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I use Windows since I can get everything I really need done via WSSL. I also like gaming, Linux gaming is never going to match Windows.

They way to do this is to run the subscription though something like Google Play. Then you cancel it on Google's side.

Be wary if a company avoids Google. For example Tinder started forcing users to subscribe directly instead of using Google. This is because most people cancel almost immediately since once you subscribe you find all your matches are bots.

The entire purpose is to make it just hard enough so you think ohh it's only 10$ a month. Another trick is to offer a month free. Hulu does this. If you cancel on their website you get several pages which try to convince you to stay.

Google also makes it easy to manage all your subscriptions in one place. What is all this crap I'm paying for, I can quickly see what and delete it. Also I'm much more likely to try a service ( I'm studying Chinese right now and have used various apps) if I can do it via Google Play .

I'm really hoping Epic loses.

On the other hand, if they win can I argue Epic needs to let me sell costumes for Fortnite ?

Apple has a right to control it's store , and they have a right to only allow their app store.

Consumers who don't like this can use Android or Pinephone .

In fact this could be a boon to FOSS phones

Obviously it does what it does well. It can edit audio quickly. I'll never use it for anything else aside from chopping up samples. If you want a full DAW use Logic.

See other comments in this thread.

Your sitting from an upper middle class position. Working class people don't want to risk missing a check.

I've seen managers without even college degrees. It depends on so many factors, but I wouldn't get a masters for CS career growth.

The opportunity costs + stress isn't worth it.

Once upon a Time I worked at a job where one of the employees was using a very old yellowing keyboard. I asked him why and he said that's what they gave him.

I almost felt the dejection in his voice, as in without a good keyboard he would never be a truly great employee. But at the same time he was at the company for a decade and never really got a raise.

For me, assuming the company doesn't have a policy against it I'll go out and buy a $200 keyboard just to get into the zone. I feel like I'm much more productive after investing that much. But this goes into my philosophy on jobs in general, your boss is never trying to improve your skill set. He or she only wants you to know just enough to do your job, in fact they'd probably prefer you remain too stupid to leave.

>How often do union votes result in closures?

Would you gamble your family eating on this ?

I still remember being a low wage worker, fear is apart of the job ! Most people can't even go a few weeks without a check, it's not like us where we can quit and take a few months to find a job which ideologically aligns with our views.

I sincerely don't, I don't see a reason to waste time and money commuting every day. As is I hate driving, but even with public transit why do I want to waste an hour or an hour 30 per day.

I've been able to save so much money in the last year, for the first time in my life I would be fine for good amount of time if I got fired today. I very much do expect big companies to force workers back in the office, tons of middle managers don't feel like they're being effective if they can't stare at you typing for 8 hours

Yes, whenever I try to buy something if you hide the price behind a sales call, I'll just assume it's some absurd amount of money. There's no reason to do this, have pricing front and center and be honest about it. My dream service would say something like $10 a month flat rate hosting, and in bold print underneath say it's not a promo rate. I think digitalocean does this

Rent's still due Monday.

Hypothetically let's say Amazon is found to be at fault, even if action is taken your still out of work. I consider myself fairly educated, and I still have no idea what remedies exist if Amazon was to close a warehouse due to unionization. For working class people who are more concerned about paying their bills, voting for a union sounds like a very risky proposition. There's a very good chance Amazon would find a legal trick to either lay off a significant numbers of their staff, or convert some workers to being tempts

Isn't it a completely rational fear that Amazon would just fire most employees if they unionize against Amazon's wishes. Even if this isn't exactly legal, it would take years to sort it out in court. Rent's due Monday, no one has time to wait for justice to prevail

I'd allowed tech related advertisers to bid on sponsored post, maybe one per hour. So for example, if you pay $1,000 you get to have your website advertised at the top of the page for an hour, and this would of course go up depending on how many people are trying to buy the space

IMO the best ways to learn are free. I guess a YouTube premium subscription would cut down on time wasted watching ads. I

I don't think there's any part of the academic experience which isn't biased.

For example I long resented the foreign language requirement of many colleges, this alone caused me to go to a less prestigious school. At first I thought this favored those who come from households were more than one language is spoken, but then once I actually talked to my friends from said households they'd tell me unless your parents have money to put you in classes you don't just learn.

If we keep rolling down the rabbit hole, many young adults don't even have stable housing, I can never imagine a world where these potential students would have a fair shot. I myself went through a few evictions as a kid, and in no way shape or form would I have been able to go to a four year school straight out of high school.

