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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • The average people don’t know the concept of browser. I saw people using Google search (the app) as a browser. I saw people trying to login in their webmail using Google search (the app), then in order to see what photo they wanted to upload they went back to home by closing the WebView, watching the photo, then using again the Google search app to login in their webmail. Extremely infuriating, I wanted to die.



  • I noticed that that “high speed resin” was sold out even if they were still bundling it with new printers

    Then I realized that the profile for that resin in their own official slicer had half the vertical resolution and half the exposure time. It’s something broken that they created just for allowing the marketing to say “the fastest printer on the market, full prints in 2 hours instead of 8”. Even the demo file that was given with the resin had layer delamination when printed, and that’s the best use case, an empty cylinder that needs no support and has a constant wall thickness all around













  • Suppose you have $1000 in stocks for XYZ inc. You’re also in charge for their communication channel with the public

    You’re told from your boss that the company got badly hacked and will cease operation immediately, please write a public statement about that.

    Instead of doing that, you use that insider info to call your broker and sell all your stocks for $1000. Then you go on the computer and write that public statement. The company is out of business and the stocks are now worth $0.01. But luckily you got out before the disaster, right? No, it’s insider trading and it will send you to prison.

    So IMHO both will be charged. The admins should have told only under NDA, the mods should not have sold (but for all that money? Who would have just accepted that 70k dollars are gone immediately?)

    Now, this shitcoin was monopoly money, but for some reason people invested thousands on it. Selling everything after getting insider info is the definition of insider trading.

    Maybe no investigation will occur because it was unregulated trading of monopoly money but who knows, why risking having multiple discussions about everything happened




  • But meanwhile lose all credibility. If you don’t want to commit to a specific piece of hardware, don’t sell it. A $5000 whiteboard with a $600 yearly subscription AND that requires paid Google workspace subscriptions for each user (100 employees=$12000 each year) will NEVER be ultra popular. They already knew from the beginning that they wouldn’t be possibly move millions of units of this and they would just cash in from the subscriptions.

    All files generated on this devices are proprietary and saved on their servers. As of now, it’s not possible to get them and open on a computer. When they pull the plug, they’re all gone.

    For example, when Twitter died and they sold all the forniture at the auction, they had more than an hundred devices like this. https://bid.hgpauction.com/past-auctions/herita10216?term=Jamboard

    Maybe the new management kept some of the boards, but here they spent half million in hardware + 60k yearly for the software licenses + another hundreds of thousands for the required Google workspace accounts for the users. And for what? For e-waste that ends with no drop-in replacement. Now corps need to quickly find an alternative and they need to pay extra to convert the generated files to the new platform.

    Behaving like this will definitely hurt future sales, as Google will be labeled as the supplier that suddenly disappears without a drop-in replacement.

    There are a lot of other companies that discontinue and render the purchased hardware a brick within a short timeframe, for example Cisco, but at least they have an upgrade path and not “we exit the market, good luck”.