The Guardian is welcome on Lemmy anytime.

Universe: whoops let me fix that.

Like the horror of this code is wrong but the program works.

Maybe I’m being stupid but a trivial way to ensure this is just don’t connect it to the Internet in any way. No SIM card. Cut it off from the Internet after setup, and only connect to a LAN with your chosen services all physically isolated from any internet machines.

Clutter.

NEFTLIX

The intended chair is a huge fan of data caps to increase profits, so I’ll give you one guess.

$1/mb is now the only plan in your area.

ISPs generally have few to zero competition, so I expect this will generally be awful in face of deregulation.

I wouldn’t underestimate how hard one can fuck up in the pursuit of infinite profit.

Most EXTREME.

Tax the Church.

One of the most iconic and best-looking games consoles of all time.

Not indexing at zero seems like a waste of a perfectly good integer.

Are you telling me IP wasn’t intended to be an eternal monopoly?

About time. 8GB is unacceptable for all but the lightest common use cases.

I have an account over there and it just feels like things are being pumped up for the sake of pumping things up. I have a hard time accepting that this is sustainable for them.

I haven’t had a good conversation on Reddit in years. Lemmy? Basically every day I see a thoughtful response from what feels like an actual human. It may not have the users but it definitely has the soul.

I’ve been lurking that platform for over a decade and the quality has definitely gone downhill. The interactions with users are extremely inauthentic to the point where I suspect a large proportion of users aren’t even real people.

Reddit‘s business model is selling advertising views. I doubt it matters to them whether those views come from real people or machines.

The second aspect of their business model is selling content to train AI, which is basically free money these days from AI zealots, but the data quality is garbage.

Both of these revenue streams will dry up without a long-term sustainability plan i.e. an actually good website. And even if I’m wrong, hey, I’m happy here. Their success does not diminish my happiness.

They will train their bots on my shitposts!

This aspect isn’t even a social media problem but a people problem. In any pool of users, there will be ones that aren’t constructive. It’s a price paid to have an open platform.

Back in the time of the iPhone 4 I never thought I’d see the day that Apple would be this open to third party developers.

I believe you meant to write genius.