Maybe not the same, as its more of a service contract. At work, we have had a site which has been closed for 2 years. for 2 whole years, every week the vending machine company arrive, try to get in, can’t, ring us, and we say “that site is closed”.

Well we finally after 2 years got them to remove that site from their system?

Their response? to remove ALL food from ALL vending machines at all our sites, to remove the coffee machines, and to remove the water coolers. The water coolers are especially egregious, as they just sit there doing nothing. they are from tap water, so not even replacing bottles etc.

Sometimes subscriptions are useful. I wish the BBC TV licence in the UK was a subscription. I cannot justify spending £150 on a licence for an entire year, just to watch a month of shows. but other times it sucks. I just want Microsoft office. I don’t care if it will cost me £200. Right now my favourite game is subscription based, but i don’t think i can justify the £9.99 a month, or £50 for a whole year. £50 for lifetime access? maybe.

people always say this, but 95% of what i print is index and reference cards that need colour :( I would love to get a B&W printer, but i need the colours.

Yes. Co-worker got a super cheap printer, and then tried to cancel the ink subscription. turns out he couldn’t just buy ink from them, and his printer was useless.

Ah I see you work in my work places wage and bonus calculation department.

Utter shocked Pikachu face. its a concept that has been around for 100 years, and no-one did it before for a big reason.

When musk hired ex NASA or VW employees 👍

When other companies hire ex twitter / Tesla staff 😡😤😡

Why is everyone celebrating that companies are starting to keep voice recordings and chat records of users? It is mad.

Fusion 360: we have unnecessarily decided to force you to use the cloud for this product

Also Fusion 360: *Noooo all you free users are using up too much of our server space, you will have to pay.

Here is an idea, let me run it on my PC and it won’t use any of your servers

Knew someone like this. they shut the hell up after they said “no-one wants to work a 9-5” and I asked them to find a single job listing within the hour that was within a half hour drive offering a 9-5 fixed salary and it didn’t already require 5 years of high level experience. They found nothing, but it was still other peoples fault. “Why don’t you just volunteer for free to get experience”

And if it’s anything like Twitter was, it won’t be very social

In the same week switching to DDG browser and to Lemmy. God dayum I wish there was a good alternative for Gmail.

With friends at a pub. Most people had flaked and didn’t show up, just 1 couple. The drink was expensive and not very good. They had no food available despite it being a food festivals, and the.muaic was dreadful. Went to open RiF, and it didn’t work :(