ferralcat

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[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 8 points 2 years ago

I worked at a restaurant as a kid washing dishes and servers did fuck all, made bank, and complained about how it wasn't enough. I lost all respect for waiters at that job (but I saw the same behaviors repeated too later in life. In the bay you'd notice that as soon as you didn't order an overpriced cocktail with dinner, your waiter would peg you as a low spender and basically just never come back unless you flagged them down).

Cooks... Good cooks are nuts to me. They'll be cooking 10 different things simultaneously with timers running in their heads. I had no idea how they managed it.

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc -3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You can have it, but expecting modern windows to run seems a bit silly. It's a for sale product not a community supported hobby project.

If it was worth supporting for old ATMs or POS terminals, Ms probably would. But the people with those systems aren't paying for windows updates.

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

iMessage is the same though... It only falls back to sms when required (like everything else) and people hate it when it does.

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 3 points 2 years ago

I don't think I ever got spam from any jabber server even when google and Facebook were running them. You still have to opt in to messages from something. If I had to guess ,I'd guess every chat service is still an xmpp server under a surface level encryption.

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 72 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Reading this new CEOs job history on linkedin is kinda infuriating. She goes from intern to head of consumer products at Skype in less than a year. Just... Frustrating to read that while I am and manage really good people who struggle for decades in the trenches to get even paltry job opportunities.

But she got her MBA from Stanford so nepotism ahoy I guess.

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 61 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's 2024 and congress still wants people to come in to the office to raise their hand.

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

because it probably can’t get less bulky and look less dorky,

Airpods are probably one of the ugliest pieces of tech ove seen in the last decade and yet somehow it doesn't seem to matter. Never overestimate apple's customer base.

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 2 points 2 years ago

The problem with a lot of originalist shit is that the people talking about it just selectively apply it where they want. The supreme court will happily apply common law right up until you point out judges in it being tried for corruption. Then suddenly their wars turn off and judicial immunity has just existed forever.

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tech needs to unionize. The only way to fight this is just to have the entire workforce walk out.

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Walled gardens are inherantly designed to exclude communities and drive classism. Want to view this picture? Sorry you can't because you dsint pay the fee. Want to chat with this group? Sorry were going to make inconvienent to everyone involved that you didn't pay the fee.

The end goal is to split people up into have and have nots in order to drive desire for your product with little thougt given to the poorer communies it disenfranchises. Your attitude is the boomer "fuck you. Got mine" one.

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think people like the walled garden. I think they don't know what it is even. They assume they can't buy a competitors headset/watch/tv because it won't work, and often they're probably right because apple refuses use open protocols. But I don't think they draw the line between the two. It's not because of apple refusing to implement something it doesn't work. It's because "the competitor is bad", or because they don't have the "deep integration" between the two or something. It never occurs to them that if you just make the API public it suddenly "just works" for everyone.

[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Genuinely curious, do real people actually use ipads?

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