neutron @ neutron @thelemmy.club

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Tell me, how many cups of Pumpkin Spice Latte Chai Frappucino we are not drinking then?

It was great. Even if I didn't like the idea of "yet another walled garden, funded by a company known for its track record against open source software (this was during Ballmer era)", I really liked the design and how fluid the interface was. It could have become another player in the mobile market and lessen the practical duopoly. Firefox OS tried this too, but it also went under.

It's actually cool to see a government body embrace new technologies to promote their language and culture.

It is really, really expensive to be poor.

Having the 'Wealthy Family' DLC purchased right before character creation opens up so many interesting quest paths that aren't the same boring grind. You don't even have to be strategic with INT or PHY stat points, there are plenty of LCK boosts balancing them out.

It would be great if big trackers started encouraging use of I2P as an alternative.

Are you me? I thought 'Vacuous Hamburger' was that phone I was testing, not my homelab.

Not everyone is trying to run from total government surveillance. Sometimes, having an extra phone number, like having a pseudonym, is enough for them.

The acc is more likely to be flagged the more 'generic' your fingerprint is. Accounts made using Mullvad Browser (Torbrowser without Tor network) on VPN was insta-flagged and disabled. When I did it from the official 'lite' app using a burner android phone, it went fine for weeks.

You'd be surprised. There are college students with no notion of files and directories/folders... even in computer engineering.

Speaking of incognito mode, many users, young or old, have no basic knowledge of how internet works (server, client, web browser...) and jumped straight into smartphones. Many can and will confuse the state of 'leaving no trace behind after' vs 'not being watched now'.

Oh, memories. I was still in college.

There are many ways to solve this problem, with different degrees of acceptance: legally (arguing for personal freedom granted by basic laws, depends on jurisdiction), or technologically (tools to evade or deceive censorship techniques, could require technical knowledge for proper use).

We have the tools, but legal grounds can also play a greater role (e.g. declaring vpn/tor illegal causes a chilling effect for potential beneficiaries).

Well, that's what their job is supposed to be about, right? Safety of their citizens.

What about people with glasses? Can the legs round part be adjusted without pressing against the glasses frames?

Is this another one of those Silicon Valley syndrome where paying for an overpriced latte/chai/kombucha every day is the expected routine?

I wonder if such a platform will gain acceptance beyond "nerdy techies" like us. There could be a working platform with apps and all, but if the suits find it "not professional enough"...

I guess you're right. I had a similar experience, but from the opposite perspective. There was a prominent case of racist attacks in my area and I was trying to talk about it, to my group of friends nonetheless.

I had to accept that other people won't share the same exact values as myself, even if I believed it was the right cause. They were the 3rd party, the disengaged and occupied with their own life businesses. Its not that I "abandoned my beliefs", but learn to identify proper audience and tone it down when it wasn't the case.

It's the modern life and it's complexity I'm afraid. Salaries, taxes, credits, insurances, permits, licenses, etc - it's too much to handle all at once. Some choose to focus on what they can afford to with what little remains of their energy after an exhausting work shift. I can't really blame the individuals caught in this.

It's something I've been noticing as well. Ad- driven profit means exposure above all, which results in more provocative contents resulting in more engagement, positive or not...

There will be a time we look back at early 21st century's internet and listen from the younger generations "how could anyone do this?". In fact, lots of non-internet issues too, but...

I'm tired. I used to believe that more information always meant good and that free access for everyone will "free humanity from ignorance", as the common narrative from 1990s went. Now? I am tired. I am tired arguing with my older relatives about something they read from 'yet another obviously biased source'. I am tired of being called names and being threatened for trying to just l talk. I am tired of having my name and my face (as a naive social media user in 2000s) being plastered all over the place and have strangers come and say "why can't you go back to $place, $racist_word". I am tired of believing. It's like people are, as Zuckerberg says, dumb fucks. Even proud of it.

But yet, I don't want it to end this way.

Honestly, i don't care if it's him wasting his money on shit like this that doesn't cause harm (except for the poor guy having to craft a response letter) on other people. His money, his and Warner Bros' problems.

Now if he could simply fund Tesla, SpaceX and Starlink quietly without going retard for once...

As for the size there's Unihertz phones (e.g. model Jelly 2E has a 3 inch screen) but I don't know if the models have custom ROM support at all.