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  • I cancelled. Their app breaks every other time I try and play something forcing me to restart it. It's trivial but the first few times I thought my brand new TV was shitting the bed, but nope. Only happens on Max. Fuck 'em. If I wanted the shitty Discovery programming I would have signed up for it.

  • Ukraine is on its way to pushing Russia out without even getting close to the bleeding edge of NATO technology. The argument is whether or not NATO would even need boots on the ground to push Russia out. And then the next step of argument is whether the boots on the ground need to be anything but advisory.

  • Then within few weeks to months after the jack removal and introduction of AP, the market got flooded with them. Don't tell me it's a coincidence.

    You can crawl the way back machine though and find that this just isn't really true in an appreciable way. Yes, after 2016 we start to see more and more wireless headphones but is that because of the iPhone or because Moore's Law means standards increase, production gets cheaper and form factors get smaller?

    It may sound like a good thing to have so many choices, except you're losing the original choice of whether you want it in the first place.

    I don't disagree with you at all which is why I still make it a point to only buy phones exclusively with 3.5mm jacks still included.

    And I'm sorry, but the whole idea of "true wireless" is fucking terrible.

    That's just, like, your opinion, man. That's totally subjective and your taste. The ability for me to put earbuds in under earpro is masterful. That I can do work and keep my phone somewhere off to the side and out of harms way is beneficial to me. That I don't have to worry about routing a cable through my clothes to prevent it getting grabbed by moving machinery and parts is a definite benefit.

    And I'm sure absolutely none of that applies to you and that's okay! It's why I still advocate for 3.5mm jacks because my use, and your use, is totally different and deserve different accomodations.

  • I honestly don't think it made a noticeable difference in terms of selling AirPods, it simply reduced cost.

    I only buy phones with 3.5mm jacks on principle, and yet I stilled jumped at the chance to get Pixel Buds cheaper when I got my 5a because of how convenient they are. The decision between wired and wireless is now nearly exclusively because you prefer either fidelity or convenience over the other. Not whether or not your phone supports them. Besides, if you're picking fidelity you probably scrutinize much more on a phone than headphone jack or not.

  • Two words. Constitutional Cris.

    That's a joke by the way. As if those two words meant anything after his first term.

  • 5 years in a pharmacy, so about the most vitriolic you can imagine. People with withdrawals mad you won't break the law for them, people lying to your face hoping you'll unknowingly break the law, and then people upset because theirs or their child's medicine cost more than they make in a month.

    I get what life can do to people, or worse, what people can do to people. But if you just stop and look you'll find good people in this fight with you. And giving up on them is not something I'm going to do, it's why I even made my original comment. OP is (imo) misguided, but that doesn't make them a bad person and it doesn't mean they're beyond hope. And I like to imagine that most of the people they've seen that caused them to so harden their outlook are in the exact same boat that the OP is in. Simply misguided but not even close to being beyond redemption or belief.

  • I identify as a family of four.

  • This is why I make students install a copy of Windows without the use of a mouse.

  • Wait, you're paying for Windows?

  • The ability to do Top Hour, Six Hour, and 12 Hour versus just Top Day is some quality shit.

    I'll start off with Top 6, when I feel like I'm seeing less stuff I want to interact with I move to Top Day, and when I'm finished there it's Top Hour for the rest of the time. Hot if I'm bored to tears.

  • This really just comes across like you decided to join in on the misery you detest.

    You sound jaded, and I'm sorry you've had to experience the things that lead you to this point. But not everyone has had your life experiences and there are people outside of your box, your reality. You can give up and think the majority is beyond saving and only out for themselves in all thoughts and actions. But that's, like, your opinion, man. And it's not one I've experienced and certainly not one I'm gonna share in.

    I hope you want to believe otherwise and I hope you can get there, cause man, that's a pretty bleak outlook. Best of luck.

  • Book burnings are fucking stupid.

    Banning book burnings is fucking stupid.

  • Mark my words, this is going to become more common. When corporations become as large as nation-states they will begin to act like nation-states.

    Oh, you got malware from our ads? Well if we could implement our Web Integrity API we could easily verify, and track any ads and prevent this. It's all about security and think of how much better your security would be if we could prevent this!

  • lol

    Jump
  • Lmao isn't professional when having a work conversation with your boss but lol definitely is, so it's clearly superior lol

  • This sounds like it was written by a dog.

  • Loved his book Ghost in the Wires. Sad day in the computing world.