circuitfarmer

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Just like corporate donations are "speech". Some Citizens United logic here.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When will people stop supporting this clown?

Remember when some people were like "well, I don't support him, but I've had this Twitter account forever, so I'm not leaving." This is what happens. Things just get worse until you gain plausible deniability for continuing to support the bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago

Who saw this coming???

/s

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

But at a certain point, it's still a cop out. And part of the trick. If you drown anyone in enough bullshit, you can't expect it to all get called out -- but that doesn't mean it's not all bullshit. It is divide and conquer in another form.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Tbh I see quite a few on the regular using local Craigslist.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Lots of old cars. You can get 80s and 90s Rolls Royce for very cheap from private sellers. Some late 70s / early 80s Ferraris (like the 308) can be had for under $10k.

Mind you, they're still incredibly expensive to maintain and thus not terribly practical, but the cost to entry can be far lower than most would think.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

My Android device has 128GB of internal storage, and I still could not imagine not having a MicroSD slot for additional storage.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

+1 for Pop. I fully expected to distro hop but have had it on my main rig for over a year now. Surprisingly pleasant.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

This result is predictable for a lot of different things that started as products and seem to be ending up as services.

Microsoft wants Windows to be a subscription service with the associated perks to the company (namely, targeted ads, and also extreme control over anything the system does, including this ad scheme), and so an increased number of people seek a more traditional OS.

The movie industry pushes streaming down everyone's throat as a highly fragmented market where media ownership no longer exists; thus an increased number of people start to return to physical media.

Car companies push to paywall features of their cars behind subscription services. An increased number of people seek used cars which have no such paywalls.

The patterns are clear, in my view, but the C-suite is always driven by a naïve lust for ever-increasing profit.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I not only remember the cornucopia one, but I thought this was the reason I learned the word cornucopia when I was a kid. Most Mandela effect stuff is kind of silly to me, but this one just freaks me out.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Meh.

It's not designed for or good for VR gaming. As an AR device, I find it a bit silly since I can just look at a real screen. It would be a novelty at $100, but at the price Apple wants I kind of think of it like a joke.

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