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We live in a mass spiritual cognitive dissonance, boarding like hamsters thinking we can take it all with us when we die
I remember as a child many of my friends getting a PS1 specifically because you could chip it and burn games.
Young people love piracy because they have no money to pay
The entire human philosophy is to borrow from tomorrow to pay for today, and it’s leading to the destruction of our societies. At some point we will be forced to redefine the models that we’ve held onto so tightly.
Me and my partner bought Withings watches - neither of us will buy them again.
Very very poor customer service
I really empathise with the voices in here. Remember you are not alone.
But also remember that building a life, even for the most successful people, is like building a castle on sand. Existentially everything crumbles with time, our brains, bodies, income, status.
When we hold onto ideas of how things should be, we suffer, because we live in a reality of flux, and that flux seems to be increasing over time. We are moving towards great volatility and we are all apart of it.
In times like these people need a philosophy - I believe in something akin to Buddhism, because it’s taught me the more we cling, the more we suffer.
I implore everybody to do that soul searching and realise that we can always find something else, and something better, if we adjust our expectations and attachments of how we think it should be.
This is the greatest change of our time, and the outcomes are not a reflection of your performance.
If anyone is interested, checkout Ram Dass, some great YouTube videos and podcasts that can really help get a sense of life
Difference is humans arent on the top of the stack anymore, AI is.
I followed them for a while before the AI craze started. It looked promising back then, but I wasnt willing to invest time and attention back then on something so new.
Good thing I didn’t
If you don't want your mbp to run like garbage, then don't update to the newest version of obsolescenceOS.
I always considered Garbicz a very commercial festival even from the very beginning. The ticket was expensive, food was included, all infrastructure already built and you party and leave without much thought at all. The people also had little regard for the beautiful nature and lake - A pretty typical techno festival catering for the Berlin clubscene.
Burns usually are completely different. Yeah Burning Man is super commercial now, but smaller more obscure burns happen all over the world, including Europe. They run on participant preparation and donation, these still embody what Burning Man was originally about
Coming down from acid makes you feel hollow?
“the new API WILL require you to rethink your code”
I recall we had roughly the same experience. Tried to use the OTA API that was rewritten and it was a disaster. The contributors opinion was atrocious, and we had deliverables to deliver so we ended up just hacking it and using unsafe globals to workaround how opinionated it was.
Ive been developing rust embedded applications for about 5 years, so im not new to it either.
I get people want to be ideologically biased with how they structure code, but a public API should be flexible enough to work in a wide range of situations, and what irks me about it is that there isn't really much benefit, if at all, for the pain, time and money it takes to adjust it.
“Stealing” implies they aren’t rightfully yours. Ownership of self determination, freedom etc are human rights, as is breathing clean air, or drinking clean water. We all are born into this world with an inherent set of rights.
No authority should ever be above that, unless you take those same rights away from another.
Authority and the State steals these rights from us, slowly eroding them under the guise of safety, passing immoral midnight legislation like Chat Control, or declaring a state of emergency. Time and time again we find ourselves in a prison and time and time again we start the next inevitable revolution.
There is a growing counter-tech neo luddite movement forming, and I think its going to get very large. At some point we need to step back and ask - why are we simply accepting technologies that erode freedoms and subjugate the masses
Im not an expert in emissions testing but pretty sure it still needs CE certification testing. The module shouldnt cause any problems providing that the firmware for the transmitter is configured properly, and is placed sanely in the enclosure, but the entire product must still undergo the relevant testing for 2.4GHz emitters.
Just because you use a certified module doesn't give you a free pass.
This really just highlights the desperation OpenAI is facing right now. These controllers have existed forever - why the f would anyone buy this?
What a vomit burger. “Evil”exists everywhere, not just in your biases
Primarily anti AI. Also doesn't feel like my private repositories are both truly private, nor safe there anymore
As someone who has spent a vast portion of life believing technology would make life better, I've come to the realisation that this idea is a fallacy. Technology amplifies power and until we collectively redefine and enforce a value system that benefits us all, the advancements in technology simply serve as a means of subjugation
GitHubs AI usage policy was enough for me to leave. Sick of corporate overlords stealing everything from us.
If it’s free - you are the product.
> That's vibecoding with an extra documentation step.
This sounds like an LLM talking.
Either you're a bot, or our human languages are being modified in realtime by the influence of these tools.
What is unacceptable is how these technology companies steal the IP of collective humanity, gate keep it and force us to pay a subscription service to use it against each other in a perverted downward spiral powered by capitalist game theory.
The neoluddite revolution is forming, have no doubts about that.
Im convinced its all planned to force users to upgrade. The “7 years of updates” selling point is just a trojan horse to install a newer iOS that makes the product run like garbage.
Id honestly prefer never to update than get these bogus “security updates, features and fixes”
Maybe they can fix Messages from bugging out all the time. Apple software has gone down the drain. I don’t want a million new features I just want the ones that make a phone a phone actually work 99.5% of the time
Germany never thought it would be in the current situation - decaying health care, pension system, cornerstone industry in decline, lack of digitalization, the list goes on. Massive reforms are needed, action is needed, but there is too much inertia in the system to change anything quickly.
Smaller countries like Estonia have the ability to be much more nimble.
Ah yes the perfect scapegoat to blame for your miserable life
> This is a moral failure of the highest order and it underscores, for me at least, that most of these faux-progressives' activism is purely performative.
It is worse than that. Faux-progressives will also play into antisemitic conspiratorial tropes that this was all perfectly and precisely planned.
I switched to a T480 from a crappy macbook pro 2017. I enjoyed the switch to use linux fulltime but ultimately I was let down by the Intel processor that would throttle very badly. Compiling code was a nightmare. Ive since switched back to the M1 macbook pro which I plan to keep as long as possible and probably switch to linux when macos inevitably decides my hardware is too old to support. I would love to have a non-apple future, though.
Musk has excellent products but I wouldn't give him a dime. I have no problem with conservative politics, but his flavour is well beyond that.
The hardware is very good, it can absolutely last 10 years and is miles ahead of competition - which pains me even more that the software degrades. I will eventually install linux on my M1 but I shouldn’t have to.