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  • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldPeerTube channels?
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    18 days ago

    Are you moving away because you don’t like the company running it?

    ReVanced and blockers is a good solution for that in its own way.

    But if it’s something else, please let me know because YouTube is probably what I use most in place of a streaming service, so if there’s something better, let me know.



  • Absolutely. I applied for months out of college and FINALLY got a response. It was a sales marketing yadda yadda, this, that, and the other thing. Whatever. I needed anything. On my first day it became apparent that it was indeed door to door sales to businesses. So not private homes, thankfully. The people who were good at the job were some of the scummiest people I’ve ever met. The job basically taught you to prey on the elderly and foreign people who did not know what we were doing. It was for fixed rate electricity. It’s not necessarily a scam, but the way we did the job was scammy. Bonus was the managers, two of them, were a young husband and wife. Imagine crypto-bro jerkoffs but RIGHT before that nonsense took off. The single sale I ever made was to a very nice elderly Korean man whose daughter immediately canceled the sale. I lasted two weeks and one day. It was fucking miserable. OH, and it was 100% commission and you used your own car to drive around. I lost money working for them. And then covid hit. There’s no way they survived that.






  • I’m not going to give up, but I’ve really stagnated on upgrades over the past decade.

    I used to get a new phone every year back when you could do that for $100 a year. Now I go five years between.

    My last computer was built in 2012 and I used it until October 2024, and could have kept using it. It was fully upgraded and played all new games on high settings fine. That said, I’m extremely glad I did a new build in October 2024.

    And then you have consoles. One has no exclusives and is dead, the other has two exclusives and is there, and the other is Nintendo and is expensive and has its own lineup issues, depending on who you ask.

    Tech is stagnating hard and has been for a while. Buy the mid range or high end of what you can afford and acquire right now, and then sit on it for a decade.