The reason I say this is that I've been following them for something like 15+ years by this point, and they haven't made any perceptible progress in that time. They're at exactly the same point now where they were 15 years ago.
Agreed. I've been slowly moving the machines onto nixOS, and I'm reformatting an older Mac for a neighbor on nixOS as well. On the livecd it runs impressively fast, but on OSX it's so slow as to be unusable. Windows is now so actively hostile that it's time to make the jump.
Excellent point. If stealing is what keeps people fed, then the taxes that keep that store open are worth it. But also I think the reported rates of theft are wildly overstated, here in Australia we had our two largest stores basically admit they made up the whole "epidemic" so they'd have an excuse to raise prices.
I already donate to my Mastodon instance, if my instance needs or wants money for any reason, they should set up a donation button and I'll subscribe. Which will give them a lot more money than they would ever make from showing me ads. We should normalize removing all ads from the internet, forever.
I use a physical sim. I'm not sure it even supports eSIM, but I'd be hesitant to ditch the physical sim for precisely the reasons you mentioned. I've swapped sims around between phones and even borrowed them from people when I was in a new area, something that's much harder with eSIMs.
nixOS. But seriously. You can change something in the config file, and if it doesn't work, you can roll back to a previous file. It can also control for things like custom kernels.
I was filling it out, but I have to ask, "What about Kbin". There are several different interfaces that all communicate on this protocol. So I'm on asklemmy, but technically I'm not a Lemmy use, I'm a Kbin user, does that count as "Lemmy" for your study?
Harsh but true. I also need to sell stuff to people, and I hate ads, I realize that other people hate ads too and that in fact ads generally suck. The solution is word of mouth advertising, not ever-more-intricate tools. The real truth is that what the ad companies are selling is the idea that ads are actually cost efficient and worthwhile, and the gullible customers are actually the advertisers, not the people who they're trying to flog stuff to.
Even that wouldn't be unworkable, it would be worse if you're stuck with the brain equivalent of serial ports just before everyone switches to the USB standard.
I think people just don't want to believe that the wealthy and powerful can be that stupid. But why not? Elon Musk was born into a wealthy family and then got super, super lucky during the .com boom. He can absolutely make stupid decisions.
I've thought about it and I've decided that I can live with that. Besides, I don't think it will make it to that level of popularity before "the incident" that shocks everyone and triggers a senate inquiry.
Either there will be horrific side effects or Musk will cut quality or make an 'executive decision' that beams ads into everyone's head. I don't know the final implementation, but I think they won't resist the temptation to make the firmware up-gradable remotely, and once they have that, they won't resist the temptation to meddle.
I'm convinced that the Neuralink is the dumbest idea ever, but I've come to the conclusion that it's better for people to just learn the hard way. Like, it's so obviously stupid that anyone who's still going for it cannot be helped.
This actually sounds like a really cool feature.