If I’m being honest, it’s no where near as bad as Twitter. But still a dumpster fire

Idk, I pay for my utilities based on usage, and there are fees too. The fees maybe could be argued are subscriptions, but they’re not the majority of the bill

I stand corrected on screens not being bad for eye health, although I would still argue “ruining our eyes” is a bit of an exaggeration.

Not everyone even knows how to use custom ROMs, tech workers may have a huge presence online but we’re a tiny minority irl.

Anyway, good, go build it. Saying one small mistake makes a company terrible privacy isn’t doing a whole lot for your credibility though, so I recommend you spend more time building than talking about it.

So they did one thing wrong and it means they’re terrible for privacy? Welp, guess I can’t have a phone because the alternative (Google) has a business model that depends on being terrible for privacy, and my work apps disallow custom ROMs.

I mean that sounds like a pretty good response to me

I don’t think we know it’s ruining our eyes, and screen usage probably doesn’t affect circadian rhythms unless it’s near bed time. But we do know sitting around all day increases your mortality quite a bit.

Also, blue light filter glasses are a total scam.

You’re probably the only one

Is this satire?

Lol I hope I never get to the point I buy a pen that expensive o.o

One of my vices is buying things, and I excessively research almost everything I buy. So one stressful day I realized I needed more pencil lead, and ended up researching mechanical pencils for like 5 hours. In that process I kept going through a thought loop of “I rarely even use a pencil, why would I buy a nice one? I guess I could use it for drawing. But I already have drawing pencils. I should probably just get a pen. But then I’d spend another 5 hours shopping for pens and I need to stop wasting time. So I’ll just get lead. But pencils are cheap, just buy one”

Then after I bought a pencil, I got a YouTube recommendation for a video on fountain pens because Google is creepy, and then I watched it. Pretty much downhill from there

Recently got a fountain pen and have been practicing my handwriting with it. Oddly meditative and relaxing

Except most people don’t use adblock. I don’t even know how they live

I think you misunderstood what I was saying about SSDs. SSDs are not considered “Hard Drives” any more, colloquially a hard drive now specifically means platter disks, and therefore SSDs are not hard drives. I very much disagree with it, but that’s how language evolved. To me, they are hard drives, because they’re still hard storage media, but the general consensus is that all hard drives have disk platters.

I’m not trying to prove that it was a bad name for 3 1/4" floppies, just that the name came from the casing, not the disk medium, and carried forward colloquially because they weren’t very different from their floppy predecessors

You’re splitting hairs at this point. SSDs used to be a type of hard drive, but now people reserve the term hard drive for platter disks, even though the word came from hard vs. soft storage, which was meant to distinguish between removable and non removable storage.

Zip discs aren’t called floppy despite the inside being the same as a floppy

If you search online, it’s a debated topic, but if you were alive long enough ago there wasn’t always this debate. They were floppy because the thing in your hand was floppy, people only debated it when those were no longer commonplace. IBM didn’t even call the 3.5 one a floppy, everyone else did

Nope it came from the housing, it was originally called a diskette. The disk itself isn’t really floppy tbh, more bendy. But the old diskettes were floppy af

Firmware is easier to say, at a company I worked at we also called FPGAs gateware which was both interesting and convenient

It actually was originally a floppy diskette, but eventually shortened to disk because people are lazy

I’m just telling you where the word comes from. It’s like floppy disks, the 3.5mm ones weren’t floppy but that’s still what we called them because they once were. Firmware used to be something you couldn’t easily change. It sits between the hardware and the software. What exactly would you call it if you think the term is bad?

I disagree. Firmware originally referred to things in ROM or EEPROM. Basically software that is firmly in place and doesn’t change, providing an abstraction layer between the hardware and software.