This principle applies to many stores. If you shop at a mattress store the mattress pads are priced at triple the value.

I’m unfortunately dependent upon said company, as a “partner”, which just means a hack indie developer who herds customers to the slaughter for the corp.

The last round of layoffs was a brutal experience for the “Plus” customers. They lost crucial advisers and support, and now the guidance available is a bored and untrained chat support thrall on the other side of the world, or a stochastic parrot.

You can smell the enshittification from here. The vendor lock-in is so intense it seemed inevitable.

Yeah, but that’s just it, there is no one thing that fulfils all your needs if you are forced to use a particular tool, but it lacks privacy or freedom or other features.

I use chrome because I have to and also am curious and I need to know about how Google runs its shit. I run Firefox because of various features it has that are good for web development. I run Safari because it is fast and relatively private outside of the Apple ecosystem And has some great developer tools.

The effort of one keyboard twitch to move from one browser to the other is not really any amount of friction for me. It’s easier than switching from one tab to another inside the same browser, so I don’t get your fixation on a single tool.

And as a PS, I won’t touch Brave with a 10 foot pole anymore because of their Fuckery with crypto.

I, too, am forced to use Chrome for parts of my work.

I just run Chrome for that set of tasks. Then quit, or tab to Firefox for regular browsing.

This is SOP when dealing with uglies like google, microsoft, amazon, adobe, or meta: do the toxic thing or software they require, as sandboxed as reasonable, then get back to daily life and more knowable risks.

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There are still supply chain issues, or synthetic shortages. So many annoying ‘out of stock’ listings for PS5’s in Canada, and prices are locked at MSRP mostly.

I charge $90(CDN), pay myself around $40. Solo contractor with occasional support staff.

Need to up my rate, it’s a bit low for what I do, even though I’m no genius or expert specialist.

Realllly not sure how what I wrote was hatred or redditworthy, I must be missing some unwritten code. Maybe it’s a communism vs anarchism thing?

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It will run macOS 11 Big Sur, which isn’t fully out of date yet.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102662 “How to download and install macOS”

You will want to install via USB probably. See "use a bootable installer " on the link above.

I would wipe/install.

I mean, yeah, like, it’s a relationship, innit?

I built a couple of bespoke CRMs in the early 00’s and built this option in by using a separate table for companies and individuals, then associating them, which made add/remove with a button trivial.

I look at current SaaS CRM’s and shake my head; we’ve gone backwards.

I think you are referring to rules in the USA. In Canada, we have ‘fair dealing’ laws that would allow you to rip your CD and sell it. In part, this is already funded by a levy on blank CDs here.

13 years one account, 9 years the other.

After the API enshittification clarion, I sat down for hours and munged every. single. damn. comment with a complaint about this.

THEN I deleted the accounts.

For now, Lemmy is merely potential, but shaping up. Mastodon is microblogging and is built around individuals promoting themselves, so it feels egotistical, but it’s more mature than Lemmy so I lurk there for now too.

Ultimately I am a forum user, as a participant in a conversation. Looking forward to that again.