This looks like an AI alteration maybe? Like the original photo was the guy wearing a regular Tsingtao jacket and it was painted out with like Adobe content aware fill or something.
That's assuming you don't pay down principal. If you're paying more than $20/month on it you'll be paying less in interest every month. Whereas the 279% loan means you need to pay almost 3x the principal every month or it grows
Basically no one will give a 5% loan unless it's a mortgage with a huge down payment or you're borrowing from your 401k. Most rates are closer to 10% from banks/credit unions. A 5% loan almost beats inflation right now.
It's not just them. Almost every sign on bonus I've seen has strings like that. Either it's paid out over 8-12 quarters, or you have to pay it back if your leave/get fired in a year.
And there are at least still security updates for a few more years for Windows 10.
Not a few, 1 year. They're fully discontinuing support next October. Even Windows 11 22h2 is already out of support. They're forcing everyone to upgrade. Wouldn't be surprised if they start using their AI bug hunter to release 0 days for 10 and 22h2 so people are forced even harder to upgrade to the AI version.
Steve Jobs at least had some amount of charisma. He also was good at guiding attention and keeping everything pretty minimal and relevant.
The closest thing I've seen to a Jobs style presentation lately is that Chinese robot press conference where they cut the skin off to show it wasn't a person.
Honestly most of the Chinese tech companies are doing the minimalist Jobs style presentations way better than anyone else.a American CEOs have reached full French Aristocracy levels of detached.
And yes, I hate that this shit has got be kinda praising Jobs, the fraudulent huckster he was. Absolutely mind boggling how bad they are at this now.
Start tracking it. Get counts and show charts on how much is spent on Google and MSFT products. Then show that in relation to other expenditures that actually help.
Show it internally, then if it doesn't get anywhere, publish that shit. We should honestly make a tool that exposes hidden costs for this edtech garbage that anyone can use.
Also "donations" was a pejorative for lobbying and corruption. Guess they probably have the system so well captured now that they don't even need to do that anymore though...
Where's the load testing? I feel like adding a bunch of junk to concrete has to do something to the integrity.