Depends on where you live, I believe. But I imagine there would be some VoIP at some point if you're calling any significant distance.
Even cell carriers in the American midwest have mostly switched over. I think partly because maintaining the infrastructure for traditional tech is costly, and VoIP has potential for higher-quality sound.
What people don't understand is that this is exactly what C-level management wants.
Senior talent costs senior pay. On paper, a junior employee looks much the same as a senior one, and costs significantly less. Cutting salary costs by 20 or 30% is a higher-up's wet dream.
It also means that those remaining are the ones not questioning or pushing back against management (or at least not as much). Whether from a "manager" mindset, apathy, or dependence on the paycheck, the remaining employees are more likely to accept further enshittification (such as not backfilling the now-empty senior roles and having existing employees take on the extra work for no extra pay).
Executives aren't stupid, they're just working toward completely different goals than the people doing the actual work. And RTO mandates are directly in line with their goal: pump up short-term profits (at the expense of long-term stability and growth).
I live in Michigan, they're still going strong here. And they've become one of the most affordable places too (though they're finally starting to raise prices too).
Probably not the most complex, but in programming, the salesman problem: intuitive for humans, really tough for programming. It highlights how sophisticated our brains are with certain tasks, and what we take for granted.
It has always amused me that the tourists to the US that I’ve spoken to are often very excited to see raccoons, and disappointed if they don’t see them before they leave....
The best controller I arguably thing is the 360 controller. It just feels right to use in fighting games and fps. I like xboxs layout with the analog sticks....
left joystick is "up" at a natural spot (sorry PS enthusiasts, those low sticks suck)
buttons are "chicklet" style (Xbox round buttons feel awkward)
one set of trigger buttons are "throttle" style
sits on a flat surface without any buttons being pressed
Not sure if there's one out there that meets all of those. But I have a certain fondness for the GameCube controller. Always felt comfortable, and I actually liked the asymmetric button layout.
I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here's the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...
Try Linux Mint. You set it up on a USB drive, and you can try using it before you install it. So load it up, and try doing a few things you'd normally do (check email, etc.). This way, you can get your feet wet without committing fully. If you find you like it, you can do an installation (and it doesn't require any fancy terminal stuff).
I just made a deck with that a few years ago. There are actually two types: composite (wood covered in plastic) and full plastic. The boards are perfectly straight and it'll never need stain. It was definitely more expensive, but it's nice up here in Michigan.
My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I don't want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldn't seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)...
I actually have no idea--I primarily use Eternity, and I'm not sure whether the "block community" button is a Lemmy thing or an Eternity thing.
But mainly I've blocked bot-post communities, furry stuff, and anything else that vomits dozens of posts in a row (I've got NSFW blocked, so c/all is pretty manageable).
I'm saying that, with respect to color reproduction, paints work exactly the same as dyes and pigments. You can't make magenta paint from red, blue, and yellow. So the "primary colors" of paint are actually CMY.
While there are thousands of communities on Lemmy, there are a few topics that get a lot of attention. Linux/programming is one of those, and the enshittification trend is particularly pronounced in the tech sector. Another big topic is workers' rights and other grass-roots movements, which again deal largely with fighting against corporate greed (embodied in the enshittification trend). The intersection of these two major topics (and possibly others) means you'll see more of that here right now.
I understand it to mean the general life cycle of corporations: first valuing users, then shareholders, then themselves, then dying. A quote from Doctorow:
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two sided market", where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.
By that definition, everything you described is a likely consequence of enshittification (paying employees less, charging more, more ads, etc.). But the word itself refers to how the company's values shift over time.
Exactly. Whatever product or service a business provides, once it goes public, the primary goal becomes profit--everything else is secondary and subject to removal if it promotes the primary objective. Shareholders don't care about the long-term viability of the business--once it peaks, they'll sell and move on. Basically a financial swarm of locusts.
