What is unacceptable is how these technology companies steal the IP of collective humanity, gate keep it and force us to pay a subscription service to use it against each other in a perverted downward spiral powered by capitalist game theory.
The neoluddite revolution is forming, have no doubts about that.
Im convinced its all planned to force users to upgrade. The “7 years of updates” selling point is just a trojan horse to install a newer iOS that makes the product run like garbage.
Id honestly prefer never to update than get these bogus “security updates, features and fixes”
Maybe they can fix Messages from bugging out all the time. Apple software has gone down the drain. I don’t want a million new features I just want the ones that make a phone a phone actually work 99.5% of the time
I ended up having to "delete messages from icloud" on all devices, escalate to support after they weren't deleted 45 days later (the UI shows -15 days in that scenario), reenable sync and then see it still failing to complete a Sync Now, redisable sync and re-delete messages in cloud, wait another 45 days, and then ask them to escalate to the iCloud backend team to run a purge on their end of just my messages in icloud records. It worked, but I don't know if they've had enough time for whatever corruption they found to be patched into their automated ops-repair/cleanup processes (and they wouldn't tell me if I asked), it's only been a couple months.
Germany never thought it would be in the current situation - decaying health care, pension system, cornerstone industry in decline, lack of digitalization, the list goes on. Massive reforms are needed, action is needed, but there is too much inertia in the system to change anything quickly.
Smaller countries like Estonia have the ability to be much more nimble.
Fun fact, the Bundestag is one of the most representative parliaments in the world thanks to MMP. Is the executive dysfunctional? Is it the federal split into 16 tiny states causing this?
If it was just a matter of size, similar/larger countries would be in the same state, and at least one of your smaller states would get ahead right?
Yes somehow they believed the 90s continue despite zero public investment. They talk about the dangers of debt for future generations, but they are silent about the infrastructure debt they are saddling their children with by not investing on any serious scale.
> This is a moral failure of the highest order and it underscores, for me at least, that most of these faux-progressives' activism is purely performative.
It is worse than that. Faux-progressives will also play into antisemitic conspiratorial tropes that this was all perfectly and precisely planned.
I switched to a T480 from a crappy macbook pro 2017. I enjoyed the switch to use linux fulltime but ultimately I was let down by the Intel processor that would throttle very badly. Compiling code was a nightmare. Ive since switched back to the M1 macbook pro which I plan to keep as long as possible and probably switch to linux when macos inevitably decides my hardware is too old to support. I would love to have a non-apple future, though.
Agreed although it's getting to the point that other companies are now using Starlink to provide other services so I've often used Starlink (even if indirectly) without realising it.
For example I go tramping and pretty much every remote accomodation I've stayed at use Starlink. My mobile provider uses Starlink for direct-to-cell services. My national airline uses Starlink as backhaul for their in-flight WiFi.
I know there are other competitors coming who aim to provide alternatives to Starlink -- this should mean at some point accomodation providers, mobile networks, airlines, etc can switch to them.
If it’s free - you are the product.
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