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Oh, the fascist confirmation came in 2020 + the takeover of Twitter to “give right wing voices the platform they deserve” or whatever absolute pile of bovine faeces he claimed.

To be fair, there IS information that can make you immediately re-evaluate a person.

To me, it was Musk’s “pedo guy” rant back in, what was it, '16, '17? Up until then, I thought he was an okay guy, doing tech things to improve humanity in general, and all the negative stuff being just… him being on the spectrum. It took me the moment he started throwing a very heavy accusation around quite baselessly to realise how shitty he is. A singular moment, a singular event, a singular piece of information made me re-evaluate everything I knew about him and see him for the shitstain he is.

Made his best artwork ever!

I mean just consider the dedication needed to make a pièce de résistance right as the Red Army is almost at the doors, using nothing but the raw concrete walls of the Führerbunker as canvas, his trusty Walther PPK as brush, and his own grey matter as paint… I’d dare say it’s the most consequential piece of art of the 20th and maybe even the 21st century. It’s a shame it was destroyed.

A moderator cannot BAN your account. They can ban you from posting on their subreddit, and can, often baselessly, get you reported to admins (who 100% of the time side with the moderators), usually flagging any kind of modmail conduct as “threatening or harassment”.

I’ve literally got a warning because I dared to ask a mod why they banned me - their response being a 30 day mute and a report to the admins about “Hey! I was wondering why you banned me, as I don’t think my comment broke any of the rules of the sub or Reddit” being threatening, and harassment…

Both are verified by an automated system.

which is why fake reviews slip through but fake downloads don’t really (download count is easy to verify with device feedback, fake reviews require a proper system…)

The Play Store has recently (I think about 3 years ago?) introduced delayed updates for things like download counts because they were battling faked statistics (e.g. the download counter could be manipulated by bot farms), so now downloads are accumulated and checked against users actually using the app and having it on their devices - which takes time to update so IIRC they now only update that counter every month. Hence the 0+ downloads.

No no no, we’re not revealing the whore ray until next Tuesday!

Well of course it doesn’t make sense, it’s an anthology series.

While DP ports can output HDMI signal, HDMI ports can’t receive DP signal.

Meaning you would buy an adapter that is active, which means it needs to pay HDMI royalties.

Basically, you’d be paying double to the HDMI Forum, to get around their shittiness.

That’s kinda… Counterproductive. Don’t you think?

Of course they’d urge the continuation of the war, they have access to the Red Sea, and while not convenient, can get around the Hormuz lockdown. To them, aside from the acceptable sacrifice of their population a little, the war is beneficial. Oil prices are up, they’re sitting on oil, what’s not to like?

If your laptop has USB-C it most likely already has DP out.

Your TV? message the manufacturer. tell your friends to message the manufacturer. Demand DisplayPort on TVs. Be the change you want to see in the world.

The mighty DisplayPort: “what is this peasant behaviour I’m too royal(ty-free) to understand?”

You completely misunderstood what I said.

Yes, laws were required to make Apple do the logical thing. BUT the point is that instead of fighting those laws, Apple is actually implementing the required changes.

Meanwhile Google didn’t just remove the “don’t be evil” slogan, they’re actively enshittifying Android year on year. Is that the example you want Apple to follow?

So, again, what should happen with ewaste? should we just chuck it in landfill?

it might have less gold, but recycling is recycling, you got to use as much of the raw material that went in as you can, precisely to reduce the waste itself.

as for CPUs from 10-15 years ago… see if it was some proprietary system from the 70s-90s that’s impossible to emulate and only a handful units remain, I’d understand your outrage. But we’re talking about CPUs from the height of the computer boom, the true internet era, when even the least common model is available in the number of millions TODAY… That’s no longer a retro system you’re restoring, you’re literally upset about low performance, high power use hardware that has better alternative today, being recycled. Which has to be the stupidest thing I’ve read today…

Like, quite literally, architectures and hardware design changed so little since 2010-2015. Aside from RISC-V making a comeback, it’s pretty much been linear predicted improvements on all fronts. Gone are the days of experimenting with architectural changes, experimental platforms that are super unique, and so on. Literally any game or software you can think of when it comes to a 10-15 year old device can run on today’s devices because we kinda plateaued around 2016-2018 at most, and compatibility hasn’t really shifted in any major way. Apple went for ARM instead of x86, but Rosetta is still there, so even ancient Mac apps work. Literally anything you could do on hardware from 10-15 years ago, you can do on modern hardware the exact same way, but more performant and using less resources.

So what kind of “retro preservation” are you doing exactly?

Honestly, a fragmented parliament is a good thing. It means there’s lots of parties, each representing different people’s needs, instead of forcing people to choose from two parties, usually based on a single, key issue.

With multiple parties, you get coalitions where each party gets their say, but also has to compromise. And what’s a better outcome for democracy than a compromise that everyone finds acceptable, yet everyone is equally unhappy about? That’s proper equality.

Obviously certain issues can’t easily fall into that simplistic approach, but in most non-extreme topics, the ability to agree to an outcome even if it’s not wholly your preferred one. Why? Because such approach leads to communications, and amicability to another’s point of view. It’s usually the inability or unwillingness to understand one another is what leads to extremism.

You’re presuming that all that ewaste is actually still usable - but in many cases the parts are discarded not because they’re old but because they’re broken.

Are you suggesting that we hold onto old, broken crap just because you can’t bear to see recycling in progress?

And if anything, Apple has been opening up for less corporatist approaches (okay, they’re legally forced, but at least they’re playing ball instead of forceful resistance).

What do you think his business was?

Is the rest of the world supposed to feel sorry for Americans because they have to pay about half as much as everyone else for gas, because y’all collectively decided to elect a warmongering rapist mango who’s demanding a peace prize for starting a number of wars to distract from the fact he’s being forced to release files that confirm he’s been raping children (and potentially murdering them too)? After the clusterfuck his first term was, y’all really went “but at least he’s not a brown woman”, and claimed because Kamala didn’t actively stand up against the Israeli genocide, Trump was the better choice. Sorry, can’t say I feel sorry when literally everyone, even the blind-deaf-mute beggar on the corner, saw this shit coming.

Eros na gonya be on dis list no more, pampaw