DJDarren @ DJDarren @thelemmy.club

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I had to put the Teams app on my phone a few weeks back for some bullshit meeting that, for some reason, wouldn’t work properly in my browser. Had the meeting, forgot about Teams.

Was in my car earlier and noticed a different app out of the corner of my eye on the CarPlay screen.

Fucking Teams.

What kind of prick is taking a Teams call while driving? And why have MS even made that possible?

The trouble is, people like my MD has an accountant, and accountants are really good at showing rich people how to save money. So my MD takes essentially no salary.

But he does take home in excess of £300k a year in dividends. As does his wife, who hasn’t worked for the firm for six years, but is still a director.

Then he gripes about pay rises for the 120 people who work for him.

I have an M2 Air, and all mine is missing from that is the SDXC slot, third TB4 and HDMI, and honestly, it's fine. A third TB4/USB would be nice for when I'm doing my radio show and have to plug in my controller and mic while also charing my phone, but I already have a hub so it doesn't bother me.

That said, the limited ports on my M1 mini are quite problematic. Two TB3/USB and two USB3, but one of them is lost to a DisplayPort cable for my second monitor. So I have a desktop computer that functionally has three USB sockets, which ain't great. But again, I have a hub, so it's not a huge problem.

“Oh, you want to install software from Github, do you? Well, unfortunately, fuck you”

• macOS Sequoia

I’ve heard she thinks he’s a big ugly goon and wants to squash his face.

You’re a hoopy guy.

The sign for Shitterton had to be carved out of a big chunk of local stone, because the normal metal ones kept getting nicked. Obviously.

Isn’t he a governor in Texas? Works closely with the very Biggest of Big Oil.

There are no finer names than Bobson Dugnutt and Dwigt Rortugal.

Sorry, meant no criticism of you at all. I just wanted to share Hank's video because he goes into a lot of depth and really helps in understanding.

Hong Kong enters the chat

I do periodically look up their prices on eBay, but because of that weird aberration they've retained their value pretty well.

The Stupid Reason That Elon Musk Is Complaining About Scientists Spraying Bobcat Urine on Alcoholic Rats

Pretty sure they cribbed most of that article from This Hank Green video from the same day. It's a message worth spreading though, to be fair.

Weirdly. I don’t know why they went back to upgradeable RAM for one generation.

The guy who runs the instance I’m on sends out a statement every month, detailing how much he’s received in donations, what everything has cost, and how much there is leftover. Accounting for a small buffer to allow for emergencies, he donates the excess to Alzheimer’s research. We’re a Pritchett focus instance, so everyone’s happy with that.

I’ve paid far more to my Masto admin than I ever did to Twitter.

This puts me in mind of this classic.

I’ve been a heavy Mastodon user for two years, and I honestly don’t see why so many people on Lemmy give it so much shit. Certainly not in favour of the likes of Bluesky.

I get WAY more engagement with my posts on there than I ever did on Twitter. And maybe I’m just at an age where I don’t give a shit about celebrity, but I couldn’t care less that all the Big Names have gone to Bluesky and Threads. It’s great not seeing the same people being shared into my TL all the time.

I’m no expert in business, but I guess that maintaining the Mac side of the company goes a long way towards the popularity of the iOS side. What they make from Macs might be tiny in comparison, but it all helps towards the amount they make from iPhones and iPads. It’s all symbiotic, y’know?

This does make me wonder whether the entry level mini is something of a loss-leader at this point. Literally just a way to get people into the ecosystem.

I wouldn’t have thought Apple are using flash chips that are two or three times more expensive. They’re just price gouging at a point where consumers have literally no option.