Could be, but that’s a very strange choice of language by the author. You scuff a tyre, you scratch or gouge a rim typically.

I’d love to see them prove they genuinely incurred those costs, how do you go about fixing a tyre scuff?

OTG compatible is a rare feature, I have an endoscope camera that uses OTG, but not a compatible phone.

Also, no mention of a headphone jack.

Doesn’t change the fact you didn’t bother to even read the summary

This is on the “looking for friends” part of the app, but yeah, it’s pretty sad.

These people are looking for friends, not to date.

to the “Bumble for Friends” section of the app.

Come on, it’s in the description, you don’t even need to open the article.

I think a lot of it is also growing their market share and establishing their brand.

Oh, the US government is already proposing that.

The F35 is a global product, with quite a few countries involved in manufacturing. I do think Europe and the UK could keep them flying without the US.

Hell, Iran kept their F14s going for many decades without US support.

Yeah, the Chinese manufacturers are out to make money, and at least we know what to expect from them.

Besides, being profitable usually means making a better product than your competitors.

I think the advantage there is they don’t need a full airfield to operate from, but if the UK has lost all it’s airfields, somebody’s getting nuked.

Most users neither know nor care what that is.

I did say private individuals, Outlook is more of a corporate product.

YouTube should be fixing their buggy mess of a YouTube app, what a disaster. Every change they make, makes it worse.

I’m aware. Do you think these guys want to be martyrs?

That really nails it, I think. Tech is a hobby for some, a means to an end for the vast majority.

I’ve used my share of free software. Some of it worked well, but it always felt clunky, and just never as straightforward to use as a paid product.

But sure, I couldn’t possibly have reached that conclusion on my own, it’s obviously the marketing.

Christ this is such a Lemmy take.

The other option is users just not using tech at all.

I’ve said this before here, but techy people vastly overestimate both the ability and the patience of the typical user, and it’s the reason so few people use FOSS products.

Products from big tech aimed at private individuals are designed to be as simple to use as possible, which is why they’re so popular.