So we blew up a ship because it belonged to the wrong country and not because it was a threat?

It sure sounds like our country is at war with their country. Good thing my super trustworthy government got out ahead of that one and told us it’s not a war.

I could see them doing fine losing those features if it meant the hardware was compact, light, and cheap. But doing it on giant $1000 phones is not going to do them any favors with the lemmy crowd like I said.

My main original Skyrim play through on desktop was 100 hours.

My Skyrim VR play through was 200 hours. I think in 2019. So fun.

“Somebody set up us the bomb SAM.”

Absolutely. I’ve probably listened to Prison Song this past year more than any other track of theirs.

They’re trying to build a prison 
They’re trying to build a prison 
They’re trying to build a prison for you and meeee

Yeah, and especially for how popular it was back then it can be haunting to listen to old hits from bands like SOAD and RATM.

Why don’t presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor?

Americans born in the 40s and 50s had such a gilded path set out before them by WW2, and now they think that young people can’t afford homes because of starbucks and avocado toast.

Remember how innocent we were the FIRST time Trump bombed Iran and we thought he was starting world war 3? Such sweet summer children were we.

100% agreed. I agreed more with each paragraph.

Your last sentence hit on what I think is a contributing if not primary driving factor in the health crisis you described.

It’s like the goal of modern society is to insulate us from the natural world and from learning subjects or doing tasks that we don’t absolutely have to.

But we are critters that evolved on this planet just like the others. You can’t just live a commoditized life that consists of work, car, screen, sleep, repeat and get the same fulfillment out of life as if you found the unique path that’s optimized for your unique brain.

Not acknowledging that everything jacks with your head to SOME degree only prevents you from trying to defend yourself as best you can!

Over the past several years I have gone through a transition from living life the way I was supposed to, or that I thought I wanted to, to living according to what produces the best outputs from my brain. Once I have the lived experience of an undeniable improvement from some change, it might actually become a habit.

I personally might not use a headphone jack or SD card slot very much, but for the market that a GrapheneOS phone would be targeting they seem like OBVIOUS things to include.

The crowd getting excited about this partnership is pretty much the same crowd that complains about features like those going away.

Then make the machine try to keep people talking for as long as possible…

That’s probably a huge part of it. How many billions of dollars have been spent engineering content on a screen to get its tendrils into people’s minds and attention and not let go?

EnGaGeMent!!!

Trapped Americans getting whoopsie-killed as shit all over the place gets blown up? That sounds like a great justification for throwing more money and lives at attacking the Epstein Files-- I mean, Iran.

Honestly I would be more surprised if it were simply a gutted and incompetent goverment, rather than intentional.

You know, believing oneself to be the antichrist DOES mean you are pretty much the most important and impactful human on the planet. Like Time Person of the Year multiplied by Jesus.

That sounds like peak narcissism.

That makes me think it could be true. :/

The fuckers driving this stuff are so mustache-twirling stupidly evil that they are probably doing it on purpose to ensure that part of their legacy is that the next generation can be convinced to treat entire nations’ worth of people as violent animals.

There are a lot of people out there, so many things can be true at once.

I think it’s inevitable that some people use labels as excuses just because awareness of those conditions is so much higher. I also think it’s inevitable that there are a lot of people who struggled all their life with things that are difficult to diagnose or weren’t on the minds of parents and teachers 30 years ago.

And there’s probably no way to ever say definitively, with evidence, either way on this – but it would blow my fucking mind to find out that Lemmy didn’t have a neurospicy percentage of participants significantly higher than the general population.

And even if that were known to be untrue, I think Lemmy also attracts people who are more aware, open, and accepting of that stuff in themselves and others.

StarTAC hand-me-down as my first cell phone.

Motorola Droid as my first smart phone.

I haven’t had many Motorolas, but my limited history with them has been pretty alright!

My employer has the usual setup of M365 enterprise shit running on Dell laptops.

Fortunately we devs are able to “dual boot” to run Linux on our machines, since our product is an embedded Linux system. (has anybody seen my Windows partition btw? I can’t even find anything NTFS formatted, whoopsie!)

All that background info is just so I can pay Microsoft a compliment, even if it has asterisks all over it:

The entire Microsoft suite works just fine in a browser, and in LibreWolf too! I do typically add some permissions for those sites for convenience, since librewolf is privacy/tracking hardened (firefox fork) out of the box. I use Teams and Outlook every day, and occasionally will drop a file into OneDrive or edit something in MS Office. I don’t write many office-format documents though, so I’m more likely to be in LibreOffice or a PDF viewer just reading a doc.

You know how in media streaming and gaming there’s that balance of whether it is more convenient to be a paying customer versus pirate everything?

Microsoft’s stuff is literally better to use in Linux. Even if I need to test the Windows build of something, a VM is SO much more convenient. And I’m not even logged into the microsoft shit on that. If I need something from OneDrive, I go to the browser there too.

If these are just little low-powered PCs where you can pop in a USB drive and install a real OS, I could see some uses for them. Hopefully we aren’t entering the wonderful world of phone-like locked down firmware with these things.

But I already have old PCs that are great at, you know, running software on their actual hardware. So realistically I’ll never consider one of these unless they do something awesome like subsidize the cost and sell them as normal little x86-64 PCs with some janky stripped down version of windows installed.

I think it’s more of a way for those of is in the US to hang on to some shred of optimism. Surely somebody somewhere will continue to make nice things for normal people, right?

I’ve spent just a little bit of time in Europe, with most of it in Sweden. I have seen with my own eyes how civilized societies can have nice things in shared spaces!