I don’t know how easily it blows up, I’m too cool to turn around and watch the explosion

But but but the machine God moves through me, you see. My hands are his hands. My undertakings are God’s will.

“Yellow journalism” is a 19th century term, even.

I voted Harris, but I really suspect that hypothetical better timeline would still have homelessness, a medical care crisis, and also space weapons.

No no no no. You evil tech bros are supposed to be endlessly re-inventing trains. Did you even study in evil tech bro school, bro?

We would all be better off if we collectively pretended that Tan didn’t exist.

It would have to be logging way more than the things I’d typed on a touchscreen to justify that kind of storage consumption, though. Even one million characters is a ton of typing. But 500 million? I will probably never type that much in my whole life.

When one of my devices started complaining it was low on space, I noticed the Gboard was consuming half a gigabyte of storage. I tried a different keyboard, which annoys me very much, and I might go back to Gboard.

Why would Gboard require so much space? For a keyboard? How does that make sense?

Can you explain what it is about these sentences that makes you think they were machine generated?

Having the opportunity and energy to plan ahead is something you’re taking for granted. I think your example and advice would be way more persuasive if you had a kinder attitude about it.

Custom searches are awesome! There might be an even easier way:

With Firefox, most of the time, you can right-click a web page’s search box and choose “Add Search Engine,” and you’ll get a box allowing you to give the search a name and a search bar keyword. Which you can edit later with Settings -> Search if needed.

it is very poor logic to assume that simply because a company is selling a piece of commercial or industrial equipment means that equipment is unprofitable to own.

The article is not making this generalization, it’s specifically about Tesla’s situation and offer.

Your ASML analogy would work, if 1) ASML already ran their own chip foundries, 2) ASML was offering you the chance to buy a lithography machine that would not work except inside an ASML foundry, 3) ASML promised they would lease “your” lithography machine back from you, on terms they set, at some unspecified future date.

Your comments are a weird mix of “this thing I’m doing is not easy” and also “if I can do it, surely everyone can.”

“Ontario” is an indigenous word that was adopted by European colonists before either Canada or the US existed. Historical erasure from the “but muh statues” crowd.

!boneappletea@lemmy.world is a real place

I think the cyclical, self-destrctive nature of the grifts he discusses really is different from any trends I saw on the internet in the 90s. He’s not suggesting that the online world of the 90s was all rainbows and unicorns, but that much internet “culture” today works on the basis of hurting the very people perpetuating it, trapping them within it. That may not be entirely new in human experience, but it’s more visible, more spread-able, more mainstream, more large-scale than ever.

I thought the writer of this article did a good job at explaining the modern omni-grift that’s got him feeling so down. I feel I understand the contrast between the Wild West of old (that you describe) and the systematic, infectious leeching of today.

Years ago, the buttons in my town were simple things that gave no feedback, and many of them were broken and stayed broken.

Just about all of them have been upgraded to buttons that beep and flash when you push them. It’s very obvious when those break, and so the buttons are now maintained much better.

what would happen if you really forgot the passcode

I believe the threat here was: Tell us the access code or we confiscate your phone, which we’ll hack into at our leisure.

I don’t think ordinary citizens should be required to know the law in lawyer-like detail when they travel.

I think in the broad strokes, you’re probably right about his legal situation, but it suuuuuucks and it’s not what I think of when I hear the word “freedom,” for sure.