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But why would someone pay you for that?

Just like all subscriptions this kills my interest in it. Tech is only interesting if it isn’t locked in a corporate data center.


you must be really bored with pretty much all the popular tech today then


I'm bored with most of the new flashy products, but that just leads to me tinkering more with things I already have or fun new open source projects. It's somewhat a hobby of mine to maximize the potential of old hardware with better software.


Not the person you’re responding to but yes, pretty much all of modern tech is awful.

The specs are pretty good but then you don’t really own it, you get limitations on what you can use it for, you get rent seeking and walled gardens everywhere. Even if you’re paying you get ads and get tracked. Updates make products worse more often than not.

What are you excited about? AI slop?


> What are you excited about? AI slop?

A little credit please?! I don't use AI anything. I code my stuff the old fashioned way with nested if/else statements that make you cry trying to follow along. And damn the coworker that interrupts your debugging asking if you got their email or not.

https://img.devrant.com/devrant/rant/r_55338_NBSDq.jpg


... and? Nothing wrong with not buying into what's popular.


and nothing. it's a comment on how everything is closed tech by the platforms, not a knock on being bored with that fact. i fully agree and do not participate on those platforms.


Why is it obvious they are here to stay?


Good thing that "“The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”.


How can they be this oblivious?


The food and wine at the fancy galas they’re more interested in attending than making a web browser must be really great.


AI doesn't change anything. If it was worth doing it is still worth doing.


I do not think it is fair to label a fear of communism or socialism as irrational.


And we had people believing he was telling the truth long after he changed course. His lie cost us all.


Where is the lie?


The rightful share is radically lower than it would be set democratically. Taxation above a certain point is a form of oppressive injustice.


Well, obviously that's your opinion as to what constitutes a just, rightful share. But other citizens have different ideas. And in a democracy, a middle ground is found. And that's considered just by democratic principles.


I love everything about Orion except it steals focus when I click a link in e-mail or another application. Does anyone know if there's a way to change the behavior to be like Safari's background link behavior?


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