[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

The screenshot shows 1password, which to my knowledge is not affiliated to Microsoft, so I think yes, they are sponsored

[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 78 points 2 months ago

How efficient is it to antagonize people that are actively promoting your own content for free on other platforms? Does this actually work for Nintendo?

[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 59 points 2 months ago

Win11: less functionality, more ads

And what's with the weasel words like "recommended"? Just call them "sponsored" or "ads", like they really are.

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I had a job interview with a company recently and one of the negative feedback I got was that I hadn't tried out their product. Now this might be a valid concern if they had any sort of free trial for it, but the lessons they offer start at 60€ and I didn't feel comfortable spending that amount just to get a better chance at an interview. They also offered no free credits or anything like that during the interview. I did understand how the product worked by researching it online.

I definitely feel that there's something wrong in asking for an interviewee to spend money on the product they are interviewing for. For one it's a great setup for a scam. But is there any regulation that should prevent companies from doing this? I am based in the EU and was interviewing for a Spanish company.

UPDATE: This is definitely not a scam, the company is fairly known. This is more of a question of is it right/legal to expect this?

[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I remember reading a while ago that Chernobyl has become a flourishing nature preserve. While animals have a health risk from radiation, it's still a smaller health hazard than living near human settlements. It's sad that our civilization is more destructive than an open nuclear core.

[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago

While gendered nouns are stupid, I at least appreciate Italian because you can just learn the word and get its gender from the end part of the word. In German, however, it's completely random and you have to learn the gender with the word.

[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 100 points 4 months ago

Wow, Microsoft are always so innovative! I never thought that the Win11 taskbar could get any shittier, but somehow they managed it. It's great to see those thousands of engineers being put to good use.

[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

Can't we just force heavy taxation for the amount of plastics in products? That would force producers to look at alternatives to plastic for packaging.

I am always in shock when I buy some product and it has layers and layers of thick plastic to give the impression of some premium product. And sometimes I don't even have an alternative product to buy to avoid it since I only have 2 supermarkets in my area.

[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

Nothing has changed, and the company continues to treat employee safety as an afterthought, putting its workers at risk

Just a normal day for capitalism

[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

The next "logical" step after SUVs is driving APCs in the name of safety.

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Davos elites seem nostalgic for a time when "they were the gatekeepers and owned the facts". Imagine being held to a higher journalistic standard!

[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Mate, read the room. Tone deaf posts like this are a good reason why people hate vegans. And this is coming from a fellow vegan. Palestine isn't going to avoid famine by switching to vegan now; that's completely insane! And it would still be starving even it was 100% vegan, due to, you know, a fucking genocide happening.

[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago

This. There are so many OSS projects that are over-reliant on Discord and it will bite them in the ass in a few years.

[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Well, apparently freeing yourself from porn enables you to make even more silly memes. Probably better to keep doing porn then.

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