skuzz

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[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You live in a place full of stupid rich people. Or stupid people that don't understand what debt is.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 56 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

Google is on an enshittification speed-run. Close-source Android, combine with ChromeOS. Advertise the crap out of YouTube, draconian login requirements. Wherever their income is coming from now, it isn't from making products users want. Probably the military "AI" overseas contracts.

I've been de-Googling the last few years casually as functional replacements came along and I'm down to threads now, but the icing on the cake was their injecting an ad into a funeral ceremony stream from a church on YouTube. Sure, software-side, we all know why it happened, but just. No.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

while you’re propelling a tonne of metal

The Model S weighs 2 tonnes in fact, or 2.2 US tons. Electric cars are insanely heavy, so much so that existing traffic safety items like guard rails aren't really designed to handle the heavier ones.

Not sharing to be Pedantic Internet User, just mind-boggling how heavy those things are.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 weeks ago

One would think that MAGA would be enraged at all the waste, fraud, and abuse in this process of inhumane torture, their tax dollars being wasted.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Apple doesn’t exactly try to converge OS platform, even forking off iPad OS from iOS

It is more that they couldn't figure out how - but they keep on slowly removing bits of all three and making all of them act the same way, so eventually they will be one bloated monolith if they continue down this path.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Same with MacOS and iOS. They're doing the same shift Apple has done over the last 25 years. Build on open-source, and slowly pivot to closed-source binaries. The perception of openness lags for a very long time until people finally realize it has just become more proprietary limited crap.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 3 weeks ago

Stupid manufacturers. Would be a non-issue if you could just slide open the battery door, pop it out, and recycle it, like we could over the last 2 centuries. (The D battery was introduced in the 19th century).

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