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They want more growth and think the publicity from the change will drive more conversion.

The service is the holy grail of MBA. You own nothing and pay constantly. Subscriptions galore and there is zero portability so high vendor lock-in once you start customizing. The pricing agreement is entirely one sided so the execs can set bonus payout performance objectives in ways that let them take advantage of properly timed price increases.

It's similar to AWS, Azure and the rest of the cloud platforms and i've never heard anybody say moving to those saved them money even after staff reductions.

I get it, and that's why they would just hire the next guy on the street who would gladly take the money for the same job because they have been mostly unemployed for XX months/years.

Hundreds of thousands of layoffs and more and more declining QOL, benefits and pay. Just how it is today unless you are in one of the trending AI jobs - which will dry up and pay a fraction of what they used to before too long.

Instead they will be offered the same role with a 20-50% pay cut due to market conditions, and it will be 100% in person instead of fully remote or hybrid as it was just five years ago.

They're literally the ones lobbying for IDs on the OS level. https://byteiota.com/metas-2b-lobbying-age-verification-laws-exposed/

Like one of the guys says in the comments, highly unlikely. We're already seeing some downward pressure on prices the past couple of months. The market simply does not support another 90% of hikes (between this guy's Q3 and Q4 predictions)

Chinese brands are still producing and still adding supply to the global supply chain. Countries that can utilize chinese ram will buy them because they are cheaper, and they will keep producing more because they still can get a price premium from all the pent up demand.

Still gonna be a few years before prices come back down, but i'll be amazed if we see much more of an increase.

if I was on this guy's jury I would flat out refuse to convict him on any charge for this.

Shouldn't be legal to setup systems outdoors for mass surveillance. Cameras outside to inhibit vandalism is one thing, but this is warantless wiretapping equivalent.

The criminal justice system really is punitive from the very beginning.

There's what companies admit to publicly, and then there's what they're working on behind closed doors.

Most EULA have vague lines like "We will use your data to improve our services" which translates to something like: Your data is used in the services we sell.

Perhaps there would be a legal argument against shit like this, but how do you prove it in court? Even if you get discovery the odds of them offering up database tables they've hidden away that key up users to the data is never gonna happen. You'd have to report it as an insider.

Maybe we should be offering up $10m+ whistleblower bounties for stuff like this, because short of giving someone a golden parachute they're sure as shit not going to lose their careers over it.

I went with bitwarden and signs are pointing to them going to shit now.

Maybe it's time for me to keep ass.

At least it's just salesforce data and not actual vaults and secrets.

I moved away from these guys a long, long time ago when they started upping subscription costs.

I have a pile of spinning disks that were online for less than ten years under low usage load that failed. I have bins and bins full of them at work with enterprise drives too.

I have personally had a single ssd fail in 15 years, it was an SX6000 that died from controller issues. My first ones were 64GB ones back in the infancy of SSDs. The controllers have come a long way and speeds are now 10-100x faster and much more reliable. Never, ever had one go bad from TBW personally or professionally. I've never even met someone who has gotten that to happen, the controllers usually go long before the NAND.

12 years is still beyond the lifetime of a typical computer. Even if you do not have component failures you start spending more money on power to run these things than it would cost to replace them with faster, larger capacity newer systems that use less energy for more oompf. Only people with free or nearly free power are immune to this which is not common.

I'm not saying just throw out all the old systems though, but most people aren't gonna limp along on a 12 year old system as their daily driver. It might be ok for basic web browsing, word processing and email... but not much more than that. If it's a laptop it's gonna be dog slow.