Tbh, I’m super into this. Especially if the range could be extended slightly or if the truck is somewhat hackable.

But then… Bezos. Ugh.

Probably never masturbate again

Mandrake. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. But I did get it installed.

Sure. But the costs for implementing such a thing are certainly above simply using the tools on the platform on which the dev has decided to release their work. If they disagree, don’t release it there.

This idea that the consumer should do something additional besides giving you money is a nonstarter.

But remember: the design and initial implementation of the internet was paid for by the populace. It is supposed to be filled with cool and useful, free stuff.

Corporate interests and “web 2.0” have turned it into a weird hellscape of misinformation and targeted advertising. It was not designed for it.

It’s the walled garden thing that gets me. At some point, people got complacent. I’m 100% confident that there is an entire swath of the population which has never considered that Discord is a corporate entity with corporate interests. We made open standards for a reason.

It’s always projection.

Start asking MAGA who paid them to be MAGA.

On whatever platform(s) you sell your games. The key is not expecting someone to sign up for a different service for your updates.

Hopefully they just post updates on the platforms they sell their games on. I shouldn’t need to sign up for anything else.

How quickly we moved beyond the point where a president being better connected to corporations than the constituents he is meant to represent actually matters. Now we just want some insight into the backroom deals.

There is one thing that could potentially make average Americans join forces: most every single politician, regardless of affiliation, is dangerously out of touch.

Once Discord enshittifies, lazy devs won’t be able to say “follow our Discord for updates!” anymore.

Clueless execs are always the problem, ultimately. They have their real estate obligations and simply cannot fathom that social norms around working have changed.

Companies which are heavy RTO will fail. Some of the hybrids will survive. Fully remote companies are thriving.

He seems pretty short for a messiah

This madness should be taken as antithetical to every “free market” conservative out there. And yet: crickets.

The US got complacent with outsourcing any kind of manufacturing. It drove up profits for corporations while cutting out jobs for Americans. This all happened on the back of the dream of “trickle down economics”. Of course, nothing trickled down. Everything trickled up. Thank the GOP for all of that, as a start.

Now that it has made the US completely reliant on outside manufacturing, in particular from China, there’s an obvious need to bring back manufacturing: but there is no real way to do it without investment and subsidization of such efforts. It is a process that, even with the proper support, would take years if not decades.

The populist part is there (“bring back our jobs!”). But the realistic part is that, ultimately, you cannot fix this by simply locking out the external supply. The economy will fail long before manufacturing could possibly return in any real way, at scale. It could be mitigated with FDR-scale programs, but any of that would be viewed and demonized as “socialism” by the Trumpers.

That’s where we’re at.

Seppuku is a task

The lack of consequences for anyone doing illegal shit is exactly why the illegal shit will continue.

The best triggerer believe me

I said it matters: “the difference is obvious”.

But for me, it does not justify the cost difference at the current time.

It does matter. But all my big displays are still LCD, because of cost.

It’s about blackpoint. With an LED, pixels which are black still have a backlight. This makes them a kind of grey.

With OLED, the pixels themselves emit light. This means that black pixels are unlit.

The difference is obvious in a dimly lit room looking at dark content.

That said, while I would love OLEDs all around, they’re expensive. I’m willing to give up having true blacks for the cost difference. It may be different as costs on OLED come down.

I do have an OLED phone, because Samsung is pumping out OLEDs on everything.