• UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      He never got over learning that X is a common variable in algebra that he learned about in the 90s that could mean any quantity. It is EPIC and LE INFINITY and therefore he wants LE EPIC X to monopolize your life, including your banking.

    • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      In the latest quarterly earnings call for Tesla he got weirdly animated and emotional over work from home and it seems like he believes his own lies where he was sleeping on the factory floor for a while.

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    One thing I find very strange about the actually existing information age is that most “tech” doesn’t even solve a problem, or improve upon an existing system. It’s all just selling solutions to problems you don’t have or problems the seller created in order to sell you the solution. Most “tech” companies haven’t really made any improvements to anything they own in a long time. It think the it’s odd/frustrating that improvement to existing solutions is far less “valuable” than new “features”.

    It’s also interesting to me that “tech” companies aren’t even really technology companies anymore. “Innovation” is just a buzzword rather than actual goal/objective. They want to just make new “things” rather than actually improving any current things

    The modern age is weird and I don’t like it.

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      One thing I find very strange about the actually existing information age is that most “tech” doesn’t even solve a problem, or improve upon an existing system.

      One glaring example of this as an ongoing process is involuntary software updates that make the software worse by making it more intrusive, obnoxious, and often jamming more ads into it.

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      That’s the problem with humans having limited needs while the market needs unlimited growth. The only answer after a certain point is inventing demand.

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        And specifically, inventing demand by removing alternatives. Like with IoT devices. They invent demand by removing alternative designs, raise the price because it’s premium, then use those devices to spy on your and sell data to create a sort of rent based model where you pay with your privacy.

        Alternatively they just refuse to even sell you the IoT device and force you to rent it from them.

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          They invent demand by removing alternative designs, raise the price because it’s premium, then use those devices to spy on your and sell data to create a sort of rent based model where you pay with your privacy.

          I HATE SMART TVS

          I HATE SMART TVS

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      When Twitter came out, there were blogs. Everyone could write articles on their blog, ans RSS allowed everyone to follow anyone.

      Then a new company said : “We will make blogs, but limited to 127 characters”

      That was so stupid. I bet with a friend that it will never be a thing. I lost.