designated_fridge @ designated_fridge @lemmy.world

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If it could sync that with my Fuji camera, that'd be great

Just give people who reach $10m net worth a "Congratulations you won at capitalism" diploma and tax them 100% after that

The key part here is that (at least initially...) they won't put any existing subreddits behind a paywall. So users' habits won't really be interrupted.

You can check out SPIVA which tracks the people like the guy you're paying to predict the future.

In all markets the results are consistent. Over a single year a professional has about a 50% chance of beating the average. This probability drops over time and over a 10Y period about 10-14% of professional investors beat the average.

You paying this professional is essentially the same as you thinking that you are able to identify the top 10-15% professional investors. And maybe you just are that great and we should all follow suit. But I doubt it. It's your risk to take though. No one is going to force you to choose the cheaper option with the better probability to give the best returns.

If you're not putting your money into index funds you're just fooling yourselves. You shouldn't be paying any form of investor to pretend they can see into the future.

This also means you will be investing heavily in the US. But don't make the mistake of believing your invested money makes any difference in the world when it comes to ethical responsibility. A company isn't affected by whether a fund invests or does not invest in them.

Socially responsible funds are just for show because financial institutions have realised it's something people will pay for. If you truly want to make the world a better place you reduce your monthly saving amount and donate the money to charities instead.

Just saw the other day that the Pixelfed developer pushed out a new feature pretty quickly and it reminded me of how much faster you can push new features out when you're working on a small team with very few developers.

Then I realised that... At the place I work at (an app most likely installed on your phone) - well every change will have a huge impact. If 0.05% of the users' performance is degraded - that's a shit ton of users. So we have processes in place. We test on all kinds of devices before releasing.

Running a high quality service at scale is hard and it's expensive and it's not always fun because you have to leave your cowboy developer guns at home and do the homework before pushing to production.

I spent way too much time trying to understand why I wasn't taken to the comments when I hit the comment icon...

... in the screenshot

Yeah, all apps advertise "no algorithms" - well those algorithms are what is pulling users back and back again and the more you get people to open your app - the more likely it is that they'll contribute something.

I have to remind myself to open Pixelfed. Which is how I want it to be and how it should be. But I also understand that none of my friends will go there and look at nothing and then check in again a day later.

Especially a password vault... Imagine your server going down while you are away from home and suddenly you're locked out of everything.

It's probably implied that if not enough people take this offer - people will be fired.

I've been through tech layoffs. Random people are axed and people who thought about leaving anyways stay. This is a much better solution where those who considered leaving anyways can take them up on the offer.

Maybe they just want to downsize cause there isn't as much to do nowadays when the OS is so mature?

Seems more like someone sucking up to Trump rather than something they realistically believe they could get passed

Yeah, and I have a Galaxy Watch 6 and my wife has a Galaxy S23 (not sure if there is any "ecosystem" benefit of us both having Galaxies though...)

I guess I could wait to see what the Pixel 10 has in store but then again - why get a Pixel when you are not going to use what is Pixel about it? I'm in Europe so I don't get all the smart features of the Pixel - I just get vanilla Android with worse hardware than the competitors. But a nice camera which I like. Haven't tried the Galaxy camera app in a while!

I'm on a Pixel 7 Pro and was considering moving to S25 Ultra this year but it's really hard to understand whether it's a good phone when all impressions are about how similar it is to last year's model...

And last year's model was very similar to the model released the year before that.

So essentially it's not much of an upgrade if the S25 Ultra at large is similar to the S23 Ultra which was available at the time I got my P7P...

I go through a cycle for this. I leave Reddit because I hate it. And then I go here and well it's quite obvious it's a certain type of people who are willing to jump through hoops and use the fediverse. I find most of the opinions here to be a little bit too extreme for my taste. I just want to discuss football (soccer) and tech...

But I agree with you. It only feels empty because we all decide to not hit "post".

Remember when Apple released the $1000 phone and it was a big thing?

Eventually this will be the normal.

I said in my final paragraph that Lemmy is nice but there is so little content here. The communities I frequent here (with very active reddit counterparts) have like a submission every few days. Just check !football@lemmy.world for example.

I'm on Pixel 7 Pro and after this winter (dry hands) I'm leaning towards iPhone. I'm so sick of failing the fingerprint scanner 3-4 times before having to resort to the pin code.

FaceID worked so well on the Pixel 4 XL - why isn't any Android manufacturer picking it up??

I was close to it. I'm an advocate for paying for services I use. We're way too used to getting everything for free and we should be willing to pay for services we appreciate.

Which made me realise that Facebook especially I don't appreciate. So I quit instead. It had value to me once but those times are long gone.