Slow, buggy, annoying interface, hogs extreme amounts of resources locally, can be used to spy on its users.

What’s not to like? It’s basically how Elon envisions X, an “everything app” that is actually good at nothing specific.

I don’t want to live on a planet where these are the kind of people who decide, well, everything.

Doesn’t look like I’ll have much choice though.

I’m an elder millenial and I’m firmly in the same boat. Nothing to inherit either since my parents don’t have property. I consider myself 100% in the camp of the youth, including gen Z. I will have to work until I die.

Seriously?

Pretty much for form I suppose, there are other ways to get those drivers.

I’ve been in a few online games with RU players and it struck me as so weird to be playing a game with someone from a nation we are basically at war with. Major WWI Xmas football vibes.

Pretty telling when the only way you can get your users to “upgrade” is by stealth. I wonder what the % of involuntarily upgraded win11 users is vs people who knowingly and willingly did so.

It’s called a honeypot. They even ran CP servers in the past (after taking them over from the actual admins, in order to unmask the users).

Embrace

Extend <==== you are here

Extinguish

I did one once. Managed to somehow install Catalina on a Lattepanda sbc. I would’ve never expected it to work, so I was positively elated.

The thing then promptly shorted, let out the magic smoke, and I haven’t tried anything similar since. Took it as a sign from the universe that if I were meant to be good at it, i wouldn’t have managed to fry aforementioned sbc, and several other ones (2 Jetson nano’s as well).

True, but that power is also diminished greatly as more and more regular users abandon the site. No eyes on the propaganda makes it worth a lot less.

Somewhat, but the way federated instances are set up, it’s not nearly as bad or easily abused. Not as if making a new Reddit account was that much of a roadblock, either. They accept 10minutemail addresses.

Canceled my sub as a means of protest. I used it for research and testing purposes and 20$ wasn’t that big of a deal. But I will not knowingly support this asshole if whatever his company produces isn’t going to benefit anyone other than him and his cronies. Voting with our wallets may be the very last vestige of freedom we have left, since money equals speech.

I hope he gets raped by an irate Roomba with a broomstick.

It’s simply ragebait. It’s a global phenomenon but I’d say Reddit embraced it as their primary feature, even more so than gd Facebook.

I’m not immune to it either, though my brand of ragebait is more in the /collapse and /antiwork spheres.

I never organized any parties in my entire life because I know for a fact this would happen to me.

As for advice? Well, don’t organize any more parties. People like us are just the npc’s in “real”(neurotypical) people’s lives. I tried to fight this notion for years but it’s honestly much less painful to just accept it and move on.

Do we “deserve” this? Fuck no, but infants dying from hunger don’t deserve that either and they still end up stone cold dead. Radical acceptance > futilely fighting against an enemy we can never defeat.

This already happened. People looking up CPR instructions because a loved one is dying, only to be met with three unskippable ads.

Goodbye Meemaw.

Sure, that’s definitely a country that needs more wishy washy magic crap on top of all their current issues.

We wouldn’t even be able to restart. All the easily available resources have been delved. Three thousand years ago people could scoop pure gold from rivers by the kilos. Today, all decent deposits lie kilometers below the surface.

But it’ll be for the best. We had our shot and blew it.

Between AI and shitcoin mining, these two “technology branches” already consume more power than all the green power added to the grid combined.

It’s why humans will always remain de facto slaves to a few masters. Anything that could potentially be advantageous to all life on Earth? Only if the ones at the top get to profit first. No profit? Enjoy scorching to death on hell-planet for the next forty years!

110K/mo was bound to attract attention. So, purely hypothetically, uhh, what would the lowest cutoff be before eyebrows start raising?

We’re slowly approaching the “FO” phase of FAFO for a lot of these companies