Interesting, I am considering a Subaru to replace an analog ‘04 Honda. Will pay extra attention to this when test driving, thanks.

Everything should be physical buttons. I don't need that screen, I need to feel my way to controls without looking away from the road. We all know the screen is cheaper, but I'm paying 30-40k for a new car I want my buttons.

If you care about browser privacy, you should not be using Chrome, and it truly is that simple. If you want a chrome-like browser with privacy, Vivaldi or Chromium is a good choice, but Chrome-proper is absolutely not a "private" browser

> Unused RAM is wasted RAM

Your actual OS is well aware of that fact, and will use spare RAM to make everything faster rather than just the one narcissistic program hogging extra. It'll cache files on disk so that commonly-used things are even faster than SSD. It'll erase some amount of old memory pre-emptively so that when a program demands a block of fresh RAM, the OS can immediately hand some over. Probably other background optimizations too.

How about they revise chrome like duckduckgo and not watch our every move!

No idea. I have no clue how Jassy thinks, or how they're going to get out of their situation. Amazon seems like it's kind of an overgrown basket case right now. Maybe they should just start spinning off all the segments/businesses.

Requiring four touches on a screen to change the seat heater level is one of the things that has irritated me about my 2020 Outback. There is ample screen room for four buttons, but they only have one.

I'm not in comp, but I'm in a tech role adjacent to it, and I've been at the company nearly a decade. I'm not going to go into details as to how I'm so sure, but I know without a doubt that the 15% I quoted is correct, unless it has changed recently. I'm not at all surprised that this isn't standard because yeah, it's weird.

Regardless of that, this news is making clear that Amazon isn't as attractive an employer as it used to be, and I think that's the real takeaway here. Yes, people knew what they were getting into, but what they're getting into continues to get worse, and the days of soaring stock prices are over. Add on top of this that Amazon announced pay increases early last year then HR quickly walked that back and told current employees it didn't apply to us*, only new hires, and there's a huge amount of dissatisfaction at Amazon's compensation.

Yes, if people are dissatisfied and can find better elsewhere, they can leave (inertia and personal costs aside), but that's the whole point, that people *are* dissatisfied and so Amazon has a pretty significant and increasing retention risk.

*Base pay caps did apply to current employees, and base pay is now increasing above old caps, but there were no significant overall pay scale increases for current employees, only the usual incremental ones

So why should the people doing the work take a pay cut?

The privately owned business usually still has investors. Almost nobody has enough capital on their own to create a large business without raising capital.

I would rather make use of this RAM in other Apps. I absolutely don't care that Chrome could be or is an OS. It should not be one. Not while running on Windows.

Well, no. A privately held business doesn’t have to make a bunch of randos with an E*trade account happy.

Chrome: “Hey I am super fast”

Also Chrome: *allocating all the computer RAM*

Others: “Yeah that’s normal you are pre-allocating the memory before it is even requested, if all programs were doing this we would be doomed. That’s bullsh—“

Chrome: shhh

I mean, Reddit does seem to have a hard on for giving borrowed money to institutions that have no intention of helping them or delivering on promises. This fetish seems to present itself most when someone suggests that a task or procedure is actually very cheap and/or simple to perform oneself. Making such a suggestion tends to bring people out of the woodwork, furious that you would be so irresponsible/ignorant that you wouldn’t want to pay a ‘specialist’ exorbitant prices for whatever service.

I mean, don’t you know that without a PHD in electric engineering you’re going to burn down your apartment complex and only violent extremists would want to make their own circuit boards??

And they don't have to worry about advertiser's abandoning the platform because they hardly have any.

I think the amount of money they make is irrelevant and shouldn't prohibit them from complaining. My issue is complaining about a specific compensation variable that everyone knows can go up or down based on company performance and/or market conditions. People accept compensation in a myriad of ways. I had a contractor accept 2 jet skis once. He doesn't get to come back to me 2 years later when the jet skis depreciate asking for more compensation because the original compensation is no longer worth the original amount.

I, myself, am a compensation consultant in "big tech"... and while I don't have direct insight into how Amazon's compensation philosophy works, I would highly doubt they set their total comp targets with an assumption of 15% YoY appreciation on the stock. That just is not how the compensation industry sets benchmarks -- and we all use the same data to set our strategies.

If you're a comp consultant for Amazon, we should connect IRL and I'd love to learn more about how you guys roll that strategy out.

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No I don’t remember, Chrome has always been like this, since day 1.

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So your saying that you want Crome to use up 90% of your system memory while windows defender runs in the background ? No thanks that was total hell everything slowed to a craw. granted that was on a entry level laptop meant for web browsing and light use and had only 4GB of ram but it is supposed to just be a damn web browser

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