pete_the_cat @ pete_the_cat @lemmy.world

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Yeah, being laid off by a huge company can be a lot less awful than a smaller one because they pay you off pretty nicely.

I was laid off from a big company in 2023, after being with them for 5 years. They told us in March, had it hang over our heads for 2 months, while they did rounds of layoffs. My coworker and myself got laid off finally at the very end. So did the guy I got hired, and had been with the company for like 3 years.

When I tell people I got laid off, they give me sympathy, but I tell them it's not that bad because due to a contract they had to give me 3 months notice in order to lay me off. My boss said I didn't have to work those 3 months, so it was a paid vacation. I also got like 12 grand in severance, and possibly 25 grand in benefits in an investment account. I can still get unemployment, which I'm on, and will run out soon. I've moved cities and haven't worked a day since the end of May 2023... I did live with my parents for 4 months though, I'm 38.

That's what I was looking for in the article but nothing is mentioned.

It's gonna be the new Dot Com bubble. Sure, we'll have to deal with this nonsense for another year or two, but once it gets to the point of insanity/critical mass hopefully that's when people stop throwing AI at everything.

I see ads all around my city for the new Galaxy S24, it looks the exact same as my S23, and probably has the same hardware, mostly, but their new selling point is that it comes with AI. That's literally the only thing on the billboard.

Or like the Friends experience that is a yearly occurrence in Manhattan. I'm a huge fan of the show and lived in NYC for 5 years, but I never went there. The first time I saw it, my girlfriend and I walked by the place it was at, and it was a shitty re-creation of Central Perk. There were like 100 people lined up on the sidewalk just to go inside and sit on the orange couch and drink coffee. James Michael Tyler (who played Gunther, the barista) was also there.

I saw the meme yesterday before I knew about this and was confused haha

You sandbagging soon of a bitch!

I've been using Arch for like 10 years and I never really have any issues. My biggest issue is with the ZFS module, but I solved that by using the LTS kernel.

That's obvious vandalism though, you wanna fuck it up covertly so you don't get caught!

Tons of Point of Sale terminals run Windows instead of Linux for some reason, probably because the software they run is only written for Windows.

I belong to a few private trackers as well, they're not exactly easy to get into. I feel that Usenet is "more clean" because you don't have to seed the file for X days.

I've watched multiple shows and movies with it, I'm one of those people that loves vivid colors, so even when the TV is calibrated (using an online guide) it still didn't look good to me 🤷‍♂️

Gold was the standard award up until those in charge saw that they could get more money from people by creating other awards. Coins were the virtual currency used to buy the awards.

That they be compatible with one another. Word and DOCX are the standard, but Microsoft intentionally making it difficult in order to drive profits.

Money.

Wikipedia has a good timeline of them, it's been what I've been using when categorizing my ROMs.

All you need is a 3D printer

Fish are friends, not food!

insert cat and screaming woman meme

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