steltek @ steltek @lemm.ee

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I wish I could find a sub 5 inch screen that hits the other requirements (excellent camera, fully root-able). I'm afraid Pixels have run away with my wallet.

For me, the screen size is what enabled that comfortable fit.

Cisco owned the "iPhone" trademark and was actively using it to sell products. Weirder things have happened.

Apple simply started using it and told Cisco, "Make me stop".

Yeah. I can put a 3.5 -> C adapter on my headphones but there's no such thing as the reverse. And given that one-way path, it'd be nice if I didn't a dongle everywhere.

In my particular case, that setup sucks for my car. The adapter advertises having a microphone but my car's aux port doesn't have one.

I would use Bluetooth but the car's Bluetooth is the worst damned thing I've ever had the displeasure of using. It sucks even by Bluetooth standards. The car even forbids pairing/unpairing while the car is in drive, which is great for nanny-stating the morons who try to do that while operating the car but what about when I'm the passenger?! The car's mostly used for family road trips and that kind of inflexibility makes it a nonstarter.

Uhhh, I have no idea. I use Element and a bunch of bridges to hit other services. I just meant that iMessage is the only major messaging service that's restricted to just iPhones and the "interop" to Android is intentionally pure shit to pressure everyone to get an iPhone, which is pretty dirty.

You reminded me of a legal case I read recently: Guardian of Sally v. Beatty

An unnamed(!) victim of slavery had an agreement with her enslaver to keep excess wage money from her work, which she used to buy the freedom of another person, Sally. Her enslaver figured she didn't have the right to own "property" and it was his lucky day to now own 2 human beings. The courts disagreed and said Sally was a free person. However this was still South Carolina so they made sure to patch up that little "loophole" after the case was over.

The full list is quite interesting. The ~1780 cases in New England outlawing slavery (while the Revolution was ongoing!). Dred Scott and Amistad, of course. Cases mostly from 1780 to 1859. But then heinously, but somehow unsurprisingly, there's a case from 2021: Nestle Inc makes an appearance using child slave labor for cocoa.

Apple uses iMessage as a moat against people switching to Android. They intentionally degrade your experience for their benefit.

We're long past the point where focusing on just one or two sources of carbon is enough. Everything needs to be examined. We can choose a more sustainable diet AND curb mindless consumerism.

Also, I find the impossible/beyond burgers to be pretty good. I dunno what you're on about with "bug protein". At worst, they're made from yeast but plant material otherwise?

TLD - Top Level Domain (.com .ml .whatever)

Registrar - NameCheap, PorkBun, etc. Submits your domain.TLD request to a Registry

Registry - Maintains the list of domains for a specific TLD and the server infrastructure to run the TLD

ICANN - Decides who can be a Registry and for which TLD. Not involved in the nitty gritty of individual domain names.

When and how do we get offshore wind that's worth a crap in the US? It seems so obvious to me that we have huge population centers right next to huge "wind reserves".

The Founders were steeped in the Age of Enlightenment. Modern Americans wouldn't even recognize it as Christianity. Like The Jefferson Bible

... completed in 1820 by cutting and pasting with a razor and glue numerous sections from the New Testament as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus. Jefferson's condensed composition excludes all miracles by Jesus and most mentions of the supernatural, including sections of the four gospels that contain the Resurrection and most other miracles, and passages that portray Jesus as divine.

You could label their morality puritanical but I think cynicism would also equally apply. If you view humans as naturally greedy and selfish, society needs to codify expected behavior to keep it in check.

Renewal costs are my primary consideration when picking domains. Subscription fees is how your money disappears when you're not looking.

Just because anti-lock brakes fail to work in all scenarios doesn't mean they're not still an improvement.

Lemmy is still up for most people. That is resilience. If you are affected by this outage, then it failed for you in this particular case but that doesn't mean the mechanisms don't exist and that they won't work to your advantage in the future.

Let me return the appreciation for a thoughtful response! Unfortunately I don't have an equal abundance of time (nor fast typing skills). Where's the outcry for the parent class?

Those cube dwellers (labor) are often better compensated and lead more secure, comfortable lives than small business owners (ownership). If you instead frame the problem as income inequality rather than straight up Marxism, I think you're still naturally led to the tax reforms you're describing. However, I don't view that as "anti-capitalist". It's restoring guardrails that shouldn't have been removed under Reagan.

No, a large portion of the damage done was so regular people could keep driving their oversized cars, eat out of season food, and cheaply heat their homes. Socialism does not require good environmental policy. Capitalism does not prohibit it. Climate change is a human problem.

It's really not that hard to start a small business. There's no grand shadowy conspiracy against your idea. If it was a superior method, it would see more widespread success. Bluntly forcing one business structure and removing freedoms when there are far less drastic tools is a big ask.

Sorry I gotta provide some counterbalance here. This is a very dated Marxist perspective that I think is missing some modern fundamentals. Dividing the world into "ownership class" and "labor class" is simplistic thinking from the Industrial Revolution and doesn't hold up anymore without modifications. Your typical high salary cube dweller is neither ownership nor identifiably labor. If you're negatively classifying labor as "not ownership", you're talking about 99.9%+ of the population and it's a rather meaningless distinction and unhelpful in discussing policy.

Perhaps a I misinterpreted you when you stated "not a lot would have to change". Those sound like some pretty extreme changes from the status quo, actually.

Perhaps a I misinterpreted you when you stated "not a lot would have to change". Those sound like some pretty extreme changes from the status quo, actually.

not a lot would have to change, other than putting legal protections and norms in place for workplace elections and so on.

I definitely don't identify as a Socialist but even still, I would have added, "tax the fuck out of the rich". Income inequality is the root evil for most people today.