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Valve could’ve legitimately done nothing and still be winning in comparison to the big three, but instead they’ve slowly and steadily been helping the gaming community to give Windows the middle finger by making huge contributions to Linux gaming.
Honestly, its downright shameful how many companies have forgotten that a good way to make money from customers is simply to treat them nicely while they’re buying your goods.
Yeah, but its profits (for 2025 at least) are <1/100th of that - so that valuation is bound to collapse very quickly…
And of course it’ll end up being the regular people who get screwed when that rug pulls.
Edit: Changed basically the whole comment, as you’re right. I looked at the Blog, and it does state in his FAQ that he had a backup. Which frankly makes a significant part of the article completely BS - as it makes multiple heavy implications that he didn’t have any backup.
This apparently happened with “no explanation and no recourse,” putting “terabytes of family photos” and their entire message history out of reach, as well as preventing the ability to sync work across devices.
He has copies elsewhere, so why would he be worried about losing access to this data.
Also, the end of the article discusses not storing all your data in one place…
If you store your photos and files in a single place, it’s a good idea to back them up to multiple locations to protect against something going wrong. But with how integrated devices are these days, it’s hard to avoid having all your apps, purchases and media within a single ecosystem. In cases like that, there’s not a lot you can do.
So it wouldn’t be wrong of most people to walk away from this article with the assumption that he didn’t have a proper backup strategy.
Everyone always learns the hard way, just the same as I did - one copy is usually as good as no copies at all.
For data you can’t afford to lose, the 3-2-1 rule is king. Original, cold local, and remote.
Or that they had to actually hide that they were a Nazi.
Turns out companies and governments are more than happy to do business with a billionaire Nazi as long as he doesn’t step on their toes too much
To be fair to Air Canada here, the compensation is just that, compensation. It isn’t meant to help you replace all your belongings, that’s what your travel insurance is for.
But even if it was meant for that, I struggle to believe that Tannous genuinely brought $3,500 worth of luggage with him that all needed like-for-like replacement with luxury goods.
I’m all for getting your money’s worth, but ripping off a system meant to help people does nothing good for anybody
Yeah, its ironic. The richest man in the world doesn’t have a single* truly profit-making venture under him.
How the bubble around him hasn’t burst yet I don’t know, but it would certainly be a feast for sore eyes.
*Edit: Forgot about SpaceX, which actually has made itself a decent chunk of money - about $15.5 billion in 2025 - but I doubt that alone is capable of propping up his nearly $500 billion personal valuation.
Oh I get you. I never said I wouldn’t also be having a panic attack upon finding out what I’d accidentally just done either…
But I can with certainty tell you for damn sure that Kiedis’ reaction was the WRONG reaction to have.
In my work, plenty. And I can fairly confidently say that telling someone’s age by their looks isn’t always easy.
Which is to say that it isn’t an entirely unrealistic scenario, and could be forgiven if one actually tried to remedy the situation upon learning of their mistake, rather than going for a second turn (yuck)
Its forgivable that a 20 year old might accidentally end up in this situation, not having realised that she was only 14 until she said so…
But you know what a normal person does when they realise they just accidentally had sex with someone underage?
They take them back home to their family and apologise profusely. They don’t have sex with them a second time round! That truly is some child predator behaviour right there.
Fair enough. I imagine as a PhD its easier to avoid since you’re doing new research, so you’re presenting unique information with (in theory) unique sentences.
Whereas for a lot of undergrad students, up until the tail end of their degrees, they’re writing about fairly extensively covered topics, so you’re much more likely to accidentally steal wordings from others who have already written about them. In fact at that stage, I’d bet having too low a plagiarism score would more likely indicate you’re barking up the wrong tree.
Genuinely. As a student I don’t think I ever saw a Turnitin score for my work below 40%. There are only so many ways to wrute a sentence about the same thing, so its impossible to not accidentally plagiarise someone’s works.
I remember one lecturer telling me that they don’t really look at the % unless its something aggregious like +70%. But more often they’re looking for patterns in what it highlights.
Loads of tiny highlights with individual sources are likely to be a false positive, but big chunks of highlights from only a couple of sources is likely to be a true positive.
While it certainly seems like a bunch of idiots taking the piss - the reality is that our GP system is in utter shambles, and has essentially forced people into using A&E as an intermediate.
Think about it. Besides pensioners and SAHPs, who actually has the time to sit by the phone at 8am in the morning and call the split second the GP opens for just a chance of seeing them that day at a time that is most likely going to be during your work day - meaning you’ll need to get permission just to go!
Oh, and almost no GP has an option to book appointments in advance, and those that do often have them weeks in advance.
So what exactly are you supposed to do?? Fight on the phone every day, possibly for multiple days on end, or wait so long for an advance booking appointment that you may very well end up needing to go to A&E anyways!
The only other option that has recently opened up is going to your pharmacist, but they’re already busy enough as is, and will likely end up buggered the same way if we don’t fix our GP system first.
All I can do is pray that my current RAM survives long enough for this stupid AI bubble to burst, like with the Crypto-Bro GPUs.
But it is kind of horrifying how easily consumers have been priced out of the RAM market - at least for newer stuff anyways
Honestly. You need only try to listen to music or a podcast with open headphones near to a road to see how quickly it gets drowned out by even just having a car pass by.
Its annoying having to crank my music up to a relatively uncomfortable level just so I can hear it without having ANC.
Though ironically enough I do find the low, relatively quiet humming of a spinning fan comforting.
Honestly. It feels like way more people nowadays are way less conscientious of their noise pollution.
Like no I don’t want to hear you doom-scrolling through Instagram, no I don’t want to hear your playlist, and I’d really rather not have to listen to both ends of your phone conversation either.
If you need your ears open, then get a set of open earphones or bone-conducting headphones. Unless you go for the top brands, neither are all that expensive - and most will offer better sound quality than your phone on full blast in the first place!
As someone with light sensitive eyes, I sympathise with you on street lights and cars.
The pure white LEDs being put into every streetlight and car on the road nowadays are so unnatural and harsh to look at, and (for me at least) way more physically irritating to look at than the same brightness of warm lighting.
I hate them with a passion, and sincerely hope that governmental bodies will look to ban/limit their outdoor use in favour of warmer lighting.
Considering everyone I know with a folding phone has had a fault with the folding part of it - I don’t think its the best idea from a durability standpoint to add yet another folding part.
If one screen or fold point breaks, you’re now left with two unusable (but perfectly functioning) screens. Seems like an expensive gimmick to me.
Companies keep ghost jobs active for several reasons:
To build candidate pipelines for roles that might open later
To signal growth during hiring freezes
To leave approved positions stuck in limbo due to budget cuts
To satisfy internal posting requirements or HR quotas
So in other words companies are ghouls willing to turn what is already a grueling process nowadays into an even more gruelling one simply for the sake of gaining more metrics?
I’m worried how many people answered the odd numbers for an equation where it is only possible to end up with an even numbered answer.