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Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”
  • That’s a horribly deceiving title. They just stayed remote and made themselves ineligible for promotion.

    Business Insider claims it has seen internal Dell tracking data that reveals nearly 50 percent of the workforce opted to accept the consequences of staying remote, undermining Dell's plan to restore its in-office culture.

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  • In all honesty…my parents. I play family tech support and it’s just easier with Apple. There aren’t a million different variants of hardware and manufacturer tweaks to the OS. If I also have an iPhone I can keep up with all the changes and help troubleshoot any issues (I live ~2000 miles away). If they have any immediate concerns they can visit an Apple Store and a ‘Genius’ can also walk them through whatever. They also have classes.

    I keep my phones for 3 years and pass it on to one of my retired parents who keep it for another 3. Then it stops receiving the latest updates as its fallen out of support with Apple. They still work just fine but not receiving the latest major OS releases. My last phone swap lead to my parents passing their old phone on to my brother who couldn’t care less that it’s out of support and just wants a working device.

    So those ~$1000 phones are getting some mileage…

  • House Passes Bill To Automatically Register Young Men for the Draft
  • It's unlikely to be picked up by the Democrat-controlled Senate because of numerous amendments regarding abortion, diversity efforts, and transgender medical treatments.

    That seems about right. Tired of bills having all this non related crap shoved into them.

    Automatic registration would replace the coming-of-age tradition that all 18-year-old male U.S. citizens experience when they get a card in the mail from Uncle Sam informing them that they're required under threat of criminal penalties to register for the Selective Service.

    This ~2 decades ago for me but I have no recollection of this ever happening.

  • Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs?
  • The title of the article I linked and its subtext is

    “The 2023 Toyota Prius Prime Could Take 3 Weeks to Recharge—Without Plugging In

    Or, put another way, you can get more than 1,000 miles of free range in a year.”

    It most definitely charges the battery.

  • Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs?
  • I remember looking at the Prius and it had a solar roof option. I remember reading a MotorTrend article about it. They had to make a lot of assumptions like 12 hours of sun everyday no exceptions and just to break even from the cost of the roof option it would take 5+ years. So not really worth it. You’d be better off just paying for the electricity or putting solar on your house and charging with that.

    Edit…words missing

  • L.A. County wants to cap rent hikes at 3%. Landlords say that would push them to sell
  • Bill Oswald, whose family owns eight apartments around Long Beach, said a corporate landlord recently contacted him about buying properties in the area. He said both his brothers urged him to sell, because of rising costs.

    The large corps will buy everything. With this 3-5% rule (certain circumstances, in article) you can guarantee that is what they’ll raise it EVERY SINGLE YEAR moving forward. They’ll point at this committee saying “they set the rules, we just abide by them”.

  • Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads
  • I’m desperately waiting for fiber. Still expect it to be 6-12 months out but they’re actively building it. I live ~20 miles from a state capital. Fiber is still very rare even in suburbs of major cities the US.

  • Good luck!
  • Mine is still in the envelope it came in nearly 40 years ago and is still attached to the perforated paper card. Why carry it with you and destroy it? I’ve never on a whim needed to show it to anyone.

    Edit: missed a word.

  • The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions
  • Dealerships love to sell cars by monthly payment. Subscriptions fit right into that model. Heated seats are just another $5 a month! So with <huge list of features> that monthly payment is only $330 a month….on a 9 year car loan. People will absolutely do this.

  • Command &amp; Conquer™ The Ultimate Collection now available on Steam
  • If online play is your jam then there is always https://cncnet.org/ It shows there are 493 people playing Yuri’s Revenge as I type this.

    Not all the games are free to play. Some of them require you to copy some files from a paid version. So this sale is still relevant. Check out the FAQ at the url above.

    My brother and I started playing Mental Omega instead. It’s a rewrite based off Yuri. It has new units, structures, abilities, and AI/balancing tweaks. http://mentalomega.com/

    Unlike RA2 you can no longer just deploy 100 GI’s and mow down everything that comes at them. That never really made sense when a tank rolls by. In Mental Omega the tank will kill them all. Cause they’re just guys with rifles against a heavy armor tank…

  • You guys need to stop
  • Ford has some terrible ones. I present the 2019 Lincoln Continental.

    They put the radio controls down with the HVAC so they could put the gear selector and parking crap on both sides of the radio.

    The eject button is for the cd player. It’s a single slot that loads inside the center console area under the HVAC controls that is open in that pic. Super inconvenient.

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