sigswitch

sigswitch , 8 months ago to lemmyshitpost in Tax time

I mean it’s not really. Lobbying. Lobbying is the reason.

sigswitch , 10 months ago to technology in POV) You use Windows 11 and set up Pihole for the first time.

In general I agree, but users should be able to make that decision themselves. I do not understand why you can’t turn off telemetry, when it would be trivial to offer that option and so few users would bother to use it.

sigswitch , 10 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in New cars are great...

I’m kind of surprised that car technology is so awful. How the fuck am I paying $35k for a car and they’re still like “lets run the UI off a potato via the least responsive touch screen possible”? At some point I’d rather they just gave up on providing a UX themselves and just ran everything through Android Auto.

sigswitch , 10 months ago to memes in Modern consumer logic

Yeah, and shopping locally is so hit-and-miss. Some smaller stores are great, but there are also plenty that seem to act like serving you is such a fucking inconvenience. Oh I’m sorry you have to get off your phone because I want to buy something. You have to make change from £10? Sorry it’s inconveniencing you that I have to bring fucking cash just because you want to dodge some tax by not taking cards.

sigswitch , 1 year ago to news in Google is charging its employees $99 a night to stay at its on-campus hotel to help "transition to the hybrid workplace."

Whilst it wouldn’t surprise me at all if this was the case, I’ve seen similar things at other companies, it’s a completely brain-dead strategy. The people who leave are the most qualified and capable employees who can easily find a job elsewhere and you’re just left with all the people who the company swept up in the boom period where they were hiring anyone with a pulse.