Worse, actually. My net at $58,000CAD got me $3,600/mo. If I wanted a simple 2bd today it would be now two thirds of my take-home. The friend who rents my guest bedroom has become my roommate over the last few months as they’ve been unable to find a place that’s even vaguely reasonable.
Maybe for some fucking dignity? Maybe because people deserve some life alongside their survival?
A working person who’s in their career should be able to afford more than a one bedroom apartment. That second room could be for hobbies, a work-from-home office, a guest bedroom, a library, whatever. And that’s just in an ideal situation but what if they’re a single parent(could be for any reason including something completely unavoidable like their spouse passing away for some reason) who needs a room for their child? And while I’m on about it, those people are a couple who would share a bedroom so then what? Pretty much every single person needs personal space away from their partner from time to time and the shared bedroom ain’t it.
Rich people don’t need boats or luxury vehicles yet they always seem to find excuses for that but having a 2bd apartment is considered irresponsible spending and that’s horseshit. It’s not the employee’s job to debase themselves in every aspect of their lives so someone who clearly can’t manage a business effectively can pretend they have any skill in doing so.
I lived with my parents, then I lived in a shared apartment, then I lived in a studio apartment, I had dignity and life. You don’t need 3 rooms per person, you don’t need a yacht, you don’t need servants. If you can afford them good for you, but holy privilege demanding that as if it was a bare necessity.
Congrats for you. Here’s the thing, the reason we can’t all have enough to be comfortable isn’t because life is hard, it’s because the resources are kept from us by thieves we hilariously call “elites”.
I’m sorry that I want a better life than scraping by. I’m sorry I don’t love the taste of boot the same way you do. I’m not asking for a mansion you fucking donut. I didn’t ask for servants or yachts or any of that shit. I’m asking for literally one more room and for good reasons which I have already outlined. If you can’t win the argument without completely making shit up then accept the loss and back down.
We are earning it. This generation is the most productive one ever and yet all the value we create is being increasingly funnelled to executives who do next to nothing.
Wages are stagnant as hell and rent and shit is going up by astronomical amounts even for units that haven’t really changed operating costs in years just because.
Quit sucking boot and stand up for yourself, damn. The rich aren’t going to reward you for this.
That’s great, dude. Why you gotta be such a spiteful little bitch towards everyone else? The information on why not everyone has those opportunities is out there so really you’re either trying to defend a corporation’s right to fuck ocer employees or you’re genuinely so stupid and emotionless as to not understand how any of this works or care to learn at all.
And oh wow, a whole house, eh? Sounds kinda greedy. What’s next, a mansion? Four cars? Seriously, some self-awareness would god a long fuckin’ way here, dude.
Yeah, a whole house. And you didn’t find me complaining why two bedroom apartments were so expensive when I was single. Just the one car, since public transport is quite good around here. Thanks for asking.
here in sweden most cities have some amount of municipal housing, where you can get a family-sized apartment for like $1200 equivalent, or a studio apartment for $300-400
it’s almost like socialism works, and it works so fucking well that they have to legally restrict the municipal housing from being more than like 17% of the housing supply lest it nuke all private landlords from orbit
Like what you like! l’m not here to yuck anyone’s yum. You like Systemd cool. You prefer something like Runit cool. You don’t care one way or the other, that’s fine. Run what you want … BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO
I can understand, with ḧ̸̨̡̡̘͕̱̪̩͚͎̺͍̣͙̪́̏͑́̇͝ĩ̴̢͍̲̜̼͍̦̗̓͜ṡ̷̢̢̡̹͇̯̖̟̮̯͉̩̘̄̂̂̋́̋̄͘ͅ ̶̘̭͚̗̅̐̄̀̍̈́̑̓̀̔̚͘͘͜c̶̮͙̣͕̩̣̹̙̖̩͉͋̒̒ͅo̵̧͈͉̝̫͗̇̔̌̐̌̀͐͂̈̋͝ͅd̵̨̨̯̻͇̰͔͓̙͈͓̦͇̽̓̎̓͌̿̄̃̓̈͒̈́̒͠ͅě̷͙̻̚͠ ̵̨̲̝̱͓͂̆̌̉̐͋̈͑̒͘͘͝ļ̶̡̢̨͖̹̳͇̯̩͓̂́̂͆͐̑͐̋͛͘ơ̶͚̭̙̠̥̳̣̄̿̈́͛͌̂̀͐͘͘͝ő̵̧̨̮͔̮̘̪̞͚͍͎͍̻̓̉͠k̸̺̼̝̞̱̻̲̥̙͚͇̏̑̋̾ͅi̶̭͍̻͍̟̺̺̇͑̇̅̊̒̌̍̀̈̀͠n̷̛̗̻̫̣̐̈̐̀̈̅͂͊̄̽̉͝g̶̢̬̥̝̦͔̜͈̊͊̆͛̇̈̅͆͗̂͜͝ ̵̛̳͓̯̔͐͒͠l̷̫̂͛̏͑͛̽̈́̒͝i̷̹̙̫̱̣̱̗̩͖͔͔̠̠̾k̶̢͓̦̰̝͈̂̈́͗̎̐͊ͅe̸̡̥͔͚͎̹͕̪̻̰͙͓͚̖͚̿̿̉̋͋̒͊͒͛̐̅̕͘͝ ̵̩͚̻̪͍̒ť̶͚̝̘͉͍̩̳̟̼̪͑̆̊͝͠͝h̷̡̨̩̰͉̹̦̰͎͉̉̀̅̃̅̀͛̂̓̃̑͊͘͝͝i̴̩͒̅̒̄͑́̇͆̈́̈͋̐̅ş̶͚͓̲̱̐̅̂̈́͝
I’m dreading what will happen at work. I even paid for the Win11 upgrade on my personal desktop, used it for a month and then installed Mint and never looked back. Not being able to move the start bar is such a minor thing, but it’s a great indicator of how locked down that PoS is and how little they care about what users want.
