Yknow I completely forgot about cash because all the stores push card payment. I don’t know if you get offered cash back on refund anymore though. Usually these places only offer store credit unless they’re legally obligated to.

Bruh

You’d have to use a card you have access to even get a refund, which means you’d either just hand all the info they ever need to charge you, or you commit credit card fraud and use someone else’s, which is probably even worse.

The thing is that there are real measurements of the market share of windows dropping. The only reason why adoption of w11 overtook w10 user size is because they made w10 end of life (although there are still ways around)

Unfortunately, some business idiot mathed up that losing users is fine as long as the others get forced onto w11

Windows could have done so much differently. More seamless integration with xbox and cross platform for gaming. Different, easily swappable profiles (windows) for different tasks (basically overhauling desktops, like for art, dev work, etc). Optimizing microsofts enterprise software suite without all the bloat. Not deprecating the idea of android support.

But like all big tech companies, they only see money now

I wish windows went down a different path. Instead they decided to double down on ads and ai, because shareholders are more important than the actual customers

Motorola flagship phones are decent. I’ve been running a razr (the flip alternative) and its been solid. They’re not groundbreaking but they are a good bang for your money

Their low budget ones aren’t that good because they cost like 200 usd and run on bare minimums

“My lawyers advise me to not comment on this further” is my statement of choice for most situations

Tbh if its a social/discussion based website, it will have federal agents monitoring it. Lemmy isn’t free from this either, though in our defense we are probably pretty low on the watchlist (but then again who knows)

Another common texas L

That’s because the people who are fine or happy with firefox aren’t the type of people to talk about it, the vocal ones are the people that have complaints

Also swapped to Niagara a few years back and paid for the pro license last year or so

Been pretty worth, though I kinda miss the customization options of using kwlp+nova

The same investors that brought

• Unskippable ads to every platform including your refrigerator
• Removing previously free or basic features just to put them behind a paywall
• Fucking AI this AI that and subsequently making everything more expensive
• Subscription based models on software and the stupid you own nothing idea
• The prevalence of data collection everywhere

The list can go on and on

HAHAH you mean the same investors who decided to ruin the internet for shareholder value? Yea let me just place the same source of evil and maybe this time it’ll work

How tf are hdds going up in price

Did the data centers somehow buy up all the sdds and decided nah we need more, lets buy up all the hdds too

Like ???

At this rate i gotta start grabbing my old drives to reuse because apparently 2010 equipment is back on the plate or smth

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Like always, how far your money goes depends on multiple factors. 140k in the Midwest alone means you’re living comfortably. Like all bills paid off, a lot of extra money for leisure, etc.

If you have a family and live in the bay area, then it’s not that much. I personally wouldn’t put it at poverty, but it’d be somewhat close to being paycheck to paycheck (assuming you still need to pay mortgage and whatnot)

More like no morals makes you rich. Evil and money are on the same side of the coin in this presidency.

Unironically yes, mostly cause most websites on mobile are the most horrid experience and an app for the average audience is just how phones are nowadays

I have hope. Last time they got hit with an anti monopoly lawsuit that should’ve forced them to sell away chrome, but unfortunately they got bailed out. Here’s hoping next time they aren’t so lucky

I hope google fails as a whole in the near future and gets dissolved once and for all. Sick and tired of tech companies trying to be sources of authority, working with authoritarian governments, and dictating what you can and can’t do.

The issue with my org is the push to be ci/cd means 90% line and branch coverage, which ends up being you spend just as much time writing tests as actually developing the feature, which already is on an accelerated schedule because my org has made promises that end up becoming ridiculous deadlines, like a 2 month project becoming a 1 month deadline

Mocking is easy, almost everything in my team’s codebase is designed to be mockable. The only stuff I can think of that isn’t mocked are usually just clocks, which you could mock but I actually like using fixed clocks for unit testing most of the time. But mocking is also tedious. Lots of mocks end up being:

1. Change the test constant expected. Which usually ends up being almost the same input just with one changed field.
2. Change the response answer from the mock
3. Given the response, expect the result to be x or some exception y

Chances are, if you wrote it you should already know what branches are there. It’s just translating that to actual unit tests that’s a pain. Branching logic should be easy to read as well. If I read a nested if statement chances are there’s something that can be redesigned better.

I also think that 90% of actual testing should be done through integ tests. Unit tests to me helps to validate what you expect to happen, but expectations don’t necessarily equate to real dependencies and inputs. But that’s a preference, mostly because our design philosophy revolves around dependency injection.