[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

Wine used to involve a lot of black magic and trading configs to get things to work.

With the right incantations, and some luck and a few DLL replacements, you could make things mostly work.

3-D rendering was a shit show earlier on. You just didn’t even try. DirectX was everywhere and unusable. It was probably a slow march, but it felt like a sudden boom when 3D started working and suddenly 2/3 of your games/apps would work natively with a smaller config/spell.

Nothing like the lengthy spell castings of early wine. I summon thee brood wars!

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago

“Look at how racist and evil this guy I helped enable is”

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 107 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It’s because they appear to be something they’re not.

They’re usually friendly and fun and do all sorts of employee retention activities like arranging go karting and such…

They seem like they’re there almost as union stewards, to try and help retain employees and ensure you’re treated well by management. This is not the case. They’re there to protect the company from lawsuits originated by you. This means that they’ll apply rules and such in ways that are not usually beneficial to you.

They’re actually really helpful if you have issues with a coworker! However, you need to remember that despite how friendly they seem, they’re not actually in your corner, they have their own agenda.

So the simple answer is that they aren’t bad at all, but it can feel bad if you thought they were your friend.

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 95 points 6 months ago

The problem is the same as with the telephone answering trees.

If they’re used to help you get where you’re going, then they’re great. But that’s not the best financially motivated decision. Solving your problem costs the companies money. Pissing you off and convincing you that your problem shouldn’t be fixed saves money on support.

So making you go round in circles is the machine doing EXACTLY what they want it to do.

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 101 points 6 months ago

I literally came to the comments to find out if it was real or not.

Because quite frankly, I would probably believe either way .

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 304 points 7 months ago

I dunno, I feel like this could have been solved with a pizza party and T-shirts for less money

/s

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 112 points 7 months ago

Fucking eh!

If you spend 10 minutes looking into Dolly Parton, you’ll find a Fucking Angel.

Legitimately. Look into her reading program. Not just the news articles, but the written deals. She makes sure that if her program is a success, that the county is contracted to keep it going FOR-FUCKING-EVER. Her legacy is generations of kids who graduate high school because she sent them books.

And that’s just ONE thing she did, with a legacy that will outlast every one of us.

We ride at dawn.

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 88 points 8 months ago

Sometimes the breed temperament has more to do with it than anything else….

But also assholes all seem to like the same breed so….

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 96 points 8 months ago

We told these stupid employees that they had to do a 3 hour test in 1 hour or get fired and they started faking it.

No idea why.

Anyways, we fired these low level employees as an example because they broke our rules when we encouraged them to.

Don’t worry, the directors and execs that forced this scenario are safe and will continue to blame employees for the fuckups no matter HOW systemic they seem.

The system isn’t bad, Charles was bad.

We infected his personal items with the bubonic plague on the way out so that he can’t harm any more stock prices. I mean airplanes.

✈️ ✈️

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 106 points 11 months ago

Sometimes there are things a person chooses to do that are bigger than themselves.

He chose to allow himself to be a martyr. Hopefully it makes a difference, but it very likely may not.

Who knows, maybe his sacrifice paves the way for his successor.

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Everyone I know that likes orange pop is kinda adhd, it just feels like the flavour of kids who can’t sit still, thoughts?

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 107 points 1 year ago

This is the answer.

Some early wifi routers with USB ports on them had the same issue.

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 218 points 1 year ago

Translation: “we didn’t bother making this work with arc because the third party tool we used to port it from console to PC didn’t support it and we don’t give a fuck.

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