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- Comment on Has Anyone Else Noticed Jellico's Face Constantly Changes in Prodigy? 1 month ago:
His eyes are too closely together in S1.
- Comment on Former Apple designer Sir Jony Ive has said he feels “responsible” for the “not so positive consequences” of the iPhone. 1 month ago:
The iPhone was the first smartphone that hot insanely popular. It launched the app store model that’s now used on every mobile platform including Android. Those apps have gotten hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in India and China who are doing e-commerce and opening small businesses from their phones. That’s food on the table for the working class. They can earn money while looking after their children because they’re not chained to a desktop computer for internet access. People in remote areas can know instantly about natural disasters and the news, educating them and making them active citizens in a democracy.
People across the world can chat with each other for nearly free using messaging and social media apps, and won’t have to send letters or pay extra fees for long-distance calls. The iPhone got more people onto what formerly only Blackberry-owning business executive had.
It’s such a first world thing to belittle the impact of smartphone (an industry which the iPhone shaped tremendously), when it has so much tangible impact, especially to working people.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 29 comments
- Comment on Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption 2 months ago:
See, this falls apart when there’s another instance that focuses on solarpunk. When some communities on that instance become more popular and active than the communities in your local instance, you’d want to be subscribed to the solar punk communities on that new instance too. Now, your local feed is only showing you solarpunk communities hosted on slrpnk.net but not solarpunk communities on other instances. This distinction is not meaningful because where a community is hosted can be totally detached from the content. The users you know by handle can also be very active, if not more active, on other instances talking about solarpunk than slrpnk.net.
- Comment on Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption 2 months ago:
Unique interests can be already be self-curated by subscribing to certain communities. All instances have the subscribed feed. There’s no need for communities of a certain type to be on one instance.
- Comment on US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit 2 months ago:
Why did the UK refuse?
- Submitted 2 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 54 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Michelle Yeoh Told Us The Perfect Story To Prove That She’s Committed To Playing Star Trek: Section 31’s Philippa Georgiou For A Long Timewww.cinemablend.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 2 comments
- Comment on "Section 31" early review round-up 2 months ago:
Empire: A bland comedy spacecapade stuck between two (strange new) worlds
Hollywood Reporter: Not Even Michelle Yeoh Can Save Paramount+’s Subpar Spinoff Movie
New York Times: Set the Phasers to Shun
Los Angeles Times: ‘Star Trek: Area 31’ is diverting, but it’s more pilot episode than film (weird and glaring typo in the headline)
Space.com: It isn’t classic ‘Trek’, but the Paramount+ exclusive offers some flashy fun
- Comment on Why the Left needs to watch Star Trek: It has lessons for today's techno-optimists 2 months ago:
I had the same thought when NFTs became popular, but no longer. NFTs are artificial scarcity, since they have no inherent value and the uniqueness of each should therefore hold no inherent value. But the hype’s gone now. Nobody cares about NFTs because everyone knows their value is artificial. I think that is what’s gonna happen when replicators are invented. There will be brief periods of hype to create artificial scarcity, but they will pass.
- Submitted 2 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 14 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 3 comments