TheGrandNagus
@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad 8 hours ago:
It’s because they’re trying to instill in your mind that you’re getting into an ecosystem. A way of life, even.
“XYZ on the iPhone” just makes it sound like an appliance.
“XYZ on iPhone” makes it sound like it’s an ecosystem. An experience. Something to be part of.
It’s a very deliberate (though subtle) marketing choice that I believe impacts how people view the brand.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 15 hours ago:
I don’t understand what your point is here? Fossil fuels were instrumental in the industrial revolution so we have to stick by them forever, planet and people’s health benefits damned?
Nah. Use the most appropriate tech available. Which is now renewables, electric motors, etc.
- Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 1 day ago:
This is an argument publishers love to make, but it’s bullshit. Yes, games (assuming you ignore in game purchases/DLC, which you obviously shouldn’t but I digress) have got cheaper in real terms due to inflation lowering how much $60 is really worth, while games have stayed at that level.
It’s also true that development costs have went up.
Now, here’s the part that game publishers conveniently never talk about: distributing games is far cheaper now. We’re usually not shipping pallets of discs that take up loads of space and cost money to physically create, while also having to build in a profit margin for all the middlemen along the way, including for the retailer. We predominantly buy games digitally.
On top of that, gaming used to be niche, now everybody does it. The market is far larger, so they don’t need to charge a lot to still make bank.
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 2 days ago:
The earliest record is flatbread with cheese and dates. But there has been all sorts. For a while, a common base layer was lard topped with herbs, then the cheese on top of that.
Even now not all pizzas use a tomato base. And I’m not just talking about American pizzas that use barbeque sauce or something, pizza bianca (“white pizza”) is a style that will forgo tomato sauce for olive oil, lard, or bechamel sauce.
If you think pineapple on pizza is controversial, I had a bechamel sauce and pear pizza in Naples. Kinda unusual.
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 2 days ago:
I dislike Hawaiian pizza, but pineapple with spicy pepperoni, chilli flakes, and jalapenos? It’s amazing.
The acidity cuts through the grease really well, and pineapple just works with spice in general. Just look at the multiple curry dishes that use pineapple.
People only circlejerk about pineapple on pizza to fit in. There’s nothing wrong with it.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 2 days ago:
I got banned anyway lol. Reddit made it easy.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 2 days ago:
I’d be shocked if deleted comments weren’t retained by them
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 2 days ago:
But people’s choice won’t be taken away. Honda will still exist even if they have to abide by stricter privacy laws.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 3 days ago:
Too long, didn’t read, too busy enjoying pirated content streamed from my home server.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 3 days ago:
The thing is, nobody can be educated on everything. It’s impossible.
Nobody can know every part of a supply chain, how every aspect of everything they buy is made or how it works or the ramifications of all of that.
It is impossible for a person to do this stuff.
This is why regulations need to be part of the equation.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 3 days ago:
I’m all for reducing the number of cars on the road but IMO this is a poor attitude to have to a problem that exists right now and is ballooning out of control.
The truth is, moving away from cars will take a long, long time. Infrastructure doesn’t come from nowhere, and some places are so sparsely populated that public transport can be a very difficult proposition. Those places in particular will be stuck with cars for a while. Banning predatory data gathering on cars can happen right now if there is the political will to do so.
I know it’s easy for some (and I’m not specifying you, you don’t seem rude at all) to say “well I don’t care, fuck anybody who drives a car”, but I think everybody has a right to privacy, and the default shouldn’t be for our tools to spy on us and report it back to the OEMs. Particularly when a lot of car drivers don’t have any choice but to drive!
You can work on strengthening public transport while at the same time improving privacy laws for cars. It’s not one or the other.
- Comment on TikTok sues the US government over ban 3 days ago:
Does the US constitution apply for rights of businesses, or is it just people?
Not being snarky I actually don’t know
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 5 days ago:
To be fair, the survivability of being hit by any big US pickup is pretty small. Perhaps the cybertruck is even worse though.
Pickups are explicitly exempted from a lot of crash/pedestrian safety laws in the US (I think related to them being classed as commercial vehicles), despite every other car on the road there being a pickup.
- Comment on That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit 6 days ago:
Couldn’t give a shit, surely
- Comment on That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit 6 days ago:
Very much like how they deliberately fucked up Google search results on Firefox for Android.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
He’s not emotional in that he cries, screams, rages about things in a reality TV kinda way. He sits down and discusses things, and sometimes he veers into “this makes me feel XYZ”. Honestly I don’t think he acts over the top at all, he’s just comfortable talking about his feelings.
My (minor) problem with him is one completely different - his videos are so long, and he rambles. The guy could really benefit from writing a script lol. It could cut the runtime of his videos in half.
- Comment on The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake 1 week ago:
I hate how Microsoft sent a new CEO to Nokia, who then tanked the company, got them bought by Microsoft, and then was rehired in another role by Microsoft.
What makes it even worse is that they couldn’t even keep Nokia going once they did their takeover.
I’m still furious about the whole thing.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 1 week ago:
I misremembered, it’s a 2005 TV that I bought in 2006 on clearance.
I paid £500, which at the time would’ve been $1,000, as I remember the exchange rate being around 1:2 back then. Might’ve been £600 actually. The details are fuzzy.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 1 week ago:
1080p LCD.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 1 week ago:
Yeah the thermostat that was in my home until ~2010 was added in the 20s lol. 16 years isn’t long at all.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 1 week ago:
I bought my Bravia in 2005 and I’ve still yet to have any issues.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 week ago:
You find all kinds of crap when you search for things like that, you need to do your research on what’s trustworthy.
I see a lot of Windows users say “oh you can make windows not terrible, you just need to install this random modified Windows ISO that there’s no way of knowing if it contains malware”
It’s absolutely a hunt.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 1 week ago:
You don’t need to actively use something to have a general idea of it. Maybe it’s not on his machine but he sees friends/family use it. Maybe he’s seen ads, reviews, YouTube videos, articles.
I’ve never watched NASCAR in my life but I’m fairly certain I could point out differences between one of those cars and an F1 car.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 week ago:
Man windows sounds complicated. All these scripts and programs you’ve gotta hunt the web for, opening the command prompt or doing a load of registry edits to not see ads everywhere.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 week ago:
Not like Windows 10 doesn’t have heaps and heaps of bloat and spyware. Windows 11 just continues the trend.
- Comment on How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone 1 week ago:
It only has E2EE if you use Google’s proprietary implementation. And even then it’s not the best implementation of E2EE.
There has been some chatter of adding it to the RCS spec, though.
Not that it matters that much, on Android you’re still locked to Google’s RCS API and the same will be true to iOS with Apple’s.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 1 week ago:
Eventually, yeah.
- Comment on How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone 1 week ago:
Samsung had to sign a deal with Google with unknown terms and is Google messages underneath.
Verizon idk, I’m not American.
- Comment on How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone 1 week ago:
They don’t own the standard, but they own the Android implementation of it. Other RCS implantations are hardcoded to not be supported on Android, with the exception of Samsung’s - and they had to enter an agreement with Google.
It’s not open unless you create your own new operating system and implement it that way.
Google’s implementation also adds a bunch of closed-source extensions on top of the standard.
- Comment on How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone 1 week ago:
They are also the only RCS supplier on Android. A random messaging app can’t simply add RCS messaging functionality.
It’s not really much of an open standard at all.