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Jrockwar

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  • Microsoft 365 sees 43% price hike thanks to Copilot — existing customers safe until renewal

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  • Some of these are for insurance, government organisations... They are naturally dry but we can't get away from them.

    Some others that I described like internal changelogs, I agree won't ever get read. Then if that's the case I don't care (much) about the quality - just about doing it as quickly as possible.

  • Microsoft 365 sees 43% price hike thanks to Copilot — existing customers safe until renewal

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  • There are tons more applications in the workplace. For example, one of the people in my team is dyslexic and sometimes needs to write reports that are a few pages long. For him, having the super-autocorrect tidy up his grammar makes a big difference.

    Sometimes I have a list of say 200 software changes that would be a pain to summarise, but where it's intuitively easy for me to know if a summary is right. For something like a changelog I can roll the dice with the hallucination machine until I get a correct summary, then tidy it up. That takes less than a tenth of the time than writing it myself.

    Sometimes writing is necessary and there's no way to cut down the drivel unfortunately. Talking about professional settings of course - having the Large Autocorrect writing a blog post or a poem for you is a total misuse of the tool in my opinion.

  • With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’

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  • After the 6th of Jan, I can't be convinced that the USA takes treason seriously.

  • Looking for advice on a camera for nature photography under $600.

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  • The budget can work, but you'd have to get creative. For example, a used A6000 series camera and an "old", probably manual focus zoom.

    You lose some niceties (AF for starters) but it's better than not having a camera!

  • I know just the audience for this

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  • No, -r and -f are two different switches. -r is recursive, used so that it also removes folders within the directory. -f is force (so overriding all confirmations, etc).

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  • Do a search on yourself - try to find out your real identity based on information online, and do it as thoroughly as if you were searching for your worst enemy.

    If you can find who you are yourself, chances are they will.

    Make sure you don't have anything "hairy" tied to an email with an email address you'd use for anything uncompromising. E.g. keep the email you use to login on Lemmy and the email you use to login on netflix separate.

    Use 2 factor authentication and a password manager. Treat your password leaks seriously and consider any leaked accounts burnt - assume the details you had in there are now known.

    Avoid using your real name on anything you can.

    Best wishes. Take care my friend!

  • Thousands flee as Los Angeles wildfires burn out of control

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  • Trump will fix it. Concepts of thoughts and prayers.

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    Meme my sister sent me (last year she married the older, married man she was dating)

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  • Lessons will be available at least, even if nobody decides to take away anything from them.

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    Meme my sister sent me (last year she married the older, married man she was dating)

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  • Once a cheater, always a cheater.

  • The more things change

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  • That's true, but the person perceived to be "in power" in the relationship (what was called traditionally the breadwinner) is less likely to complain about the situation. I don't think many working people, women or otherwise, think "I wish I could work at home tidying up the house for no salary and have no income of my own!"

    I agree with your point still - once children are in the equation some women might shift towards the traditional view if that means they'd get to stay at home spending time with them.

  • Germany joins EU’s ‘ultra-low’ fertility club

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  • No, I meant flats in the city of Oviedo. With heating. And I said 2 bedrooms. I think two basic necessities for a couple with kids in a city that gets into negative degrees in the winter?

    Not flats within "6 hours walk of Oviedo".

    Anyway, you're missing my point entirely. Whatever.

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  • I said Oviedo, not Trubia, a tiny village one train trip away 😂 are you from the area? My sister used to work in Trubia and communications are exceptionally poor. So yes, I'm aware you can find a flat in the middle of nowhere for that price. Also if you're keen to invest the upwards of 40k that flat needs to bring it into the 21st century.

  • Apple Set to Become First $4 Trillion Company

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  • Not just sweet, but surprisingly for Apple, the M4 Mac mini is even decent value for money. If you want to buy a similar non-mac machine you can't do it for any less money. For ≈$1500, the comparable HP Z2 Mini comes with 16 GB of RAM and an 8 GB Nvidia T1000. For that price the Mac Mini comes with 24 GB of memory, shared but available to the GPU.

  • 'Shocking' footage shows handcuffed inmate who died after prison guards beat him

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  • It's okay. He wasn't a CEO so all good. Not like inmates deserve human rights or anything. /s

  • Germany joins EU’s ‘ultra-low’ fertility club

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  • 250k is not just Madrid and Barcelona. In fact, a friend just bought a 2 bedroom in Madrid for close to 400k and it's not even within the M30.

    250k is Oviedo, A Coruña, León, Zaragoza... I obviously don't know the details for all the small cities but this is a pretty typical price. And of course, cities with higher prices also have higher wages and vice versa, but that's rather obvious.

    I feel you might be missing my point though. My intention wasn't to go into the full detail of a specific country but rather to illustrate the general situation with an example.

    My point is that different places in Europe have different flavours of a cost of living crisis. Be it expensive housing, be it mini jobs, be it needing to spend 5x the annual salary in a car, an unstable job market... There's something in almost every country across Europe that makes it so that having a child isn't an obvious, easy, natural thing to do, but rather an incredible burdensome financial commitment. This is happening to a generation already defined by financial distress, student debt, not being able to afford to live independently... So millennials are quite rightfully wary of large financial commitments.

    (And again, this is just the financial angle, there's of course more social/cultural reasons for people not to have kids; but in my opinion this is the biggest factor)

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  • Oh I meant post tax - median monthly pre tax is 1935€ according to this link which is based on data from INE, so as reliable as it gets. That's about 1600€ net at a 17% tax rate, so maybe I've actually gone a bit over.

    And yes, you can get a cheap house in a town 50 km away from Badajoz but then good luck breaking past 1000€ net salary.

    Plus only 31% of people under 35 own their homes - most people covered by that 75% figure are not in birthing age anymore. In the UK, about 39% of under-35s own their home. Not that comparing any country to the UK is desirable in this aspect, as the housing crisis is particularly dire in the UK.

    I've left out intentionally many things like generational wealth, remote working, etc because this is a comment on Lemmy, not an economy thesis. But my point still stands - it's financially hard to have kids.

    I agree with you on the other points though; it's not the only factor.

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  • I know in Spain the deposit (50k) for a two bedroom flat (250k) currently sits at about 30x the monthly median salary (1800€). People often save less than 10%.

    People just can't afford to have kids in these countries. When it takes you 25 years to save the deposit for a flat, there isn't a need for many words to paint the story, the figures do all the work for you.

    Other countries have different flavours of the cost of living crisis (e.g. needing to spend 20% of the salary for a commute into London, or people only being able to move out of their parents house when they're in their thirties) but the end result is that it's incredibly hard for people all across Europe.

    My partner and I are both in the top 10% salary percentile for the UK and having a single kid would be a far greater burden than my parents had with three kids and a single salary. Not saying it's not doable at our current salary, just saying the financial implications are drastically different to when people were having 2.3 kids on average.

  • Metaverse hype fizzles out as Korean tech giants pull plug

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  • I think that's exactly what's needed, something that makes it mainstream without compromises. For example, if it came as standard with the PS6 and people could use it with all their games such as call of duty.

    I don't see what could be the tipping point that makes this happen; Sony certainly isn't going to bundle a headset with the PS6, although I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo eventually tried something like this. What I know is that a legless version of the Wii avatars or a $3000 headset that requires you to carry a battery in your pocket wired to your head ain't it.

  • me when I whaaaaaa

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  • Yeah make it more engaging! And with flashing lights please