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Defeated CEOs are now conceding hybrid working is here to stay
  • pendulum_ pendulum_ 6mo ago 28%

    As it should be. Hybrid is the correct answer. Not full time RTO, not full time at home, Hybrid. The negotiation is in how hybrid should look, and will vary from situation to situation

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  • New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser
  • pendulum_ pendulum_ 7mo ago 50%

    Certainly wouldn't hurt them, the fear of God never hurts an international company

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  • New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser
  • pendulum_ pendulum_ 7mo ago 66%

    It's possible that I've been lucky, and my experience of end users when it comes to Windows lately have been using it since Windows 10 which strongly pushed the Default Apps configuration vs previous versions. The world is a big place after all

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  • New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser
  • pendulum_ pendulum_ 7mo ago 77%

    Almost all of them. Especially corporate customers on managed devices

    I'm as pro *Nix as the next person, but be careful of viewing the world through rage coloured lenses. Just makes everything look like a red flag.

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  • What happened to "stoner" comedies?
  • pendulum_ pendulum_ 7mo ago 100%

    Christopher Lloyd will always be the exception. I wouldn't bat an eyelid at him playing any role

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  • What happened to "stoner" comedies?
  • pendulum_ pendulum_ 7mo ago 95%

    They still exist, but the comedians you're nostalgic for doing them have gotten old now. And watching an old man trying to carry on like a teenager is more pathetic than funny.

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    Anonymous users are dominating right-wing discussions online. They also spread false information
  • pendulum_ pendulum_ 7mo ago 100%

    Next you'll say you don't have epic British mutton chops

    Day ruined :(

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    Anonymous users are dominating right-wing discussions online. They also spread false information
  • pendulum_ pendulum_ 7mo ago 28%

    Exact same arguments are made to minimise right wing extremists, "has to be a left wing false flag".

    Both are possible. The enemy is extremism, regardless of leaning.

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    A dangerous return to denial: Trump's threats against Biden met by familiar media shrug
  • pendulum_ pendulum_ 7mo ago 100%

    As do a lot of Reddit and now Lemmy users it seems.

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    Exclusive: Tesla scraps low-cost car plans amid fierce Chinese EV competition
  • pendulum_ pendulum_ 7mo ago 100%

    And despite the Lemmy/Reddit circle jerk that "EVs are bad", BYD pass the notoriously strict Australian safety standards and sell well here. The BYD Seal seems to be everywhere of late

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    ‘Romeo & Juliet’ Play Starring Tom Holland and Francesca Amewaduh-Rivers Faces ‘Barrage of Racial Abuse,’ Producer Says ‘This Must Stop’
  • pendulum_ pendulum_ 7mo ago 75%

    It's been a lot of years since high school English, but Juliet Capulet was of the Italian family Capulet in the 1590s.

    There is some detail in the references of the Capulet family to real world factions of the time. But both those arguing for and against this casting don't care about any of that.

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  • What show are you re-watching?
  • pendulum_ pendulum_ 7mo ago 100%

    Just recently finished rewatching House MD.

    Hugh Laurie is ridiculously handsome. Olivia Wilde is beautiful beyond words.

    And Jesse Spencer's hair, by the gods.

    All up, the show meandered and was formulaic (by design). Parts of it aged terribly, but was a good rewatch

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  • What do you use AI/LLMs for in your personal life?
  • pendulum_ pendulum_ 7mo ago 100%

    Virtual partners are indeed a thing.

    One of the more popular ones a few months ago decided to nerf the sexy time talks, which was intersting in how much it emotionally hurt users. They described feeling like their virtual partner was no longer the same person that they'd fallen for. Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-03-01/replika-users-fell-in-love-with-their-ai-chatbot-companion/102028196

    There are also huge fears of how much data harvesting they are capable of performing.

    I'm in two minds. On one, they are definitley not real. They are code. But on the other, the epidemic of lonely human beings is only getting worse with time and not better, and anything that can help people feel less lonely has to be a good thing, right?

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    Spectator rushes stage at CS2 tournament and gets tackled into trophy, smashing it to pieces
  • pendulum_ pendulum_ 7mo ago 98%

    Oof, and the organiser of this stunt isn't just doubling down, or tripling down, he's quadrupling down on it.

    What an idiotic hill to die on

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  • CDPR Says Cyberpunk 2077 Has Made $750 Million So Far
  • pendulum_ pendulum_ 7mo ago 100%

    Fighting the itch to replay again to replay Phantom Liberty? I am :(

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  • How Reddit Is Repeating The History Of The Site It Killed.
  • pendulum_ pendulum_ 7mo ago 100%

    And it was a barebones alternative to Digg when the exodus did happen.

    It grew, and it did good things. But yeah, Ozymandias happens again and again

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  • Why are upvotes blue?
  • pendulum_ pendulum_ 7mo ago 100%

    It was jarring for me at first, but it grew on me very fast. Also, in my opinion, looks cleaner on dark mode

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  • [Gamers Nexus] Don't Buy a "Gaming Chair" - Office Chair vs. Gaming Chair Round-Up & Review
  • pendulum_ pendulum_ 7mo ago 100%

    YMMV but I put I small cushion behind my lower back on an IKEA Markus and it's been my favourite chair I've ever had

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  • How are newer cars (gas/hybrid) supposed to sound?
  • pendulum_ pendulum_ 7mo ago 87%

    Sadly, a lot of pedestrians are stupid. I've watched them walking across a road, phone in hand, straight into an idling parked V6 with a hole in its exhaust, and still be confused.

    Pedestrian warning systems are a good idea. But nature will always come up with a better idiot

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  • Similar to the recent question about artists where you can successfully separate them from their art. Are there any artists who did something so horrible, so despicable, that it has instantly invalidated all art that they have had any part in?

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