Shit. Watch a documentary on fast food commercials. It’s already been crazy bullshit before AI ever showed up.

You mean you can’t just get Apple’s driver to work on Linux by turning it off and on again enough times?

Changing payment methods may result in a premium increase.

Fuck them. I would be switch companies. If they try to turn a buck on shit like this, you know they’ll try to fuck you on a claim.

Ok. Cool.

But how are teens the losers in this?

How so?

Ok. Call it prison then. Same issue. Also, what would happen if you said on social media that you thought the tiananmen square massacre was an atrocity?

Also, if you don’t feel it’s an authoritarian government, what do you call it?

*Edit: I forgot to ask. The videogame thing. What country are you referring to here? Since games were coming out of many different countries and most of the consoles were out of Japan. Who exactly there is your enemy? And if all of it was to block propaganda and misinformation from other countries, that implies that China was the only source of information you were allowed to know of growing up? You don’t feel like that was oppressive at all?

Ah.

I see where the problem is. You decided to equate me saying China is an authoritarian state to me also saying that the US is not an authoritarian state.

Ok. Do you think China is not an authoritarian state? I believe they are for reasons such as their social credit system and their game console bans that went for like 15 years and banning any games that would allow user generated political content and any political opposition will land you in a camp.

I mean… It is tho.

Not to mention they’ve been getting literally double the price for their cattle for a while now.

I was a lot better at chess as a 13 year old than I am as a 43 year old. Your mind runs way better when young. I used to be able to think so many more moves ahead than I can, now.

I use an apk called “Thunder” for Lemmy and it stays in apk for links, but doesn’t have ad blockers. Other than that issue it’s awesome for doom scrolling on here.

Holy shit. Have your ad block up in full force before clicking that link and getting forwarding and McAfee cancer.

I guess it’s how you interpret it? I thought it was a good ending and spoke to an endless loop of humanity and meaninglessness.

Two huge reasons. They want to charge you an extra $400 for phone storage that costs them $30 in hardware, Then also, if you have all the storage you need on your phone, you won’t feel like you have to pay for all that cloud storage every single month, essentially forever.

I still like the options and alternatives I can get from android over apple.

Also, I got a thousand dollar android that stomps the hell out of what you can have from apple for $1600. Hopefully their will be better alternatives by the time I need another new phone.

I had (still works, just retired now) the last Samsung flagship with a micro SD as my phone until 9 months ago. Note 20 Ultra. 8 miss my s pen, still, but Samsung has been charging too much for lazy trash phones for too long now, so I bailed.

I feel like it’s shenanigans. Seems a lil too cool to be real.

Sounds like something an airline would say.

Loved Chuck Norris vs abe Lincoln. “I gotta bucket full of my head and I’m about to make it raaaiiin”