Pirate
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- Comment on Apple’s plan: Stall, cheat, repeat 2 weeks ago:
People aren’t made that way, but competion incentivizes that.
Why oh why would people be against the very institutions where such behaviours are reinforced?
- Comment on Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps 2 weeks ago:
Do you trust them? The Curve sub is full of people complaining about fraudulent transactions. Kinda makes me afraid of unlocking my card lol.
- Comment on NVIDIA is full of shit 3 weeks ago:
Why do you even need those graphics cards for?
Even the best games don’t require those and if they did, I wouldn’t be interested in them, especially if it’s an online game.
Probably only a couple people would be playing said game with me.
- Comment on What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like 3 weeks ago:
We know what the internet would have been without Google because some of us lived it. It was mostly decentralised niche forums that you had to know the links for, and you’d receive random emails telling you to visit this or that new site.
It was wholesome.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 3 weeks ago:
The Fifteen Million Merits episode of Black Mirror was supposed to be a warming.
But instead it seems corporations used it as a guide, and people just accepted having ads bombarded into their skulls in exchange for content, instead of getting enraged by it.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 3 weeks ago:
That guy is a jackass. Probably an American upset that he’s a minority on Lemmy. Don’t mind him.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 3 weeks ago:
I often think communities like Lemmy choose to disproportionately hate on things. In this case it’s Windows, which I really don’t think is warranted.
But it is, though. You just choose to not see it that way. Laptops aren’t cheap, and you already paid the brand for it. Windows comes priced in into the purchase, you just don’t see it because you’re used to the price being combined. But its there.
For me, if I already paid for the product, that’s it. The company loses the right to advertise to me and milk me for further revenue, and just because its industry standard it doesn’t make it okay: the law should be tighter around this. Full stop.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 3 weeks ago:
When you install windows from fresh, you have a bunch of “suggested” apps on you task bar which are ads. Then you also have Notifications that tells you the news, which are sponsored news. Then you have other notifications telling you to use this or that Microsoft service (eg. oneDrive), another form of ads. If you use a browser that isn’t Edge, you’ll be routinely “reminded” how amazing edge is. Also, Edge reinstalls itself after every update even if you uninstall it.
All of these are forms of ads and outright abuse. Maybe you don’t care, but this is definitely happening. I’m also in the EU, my laptop was bought in the EU.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 3 weeks ago:
but then again, I had to practically force uBlock Origin down my friends’ throat after finding that they’ve had ads on YouTube for years and didn’t really care.
This is insane to me. How people can use the internet with ads is just beyond me.
And you wanna know the full hypocrisy? Google Chrome also comes with an Ad blocker, on by default. They block ads they don’t deem good, but allow all ads from AdSense, of course.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 3 weeks ago:
You mother fucker… You’re hired!
- Comment on Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared 4 weeks ago:
Yes, let’s stop people from doing what they want with their phones just so some shutty company can continue to thrive.
Ever heard of before and after photos? Some people use them in a work context. Others want to see the results from their gym sesh over time, so on so forth.
🤡 you’re not a clown, you’re the entire circus.
- Comment on Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared 4 weeks ago:
This page has all the information you might need on the topic. India is on top, but the US is a solid second place.
- Comment on Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared 4 weeks ago:
More people use facebook today than they used in 2015 when you were using it.
About 3x more people.
- Comment on Germany deems DeepSeek as illegal content after it is unable to address data security concerns, and asks Apple and Google to block it from their app stores 4 weeks ago:
In contrast, I’m sure you’ve watched ever “China Bad” propaganda videos on YouTube, and you’re still itching for more.
But I encourage you to go visit it once and see for yourself what it’s really like.
- Comment on Germany deems DeepSeek as illegal content after it is unable to address data security concerns, and asks Apple and Google to block it from their app stores 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think China is good. I think China is a strong country doing normal superpower stuff. The difference is China doesn’t start wars and isn’t out to overthrow other countries governments, so I expected people to hate China less than the US. But propaganda is strong.
