FFS. There is no point lecturing people from on high. Talk about it, sure. Information is good. But moralising will do nothing useful. Point your fingers at bad systems, not the people who are just trying to live their lives under mostly quite difficult circumstances. Improve the environment in which people are forced to make difficult trade-offs. Don't bully them for facing difficult trade-offs and not being obsessed about exactly the same things you are. It will not do you, or anyone else, any good. The problems are structural, fight the structures.
I know, everyone in the world who is not on the Fediverse is an evil, lazy scumbag and the absolute best way to get them to switch is to sneer and scold. No matter what communities they have built, what access to information they need, how difficult it is to rebuild that elsewhere, they're all just terrible people compared to you, polishing your halo in the corner.
This line of argument is bogus and self-defeating. Quit it.
I am absolutely in favour of the four day (30-32 hour) week with no loss of pay but the discussion always centres on salaried office workers. I have not yet seen anyone explicitly state that workers on hourly pay would need a 25% pay rise to make it equitable, including in jobs where it simply isn't possible to do the same amount of work in 80% of the time (security, delivery, retail, hospitality, customer service, etc).
That piece does link to a Chik-Fil-A 3-day week offer but it's for 14 hour days, so 42 hours work and nothing to do with what this piece is talking about.
Thanks. I'm never quite sure how to deal with that, if I'm linking to the author's own work/site (I generally do try to make sure there is a relevant credit otherwise). Does the username help increase their visibility (good) or does it just encourage harassment from people who cannot accept that the Fediverse is ever anything less than perfect?
Probably a bit of both, and context-dependent so it's always a judgement call.
I did try the Lemmy-on-Mastodon thing and hated it (just a stream of out-of-context posts dominating my feed) so I probably wouldn't do that.
#explore on Mastodon is a good way to find stuff you wouldn't see on your own feed. (It's how I found this article.)
And there are various bots that allow you to follow people on Twitter (birdsite.makeup etc). Although my instance has decided they don't like that so it's a bit harder to find them than it was.
But yes, I think the article does a good job of articulating the problems. I hope they get solved because there's a lot I like very much about Mastodon but it does not have the depth and breadth of content (yet). And hashtags do not work well enough as a replacement for search (I followed #BBC to get more news in my feed and ended up with a bit of news and a lot of porn).
The Huawei Talkband series does it. It's a smartwatch which turns into a bluetooth headset. For some reason, most reviewers struggle to see why anyone would want that but I struggle to see why anyone wouldn't...
They're different sorts of foldables. Hence Samsung calling one of theirs "Fold" and the other "Flip" (because the latter is the same form factor as older clamshell designs).
The cases do make them larger, as for every phone. But they still fit in your back pocket without threatening to fall out of it. The bulk of the case makes it even safer to pocket without making it any harder.
Secure pocketability when I'm not wearing a big jacket is the reason I have one, obv.
This appears to be an escalating fraud, affecting newer models more than old. So I'd guess that's ^^ the answer.
It's not just a Reuters investigation, they've been fined by a few jurisdictions and they absolutely do have the ability to pay lawyers to defend those charges if they're false.
People need to do a lot of things. Very few people have the time to do everything they'd like to do, let alone everything you'd like them to do.
Attack the systems that trap us, not the people who are trapped by them. This is not hard.