MystikIncarnate

Honestly, probably not much less secure than SMS.

It also makes employees wealthier.... Think of all the money you flush down the drain making your car move from home to the office and back again.... Just that alone is easily thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars per year, depending on your vehicle and type of fuel, efficiency, etc.

Everyone wins except the real estate owners and their stakeholders, which, as you astutely pointed out, are the business owners. Rent is a way for them to essentially launder money into their own pockets. They legitimately pay their office rent, and a chunk of that comes back to them in dividends from the land owning company.

It's a club, and you ain't in it.

I both agree and disagree with the conclusions in the title....

I agree that for many people, they're happier, and likely more productive, working from home.

I would also agree that for many different people, working from an office makes them happier/more productive.

It entirely depends on the job, who you are, and the work culture. Some places are toxic and working from home to get away from it is helpful for job satisfaction. I've known people who simply focus better when they're at the office since they have a lot of distractions at home. I know for me, the opposite is true. at home, I'm in control and can limit exposure to distractions, and I can be more productive, more comfortable and overall less unhappy with my job.

IMO, this discussion is less about what companies want, whether work from home or hybrid, or in office .... The main conclusion that we should be driving home is that different people need different environments to do their best work, and be happiest with their particular job. To put it simply: workers need to be able to choose.

Until we're at the stage where employers care less about how, and where you do the work, and they care more about the work getting done.... We're going to keep going back and forth on this.

I like to work from home. That's me.

I know people who prefer to work from an office. There's plenty of people who feel they work best from the office.

There's plenty of people that need to mix between home and office work.

Bluntly: as long as you can do the work from where you're working, and how you're working, the rest should be flexible. We're (presumably) adults and professionals. If we're given work and we're being paid to do the work, then we will do the work. We don't need to be constantly supervised by middle management like toddlers.

I was gifted a 2080Ti about a year or so ago and I have no intention on upgrading anytime soon. The former owner of my card is a friend who had it in their primary gaming rig, back when SLI wasn't dead, he had two.

So when he built a new main rig with a single 4090 a few years back he gifted me one and the other one he left in his old system and started using that as a spare/guest computer for having impromptu LANs. It's still a decent system, so I don't blame him.

In any case, that upgraded my primary computer from a 1060 3G.... So it was a welcome change to have sufficient video memory again.

The cards keep getting more and more power hungry and I don't see any benefit in upgrading... Not that I can afford it.... I haven't been in school for a long time, and lately, I barely have time to enjoy YouTube videos, nevermind a full assed game. I literally have to walk away from a game for so long between sessions that I forget the controls. So either I can beat the game in one sitting, or the controls are similar enough to the defaults I'm used to (left click to fire, right click to ADS, WASD for movement, ctrl or C for crouch, space to jump, E to interact, F for flashlight, etc etc...); that way I don't really need to relearn anything.

This is a big reason why I haven't finished some titles that I really wanted to, like TLoU, or Doom Eternal.... Too many buttons to remember. It's especially bad with doom, since if you don't remember how, and when to use your specials, you'll run out of life, armor, ammo, etc pretty fast. Remembering which special gives what and how to trigger it.... Uhhh .... Is it this button? Gets slaughtered by an imp ... Okay, not that button. Reload let's try this... Killed by the same imp not that either.... Hmmm. Goes and looks at the key mapping ohhhhhh. Okay. Reload I got it this time.... Dies anyways due to other reasons

Whelp. Quit maybe later.

You must play along.

The fact is that the reality is thinly veiled. They know that if they were not being paid to be there to interview me, they wouldn't be, but they "tow the company line" anyways. I mirror the same back at them.... Oh yeah, profits uh huh, shareholders, yeah, totally.

They know I don't care about any of that, but if you're not willing to at least try to pretend, then it demonstrates that you lack the diplomatic skill to hear, understand, and feedback the horseshit that the company will peddle, and you'll be able to survive all the HR, managerial, team building nonsense they're going to throw at you while you're there.

They know you don't care and just want the paycheque, because that's what they want too. Nobody needs to say it.

Yeah. The point doesn't really change from this fact though.

This one, right here OP.

Capitalism is, at its core: Profits > all

Profit is more important to these chucklefucks than the customers happiness, their loyalty, the staff that make the product, hell, even the product they're selling... This includes your life; profit is more important than your life. If they can bump their quarterly earnings with you doing something dangerous that turns you into a fucking grease stain, they'll fucking do it. They're psychopaths.

Only because of laws does any company do "the right thing". Everything else they do is to reduce expenses, or increase profits.

They wouldn't try to make the next fortnite, if fortnite didn't make its creators disgusting amounts of money. Games wouldn't become micro transaction hell if microtransactions didn't rake in shitloads of cash steadily.

Video Games are simply their tool to extract the maximum possible value they can from you. First it was stupid one-off horse cosmetics, then it was paid DLC, then they started shipping half of a game before it was ready (cutting dev costs so they could get their payout faster), then releasing paid "DLC" which was the rest of the fucking game.... To now, when we have little more than an idea, some mechanics, and somewhat unique art design before the steaming pile that they call a game gets to be "released", and they'll literally add everything later.

Look at halo. Let's use it as a case study. The original game had its share of problems on release, but it was at least pretending to be a full game when it came out. Full single player and multi player, with a fully fleshed out campaign, complete with working cutscenes. Halo 2 followed a similar path, for the most part... Eventually, the Halo dev team became beholden to the almighty shareholder and now we have halo infinite with an infinite amount of bullshit and no single player campaign... Unless you want to pay extra for it, or for these skins, or for.... You get the idea.

I played, and liked Halo. I fell away from it after Halo 2/3 due to life stuff, and at this point, I picked up the master chief collection for the nostalgia, but that's probably the last money I'm putting into the franchise. I just can't be bothered. It was good while it lasted.

Halo is hardly unique in this. I only used them as an example because it was easy. I could have also used Diablo....

There's so many songs, TV shows, movies, etc, that's all romance or love stories that contain very blatant infidelity.

What tickles me is when very monogamous, very religious people talk that stuff up.... Like it's such a good song/movie/show... Ha. You have fantasies of leaving your spouse and running off with a younger, more attractive person. You slut.

I'm not religious, but I found a partner that gets me. Guess what. I'm not fantasizing about running off with some mythical "better" or "more romantic" person. Yeah, we're living together unmarried, and we're good like that. You rushed into marriage for God knows what reasons and now you live in regret. Good job.

What a goof. This is exactly who you voted for. You knew what he was going to do. He was very vocal and very public about it.

You still supported and voted for him.

I don't know how stupid you have to be to posthumously get mad that you got exactly what you supposedly wanted when you voted for it, just because it was what was clearly described, and not the rose colored picture you had in your mind of what things meant.

Get bent.

Good point.

.... Compared to what?

If you compare to MacOS, then yeah, maybe.

What a loser.

Asking for consent then respecting the answer he's given.... Real Alphas grab them by the pussy! They like that. ( /s obv.)