- Comment on Germany deems DeepSeek as illegal content after it is unable to address data security concerns, and asks Apple and Google to block it from their app stores 4 weeks ago:
I prefer China’s honesty to the US’s dishonesty.
- Comment on Germany deems DeepSeek as illegal content after it is unable to address data security concerns, and asks Apple and Google to block it from their app stores 4 weeks ago:
It’s simple: America Good, China Bad.
There isn’t much more depth to it than this. BTW even Lemmy is sadly suffering from the same brainrot.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, this conversation is pointless. Feel free to isolate yourself, the rest of us are still gonna try to work with what the world can offer.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 4 weeks ago:
China is a bad relationship? I’ve got some bad news for you but 90% of what you own is made in China.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 4 weeks ago:
Are you saying China DIDN’T aggressively take over Hong Kong and all of the businesses that operated there?
Uh, i kinda am, yeah.
Last time I checked, Hong Kong is still a tax haven in the middle of Asia. Western companies are still opening offshore subsidiaries and bank accounts there to engage in tax evasion, and the welfare system is still as pitiful as it was before China took over.
Retirees living in literal cages or under bridges is still common, and the same 3-4 families that ran the local economy/housing market still control the city-state as they’ve always done.
By any metrics, China took control of Hong Kong on paper only. In practice, everything stayed the same.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 4 weeks ago:
We as in Europeans, which I assume most of the user base here to be, unlike Reddit. Sorry if my assumption bothers you.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 4 weeks ago:
Independent untill the party decides they’re not independent. (Eg).
Again another non-sequitor that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Nobody disagrees that China doesn’t like people publicly criticizing their government.
That has rigorously NOTHING to do with the normal operation of companies that do not engage with politics in China, which is the topic at hand.
Also, it is the US that has been kidnapping people into unmarked vans and arresting people at airport, detaining them for however long, and deporting them to countries that aren’t their own for as little as having a meme criticizing the current US regime.
So really, which one is the dictatorship?
The sooner we stop seeing China as enemies, the better. We need them more than ever now that the US has decided to go full mask off.
So try to stay on topic. BYD is free to operate as it wishes in China, along with several millions of other companies. And their products are good.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 4 weeks ago:
They know, they just have too much invested in their 401k.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 4 weeks ago:
But even that is incorrect.
Yes, Xi Jinping is powerful, but the communist party of China is not the military, and there is a fair amount of decentralization in decision making.
Further, the guy above goes “look at how Xi is suplexing Taiwan?!?!” even though he isn’t because guess what, he doesn’t actually have the power to do so.
Also, none of that garbage has anything to do with the topic of EV production, which is in the hands of a private company which largely operates independently of the government.
Which is why I said the dude is just spewing brainless propaganda and Red Herring.
- Comment on Bumble's AI icebreakers are mainly breaking EU law 4 weeks ago:
Is it any less bad that to have a pretend personality when you’re talking about finding friends…?
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 4 weeks ago:
but saying that a Chinese company isn’t “under the control of Xi Jinping”, the guy who crushed Hong Kong for having too much independence
Just take that sentence at face value and consider the ridiculousness of actually believing the guy alone has that amount of crushing power.
You’re just regurgitating unfounded US propaganda which, being on Lemmy, is very unfortunate to see.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 4 weeks ago:
If you think Xi Jinping is dictating what BYD does then you don’t understand the fundamentals as to why China managed to attract so much foreign investment in the first place.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 4 weeks ago:
Chinese electric cars are just better. BYD is what Tesla wanted to be, but actually fulfills its promises. Plus it isn’t ran by a dictator.
- Comment on Software is evolving backwards 4 weeks ago:
I, too, am a Linux user.
- Comment on Software is evolving backwards 4 weeks ago:
Yeah… That explains the user experience Windows offers versus Mac.
Anybody who’s being honest will say Mac is nicer to use, especially non-tech people. Only nerds prefer the Windows design language over Windows.
Let’s face it: if Macs could run game as well as windows, Microsoft would go bankrupt tomorrow.