Amju Wolf @ amju_wolf @pawb.social

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Maybe you're better at finding news sources but I laughed because I can't really think of event a decent outlet, let alone one where I'd think they do genuinely good work.

Many people who call themselves journalist nowadays are just literal bots with a tiny bit of editorial oversight.

Well I (not OP) would love me some actual Mass Effect 4, for example. Not really excited for a sci-fi Bethesda RPG though.

And I'd argue that even in No Man's Sky it's not as fun as one would want it to be; sure it's "seamless" but it's also more or less just a glorified loading screen. Turns out there just isn't much meaningful gameplay you can do while moving from one place to another through empty space across vast distances especially when the game has to work in the background to load and unload everything.

But at least it's immersive. In something like Skyrim you at least have something to look at, or in Fallout you can marvel at the desolate landscape that'll be different everywhere you go. Space is just that, space. Which is why in, say, Mass Effect it works well, because you get to explore your ship and talk to the crew between missions and that's fun, while the travel is minimized (though still just loading screens).

LMAO "properly researched news". What alternative universe do you live in?

Also, where do you think those actual news outlets get their information from? Most of the time it's twitter again.

I think your definition of decent charger&cable is just different from me then I guess.

I expect to get a charger that has the fast charging for the phone (not necessarily the top spec, but high enough) and a usable cable, let's say a 0.5 to 1 meter, that can also do basic data transfer.

If I wanted a charger with 4 ports I'd buy it. If I wanted a braided cable I'd buy it. I don't want either - but I want a charger that I know works fast enough with my phone, and it becomes my travel charger. Everything else I can manage.

This will be less of a problem as power delivery becomes the norm, but most people probably don't have a decent PD charger several times over at home. Worst case you'll have an extra charger where an old one dies, which seems to be common especially with some peoples' cables.

Or, you know, alternatively do actually discount the phone by $60 or however much they act like it costs (it's obviously way less than that, but chargers are still a significant expense largely because they need to have many different SKUs for different regions so the logistics are more complicated).

All Sony phones are overpriced by about 20% when you compare them feature-wise. You pay for the unique combination of features and form factor.

Pack-in chargers and cables always suck. I don’t get how people use them, especially those cheap rubber 1m long cables. Utterly useless.

Any decent company will give you a high-spec charger and a decent cable with your fucking $1000+ phone.

Deciding to ditch the charger is only to inflate their bottom line, especially if you look at what they then sell the charger for separately.

Good! Then convince all those companies and celebrities to use some better platform. Until then that's what we have.

Metadata can be used against you just as well as actual messages though.

Who you associate with, what people/services you call and what places you frequent is way, way more interesting than knowing the actual contents of your messages. I mean they'd probably obviously prefer both, but if you had to pick one, metadata is more valuable.

and there’s a good counter: its better now.

That's a good counter, unfortunately not a true one. :/

I've met like 5 people more during my university studies, none of which I kept in touch with after graduating. I kinda regret it but I'm not really a person that makes friends easily (or at all), so whatever. I had different friends outside of that.

Telegram has plenty of features for larger groups, too. Easily enough for acquaintances and schoolmates. Considering how easy creating group chats is you don't have to have a single one for everything.

Additionally use any report functionality at your disposal, which may cause some mail providers to block them or cause them to offer proper opt out in the future.

All marketing emails are supposed to have a simple opt out without needing anything other than your email address.

Théry are plenty of FOSS people who don't believe in privacy. Just because you like openness in one thing doesn't mean you want it in another. Though there is probably a larger overlap.

Kinda is, sure. The problem is when you become overly reliant on the tech without it being reliable. It's also kinda bad when it causes you to lose skills that you need to maintain it or further it.

Kinda is, sure. The problem is when you become overly reliant on the tech without it being reliable. It's also kinda bad when it causes you to lose skills that you need to maintain it or further it.

Well its kinda how people (and society) can even function; we are hardwired to look up to role models, and to herd around people and ideas and whatnot... And that's not a bad thing, we evolved to do it for a reason.

It becomes a problem only when you completely stop thinking critically and do stupid shit because of the thing you look up to.

I have the exact opposite problem, YouTube keeps me recommending old videos that I've already watched - sometimes because the tracking is broken and it doesn't save the watch time, and sometimes because it was too long ago and it fell out of the watched "playlist".

You're 100% right, with easily accessible technology people don't retain the skills that are supplemented by that technology.

As a kid growing up with the advent of computers it was all jank, you had to know how to fix and diagnose both hardware and software issues, but you still learned to do it with limited resources and (in my case) even very limited English knowledge. I had, in fact, learned English mostly because of my interest in computers and games, and I learned programming also because of my interest in games...

I was thinking that "oh wow the new generation will have it so easy, they will grow up with reliable and easier to use PCs, they'll know even more than me and be so good with it!" and it's the exact opposite. Because it's so user-friendly and readily available they don't need to learn to fix anything, they can just buy it. They don't need any skills that are deeper than basic usage. And that's how you get kids today who don't even know how to turn on a PC, let alone use a word or table processor - because they have iPhones and iPads and never needed anything else, they never found it groundbreaking or useful.

So yeah, not only will they be less knowledgeable, they won't even bother thinking or checking the answers, because the AI will be right most of the time. I'm actually kinda worried that this will make people really easily manipulable.