I may be misremembering but seem to recall them being early to Tw*tter too. Good sign

I keep trying to be charitable and think of it in an "incompetence rather than malice" way, but Linus lying, twisting and tripling down isn't making it easy.

Another example of Musk being a cunt, what a surprise

Knew before clicking it'd be crypto crap

Connect seems good enough to me

It's so annoying. I want to love Apple, heck I've been there and HAD Apple everything. They have a great *nix OS, well polished ecosystem, very good security and privacy practices... but hostility towards repair, along with planned obsolescence, ended up turning me off. One aspect is sustainability. Repair is more sustainable than recycle. They have good recycling credentials but that should be last resort.

Let's be honest though, when everyone is shifting to the fediverse to avoid corporate shit, they're more likely to gravitate to other things that are free and open and be less interested in something closed and for-profit

Had Beyond a few times, it's really impressive. I'm not a vegetarian (sorry) but rather a meat reducer. Keep making stuff like this available and I and many people like me will have no more excuses.

41 dating 25, we're both happy but guess I should hand myself in somewhere ;~;

But yeah definitely looking younger than 36 based on these standards 😅

The recent climate scares shook me up, I'm embracing whatever we can do to reduce our impact. A lot of it is small, but it's voting with the wallet.

Thing is, the whole economic system relies on a steady stream of "buy a replacement". If you make something that lasts forever, the maximum number of sales you can make is around 8 billion (usually less). So stuff needs to wear out and break. I'm sure as heck going to challenge it regardless.

And honestly a recent sustainable purchase was a toothbrush by Suri (my old brush broke. It's still greener to use what you already have if it works). As a very sleek, quiet, well designed product that feels of a high build quality it's debunked the thought of sustainable meaning "same thing but with sacrifices". It proved to me that some sustainable stuff can actually be better.

Trouble is that means using an iPhone. I just came from there. Apple suck in their own unique ways and are no better really.

I literally saw it everywhere on Mastodon, like, I honestly never saw anyone say it directly, just "birdsite" or a censored version. So I adapted to be polite. And sometimes forget which form of fediverse I'm posting on.

I'm with you on the high seas ever since Star Trek bounced around from place to place. When you're thinking "uhhh which do I watch this particular spinoff on, is it Netflix or Amazon Prime or..." it's already too much like hard work. Then they decided to make the latest exclusive to Paramount, yet another subscription. Eh, nah, at that point it's time to make like Tascha and Yarr it.

However in part I think the comparison to cable (or would've been Sky here) is psychological. With those big services you're still effectively paying to watch a few shows a bunch of different "streaming services" (channels/networks in that case) but as it's all bundled up into, say, £60/month, you don't think about it. Or, the average person doesn't - personally I've never justified that much to watch TV. Now that it's split out into different payments, £10 here for service A, £10 there for service B, the waste of paying so much to so many different services just to watch a few shows becomes more apparent.

I can see an eventual future when the cores, RAM and storage are all on one IC or something which would also be great for performance (I just bought a desktop processor that does some clever stacking of extra L3 cache on top of the cores). As others said though we're not quite there yet.

Ever since Steve Jobs (I think perhaps as a way of coping with illness making him thinner himself) Apple has done this thing of telling consumers that they want thinner, thinner, thinner at all costs (and other manufacturers following Apple because of course they do) but I've seen no real evidence of consumers actually wanting this. I for one (and I know I'm far from the only one) don't actually mind a bit more thickness if it means a bigger battery, using an M.2 slot (oh no a few mm difference) etc.

Not really equivalent. Smoking permanently leaves all kind of nasty shit in your lungs and causes cancer. Also very addictive, making moderation physically difficult (alcohol can also be addictive but not to the same extremes). Alcohol in moderation isn't really an issue. Pushing it more can give your liver a bad time, but as long as you give it a break before the point of disease it can bounce right back.

There is a societal problem especially in the UK in that it's seen as a sort of matter of pride to throw moderation out of the window and get as wasted as possible, but I have my doubts that graphic health warnings will do much about that. Either way it's more an effect of society ignoring and sometimes even shaming moderation (how many times have you been shamed for going home before you fall over on a work's night out) than the alcohol itself.

This is one thing I actually like them doing. I'm a social watcher and also have other things to do; I want to talk about an episode with friends afterwards, and the phenomenon of racing to binge watch an entire series in one or two sittings ruined that. (As well as forcing me to stay away from half the internet until I've binged the series myself due to spoilers). I don't like being "forced" to binge, much rather savour it one episode at a time as it's produced, really take in and enjoy and discuss the details of each one. Really makes you appreciate it more IMO.

I see your financial argument though, I guess you could wait until a series is over and then subscribe for 1 month and binge away. Or, of course, yarr.

Was going to say piracy then realised you said the general public. I don't think piracy will ever be as prolific as it was when you could just physically hand your mate a VHS tape - torrenting etc is a bit complex for most, as well as the risk of your ISP getting in touch. Those in the know use VPNs and the like but this is a bit techy for the general public.

I think they'll just cough up. Most average people don't micromanage their finances so they don't notice how a tenner for this streaming a service, a tenner for that streaming service etc ends up adding up to more than their cable/satellite/etc subscription did. They just see "a tenner for Paramount" (or whatever) in a vacuum and figure that it's not much, rather than adding them all together to work out what their monthly TV cost is.

There's a lot of [citation needed] here, as for touchscreen I can see Apple's point also, I've never had any desire at all to sit there with my arm outstretched poking a PC display (and covering it in fingerprints too). I've played with touchscreen laptops and it feels just as arm-tiring and unnatural as they said.

Wow it's ALMOST got a slice of the operating system pi!

I don't think any of this would stop me from using FF for day to day browsing.

2 - At this point I'd just pirate it. I don't care. If you're going to be hostile to paying customers, I'm going to be a non-paying customer again.

3 - Separate banking app. Not bothered about desktop banking

4 - Fine I'll support local businesses where possible, and use dedicated apps or if necessary Chrome (preferably sandboxed) specifically for shopping where not.

5 - Social media was a mistake anyway, already deleted Twitter, I need very little excuse to get rid of Facebook as well.

Honestly I think this is just the end phase of "Web 2.0" as I remember all this shit being labelled at the time. We managed fine with independent forums etc before and will manage again.

Edit: I love the irony that people are killing off Reddit due to API access but the only way I've been able to post on lemmy.world is via the website. Connect app? Nope!