I can’t speak to your specific examples since I don’t work there.

The reasons beyond CapEx considerations are things like security, compliance, warranty coverage expiration, standardization across the org, general employee satisfaction, hardware falling out of vendor support.

I doubt the banks computers are single purpose or purchased specifically for each job role. Sure a 15 or 30 year old computer might technically work but there’s no way it’ll meet regulatory security compliance rules.

The home user/hobbyist approach really doesn’t scale to corporate IT.

Banks and corporations change computers every 3-5 years because accounting love to lease rather to buy

3-5 years is a pretty standard depreciation schedule for IT equipment like computers, peripheral accessories etc.

Computers and laptops (using Straight-line method): 31.67% with a useful life of 3 years.

Computers and laptops (using Written Down Value method): 63.16% with a useful life of 3 years

It really has nothing to do with leasing vs. buying.

maybe a small park a 15 minute walk away

This is really dependent on where you live in the US. I just checked and the house I grew up in was within a 15 minute or less walk of 7 parks and 15 minutes isn’t really that far to walk. Especially in the US.

Honestly that quote sounds a lot like my childhood in Minnesota in the late 80s and early 90s.

Some of that might be rosy retrospection but I wonder how much this has changed in the US over the years.

I’m a 20 year round and also sleep with a fan on in the winter. Here the average temp during the coldest month of the winter is around -12°C.

Have an upvote because same.

I have around the house clothes (a t-shirt and gym shorts in summer, sweatpants in winter) that end up next to the bed at night.

Underwear goes in the hamper.

I’ve had to get up and go outside in the middle of the night before because of the dog and I either just thrown those clothes on sans underwear or wear the robe on a hook next to the bed.

And now those VPN subscriptions go up, up, up.

Which country will take America’s place when it falls? America is not the first and while history may not repeat, it often echoes and they won’t be the last.

Obviously a guy that thinks being as dishonest as it is possible to get away with is perfectly good business.

That’s the secret to “earning” billions of dollars.

After World War I, the United States returned to limited isolationism primarily due to war disillusionment, economic concerns, and political opposition to international organizations like the League of Nations

Two things can be true at the same time.

This right here. The US was isolationist prior to WWII but then got attacked and drawn in to active war.

Since the mainland of US was untouched by war directly, and industry boomed post depression and during the war they came out of it better off than Europe, which had a lot of rebuilding to do.

As a result of the war and the need for defense they established bases all across the globe and for the last 80-90 years as the political system grew more corrupt the increase of American hegemony followed.

Did you know, John Deere never saw a tractor.

Is it bugs? I bet it’s bugs.

The issue I have in the US is that, in Minnesota at least, the only reason to move into a crosswalk is to turn right on red however you’re supposed to stop at the crosswalk before proceeding across it and almost nobody does.

Edit: Also, happy cake day!

It might have been intended as a joke but I, and I’m sure thousands of other Minnesotans, don’t find it funny. It also serves to normalize the behavior of America’s wannabe despot and spreads misinformation to those who don’t know better.

Responding to a polite request with some variation of “It was just a joke” speaks volumes.

Intent is different from impact; we may intend a comment in one way, but it may be interpreted by others differently. Importantly: we are responsible for the impact, not just the intent, of our words and actions.

Truth.

that’s not what I see in the countless threads here in Lemmy

Your sample size is Lemmy. No issue there, definitely representative of the US and its population as a whole.

Your premise is flawed and the Occupy movement demonstrates it. 5 years of sustained protesting to not achieve the kind of change you seem to expect to see.

Your under the misconception the sustained non-stop protesting is equivalent to sustained action and activism. I’ve already covered this and I’m not going to go over it again, I’ll just copy and paste what I already wrote:

The problems in the US have been building and evolving for decades, if not longer, and they’ll take at least that long to get a handle on.

Non-stop protesting has the same hurdle as a nationwide general strike and is just as unrealistic, especially considering how long it would have to last.

Again, you’re just repackaging the same bullshit sentiment as OP and all over everywhere else on Lemmy.

I’m not going to engage you any further as your agenda seems to be to argue in opposition of the movement occurring in the US.

Please stop spreading this. He will be charged by the state which would require the Minnesota Pardon Board to vote to pardon him. That’s the Governor, the State AG and the Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court. 2/3 would be required to vote in favor of a pardon.

Notice the merelly starting the very sentence sentence you quote from me about the George Floyd protests. The pigs are still often holding people down by putting their knee on that person’s neck, so how exactly has the largest demonstration in America changed anything?!

Assuming you meant merelly as merely I saw it but your claim that no change occurred is wrong. The change that did occur was unsustained because people in the US got complacent. They protested and cared for a while but then they stopped paying attention and things started back the way the were, now worse in some areas.

Notice how I said sustained effort? The thing that didn’t happen after George Floyd.

If all that people do is walk and shout with lots of other people and then at the end of it go home with a feeling of achievement and do nothing further

“Do nothing further”? You mean further than the protests 2 days ago that set record numbers? Or the ones that have been ongoing every weekend for months? That have been building and increasing to the No Kings day protest? Is that the do nothing further you’re referring to?

People here are way over-celebrating something which means very little unless we see that it has led to many following it with getting involved in politics and/or grassroots movements

Are you in regular contact with the majority of the US population that you can say that hasn’t been happening? I’m pretty sure the growing numbers of protesters is people getting “involved in politics and/or grassroots movements”.

it’s premature and it makes me suspect that for many who participated this one demonstration was it and they aren’t following it through with next steps.

Oh, you’re predicting the future 48 hours post protest. This is just the same bullshit “your protesting isn’t good enough” sentiment everywhere else on Lemmy repackaged and with more words.

So my point is that people need to keep their eye on the long term solution for America’s problems, and that doesn’t stop with kicking Trump out, it requires a far deeper cleanup of the American political system and addressing the problems of common Americans so that another guy like Trump (or, more likely, worse) doesn’t get eventually get in power after Trump is out.

Denigrating the effort to date doesn’t do anything to further your point. Instead it serves to quell support and push a negative outlook and view of protesting.

Offering support, encouragement and advocating for sustained effort would.

You mentioned the George Floyd protests and said, in relation to that, “merelly coming out and walking for a bit in your own time while holding a board up doesn’t seem to achieve anything” but that’s not true.

During and immediately after George Floyd the protest effected a lot of change but then the protests stopped, complacency set in.

Trump is not the disease, he’s a symptom, so merely Trump out isn’t going to cure it.

No, the cure is sustained effort. The problems in the US have been building and evolving for decades, if not longer, and they’ll take at least that long to get a handle on.