auzas_1337

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canadians Are Buying $12,000 Yurts To Avoid Ridiculous Rental Prices⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  <10%* 🤓

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku disables TVs and streaming devices until users consent to new terms⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh I don’t see why we would need much balls for this. There are plenty of alternatives in case Apple or whoever decides to pull out. Besides slight inconvenience there’s not that much reason to keep dancing to the fiddle of foreign companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Contemplation⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey. I was going to make that pun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the strengths of the scientific method? What are its weaknesses?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  axioms have entered the chat

  The deeper you go in the why territory, the more abstract and tangental your axioms get.

  So yeah. All facts and truths ultimately rest on foundations that are either kinda unobservable or unproven. Doesn’t make them less practical or true (by practical definitions) though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For example cameras have been weatherproof for decades now. And you can both change the batteries and plug a bunch of stuff in them no problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some Beeper users say Apple banned their Macs from iMessage⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ye I never knew about the phenomenon. As other posters have pointed out - must be an American phenomenon. I don’t even use SMS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some Beeper users say Apple banned their Macs from iMessage⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason why you dug your own hole of pretentiousness is because you’re assuming there’s a right way of owning a phone.

  There’s not.

  For me, everything works just fine on iOs. Maybe if I was working in a tech-oriented field and I needed my phone to be very customizable and be able to run whatever I like, then I would not be happy with Apple. As an artist though I find the experience of Apple very pleasing. And this is how I have viewed the Android vs. Apple discussion for years now. Android is for techies and normies like your aunt, mom, etc. and Apple is for artists and normies who want a status symbol. Both are valid since you’re getting spied on anyway unless you’re wearing 5 layers of condoms before touching your phone.

  I’ve enjoyed fucking with Android’s customizability a lot, but at the end of the day it has always gotten boring to me, the UX has sucked even when I set all the UI elements to my liking and the build quality of the phones has never felt good.

  And I’m perfectly fine with that being my opinion because it’s based on my experience and it can change. I haven’t touched a Pixel phones which, I hear, are the best when it comes to Android, I’m sure there would be much to love, but if I have to pick a corpo’s dick to ride, I’m gonna jump on Apple’s instead of Google’s any day.

  Maybe someday I will switch from macOs and iOs to Linux and [blank], but that day is not yet here because I don’t feel like jumping through hoops to get stuff working and then fixing it whenever it inevitably brakes. Apple…just works. And I know that’s the most banal, cliche thing to say about it, but in my experience, it does. For the most part at least. There are a few things that annoy me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech Won’t Let You Leave. Here's a Way Out - WIRED⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if OP meant “zero-government” because that’s not what anarchism as a political theory and movement is about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some Beeper users say Apple banned their Macs from iMessage⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof. In my experience, Android phones are always better on paper when it comes to technical specs, but never when it comes to the user experience. I like technology, but mostly I need my phone to get out of my way and Apple just does it better.

  I’m not blind, I know the downsides of Apple products, but I couldn’t go back to either Windows or Android after about 5 years in the Apple ecosystem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve begun a new job at a ✨cool✨ (legitimately) local coffee shop. Not my first career choice, but I’ve moved countries and I value people over money. Anyway, that’s a different story.

  Why avocado toast? Because coffee is your main focus

  Ex-fuckin’-actly. We prepare high-quality coffee and for a small team sourcing from farmers halfway across the world ensuring that it stays high-quality is the main focus. There are 3 bakeries within a short walking distance if you want food.

  Besides that, it’s the familiarity that drives coffee shops to look like coffee shops. You wouldn’t expect a black metal album cover to look like a jazz record album for the most part unless you’re deliberately playing a trick.

  That said I do enjoy it when people twist formulas, but obviously, it’s a risk for business. In my case, the cafe that I work in could be found all over Europe, but locally it remains a twist on what the locals usually do. And I think that’s where the feeling of uniqueness comes from.

  The article points out a valid critique that I’ve mulled over in my own head:

  Only certain types of people were encouraged to feel comfortable in the zone of AirSpace, and others were actively filtered out. It required money and a certain fluency for someone to be comfortable with the characteristic act of plunking down a laptop on one of the generic cafes’ broad tables and sitting there for hours, akin to learning the unspoken etiquette of a cocktail bar in a luxury hotel. The AirSpace cafes “are oppressive, in the sense that they are exclusive and expensive”, Gonzalez said. When whiteness and wealth are posed as the norm, a kind of force field of aesthetics and ideology keeps out anyone who does not fit the template.

  And goes to interesting places recounting the history of instagrammability, the tyranny of the algorithm and the experiences of the owners of the coffeeshops. Overall a good read.