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The problem is that if you're working in any of the big tech companies we're talking about, at basically any level, a substantial portion of your compensation is stock.

The dude writing the code and the CEO are sharing the same set of incentives, if not the same value ($) of incentive.

It's shockingly good at taking otherwise decent people and flipping the moral center off because now you're deeply deeply invested in value extraction via stock prices, regardless of what you have to do to get there.

I've had more than a few friends turn utterly unrecognizable and defensive over shit they absolutely would have thought was gross as fuck in the past, except now they look to make six or even seven figures from it, so whatever, it's fine. If not them, then someone else, and they might as well be the ones to cash in.

So you're not wrong, but stock options are shockingly good at getting everyone's goals and desires aligned and while I don't have enough of a supply of tinfoil to think that might actually be the point of giving everyone options, eh, I'd be shocked if it wasn't at least an understood outcome.

Well, I don't think all the guys writing the code and building the servers are dismissing it outright: there's no question the MBAs and c-suite are, but they're worthless fucks in general. (Sorry MBA havers, but it's true and you know it.)

The tech bros just want the money and are willing to be as amoral as they have to be, but that's going to last only and exactly as long as they're getting overpaid and are being bribed into not caring.

Ultimately these guys (probably) have sufficient power to force change if they really really wanted to, but it's firmly a case of change-will-hurt-them and so... they listen, but do nothing.

tech community isn’t listening

I know I've posted basically this comment before, but they're listening.

They just don't care.

Nothing that's been enshittified has hurt their stock options or base pay or caused massive layoffs, and until all (most?) of those become true, they're not going to care.

Their customers keep eating the shit sandwich, they keep making $300k a year, and getting option refreshers, so nobody is going to rock the boat.

Indeed.

And, unfortunately for you, Lofwyr isn't a dragon that would do that just to screw with you and enjoy laughing at you spending the rest of your life looking over your shoulder.

Doesn't look like they went to an Office Max/Depot or Staples either, which honestly, would be my first stop for printers and printer accessories these days, since printers have very much fallen into just office-use shit and that one damn thing a year you have to print because some jackass is still stuck in 1988.

I mean, the first thing my grandfather told me about guns - the very first thing - was that you never, ever, under ANY circumstances ever fucking point it at something you do not want to kill. Ever. Period. For any reason.

Now, I might not expect some random person to maybe have any sort of proper handling training, but a fucking ex-cop? C'mon.

Eh, going to disagree that Aliexpress == Temu.

Not that I'm saying Aliexpress is a paragon of virtue, but Temu is full of dark patterns, scammy "discounts" and just nonstop playing games trying to get you to buy now, refer people, and "win" shit. It's a gambling app that happens to sell toxic trash as a side gig.

Aliexpress really has cleaned their shit up and basically sends you what you expect to get, when you expect to get it, and has made refunds for blatant bullshit (I had to return some clearly counterfeit remarked chips) if not easy then at least something you could actually accomplish.

So, the moron pointed a gun at her head and pulled the trigger?

I mean, uh, yeah, this outcome seems exactly like what you'd expect to happen.

Hopefully he doesn't manage to avoid all the much-deserved consequences because cop.

knock off garbage these days

Yep. I actually order more junk from AliExpress than Amazon now, because it's the same shit except AliExpress is half the cost so if I'm going to get junk at least I'm paying junk-level prices.

(This is mostly components and other hobby-related stuff where there never really was any difference between AliExpress and Amazon, other than faster shipping.)

So politely, how does Amazon offering a better price on a niche paper product conflate into them having a monopoly on the "tech industry"?

I'd posit the real thing here is that Amazon's warehouses allow them to keep less-purchased products around in stock that a brick-and-mortar retail store simply wouldn't bother with at all, but that's been the case for decades at this point.

And, yes, printing out images has become an uncommon activity and I can't say I'd blame any of the larger stores for only having a single expensive option available, but that's their decision, not Amazon's.

It's basically a zero-cost thing they can offer and makes a lot of people feel better about how screwed they just got.

It's very much the ideal 'the least we could do!' offering.

the nature of the technical challenges

I'm big into the retro and preservationist movements, and while I'm certainly not capable of providing a good answer as to how you could implement the features they have, it makes it where the game is, effectively, dead and not salvageable as soon as Microsoft decides to pull the plug.

Sure, you could maybe do a reimplementation of it on your own and host all the data and such, but realistically it's a cool thing that'll eventually vanish from usability.

(I also don't expect most people to care, but it's still a case where it's built in a way you really can't preserve it as it is right now.)

There was an interesting thing from the NYT where they talked about their phone poll response rate being 2%.

I can't imagine that they had worse or better response rates annoying people with their shit than anyone else would, so it's probably a good wager that all the polls see 2% response rates and thus are based off a shockingly small profile of people.

Uh, you might be in the wrong community, unless you're 3d printing these somehow?

Yeah, they're entirely meaningless this election cycle. These poll leads have been sitting in margin of error zones the whole damn time, which means you cannot make a useful inference from the data in the poll.

It's so close you can slightly tweak the conditions and who you ask and WHAT you ask them to push the poll data to support anything you want.

Good for propaganda, bad for anything else.

And after a good rain, the real estate listing can start talking about how it's newly lakefront property.

Sure, but at least they're cool oligarchs?

Like, I'd go have a beer with Lofwyr, even though you totally know you'd end up being eaten.

But like, Elon Musk? Fuck that, I'd rather stay home.

Another (and to some degree more flexible AND simpler) solution is rathole: still requires you to host it somewhere, but it's got a little more flexibility.

Edit: I'm not a fan of VPN tunnels in general, because for most people all you've done is made a remote server that, if it's compromised, will have unfettered and complete access to your internal network via the VPN tunnel.

There are ways to mitigate that but, for what I suspect is the majority of people asking about how to do this, they're outside of a reasonable technical ask.

(Rathole works similar to an argo tunnel, in that it initiates a connection to the VPS, and then passes traffic limited to a specific port or application back and forth, rather than being a nice open tunnel.

Blue Cross is also part of the problem

They're probably your entire problem.

They were my previous insurer, and yeah, they sent letter after letter after letter after letter after letter after letter after letter after....

My current insurance? I get exactly zero letters in the mail about anything: it's all digital through their portal and email.

I'll admit I haven't played much (or possibly even any?) online MSFS stuff and am generally just a fart around in a Cessna in a random city type of player so I don't even necessarily know what the online features are, other than the Install New Locations minigame wherein you spend hours downloading shit, heh.