• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    2 years ago

    “unlimited storage” was definitely a thing back in the day when the average high end user had a couple of TBs of data, but anyone using that now is just stupid. Full on stupid.

    Average high end users can and do have hundreds of TBs now. Companies are entering into the PB ranges. I feel no sympathy for a company who is just now figuring this out. Yes it’d be nice to have unlimited storage as a user, but as a company there is no sense to the cost anymore, and they should have done this 8 years ago

  • AuroraBorealis@pawb.social
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    2 years ago

    This is probably a result of that dumb crypto currency that uses proof of storage and people were just using Dropbox for it

  • jet@hackertalks.com
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    2 years ago

    Weird way to justify their price increase. Offering unlimited storage to business users, and finding out businesses are finding ways to leverage that for profit… shouldn’t have been labeled as abuse… Rising to market incentives might be a better approach.

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    2 years ago

    “Unlimited” is always a marketing gimmick, and they’ll always contact you like “hey I noticed you’re actually trying to use the thing you paid for you need to stop or we’ll terminate you”. Along the same lines: “Lifetime license” means 5 years, and “All-You-Can-Eat Pancakes means Four Pancakes.

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      2 years ago

      I tried the all you can eat pasta at Olive garden once.

      The first bowl happened.

      The second bowl was in like one of those little soup cups.

      They refused to come anywhere near our table after that except to slam the check down.

      Fuck everything about Olive garden

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        2 years ago

        I used to work at olive garden, it is true that we were told to give less on subsequent bowls (can’t tell you how much was wasted where people ordered a second or third bowl and took like two bites) but not coming back around after… that wasn’t something we were specifically told to do in my experience, probably just had a lazy server.

        One thing is the unlimited soup and salad was like $6 and some people would only order water, get like 4-5 refills on soup/salad/water and then tip like a dollar. That is one whole table for an hour+ I could have had sat with someone else who wasn’t being stingy as hell.

        On the other hand, tipping culture sucks the company should just pay a living wage instead of the like 2.50 an hour they pay.