The counterfeiters buy legit products and return their cheapo fakes through fake buyer accounts. So for the price of manufactoring the counterfeit products they’ve purchased the real thing.
They then sell the authentic products through other channels and appear to be supplying authentic, quality products affordably to buyers and marketplaces while at the same time poisoning the legitimate market.
It’s essentially counterfeit laundering.
They’ll also buy the real product, return the counterfeit product, then sell the real one.
When I need something for work I have a company account.
I absolutely have some Type C cables that only work one way because there’s no enforced standards and the manufacturer will wire them however is cheap, throw on another company’s logo, and sell it to Amazom.
And installing Linux and axe-murdering anyone with a car.
Autocorrect’s version of “having fun”
It’s an advertising display. They’re just having fun with it.
It costs 4 grand and has a resolution of like 3480x600, making its pixel density pretty much useless for a monitor.
Oh, I’m not a programmer. I’m just bitching about how many of us have to go to an office for no reason.
I work almost 100% on a computer for a municipality using software that’s already 100% web-based.
But I have to drive 90+ minutes each way every day because a citizen might want to have an in-person meeting once every few weeks instead of an email or Teams meeting.
Considering that Edge makes itself the default browser and even PDF reader on its own every few weeks, I don’t trust Microsoft to keep Edge from taking over as default without user input.
As someone who works on the city side of development review, I can firmly say I’ll trust a puppy alone with my dinner than a Civil Engineer.
I have several laptops that use USB-C to HDMI cables to connect. They work fine and the port on the PC is much smaller.
You didn’t have to explain you aren’t really a programmer.
Saying you write comments implies it.
And if they don’t offer a paid ad-free service, I just won’t use it at all.
I hate ads, and I’m not giving one fucking second to them voluntarily.
My recent gem was essentially a reply of “I couldn’t find anything on Google about it” and a “resolved” flag.
You see the problem on my machine, understand it’s significantly affecting the organization, and know who the software vendor is.
Fucking call them.
For a lot of people, there’s nothing more fun and creative than an unsolved problem.
Monetization/commercialization/organization of the Internet was a super complex problem for a lot of business trying to make it big, and it made for a beautiful shitshow.
But now that the business problem is approaching solution, it’s losing that fun and creativity.
They can do both.
Specialization of Labor is what society is built upon, and it actually allows society to work on multiple problems all at once.
“Engineer” is not a magical term. The people working on improving aerodynamics can’t just stop doing that and switch gears to focus on chemistry, materials, process improvements, or software.
Complaining that these engineers aren’t fixing the pollution from air travel is like complaining that they aren’t delivering the mail, preventing shoplifting, or solving the Hollywood strikes.
What it’s really useful for, however, is reviews.
People don’t buy 4-star reviews, and angry people don’t give them. Those middle 3 stars are the reviews with reading.
Advertisements should be explicit. You’ll often see sponsored segments of videos when a YouTuber is talking about a product, where they explicitly say it’s sponsored. These influences are being asked to treat the product preferential to other devices without being a sponsor.
Advertising is one thing. Asking people to advertise your product without revealing that it’s an ad is something else.