GalacticRobot

joined 3 years ago
[–] GalacticRobot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

What I have seen, it's basically the right wing group of the Swiss government trying to pull a soft 'Brexit', if they have a population cap, essentially it ends free movement, so they would effectively be able to pull out of EU agreements. It's an insane move that I am glad to see has failed.

[–] GalacticRobot@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Isn't that basically every 'all you can eat' model though? 20% of people will fully max their usage, causing a loss, but the 80% of users will use far less than the purchase price, netting $$$ for the company. When that balance shifts, most places just put more limits to that 'all you can eat' or raise prices. Sure, I have unlimited internet, but it's difficult to symmetrically max out my 5gbit connection to get that full 'cost' each month.

As long as OpenAI has a health amount of money in the bank ($50 billion it seems), they have a long time to burn money, and then you just keep getting people to invest. Pretty sure that's been the model of every tech company for a long time. I think Uber took almost 15 years to be profitable, and had almost $50 billion invested. For a company that owns essentially zero cars, pretty wild.

[–] GalacticRobot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh that makes sense, I typically use a headset and avoid the built in trash that most laptops have and it seems to work pretty well.

[–] GalacticRobot@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The phone calls part is one of the better parts at least for me) for Teams. It has it's own number, works on all the devices, can forward, and works well. I don't want to carry a work phone, and don't want a desk phone in the office (even though we have ones that connect to Teams). If there is a better solution that's 'cheaper' all for it, but seems pretty sold.

[–] GalacticRobot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For me it's kind of JellyFin + TailScale, but that probably isn't going to work with less tech savvy family members or on all devices. Plex works well enough, but then again it's the same thing that someone has to be responsible for the 'media' portion, and a lot of people enjoy live sports, which seems difficult through the open source things.

[–] GalacticRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

What are they transitioning to? It seems difficult to fully escape MicroSlop in the office environment and get everyone onboard, especially when my IT group double checks everything they do with CoPilot first. 😡

[–] GalacticRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I was that dumb kid who got my first gmail invite from a friend and never thought to use my first name/last name because it was during the time that we all were supposed to be 'anonymous' as everyone on the internet was a murderer.