Almost every US tech company uses chinese slave labor. Hell, Apple has lobbied repeatedly to make sure it doesn’t have to stop doing so.

The Great Depression

Apps get more permissions than websites do. Websites being bad is on purpose to make you use the app so they can collect and sell more data.

Its enshittification

A one day boycott, that will show them just like it did on reddit lol

The organizing strength of online communities when it comes to major corpos is a fucking joke. These companies are financially insulated to sustain losses from boycotts for weeks most likely. If you go back to playing the game after one day, then all you did was inconvenience them.

Switch games and refuse to go back until demands are met. This industry is one of very few that has mass competition. If a competitor grows then thats a much bigger threat than any boycott

The American Healthcare system fully disagrees with your statement, as they actively exploit non-profit status to avoid taxes and squeeze any “profits” into bonuses for the people at the top. They aren’t even the only industry doing this, but it all boils down to a piss poor lack of regulation and enforcement that really lets companies exploit non-profit structures.

Mandatory 30% profit margins required by MS corporate will do that. Phil was far better than his predecessors, and we have him to thank for backwards compatibility on modern xbox’s. The fact Xbox lost all its momentum once the AI craze began seems much more likely to be a cause for why its all gone to shit now.

It is mostly likely the same reason why adobe, microsoft, and google strike these kind of deals: the job market demands their usage and so not educating your students on how to use them means not properly preparing them for their future career.

Its a dogshit scenario, but as a web developer forced to use windows 11 without admin permissions and pidgeon holed into every garbage MS product this company requires I use, not knowing how to use their tools and operating system would have disqualified me from getting the job, even if I know how they work simply by using a competitor.

I doubt OpenAI survives another year without govt bailout, but currently, every dipshit with too much money who hires people expects us to know how to use the hallucinating gaslight machine.

Glad they can throw money at this, but still pay artists dogshit

Yeah every article I see about this, Luke comes off as entitled and like CDPR is the bad guy here. Luke was the first modder I had personally ever heard of that was charging for mods, and it seemed just a matter of time before he got struck by a corpo.

He complains that he built a framework for his mod, but so did VorpX and no one has gone after them. Luke seems mad that he took the “ask for forgiveness instead of permission” approach and didn’t get forgiven.

I think that is just a mock up. The keyboard layout is way different from the Titan 2, so I am unsure if the image of the elite is final design.

Personally, I like to gamify learning new skills.

Typing of the Dead is a great game to help you with accuracy. Typing games are a genre as well, and I believe theres a free Warhammer 40K typing game you can get on steam. Really improves the dopamine of getting good typing skills

I have the Unihertz Titan 2, got it a little over a week ago, and its been a much better phone experience than I’ve had in years. I switched from a galaxy S21 Ultra and its been a much better experience when it comes to trying to use my phone for productivity.

Biggest complaints I have are some apps don’t even acknowledge alternate form factors on android and do not work in the regular fullscreen, but you can always turn on mini mode and get the regular form factor, though it looks tiny compared to other phone when you need to do that. Buttons are a bit stiff as well, but I’m sure that will change with time.

Very excited to see how this style of phone evolves. Its a much better experience than full touch screens, and its so nice not needing to use autocorrect to make up for an inadequate input method.

Between the fact that the metaverse has never made money, and the AI bubble about to burst, I think Meta is about to have a major collapse lol

Have you not experienced stereoscopic 3D before? Every VR game I’ve played is using stereoscopic 3D, which is why we differentiate regular games as being “flat”.

This seems like the best strategy realistically. If scotus makes it everyones problem, then make it a problem for those with the most to lose from losing internet access.

Starbucks in particular would have a bad time lol

Yeah only other option I’ve seen in the open source space is Revolt, but I’ve only seen issues with that platform and the dev community around it seems incredibly toxic.

Honestly just surprised no one has figured out something better in the open source space. Discord has valuable UX that makes it appealing, but as a closed source, corpo owned piece of software, it has an enshittification date that keeps approaching closer as they keep talking about going public.

Has been an issue for literal years. Samsung knows about it and refuses to do anything. Its one of the biggest reasons I regret giving them another chance after like a decade of not using their devices. Will never give these fucks money again.

Thats why I suggest phone number exchanfe for texting. Its not the most secure but RCS is at least a security boost.

Events is definitely harder, so I understand that. My wife still uses facebook and tracks that stuff. Ive actually resorted to finding events in local news sources that I put into an RSS feed. If anything Ill make a burner fb account so I can access that kind of stuff, but thus far I have not needed it. Hopefully events become less of a problem as FB becomes more of a problem

I kept telling myself the same bad excuses for why I wouldnt leave FB. Friends, Family, etc. In reality, I barely used the site, so it acted more as an easy connection to others that I didnt even really have connections with anymore because I didnt use the site.

Once it became abundantly clear they were willing to be a surveillance tool for fascist govts, I deleted my profile. I reached out to everyone to find alternative means of connecting, and the irony of that process was I connected with people I hadnt spoken to in literal years, and still talk to them now.

If you think you dont have other ways to stay in contact, you are probably incorrect. Sharing phone numbers is the easiest way to stay in contact, nearly everyone has one. I also connected on signal and discord with a variety of them.

Facebook has convinced people it is essential, but it isnt. You do not need social media to maintain social connections. You just need to be social with the connections you value.

Operating in other countries means you do need to follow their laws in order to operate in them. Being a swiss company doesnt make them exempt from the laws of other countries, and not complying risks them losing business in other countries. Their products do work, but the user needs to use them correctly to not put themselves in a position where they can be traced. The activist clearly wasnt using a vpn when accessing their email.

I do agree, dont trust proton, never trust any corporation, but i also know enough about how their tech works and how to manage my own online privacy that I know they arent just blowing smoke. I would much rather have proton comply with the law and continue to be accessible for most of the world, than have them fight for a single user who could have done more to protect themselves and potentially lose the ability to run their services for other countries. Most people arent self hosting, so they cant run their own secure services. Proton is a much better option than the fascist bowing corpos who run most of the tech world. Until self hosting becomes accessible for regular people, I will continue to recommend proton as the easiest option to have secure services with.