Soldered to the board for anyone that does not know
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I had a Tidal subscription for over a year. I love that they pay the artists way more. Unfortunately Tidal looks similar Spotify, but is somehow janky and less polished. Sharing music was a hassle. I had to go search my friends shares by typing the artist and song into tidal because most of them use Spotify. Spotify is the typical BigCo spreading enshittification far and wide, but not enough people care to change that.
Often the most important part of an app is the user base. That is why inferior apps with a gigantic community are hard to replace.
This morning I asked GPT which models and settings I should use to inspect my VM dashboard with computer control. It said: - GPT-6 Astra at Medium - GPT-6.1 Sol at Medium (alt) - use Luna only when the route was already known.
But I had already completed the task twice with Luna and it was 5.6! It navigated through a few pages of my dashboard, pulled up the 30-day usage chart, analyzed my CPU and RAM, and explained why I didn’t need an upgrade. I’d give Luna 5.6 an A on this task.
Maybe OpenAI should give us a “Tiptronic” selector: recommend the model and reasoning level based on the prompt, while still letting users override it.
The tiny fraction of people willing to vote with their wallet has effectively a 0% chance of pushing big corporate to act right.
The system is not there to help you or me. The system is to protect and accelerate the flow of money up to the 0.1% at any and all costs. It does not matter if it will destroy the environment or if the innocent people will die.
People need to wake up to this fact, band together, and fix it by any means necessary. Until that happens "should" ideas are wasted breath.
They have been ffffing around for way too long. I can not wait for find out arrive and I hope it's excessive and very harsh.
Worked for me in the US
I am not sure if this is better or worse than my idiot downstairs neighbors that would party every weekend til 3am with zero regard for any of their neighbors. Then they are banging on the ceiling at 4pm on a Wednesday because we were moving furniture around for 15 minutes.
They have saved me from fraud 2x in 3 years. Then I simply closed that "card" with the click of a button. No need to call my bank, cancel my debit card that I use at ATMs, and wait a week for a new card
I don't have to worry about remembering to cancel free subscriptions. I set the card max at $1. This has saved me multiple times from the free trial scams that you need to opt out of. Free trials should be opt in after the trial. Opt out is a scam to trickle money into a company from non customers.
They stopped a contractor from charging me over $2k when I specifically told them they needed to tell me how much before charging me. Of course they didnt tell me and tried to run the charge. Privacy put a stop to their BS.
It is mostly automatic or easy to set up once you are using Privacy. Some banks have started to offer similar digital card numbers similar to Privacy.
Working on yourself > working on your profile. Hit the gym, lose a few pounds, maybe find a better barber, etc
On one first date a woman I had been talking to for a week texted me late at night. I told her to show up at my house and for her to bring a bottle of red wine. The next morning she is telling me a recent dating story. A guy took her out for a fancy meal. He spent $120 on her and then he got pissed after the meal when she wouldn't kiss him.
I have some success and plenty of failure too when it comes to dating. There is so much bad dating advice out there for men. I feel bad for the men that are in the dark and being taken advantage of.
Before any SJW replies that I must be some troll here is the proof "Revenge reporting" is real. Revenge reporting happens to men too.
https://www.stylist.co.uk/relationships/dating-love/dating-a...
If they could afford to move to SF they could also afford to fly to SF to visit. The author would already see them more than once a year.
Selling the east coast house and coming up with an extra $400k (wild guestimate) to move to SF is not spare change most people have lying around.
just sayin'
I have tried Linux a few times over the years. One test was for almost 2 weeks on vacation, in a developing country, where it wasn't safe to be walking around with a MacBook. Another was for a few days as a Linux home theater. After struggling for hours with the sound drivers I gave up. I was frustrated with the amount of trouble shooting involved with Linux. That combined with preferring the OS has kept me on MacBooks for the past decade+.
They got rid of all the fees and BS the banks had been abusing me with for decades. There have been a few times traditional banking was better so I used a credit union I kept open. All my other traditional bank accounts have been closed for years.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blacklist/jbpccand...
>This decision is final and cannot be appealed.
This translates directly to "FU! We do not want your business."
*THE SYSTEM WORKS AS INTENDED*
Anytime someone suggests a good idea like this or says "we should" you need to go back to the root of the problem. The system is designed to give all the breaks and funnel all $ to the top. That is the way corporations want it and they own the politicians.
This isn't government incompetence or some idea that you came up with. This idea will not be implemented because it would benefit the 99.5% to the detriment of the 0.5%
While your point about "Brain drain" is true I am not going to tell anyone that they need to toil their life away in a third world country to improve it. Choosing whether to do that or use their skills to escape to a better place is a very personal decision.