It still worked - you could use the software with occasional hiccups, it’s not like there was data loss or anything. It just didn’t work WELL.

Just across (south) of the bay from you judging by your name: I was at a funeral recently, not many people wore suits. Of course, nobody wore shorts or anything, but not too many formal suits.

I was near lake Erie personally

Data protection regulation for dummies I’m assuming? Mein Deutsch ist sehr schlecht.

And if the business needs aren’t met, said businesses will go to another SaaS company that promises them a better, brighter future.

The user might not be the subscriber, but the user being less productive because the software is getting in their way, will irritate the subscriber.

I know a SaaS company that put thousands upon thousands of engineering hours into making small (and sometimes large) optimizations over their overall crappy architecture so their enterprise customers (and I’m talking ~6 out of the top 10 largest companies in one industry in the US) wouldn’t leave them for a solution that doesn’t freeze up for all users in a company when one user runs a report. Each company ran in a silo of their own, but for the bigger ones… I’m not going to give exact numbers, but if you give every user a total of half an hour of unnecessary delays per day, that’s like 500 hours of wasted time per day per 1000 employees. Said employees were performing extremely overpriced services, so 500 hours of wasted time per day might be something like 100k income lost per day. Not an insignificant number even for billion dollar companies.

I’ve since left the company for greener pastures and I hear the new management sucks, but the old one for sure knew that they were going to lose their huge ass clients over performance issues and bugs.

I’d expect that to be damn near all of them because most stores don’t run their own production companies

And that’s where this article comes in.

Visited upstate NY a couple of years ago. They accounted for I’d say 30-40% of all traffic. Of course, upstate NY is basically the southern US of the northern US if you know what I mean.

Higher-end motherboards have LCDs for that now

Otherwise I believe many still have lights?

Something we have in common then - as an Estonian, this is the single most celebrated holiday of the year IMO. Everyone gets drunk, wild, and has fun around a massive bonfire

I feel that if Apple could have soldered the RAM back then, they would have.

Apple used to ship repair and upgrade kits with guides on how to apply them. Not sure they were as anti-repair then as they are now.

It’s from 2014, or at least that’s the earliest instance I found

Once met a man who said he loved assembly language because it was so much nicer than punch cards and FORTRAN, but C was OK too.

This was last year. In his defense though, he’s been retired for years, used to work as a professor.

1. Is that a real thing or a joke I’m too European to get?

2. Where can I get this if it’s real?

3. Where can I just get Flamin’ Hot Cheetos? Because they don’t sell the damn thing in my country :(

Yours sincerely,

flaming anus enjoyer

I myself recently went from a '19 car with 220k km to a ‘05 one with 460k km because I realized my car’s getting driven so much recently, the depreciation is killing its’ value. For context, in 2022 when I acquired the '19 car, it had 140k on it.

I’ll have to do some wheel bearings, brake pads, belts and pulleys, etc, on the old beater, but all that is way cheaper than the depreciation on a newer car.

To be clear, I don’t advocate most people do this, I already knew beforehand what the engine and transmission are capable of. And if need be, I’ll even do engine repairs or get the transmission refurbished. The ONLY thing I’m afraid of is bodywork because I can’t paint for shit lol

It’s not all Kazakhstan either. I’m in Estonia and half of those “200k km” German cars that get imported here have had their odometer rewinded.

In metadata, no less.

Plenty of countries out there with lower income levels than the US, including much of Europe tbh.

Lots of people BUY their cars with 300k miles.

I thought lava was Icelandic for fertilizer

I’ve done that once. Then I made the mistake of updating past the Android version it came with. Suddenly it was no better than most of the cheap androids I’d owned before that. It was the Oneplus 7 Pro and it just started lagging like hell 2 years in.

I’m now 2 years into my iPhone 13 mini, have also kept up with software updates and it hasn’t slowed down at all.