32 minutes waiting for Dell Tech Support

Finally get in and they say their system is down.

Is your system based on ChatGPT? I asked.

I think so she says.

fml. ridiculous.

well done investigative documentary

lemmy.ml where the ml actually means ‘Moscow Lovers’ instead of ‘Mali’.

Yeah, I’ll wait for the peer review, thanks.

Thing is, this isn’t new in the slightest.

I remember calling around to different PC stores in the 90s and early 00s to find the cheapest RAM and hard drive prices.

Before that, I remember my grandfather, an IBM employee in the 60s-90s calling places looking for best pricing on 64k-128k SIPP memory for an ibm pizzabox 286.

So water from the Thames then, yes.

Wall Street didn’t learn from past events and is doomed to repeat history?

Shocking… /s

This is the way…

At least it wasn’t HMS or you may have had a bunch of Seamen chasing you around.

New titles include:

• Prince Pedophile
• The Royal Derrière
• The Keeper of The Hooker
• Guardian of The White Van
• The Little Diddler That Could

and many more.

Yes, that’s another possibility, but not the only one. Greed manifests differently for everyone.

It’s never enough. You get to a point you don’t ever want to live below your means ever again. To stay at that level you want double, triple what you have now so you can stave the losses of the next crash. The greed grows.

You get to a point where you worry something or someone outside of just recessions will take it away because you’ve seen it happen to others and you’ve worked too hard to get it. The greed grows.

The sad part is this isn’t something new nor isolated and every single human being is capable of it because greed literally is a survival instinct in all of us.

The only only only resolution is to go back heavy taxation. For the US, that means to pre 1960s and post US Civil War 1860s taxation when top earners paid up to 90% tax on ALL 100% of their earnings no matter how it was made.

2025−1519: 506 years to say oopsie?

Fuck the Catholic Church for never formally apologizing even after it was requested in 2020 (Two Popes have said it was a tragedy, but never took any official blame) and fuck Spain for ignoring several decades of Mexican Political requests to reconcile their shitty neocolonialist views.

Nothing screams ‘I need attention’ more than consistently trying to troll everything you post on.

So what’s wrong beella?

This all sounds like Starship Troopers propaganda lol

IoT isn’t exactly reliable and many, including the rich are trying to reverse the IoT trend: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/real-estate/tech-free-homes-luxury-trend-1236177909/

also

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/23/analog-bag-screen-free-wellness

Smart Energy Discount issues from the personal view of a consumer.

These plans work by sending you notifications that they will be reducing your thermostat for you when there is an energy crunch.

Sounds good so far, here’s the issues I had:

• Let’s say you are a good consumer and let them change your thermostat to 85’F when it’s 100’F every single time… You saved… $5!!! and got to sweat profusely in your own home in the process.

• Let’s say you were working in the yard and come in sweaty and needing to cool off or you have a hot flash for some reason. If you change that thermostat while they are in control of it, you lose your whole $5 for not just that day, but the entire billing cycle.

• Let’s say you want to exit the plan. Now you’re on the hook to wait on hold with your energy company for hours waiting for the one department and probably one person who can unenroll you. Chances are likely even then that they can screw it up and like in my case, both Google and my southern California electrical company claim ignorance anything was done wrong yet keep me enrolled.

In short and in summary: It’s a trap because the savings is far, far too small for the sacrifice.

Jokes on them, I block my Nest from talking to the Internet so my electrical company cannot control the damned thing. They had control even after I opted out and Google insisted they unenrolled me in the energy savings plan. Don’t enroll in these plans [insert it’s a trap gif].

Doesn’t mean they will keep the name for EU customers. The value there is in the IP and the infrastructure configuration.

Thus the term: Rebrand.