Move to an in-demand field. Blue-collar workers are in short supply, and the trades pay well.

If not even your direct employer is aware of a strike that presumably affects them, how the hell would a government five, ten layers removed be able to tell?

Not going to tell you not to take your sick day. I take sick days too…

The whole point of a strike that the employer knows you are striking and that you want x change? What change is being achieved with your employer if they just think you are sick?

I can’t imagine wanting to rent a TV. If you are that strapped for money, you need to be looking at cheaper TVs. They aren’t hard to find used…

I agree the best course of action was to not rehash the same stale games over and over for the last decade. Unfortunately, they kept that cycle going until there was nothing left in the tank. They let this massive problem fester until there is no longer any choice except drastic action.

Exactly. Every employee costs the company 1.5x-2x their salary (benefits, taxes, etc, etc). So, you are talking just a few months of personal costs covered (not to mention piles and piles of other, non-personnel, costs). $780M in the bank at is a terrifyingly small amount of money to work with.

They appear to have multiple stock types (this is common for large companies). The interesting part there is not the dollar value of each, but the 95% loss of value their stocks have have experienced over the last 5 years. The company is in the shitter and drastic changes are needed to keep it out of bankruptcy.

Ubisoft is in the shitter and they, for some reason, have over 17,000 employees. A strike over layoffs will most likley result in that entire office being closed. Ubisoft simply doesn’t have the sales to back up their overinflated head count.

Their stock is literally a penny stock right now. Down 95% in the last 5 years…

Because they don’t have to. This quarterly report is good! Copilot use is up (because it was shoved into yet another app) and costs are down (because they layed even more people off). Businesses are locked in for the near future, so core sales remain high.

It doesn’t matter desktop Linux use drastically increased. That doesn’t affect this quarter. This quarter is all about cutting costs and pushing AI. If there is a problem in a few quarters, it doesn’t matter. You sold your stocks by then.

Yeah, it sucks. Windows used to be dependable and solid, the whole point of the OS was IT JUST WORKS. They had some downturns in the past (Vista, 8) but you could just skip those. XP, 7, etc. Now though? There is no skipping 11, not if you want security updates. They could have made Copilot it’s own app that you can ignore, but no, even notepad needs AI for some reason. The start menu has ads, the notification center has ads.

Finally pushed me to switch to Mint this past year. My SO followed too. Been happier with it. Feels like I’m in control of the OS again, and it is there to do what I wish. Never going back.

Sweet, glad that fixed one of your problems!

I think they did 3D sonic better than Sega did!

Your wish has already been granted.

Currently happily using Heroic to manage GOG games. But, I still welcome GOG putting in effort to make it a smooth experience.

You don’t need GOG galaxy to install and run GOG games. In fact you shouldn’t if you care about keeping your games.

Disagree. The fewer barriers to using a game the better. GOG offers full DRM free downloads regardless of Galaxy existing.

I have had bad experiences with onboard audio and bluetooth on desktop machines. Might be easiest just to get a USB adapter for both and just not worry about the motherboard issues.

I personally like this DAC. Can confirm it works out of the box on both Windows and Linux.

I would also check in the Sound screen to make sure the right output device is selected. Could be audio is going to a monitor or something silly.

I remember being excited for the Oculus Rift. Then Facebook bought it and my interest went to zero. Even now, whenever someone talks about different VR headests, everyone puts ‘Facebook’ in the negative column if it is from them.

I’m pretty excited about the new Steam VR heasdest that is fully self-contained, though. :)

Microsoft railroads you into this. Your Bitlocker key will get exfiltrated unless you do a bunch of bullshit to make sure it isn’t.

And that’s the thing with Microsoft, they just keep doing this everywhere in Windows. There is and endless torrent of shit to turn off. No reasonable person will keep on top of it. And if you fuck up a singular time, they just vacuum everything.

Naw, you are fine.

Game-makers apparently never got the memo: never trust the client. Server-side is where it is at.

All this onerous client-side shit is just pushing away customers.

Veracrypt carried the torch.