I jokingly said “1999 Honda Fit” so many times that now they call me asking about that fictional car.

un chat.

Average “no one will listen to my under baked political opinios in real life so I’ll hold a meme community hostage” 17 year old

Probably depends where you live. In a big city I don’t think anyone would bat an eye, but in a small town in rural nowhere people would probably get upset right away.

The M7 had that camera problem didn’t it?

Holy shit Fortune thinks someone is going to pay $20/mo to read clickbait? Wild.

Ticketing people who don’t pay for parking is “bullying?”

This is pretty insulting to people who have actually suffered from real bullying. There’s plenty of real problems in the world to be righteously angry about. Maybe let’s not post shitty Facebook memes on Lemmy.

This is another one of those features that I’ll immediately find in settings and turn off when the update drops.

I’ve worked in the industry for the last 11 years, and my experience is that the industry has changed dramatically.

In 2012, there were still huge niches in smartphone software that has not yet been filled. There were also almost no barriers to entry - a team of <10 people rapidly expanding didn’t have to think about Cookie Banners or Google Play store delisting. Finally, there was the promise of a huge payout - the win condition for a startup was to BE the next Google.

In 2023, dominant players have captured all aspects of the software experience and when a new idea becomes popular (Snapchat in 2016 is a good early example), big tech has the lawyers and developers to simply clone it with a higher budget (e.g. Insta & FB Stories, Youtube Shorts). Because of scale, big companies can more easily afford to deal with regulation and can even sometimes regulate their competitors (Play Store). Finally, big tech is guaranteed high payout for developers - these days, the win condition for a startup isn’t to BE the next Google, its to be acquired by Google.

The eventual end of all this is Google continuing to strangle open & free Android by buying/shutting down any new ideas and extracting more and more rent from its platform.

The only way to opt out is to move to non-Play AOSP alternatives.

I would REALLY like to buy one of these. But I just can’t justify buying anything with a 60hz display in 2024.

The face right behind the cat is terrifying

Jesus you’re dumb

TV show Narcos on Netflix.

Damn this happened to me last month and just today I got pissed looking for my Chex Mix.

Awww yisss.

Tell me more about my opinions and what they are. I don’t think you understand what the word nuanced means. Especially if you are proponent of a nuclear scary and scary is bad mindset.

Just as an illustration, you just told me you didn’t like me putting words in your mouth, then 2 sentences later put words in my mouth. I think you need to reevaluate how you interact with others, and try to treat people the way you want to be treated.

Nope. The starting point of your and my interaction was you making a snarky meme containing 0 facts that implied anyone who thinks nuclear reactors are scary or have risks are so dumb they can’t tell the difference between 2 copies of the same picture.

Then when I called you out on your juvenile behavior and the emotional nature of your argument, you implied I had no reading comprehension and told me to read your other comments.

To use your phrase, “the facts are” that it only takes one bad-enough meltdown to potentially obliterate life on the planet, and that makes nuclear power of any kind a VERY complicated topic. Nuclear power CAN be very useful, but it can also be very dangerous.

Pretending like its a magic bullet is infantile and only harms your cause.

Don’t like my ad-hominem attacks against you? You’re getting treated the way you treated all of Lemmy when you posted that dumb meme. Now you know how you made everyone else feel first.

Your opinion is not nuanced. Maybe practice what you preach.

Agreed. Tipping is stupid. Abolish it and charge what the service costs.

Your post is clearly based on emotion only, so I don’t think you’re doing yourself many favors trying to be sarcastic here.