Not if you care about privacy and security, the environment (comparatively), user experience, industrial design, and any number of things that are important to tons of customers.
No company is perfect, nor are they beyond criticism. But the lemmy Apple-bad hive-mind is a bunch of people who can't see past their Linux memes.
When I have longer term life goals, I find it so much easier to live a hopeful and present kind of life. It makes it easier to get through the other stuff because I have a good trajectory.
These days I have a stressful but high paying job in a space that's relevant to the goals I was passionate about 15 years ago, and it leaves me miserable fairly often.
Honestly meth is so common in the gay community that I'm never shocked or surprised by hearing this type of thing about old friends of mine. It's very difficult to avoid the stuff and have a sex life where I live. Doable but all of the hook-up apps are landmines.
As a result, I only go on Facebook occasionally to scroll through and see if anyone I care about died recently of an accidental overdose or something.
They post less about the going to prison part, so I don't hear that as often, but I know a lot of people, including close friends, who have spent time in prison and have gotten sober then turned their lives around.
Even though he's a former friend, I hope your guy does, too.
Microtransactions annoy me, sure. But the season pass, live service, bullshit stuff pisses me off more. It's just a step towards what I hate about apps on my phone these days. There are so many apps that require a subscription but have no recurring fees or content updates. I'm talking calendar apps, or apps for taking notes, etc.
Ubisoft guy recently implied he wants to take things this direction but it's not that far off with their games already.
I hate LG more than any other company after dealing with their worst in class customer service when I bought a defective TV a couple years back.
It took 6 months of actively calling them and then creating a Twitter account and tweeting at their PR team and emailing the CEO to get my money back on the piece of junk.
Multiple hour+ long calls. Each time where I had to tell them everything from the previous calls that was supposed to be entered in their system, and was, but the call person literally didn't look at the screen in front of them. An hour long wait on hold to the claims department where someone picked up and then audibly hung up.
It was infuriating. But I had a $2,000 piece of junk in my house so I wasn't going to let it drop.
While breathing is cool, I have some hope that it will start correcting this year or next.
The big thing is that the raised interest rates have helped to prevent a real recession. So the real question is when can they come back down. I hope it starts this year even though it'll likely take years to go back to what they were pre-pandemic, if the go that low again.
Both named David.