You have to enable Rotisserie mode.

For the same reason housing should be a speculative investment, and healthcare services available only to the highest bidder.

A General ignoramus

Oracle exists solely on inertia and big, dumb, uninformed customers. They were an early mover in the space for erp, and then they tried to develop everything else. I work in HR and filter out jobs where “PeopleSoft” is their product as it’s so monumentally unfit for human and operational use and eats up all technical, financial and employee resources to try to make it do simple, common things. Companies spend far more training, hiring consultants (because the product is unintuitive and limited in functionality) to operate the system and “customizations” that take years to build and a cadre of expensive folks to keep running is not the exception but the standard. If you see “Oracle” or “PeopleSoft” in the URL for a job application, run far, far away.

20 years ago only big companies had a need for the scale of an erp, and unfortunately many of them went with Oracle. SAP was the other dog and while similarly unintuitive at least worked well at what it did, bless the Germans. There are soooo many better, more flexible more intuitive, modern products that users can learn and use to choose from, only the truly hopeless are still using Oracle products for ERP and HRIS.

The most insidious part of Oracle is that because of how difficult it is to use, change, modify and learn, the people responsible for changing these systems experience Stockholm syndrome where they don’t want to change to a better system. All they know is failure, pain, lack of comprehension and lack of understanding of products and the thought of starting over in another system mortifies them, and so they become the barrier to telling Oracle to piss off.

I work in HR. No one cares.

Yeah, it’s all just creepy, anxiety inducing design to force interaction. Ask most people and they feel pressured to respond to texts–and that was even before rcs.

Apple finally enabled rcs in the last week, at least for Verizon, all kinds of things and kinks are expected.

Or it could also be some people don’t want to send read receipts, I’ve always thought they And “typing” indicators were creepy AF

Life hack and Consumerist used to be two of my favorite reads and forums. Then they were absorbed into the Borg and stopped putting out anything useful.

It was dumb speculation until he took down all regulatory apparatus, and grabbed the national checkbook while trump made himself a puppet king. Now any money not in Tesla is crazy.

Divorced from reality? Teslas CEO controls Treasury payments as of a week ago.

I cannot think of an easier bet than on a dictator’s personal interests rising. Trump is just a sock puppet for a bit. Musk, Vance, etc. are the next Gen of uglier.

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10 years ago Intel was starting to realize that mobile phones might be popular. They had every advantage to understand and shape the future and somehow managed to not understand mobile chips and graphics cards–which they manufactured both for a long time, would be important areas of computing.

Complete, total, utter failure of leadership and vision, product management. They finally swapped it CEO like a year ago after they’d cemented decades of sleepwalking as a company.

It’s not sad, it’s pathetic and a testament to poor management being able to kill a company despite all possible advantages.

To make it clear that their only loyalty is to money. They would sell “murder your mom knives” if it helped their stock price and murderers were buying them.

I paused, glancing at the notes I didn’t have because who needs notes when you’re used to making it up as you go? My eyes bore down on the press assembled with the foremost minds of our times in economics and said the first thing that popped into my mind, “Tarrifs!”. It was a resounding success and everyone thought I was a genius.

The last few years watching the hype train and thinking that Nigerian prince emails, lottery winners and everything else still makes it through their pathetic email filters and they want to launch rocket ships with their omnipotent AI? GTFO

Why have I not heard “Old Spice” before now? Much better than using that sack’s given names.

“Google said that when the feature does roll out, it’ll be entirely optional for adults but opt-out for users who are under the age of 18.”

“For now. We forgot to add that. For now. Empower fascists or don’t be evil, whichever gets me paid.”

This is the opportunity the Fediverse was waiting for.

“upgrading”

In the same way poker players misuse or misunderstand “pot equity” as a concept to justify chasing poor hands.