wrekone

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

They'll likely rely on reports from the public. I don't imagine this is intended to go after individuals, but rather,, companies that buy fake reviews by the hundreds.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (3 children)

A Kroger spokesperson said in a statement that the company’s business model is built on a “foundation of lowering prices to attract more customers.” “To be clear, Kroger does not and has never engaged in ‘surge pricing,’” the statement said. “Any test of electronic shelf tags is designed to lower prices for more customers where it matters most.”

I know these PR people get paid a lot to tell bald-faced lies, but I just don't understand how they live with themselves.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Well put.

Soon, it won't be this idiotic hype cycle, but it'll be some other idiotic hype cycle. Short term investors love hype cycles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

So you're saying that didnt happen?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Many seed boxes allow you to install Jellyfin and the Arr stack on the seedbox itself. Some even make installation a one click operation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Leon is great. I try to remember to use it anytime I share a link. As a result, I have found that that some links are just the base url plus a UUID (e.g. mycoolshoppingsite.com/GAJEBKT), so you can't strip out the tracking without breaking the link entirely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks. I'll check that one out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I don't want to skip ads. I want to avoid them altogether. They're intrusive. Especially after listening to the same podcast for a decade, only to suddenly find ads for car companies, and other things irrelevant to me, rudely shoved I to the middle of an otherwise serene experience.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I recently picked up a GL-iNet Flint 2 because it's a powerhouse and one of the easiest routers to flash Open-WRT onto. If you don't want to mess with firnware flashing, it comes stock with their fork of Open-WRT. So, either way, you have a ton of control over your router, including setting up VLANs and running AdGuard.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I stopped listening to podcasts once it became impossible to avoid injected ads. I'll find time to read.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

My personal experience with buyouts from private equity investors is that they will milk every single cent out of the company as they crush its soul. They're looking to make a huge profit, relatively quickly. Yes, the stock market is also looking to profit, and big share-holders have a lot of sway, but publicly traded companies don't have to answer to a small number of ultra wealthy puppeteers in quite the same way private equity held companies do. Also, there are certain employee protections, particularly around layoffs, that apply to publicly traded companies but don't apply to privately held companies. This seems to be one of the key strategies in the PE playbook:

  1. Buy the company / take it private
  2. Slash costs everywhere, including yearly layoffs.
  3. Push the remaining employees to adopt a "lean" or "customer first" mindset, which really means "do more work, faster, for less reward".
  4. Profit?

As much as I dislike Ubisoft, I don't dislike anyone enough to wish that process upon them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago
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