Because they’re a small company producing a niche product, so the scale they produce on is way smaller too. They also don’t have a huge B2B branch to cover their other costs with, like HP, for example.

And it is actually sometimes more expensive to make something modular than not, just in manpower and testing alone, not even considering RnD and manufacturing. Also, they make less money in repairs or new devices, if the users can just easily repair the device themselves.

So unless they manage to stay in the business for a while and grow their customer base by quite a big amount, their prices will most likely stay the same. Personally I think that they’re on a good path to getting there eventually.

Isn’t Plex also slowly going down the shitter? Like, with their social features and stuff?

I mean, you’re obviously a sexy military mechanic woman, who goes into battle with fantasy battle armor and goes fishing as a hobby! Duh.

Yo, show me that tree hole! That trussy, if you will.

I wonder if that will mean anything for David McBride’s sentence. Probably not, because I assume the Australian government has ulterior motives behind bringing Assange home, especially with how corrupt it is in many places. But one can hope.

Mostly Imran Chaudhri’s reputation, really. The guy created the user interface and interaction designs for the iPhone and worked on a bunch of other Apple stuff. Most of the press material i’ve seen before the release of the AI pin mostly concentrated on him.

Also, they’ll probably kill the Car Thing permanently soon. Another bad move.

Even if it wasn’t a casino, they could either be bullshitting or just be plainly incompetent. Like, idk them personally, but I wouldn’t rule it out lol

I’d be interested to see if / how Cloudflare will respond to this. Because at this point I’m not 100 percent sure who is in the right.

Eh, that’s pretty standard where I live. Didn’t even know there were non standard wall jacks lol

I don’t know what’s more fucked up. The fact that this kinda stuff is happening or the fact that I wasn’t really surprised at all.

And the program is just some guy who comes by your place and hits you over the head with a baseball bat lol

You’re absolutely right! I feel like sometimes you need to pull your kids in the direction you think is right for them. And I think if a parent does a really good job at explaining why things are the way they are and at giving their kids a good understanding of right and wrong, then those kids will figure out a lot of stuff on their own very quickly.

I just see two extremes way too often when I go out:

1. Patents who let their kids do whatever and don’t establish themselves as a figure or trust and guidance.

2. Parents who take it too far into the other direction and force their own beliefs on their kids, maybe even passing on their own trauma.

Neither one is good imo. But also, keep in mind that sometimes (young) kids just ask questions to get a certain reaction out of you lol

Oh no, definitely do something as a parent, like lock some apps or something. But with stuff like social media it’s almost impossible to keep your kids away from it, especially without government intervention. Pretty sure some kids nowadays also just get bullied into using social media, even if they’re not interested in it. I mean, kids get bullied over not having any Fortnite skins…

Looks like the house of one of those rich Russians that live pretty much everywhere in my neighborhood lol.

Lol, good luck trying to control everything around your child and what it consumes as a parent. Pretty much impossible, especially nowadays.

I’ve seen quite a few commies on Lemmy. Just saying.

Is there anyone here who’s worked as an engineer for Google, by chance? I’d honestly like to know about their work culture and how they would deal with stuff like this internally. Like, are the line managers understanding, or are they just screaming at their employees if shit hits the fan?

Yeah, I used to work for a company like that. It sucked.

The only thing he could lose is only a few important brain functions, if something truly does go wrong. Nothing major. /s