feel like life is passing me by while I'm trapped in a dark room churning out investor gains I'll only ever see a fraction of while the execs in my company pull down record profits and eye watering bonuses year after year, but I dare not stop, because like everyone else, I'm one moderate catastrophe away from destitution.

Yeah, I'll just pirate it.

I only pay for games that aren't kneeling at the alter of enshitification.

Shiggity shiggity shwa!

He wasn't joking though. Capitalism go brrrrrrrr.

What is Batman?

You do realize that conservatives actively, willfully, and shamefully embrace and condone Nazism right?

They even try to obscure the identity of their votes because they know what they're doing is fascist shitbaggery.

Makes it kind of easy to call a conservative Hitler when they love Nazis so much.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/02/texas-gop-antisemitism-resolution/

Right click > Open file location

Sealions gotta sealion ya know.

I'm in the same boat, single income just under $200k, but my savings has stagnated the past three years due to medical bills (wife was hospitalized and is now disabled).

Debt is beginning to pile up and it seems like the only real option is to start cherry picking the more important medical expenses to keep up on and letting the others slide (like the $26k hospital bill).

At the current rate things are going, I'll have no savings and no college fund for my kid along with a stack of unpaid medical bills and needing to downsize to a cheaper home in a worse neighborhood. At least our only car is paid off end of the year and should hold up as long as the last one (made it 12 years, 220k miles).

Living that American dream.

It's literally the opposite of everything you've just said as an IT pro who has managed endpoints for 15 years. Dell is hot, flaming garbage.

Once had a model with a 100% RMA rate (thousands ordered), and I wasn't even surprised.

Then there's the trash bloat apps trying to manage the OS instead of letting it manage itself (Dell Optimizer, etc.) Blech.

Oh.. so close, you almost had it. Trump is the far greater evil masquerading as a lesser evil.

Proud of you for trying though.

Some people get off on shocking others with dehumanizing gore etc. when they thought they were in for a dick pick at worst.

Even Genie have standards.

This is due to the fact that racist memes are never relevant, automatic downvote!

So would God, if there were one.

Check out David Dondero - The Filter Bubble Blues.

Because you're not a mentally deficient grifter?