overzeetop

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[–] overzeetop 4 points 1 year ago

I like my vehicles like I like my software - buy once for the features that exist now; upgrade when there is a compelling reason to do so. This rent-seeking subscription bullshit is crap.

[–] overzeetop 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[Slaps the newly exposed dirt] "It's free real estate!"

[–] overzeetop 3 points 1 year ago

Brilliant lighting - changes the mood entirely from the typical day pic.

[–] overzeetop 6 points 1 year ago

It’s like rain on your wedding day.

[–] overzeetop 6 points 1 year ago

I married my wife because she was the first person to teach me to laugh at myself.

[–] overzeetop 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought they already announced they would be targeting their infotainment as a subscription based service.

A quick duck duck go: https://www.pymnts.com/subscriptions/2022/gm-rolling-out-dozens-of-new-subscription-offerings/

[–] overzeetop 16 points 1 year ago

Given what we now know about some of the justices…

Given what we know about the justices, I predict a couple of fabulous vacations in their near future.

[–] overzeetop 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My issue is that it's an inefficient use of human resources because it clutters the interface. If you're looking for the answer to a question, you have to post in multiple places and/or search/review multiple communities to see if the question has already been answered. For low-traffic communities the replies get split, suppressing topic participation. For high traffic communities, stories/links that get posted to the "same" community on multiple instances clog up personal home pages and - in the case of large participation - clog up the top feed.

Again, imho, there should be a way for communities to aggregate or sync across instances and be shown as a single feed, like a symlink to multiple folders that is treated as a single location for end users. I realize this causes moderation concerns. I still think its better for the participants.

[–] overzeetop 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Oh no, a new discussion board is neither as robust nor as polished as one with over a decade of use and revision.

Most of the complaints are just whining that Lemmy isn't a perfect drop-in replacement for his love of endless, constant time wasting on Reddit. OTOH, the issue of multiple, nominally identical communities on Lemmy is a true weakness of the platform (imho, of course).

[–] overzeetop 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Many years ago I switched from iOS to Android specifically because android allowed you to circumvent carrier restrictions on hotspot functionality (at least unofficially). I guess Ajit Pai has bent the knee to telecoms now.

[–] overzeetop 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
  1. you can’t drive the stock market to work
  2. don’t buy an average car, by the one someone bought ten years ago for $5500.

By your logic we should value her time at her billable rate. At a reasonable (downright inexpensive) hourly rate of $50/hr and 11.000 miles at an average of 10mph vs 30mph in a car (including stoplights), she’s lost 700 hours or $35,000 just in lost time. Were she a consultant selling her time in the open market she could have bought your average car, invested the $7k at 8% and simply used the growth/earnings to pay for gasoline and maintenance on the vehicle. And she’s still have $7k in the bank and a car worth $5.5k in ten years.

Of course that’s a silly way to look at it. But so is assuming we all have $28k just lying around to invest in the stock market. Things would be better if we all biked most places, but trying to justify it with MBA logic is a fools errand.

[–] overzeetop 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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