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Federal Agents Are Intimidating Legal Observers at Their Homes: “They Know Where You Live.”

Higgins was ultimately taken to the Whipple Federal Building, where he said he watched authorities enter his Social Security number and other personal information into a Microsoft Teams chat.

“They called it ‘agitator chat,’ and they would just put information in there. I have no idea who was in there, but it looked like 500 people,” he said.

Cool entering PII info into a teams chat with 500 people that's good security.

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Yes truly imaginitive!

the first month I was packing boxes on my hands and knees on the hard cement floors. I said to the person kneeling next to me, “You know, we need kneepads because this is killing my knees,” and he said, “What we need are packing tables” — the most brilliant idea I’d ever heard. The next day I went and bought packing tables and doubled our productivity.

Source: https://builtin.com/articles/jeff-bezos-amazon-invent-and-wander

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As Starfield Steam Reviews Plunge to ‘Mostly Negative,’ Todd Howard Responds to Paid Mods Backlash - IGN

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This part is the worst part IMO. Designed a currency conversion system so you always put more money in it than you need to purchase the item this does two things and both are a win for the corporate.

  1. Always have unspent money in the account, so kind of like a bank or gift cards, they get the money earlier when it's worth more and can be utilized to get more faster.
  2. Incentivize the customer to be a repeat customer because you will "waste" your current credits if left unused, so you'll follow the lost cause fallacy when something you want hits the store, but not really need.

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Asus just apologized for its outrageous repair costs and RMA process

Intel NUCs go to Asus for repair now. I had to send one in after it died.

  • The device was not listing as valid serial numbers and such so had to go to support and have them manually create the RMA case after they couldn't do it
  • the initial RMA emails were instructions with different instructions in the email, PDF, and a webpage. It was the most difficult one I had to follow yet.
  • they didn't send me a delivery slip until Monday evening, RMA started on Thursday evening. Support person didn't explain that it would take multiple business days. Funny enough my device was already there before I got the prepaid one.
  • they couldn't find it for 4 weeks, I had to call in like 4 or 5 times for them to finally find it

Everything makes sense now.