flop_leash_973 7h ago • 95%
Phones are becoming less and less interesting by the day.
Once they get to the point were all of the options that don't require incredibly inconvenient sacrifices in functionality to maintain the interesting stuff like a video game console then that will kill interest in the market for me.
If I can't do anything besides basic smart phone crap I might as well just buy whatever has a good camera once every half decade or so and be done with it. So whatever top end thing Samsung or Apple are putting out.
I'm not sure Google has fully thought through what it means to just be a worse version of what Apple puts out, but with more ads.
flop_leash_973 2w ago • 100%
I'll believe it when I see it.
Everything in these kind of cases tends to be a negotiation. So if the starting point by the DOJ is "break them up", then I imagine they are willing to settle for something much less undesirable to Alphabet.
flop_leash_973 2w ago • 100%
Interoperability is how we “seize the means of computation.”
Good luck with that. If the success of the iPhone has taught me anything it is that the average person loves them some incompatible with anything but itself vertical integration.
flop_leash_973 2w ago • 100%
Anything related to healthcare has no business being any closer to the whims of "the market" than the public roads.
It would be unheard of for a government to stop maintaining a public road because whomever was supplying some ingredient of the asphalt said that particular mix is "to old and the new mix is not compatible with the roads created using the old mix".
They don't want to do it anymore, fine, then provide whatever is needed for someone else to maintain it for the cost of the materials to print/email/upload to GitHub the technical documents. It should not be legal to get someone hooked on your life altering medical device then rug pull them like this.
flop_leash_973 3w ago • 100%
Once ads are allowed into a platform they will ultimately be what destroys it eventually.
Might take a week or a decade. But the lust of that easy ad money will ruin the thing they were put there to fund in the end.
flop_leash_973 3w ago • 100%
Right along with story points.
Not meant to be a measurement of time, but of effort. But everyone ends up using them as a measure of time because that is what the MBA at the end of the tables wants.
flop_leash_973 3w ago • 100%
Tony Hawk pro wheelchairs
flop_leash_973 3w ago • 100%
Food, hopefully.
flop_leash_973 3w ago • 100%
I wonder how much longer it will be before Reddit has to start paying people to moderate the subreddits since no one will want to do it for free anymore.
Who am I kidding, there are so many people that are already taking their payment in the HOA like authority being a mod gives them that will never happen.
flop_leash_973 3w ago • 94%
The trailer made it seem like the kind of pretentiously boring mess that the director seemed to think had some profound message that I tend to really dislike.
Or put more simply, "Looks like the director set $120 million on fire to win Oscars, not make something entertaining."
flop_leash_973 3w ago • 95%
I honestly don't see an issue with the people going back to the office because they want to work from there. I just want others to stop trying to force me to do the same.
This sort of thing seems to have always been a plague with a set of the extroverted sort. They seem to feel the whole world should for whatever reason cater to what makes them happy and us introverted types that do not like the social activities that they do should be made to partake anyway. For our own good. Yet the world is ending when those same extroverted people have to spend a large chunk of time alone or simply being quiet.
The older I get the less patience I have for those sorts of games. Which could become an issue for me professionally I suppose.
flop_leash_973 4w ago • 100%
They did this with the body armor from Starship Troopers as well. There was at least one episode of Power Rangers where it was used.
flop_leash_973 4w ago • 100%
Nice, thanks for the movie recommendation. Gonna have to check that one out.
flop_leash_973 4w ago • 41%
There is something society could learn about itself if we spent anytime thinking honestly about how much of a dead end it is politically speaking to increase our use of nuclear power as a means of reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. Yet, when big corporate interests want it for their own reasons, it is no big thing and almost no politician will speak ill of it. Even though if some kind of disaster comes about because of it they will be left holding the bag of public opinion since that industry is so heavily regulated.
flop_leash_973 4w ago • 90%
Eugenics taken to their logical conclusion.
As the parent of a child on the spectrum that is very aware of what such practices would mean for him, I would never agree with it in real life. But I do have a fascination with what we could do if we just said the hell with ethics and started trying to breed "perfect" people.
flop_leash_973 4w ago • 100%
I watched a Hugh Jeffrey's teardown video yesterday where he showed using a 9 volt battery to remove the iPhones battery. I have to say, that is pretty neat.
flop_leash_973 4w ago • 94%
YouTube will not change until people stop using it. And people do not want to put up with the inconvenience of not having a YouTube type service again for the amount of time it would take for YouTube to change or a viable competitor to take their place, it really is that simple.
Are YouTube and Google terrible? For sure, but it only got this way because the only backstop to holding them accountable, the consumer, has proven that they will choose putting up with shitty products and services in the name of convenience 9 times out of 10.
Same reasons that ad tiers are gaining a foothold in streaming services like Netflix. The consumer has shown they are fine with it.
flop_leash_973 4w ago • 100%
Given how obviously impressionable and just not "on top of things" the politicians are in the US these days, I'm not sure someone could come up with a argument that convinced me that alien life with the ability to do interplanetary travel would waste their time trying to communicate with our leaders.
Within a day they would just decide to kill all of us for the safety of the galaxy.
flop_leash_973 4w ago • 100%
AM/PM honestly sounds like what the Sheetz chain does these days in a lot of ways.
flop_leash_973 1mo ago • 100%
Amazing that they can't seem to see that they are not going to win any customers by trying to out Apple Apple.
It feels dirty to agree with an ISP on something. But even the worst corporations are on the right side of something from time to time I suppose.
Jesus, that is a gross way to inject advertising into turn-by-turn navigation. **Edit/update from 9to5google so this post does not spread what is apparently inaccurate information:** https://9to5google.com/2024/07/08/google-maps-pop-up-quick-detour-ad/
It is hard to imagine that there was not someone inside of Nike that lost their faith in humanity when the pitch for these things was originally taking off.
I can't imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
Funny how it is the worker bees that have to pull the over time to fix issues that are probably the result of demands from some management stooge that didn’t appreciate the outcomes of their demands.