GigglyBobble @ GigglyBobble @kbin.social

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I never understood that kind of hype. Also people camping in front of cinemas or stores. Why? It's just some movie or toy. That behavior doesn't seem healthy.

Thanks. I did not need to know that. Oh well, off to more headbanging then.

That's actually not that rare when I work later than usual. Some stupid problem my brain is too fried to solve. Eventually I give up, feeling defeat for the whole evening and solve the problem in 10 mins the next morning. Get enough sleep, people.

Textbook Apple fanboy reply.

Apple devices are just status symbols. And as such, too many people that cannot really afford them buy the devices and have to tell themselves there's a rational reason to. That's also why they cheer record financial figures, passionately fight criticism or tell people having technical issues that it's their fault. It's basically Stockholm syndrome.

suggest to their customers that it’s new and innovative

I'm a big Apple critic too but to be fair that message reads pretty neutral. Where do you see the claim it's new and innovative?

While true, businesses have it even harder to migrate to Linux (what else is there when talking enshittification?) than private users. Windows and dotnet won't go anywhere anytime soon.

It's probably a tiny fraction of the C#/dotnet ecosystem. But hobbyist meme creators mostly care about games, I guess.

Yeah. Well, the whole point since the top level comment has been that people are willing to pay too much for their hardware...

I give up. Stay happy with your overpriced devices.

You can have money and still respect price-value ratios.

My point is that Apple is price gouging.

Neither one counter example nor whataboutism change the fact that Apple products are overpriced in general (and always have been). Or how do you explain their unparalleled profit margins?

I bet you're not a narcissistic politician though.

Definitely. Thanks for being the one taking the bait. ;)

And yet, people buy iPhones instead of 3 Mac minis.

Even today I think nerd still involves some kind of obsession though.

Anyone could be into LOTR, especially after the movies came out. But it's kinda nerdy to have heated discussions whether or not leaving out Tom Bombadil was the right call (it wasn't!).

It is possible to estimate?

No. Everything from zero to everyone here may still use Reddit in parallel.
Personally, I use kbin exclusively now.

What I’m curious about is what data Facebook can collect from a Signal user.

Exactly my thought. How will participants be id'ed? Facebook won't jump through hoops to prevent collecting phone numbers for this.

Registering by phone number has been a major discussion point towards Signal too and I personally only tolerate that because I trust them enough to only store them hashed. I don't trust Meta.

Subsidizing foreign mega corps to make (not even develop) chips in Germany with €3M per job while the local infrastructure is inferior to other countries is not just unpopular. It's objectively stupid policy and a waste of taxpayer money.