College is the status symbol that keeps on giving. Once your college educated you'll find it easier to attract partners who are also college educated, and then if you ever have children you'll be able to build a much better life for them. As opposed to not being able to attend college since your parents are insane and then shacking up with someone from a similar background.

From this point on your life is going to be extremely difficult, I don't think there's anywhere in America where a minimum wage worker can reasonably afford a place to live. I often see articles about millennials having to live with their parents, but I never see articles about what happens when you don't have parents you can live with

Whenever I see these arguments for a higher minimum wage, I see the point missed. The minimum wage could be $4 an hour, but if I can rent an apartment for $300 a month, and feed my family for $75 a month it wouldn't make a difference. In my younger days, I could find an apartment in La for about $600. This was a studio, but it was ultimately public transportation friendly, and I didn't need a car. So on $10 an hour I could make it work.

Now the same apartments about 1300, and this has only happen in the last decade.

Seriously, make housing easier to build. Don't allow anyone who might be a bit annoyed by construction to file half a dozen complaints and hold up projects by years.

As an extreme measure, it wouldn't be a bad idea to have social programs which help people with relocation expenses. Let's say you had a struggling family in Los Angeles, a good social program would give this family $5,000 to relocate to Nashville, and to rent an apartment in a city where a working class family can survive. But this underscores a very nasty truth, there are cities which are hostile towards working class people. I'm not sure of the society we're ready to embrace this truth

The big difference is Texas isn't ran by morons who make it impossible to build homes.

The anti building laws of California are by far the biggest reasons housing is so expensive. Even if Austin gets pricey, you can always drive into the city.

As someone who left California, I will say no one in their right mind should live there. No matter how much you earn, you'll never realistically out earn the cost of living. I found myself quickly deep in credit card debt trying to be cool in California. It's just a horrible place to live, I had to estrange myself from my family to move, and it was absolutely worth it. Anyone who tries to make you live in such a horrible place does not care about you at all.

People are also phenomenally nicer in other cities, I was shocked at how easy it was to meet my girlfriend once I got to Chicago. It's as if Chicago's this amazing City where people understand you need to work to get things you want instead of thinking you're entitled to everything.

Anyway, with remote work now being seen as viable I can see the idea of having expensive big offices becoming antiquated.

Well the technology looks really cool, but in real life all of us are cogs in the machine. You might work for a company with 10,000 employees, and you don't get to feel significant at all. I don't know how well this would extend to a game, do I really want to feel like I'm completely insignificant even in virtual reality.

Or would I rather be on an eight person team and know that my actions really matter

What a great way to start my morning , thanks !

Chasing external validation never ends well.

At least in America no one who makes 50k in Alabama will be worth 200k in SF.

Even if, why not just legally live of your uncle who has an apartment in San Francisco, while you defacto live in South Alabama.

With remote jobs I don't understand why someone living in a cheaper City should get less.

This is fantastic news, I want the old newspapers to die. Long ago they were taken over by media conglomerates and they hide behind their name recognition.

You might as well subscribe to an individual journalist as long as she or he cites their sources.

Feels like the end of an era, previously I would always set charity to 100%, I figure the vast majority of these games make their money back via DLC. ( Or they're old enough where they no longer are expecting significant revenue).

I primarily like them for content curation, for example To the Moon is an amazing game I would have never found without them. Let's hope there's a bit of backlash here, and they have to back down from this.

If AWS is what you know I'd stick with it.

Changing that can be very very difficult for not much gain. Plus AWS skills are very easy to recruit for vs Google cloud.

Why though.

You need to physically buy Legos for this project. It's not like their showing how to print Legos

Oh yes california, my home state. So impressed they had time to regulate the internet with homelessness surging out of control.

The state government has no intention of fixing California's real issues, they just like to liberally posture. Leave now!

Great see this project is still alive, it's a fantastic alternative if you need something like Firebase but don't want to be locked into Google's ecosystem.

To be fair eclipse and IntelliJ do different things to set up run configurations. Although I'll agree this is a very very bad sign, I left that job as soon as I could. I will say socially they did a lot of fun stuff, we had tons of parties and everything. Felt almost like a college campus, the actual work environment was horrible though.

Doesn't Eclipse feel a bit dated to you ?

Like they wrote the UI in 1999 and never updated it