My dog hasn't eaten anything for days and I've tried everything. He stopped eating his chicken and soft food, he won't eat any vegetables that I try to give him, he'll barely lick peanut butter, and refuses to have treats. I'm literally trying to feed him bacon at this point, but I don't think it's gonna do anything. He's 15 and...
So sorry to hear this. Yeah, refusing to eat is often a sign that they're near their time. It's difficult, but try to make the most out of whatever time you've got.
Russia may respond to any U.S. confiscation of its currency reserves frozen in the West by seizing the assets, including property and cash, of U.S. citizens and investors in Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, a senior security official, said on Saturday....
Zelda Movie Is Being Made In Close Collaboration With Miyamoto ( www.thegamer.com )
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/12808108...
Are all phone calls voip (voice over Internet protocol) now?
Why is time money and not, say... waffles?
Sam Alito's snide denial of his January 6 flag is just as ugly as flying it in the first place ( www.salon.com )
Parfait au pork ( lemmy.today )
That's not troubling at all ( lemmy.world )
Later, losers ( lemmy.world )
Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away ( arstechnica.com )
"It’s easier to manage a team that’s happy.”
Who remembers Checkers and Rally's ( i.redd.it )
https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/1crj9nx/who_remembers_checkers_and_rallys/...
If you had an idle animation like in video games, what would it be?
Anybody else have the orange KNEX box? ( i.redd.it )
https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/1cqpza7/anybody_else_have_the_orange_knex_box/...
Professional Scientists of Lemmy: What is your field of study's, most complex unanswered question?
In your country, what "common" animals are tourists most excited to see?
It has always amused me that the tourists to the US that I’ve spoken to are often very excited to see raccoons, and disappointed if they don’t see them before they leave....
Xbox president: Studio closures will ensure 'business is healthy for the long term' ( www.gamedeveloper.com )
Robot dogs armed with AI-aimed rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation ( arstechnica.com )
Favourite controllers
The best controller I arguably thing is the 360 controller. It just feels right to use in fighting games and fps. I like xboxs layout with the analog sticks....
I‘m running out of titles ( sh.itjust.works )
I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?
I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here's the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...
The easiest problem ( discuss.tchncs.de )
https://mastodon.social/@lovegame/112402050452885908
True quality ( lemmy.world )
Boring ass planet ( slrpnk.net )
Live Updates: Trump Held in Contempt Again as His Criminal Trial Speeds Along ( www.nytimes.com )
Washington Post coverage for comparison
Kristi Noem Suggests Biden’s Dog Should Have Been Killed, Too ( www.nytimes.com )
"PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" ( lemmy.world )
How many communities do you have blocked?
My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I don't want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldn't seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)...
What did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older?
Why Are Open Source Alternatives So Bad? ( youtu.be )
Tell me what it smells like in the comments! ( lemmy.world )
Why is Lemmy obsessed with the word "enshittification"?
I see it referenced constantly here, not quite as much on Reddit....
Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app ( arstechnica.com )
It sounds like the company is now blocking access from "bootleg" APKs.
party poopers ( mander.xyz )
checkmate, big geology!! ( mander.xyz )
Guitarist - Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1757) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such?
Take.Out.The.(Garbage|Cat)* ( programming.dev )
My dog hasn't eaten anything for 2-3 days.
My dog hasn't eaten anything for days and I've tried everything. He stopped eating his chicken and soft food, he won't eat any vegetables that I try to give him, he'll barely lick peanut butter, and refuses to have treats. I'm literally trying to feed him bacon at this point, but I don't think it's gonna do anything. He's 15 and...
Moscow may seize private US assets in Russia if US seizes frozen reserves, says Putin ally ( www.reuters.com )
Russia may respond to any U.S. confiscation of its currency reserves frozen in the West by seizing the assets, including property and cash, of U.S. citizens and investors in Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, a senior security official, said on Saturday....
What's up with all the trout posting?
I woke up and all I see are memes about trouts