paulcdb

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago

Maybe thats the problem with people these days!

People only care about price so now everything is built as cheap as possible, corners cut everywhere so now everything is shit.. because it needs to be cheap! It’s getting harder to find anything that seems built to last more than a year.

As scummy as Amazon might be, they’re still the only company that offers anything that resembles convenience. eBay could’ve challenged Amazon but profit over service and those in charge walking round with their head up there arse’s and now it’s a poor copy of aliexpress that seems to be 90% chinese crap in the UK! I’m not wasting an hour trawling every online store when I know Amazon has it… so what if its £3 more!

And sadly the cheap money has gone and no-one wants to offer a better Amazon because there’s money in it because… everyone wants everything cheap! 🤦‍♂️😞

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We need to move away from money incentives!

Before anyone says “oh but they need to make money…” open source has worked great for most things. All money has done is ruin everything it touches!

YouTube is full of idiots promoting their opinions or often not even opinions, just regurgitating someones else youtube video so now all we have is “omg man, like and subscribe…” 20 times an hours with about 5 minutes of anything slightly useful, if not just a full paid promotion. Not to mention most videos would be much better as a blog or actually useful wiki you can follow without trying to find something useful in a video!

If you removed all the junk from YouTube, you could probably just run off a an 8 bay NAS! 😎

I have no idea how bad any of the other social media platforms are these days since I have no friends and youtube is the one that really ****s me off these days! 🤬

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think we’re now seeing what happens when the rich have too much control and people continue to let it happen.

People talk about free countries but is there any country left that isn’t working flat out on decimating peoples freedom at an alarming rate?

Free speech, Wage theft, the car you drive, the way people who don’t, or can’t work are alienated… even the way people vote are all used to divide people and make it easier to take away peoples freedoms!

It really is utterly disgusting whats going on but as we see in Wales, Labour is an even shittier, controlling party! 😞

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not sure if they’ve improved it but meshtastic also used to require a module per device/phone so sadly you can’t dot them around and allow multiple people to share them like with group events.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

“By the book…”

Yeah, lets wait and see because nothing apple touches is by anything but apples book! But then the whole USB C shambles is such a mess its hard to know if its crappy cables or companies being aholes because my ipad will charge with 1 cable, but not another, yet both charge my pixel fine.

But then i’m not spending £ks on an iPhone anymore when they seem to be following google’s book and have separate departments that never collaborate so you get garbage software! 😡