I built a new PC last year and installed Windows 11. I honestly have no issues with jt and it runs fine. However the shitty practices of current Microsoft have started appearing and ground my gears. So much so that I got a second drive and installed Mint. It’s not been easy adjusting and I often find myself booting into Windows for one reason or another but I spend the majority of my time now in Linux. I got a bit bored of Mint. I’m a sucker for new things so I moved to Arch. After installing a few packages I’m actually pretty happy with it. Proton has been the key for my move. Without it I simply wouldn’t be able to use Linux.
Outside of Windows, moving away from Chrome, GMail and Google search it’s a breath of fresh air. I don’t feel like I’m constantly being tracked now and having products thrown in my face. I miss the old internet where harvesting everyone’s data wasn’t a thing.
Well yes because customers will be sunsetting support for Microsoft products with the end of Windows 10 :P
I feel like most people at Microsoft must know it and don’t care, the upper execs are either out to lunch or they are pre-emptively throwing away away the consumer desktop market because they just don’t value it anymore for whatever reason.
I think for the richest and farthest looking powerful people at Microsoft, the desktop battle is over, desktop OS software has become commodified (even though… it hasn’t actually yet by the numbers just by the practicality of the alternatives) and it isn’t worth investing seriously in maintaining their operating system long term as anything but a skin for their particular corporate flavor of Linux.
Internet Explorer to Edge but repeated with Windows.
Good riddance I say, but the complete divestment from giving a shit is pretty shocking, I don’t know where they think the on-ramp for customers is going to come from that will bring people fed up with Windows 11 onto friendly Linux distro where they can still use Microsoft software and services. I think it is more likely the bulk of people will just stop using desktop operating systems and…. Microsoft lost the battle to have relevance on mobile years and years ago?
It is weird because it feels like if Kodak saw the digital photography revolution coming 5-10 years before it happened and pre-emptively gave up on the entire film photography market and started releasing crap film and film related products and invested all their money into R&D for digital cameras… except that because Kodak was by far the biggest player in the film market before Kodak could develop a decent digital camera (if they were ever going to do that) the personnel photography market collapsed, fed up customers left, and there wasn’t a market for Kodak to sell personnel cameras of any type by the time they finally got their shit together to make a good one.
Digital photography in this metaphor is a consumer computer market where most people run a Linux based FOSS operating system with proprietary Microsoft services bolted on top and thus Microsoft finally can truly tell its customers to fuck off when they demand their operating not be trash (not that linux is trash). Certainly many many people are going this route, the year of the Linux desktop is no longer a joke these days and I am hyped, but it will be nowhere near enough for a company the size of Microsoft.
I don’t really know what I’ll do. I currently have to dual boot windows 10 for work since I do unreal game dev. I guess push for managers to allow me to setup a Linux dev env? But Linux binaries for third party plugins arent always there. That’s where I got stuck last time I tried.
I’ve decided I’m gonna have one crapbox prebuilt just for the windows things and nothing important or personal, but my work laptop and pc will most certainly not be windows going forward. I have a lot to learn but I’m over it with the ads and the privacy stuff is a genuine concern for work related items.
Are you sure? You checked them on ProtonDB or you checked them on your hardware?
I have just bought a modern AMD gpu (rx 7700xt) and now I am very surprised how almost every game works on Linux (I miss you rainbow six siedge, but I know it’s the developer’s fault who just chose not to enable anticheat support on Linux 🥲). Before I had Radeon R9 380 so it was quite old at this point but performance wise it wasn’t really as bad but I noticed that performance on Linux compared to Windows was trash or games even didn’t work at all. Now I guess it was due to how old and unsupported my old gpu was. Now everything just works and I’m shocked. Hardware is unfortunately important on Linux 😭. It doesn’t need to be beefy but it needs to be somehow modern. (At least for games… Everything else worked just fine even on my old hardware)
They will most likely continue to use win 10 oblivious of its EOL. I have seen many using windows 7 even now. Some tech-aware will install win11 in the same machine by registry hack or sth. Very, very few will consider the possibility of alternatives.
Don’t underestimate the power of Normies. They don’t know what a ransom is, nor the value of their own data. Any email requesting for ransom will go unnoticed or marked spam, and users will live in their normie nirvana, while their digital self will lie floating around internet, which they wont give a damn. After all, all their Facebook photos and tiktok videos are already out.
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