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fully agree, the only way I’m ok with fair use for AI is if the resulting product is public use. Even if they want to charge for the product to use their frontend, give the ability to use the system local (if your system can support it) much like how most self hosting software does it

is anything that is a “corporation” a valid answer? that’s pretty par for the course sadly. Once you hit public trade usually is when it happens

I mean it’s not corporate bullshit. Yes there are plenty of legitimate uses, but the majority of bad actors are over VPN’s, so hence the statement is true.

I have it on by default, until its abused. Once it’s abused it’s never getting it back

meanwhile about time anyone actually followed your complaint, many more would be saying “omg you Americans are so self centered, you aren’t the only ones in the world you know”

Personally think that the more context the better, helps shape what the conversation is running off.

Complete and utter disregard for their Linux community and their reliability when they swapped off p2p and onto cloud based infrastructure was a pretty big one. It was crashing multiple times a day during that stage.

I’m OOTL, what did Disney do now?

Man my home area is that way, they can’t get anything higher than a 5/5 internet wise. I go over to my parents and one YouTube video seems to take the whole network down. I feel bad for them, they can’t get anything better. We really need a complete overhaul in this state. Sadly the current trend is physical disks still have a day 1 update that downloads most the game. When I bought my dad a game for events, I give it to him a few days prior to the event so he can download it beforehand. It’s rediculous

Granted this was back on the PS4 but I’m sure it hasent got better.

Oh that sounds good, and it makes sense from a linguistic POV.

I haven’t been to a GameStop in quite some time, but I can say it’s generally better off not to waste your time looking for a deal at walmart, at least at the store level. According to the markdown policy, they want you to try to run 10 to 15% per markdown and you can only do two markdowns before you’re supposed to dispose/claim. So for a $70 game, my first markdown would have been 60$, my second markdown would have been around 50$

Many times I would have tons of clearance games that I wouldn’t be able to sell because of those restrictions, during those times I would mark it down further than that, but many times when you went to mark it down further than that they would actually rather you dispose on the second markdown because for some stupid reason, their claim system has it so you can dispose/claim for full cost, so financially it makes zero sense store side to sell the game for 50% off when you can send the game back for about 80%(or even full cost at times) of what was paid

It was a really stupid system, but I assume they’re getting some sort of Kickback from game Studios to discourage physical media

ofc this also assumes they are on top of dealing with markdowns, \0/

Considering Tech bro isn’t clearly defined it’s unlikely that there is a proper word for it.

The closest I would say is probably nerd being used as an insult, or a tech trendist, but I’m hoping some other people can chime in as well cuz I might have missed something

I’m not giving Trump a pass, I think these tariffs are one of the most ridiculous things I’ve heard in years.

However I’m not going to blame tariffs on something that aren’t affected by tariffs. I’m going to blame the company who is deciding to raise the price of a good that isn’t impacted by the tariffs,

It’s two separate ongoing issues and I’m not about to give the company a get out of jail free card by blaming tariffs for it.

I wasn’t aware that there was still a really big physical market, I haven’t personally purchased an actual disc in over 6 years, the sales that the stores have never match the steam sales, and I never really bought hard copies on my pc anyway. Consoles have been more hard pushing digital as well, with locking down the disk reader on cheaper iterations.

If physical game prices go up as a result but digital stay the same I’ll believe it, but if both game prices go up, I’m not going to assume it’s due to the Tariffs, I’m going to directly correlate that to the company’s greed and that’s going to impact my future decisions as a buyer to buy their goods.

They also appear on the main screen, as you’re browsing and on shorts

It depends on your job designation(and region tbh). Out of my personal experience in the states, If you are a “contractor” you are expected to pay for everything, but if you are an “employee” then the company is expected to pay for any additional training past what you brought to the table when you were hired. If they say that they are changing the job requirements and they now require you to get the next level license to continue your job, they must pay for that process, that is not something the employee is required to pay for.

Being said, it sounds like OP is being pushed a “if you want to be promoted you must do this” type of deal, which is completely fair as it’s an optional thing to gain more money, but you can’t push that as a requirement to keep your job without also putting yourself at risk of an employment case either under wage theft, improper dismissal or an unemployment claim if they did decide to fire the employee.

FULLY AGREE.

I am lending my employer some of my personal time. Therefor if they want more, they need to pay for it. This ideology that you are owned by your company is shitty and needs to stop.

“I don’t feel it is in my personal benefit to spend my energy and time outside of work, chasing a end goal that will not favor me personally. This certificate was not a requirement for me being hired, and I am not being reimbursed for said spent time and energy. If this is something that the company is interested in pursuing, I am more than happy to continue working on it as long as I am reimbursed for my time. A chance at promotion with no compensation in current day, does not guarantee enough of a reward for it to be worth my time.”

Know your worth OP, companies will burn you time and time if they think they can. Don’t learn the hard way like I did, or my grandfather did (he did a masters degree fully out of pocket because there was an increase in pay involved + a massive bonus, the removed the bonus and halved the increase in pay the year he graduated). It’s a well known scam used by employers in specialized fields to avoid having to actually pay for training and certs.

Additionally you may want to note that if they try to say that you need to cert to stay at the company, mention that in that case it’s mandatory training and you are supposed to be paid for time spent, and if they refuse look into an employment lawyer for wage theft.

I mean, the next step past voicing annoyances in town halls is seeing if the state has a recall process to perhaps remove them from power, it would make sense to do since they aren’t serving the people and deciding to hide instead.

While I don’t really understand the ruling that McDonald doesn’t use the trademark “Big Mac”, I also don’t understand how the trademark “Big Mac” could impede “SuperMac”, so I think its a fair ruling.

I fell for New World myself.

Even played the beta and saw how empty it was, but nope I continued on.