st3ph3n
@st3ph3n@midwest.social
Fleddit in June 2023. Was on kbin for a while but it’s been broken and janky lately, so I’m giving midwest.social a try now.
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 12 hours ago:
Oh fuck right off, you ghoul.
- Comment on Based on a true story 3 weeks ago:
Wild. I bought a car from Carvana in 2022 and the interest rate back then was 6% on a 3-year loan, which was on the high side of normal for the time period.
- Comment on HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls 2 months ago:
100% this
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 2 months ago:
I have a Boox Palma 2 - their cellphone-sized thing that doesn’t have a cellular radio. I love it. They’re more expensive than kindles, though, since they’re not subsidizing their cost with ebook sales. I haven’t actually tried jailbreaking a kindle so I can’t say how good an experience that would be, but you could probably pick up a kindle of some description on the used market for dirt cheap to try it out.
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 2 months ago:
Run software they don’t approve of. Like alternate reading apps that don’t need you to pipe everything through an Amazon account, read formats they don’t support, etc.
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 2 months ago:
This is why I have an Android e-ink device. I can put the kindle app on it for anything from their shitty walled garden, but I also can put pretty much anything else I want on it too.
- Comment on How Nissan and Honda's $60 billion merger talks collapsed. 2 months ago:
Honda is better off without them.
- Comment on low spec gaming looking pretty sunny right now gang 2 months ago:
The Windows ones need the extra horsepower to actually run windows and the games at the same time!
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 5 months ago:
“No, not like that!”
- Comment on “Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says 6 months ago:
Broadcom continues to be a bunch of exploitative fucks, surprised pikachu.