Real talk, why is discussion around people and subjects in China so fucking weird?

If it’s not referring to the entire population when it only applies to the government or a subset of them as a global “the Chinese” or doing silly shit like “China scientists” everyone’s grammatical skills suddenly tank when even broaching a topic even tangential to the PRC.

Flash chips are cheap as actual potato chips, why are you arguing for phones to be shipped with less onboard storage, especially when SD cards aren’t guaranteed

Fondly remember Google’s back and forth rocking with just-in-time and ahead-of-time compilation every other Android version with Dalvik/ART. Guess it’s been a while since they’ve rocked to AOT

Ah yes, the exact reason why Google said giving apps Bluetooth or Wifi access is dangerous and tied it to location for so long

Some states will tell you just about everything about a voter with only their name and birthdate. Not that far feteched

Unlikeable asshole entity tries even harder to get people to like them. Results are mixed

By default the open source/decentralized social media movement was galvanized by idealistic and political groups who were unsatisfied with corporate social media — mainly being the libertarian-flavored, pro-free speech free software types that flourished in the early software industry, the right wing activists that proliferated in the mid 00s/early 2010s, and left-wing factions of many types fighting capitalism.

Lemmy in particular was started by developers in the communist space, and has since attracted other segments of the left and center to seed its culture.

Many segments of popular communities here are liberal or even centrist now, but the background, core user base of Lemmy retains at least a socially progressive, anti-or-critical-capitalist lens, if not further left.

Fisker, due to going bankrupt, arguably is the worst version of this right now

The EU is probably working on that front at the very least. Unfortunately the US side may need regulators to carry it forward

Price Has No Limits™

PayStation ∆◯╳☐

I don’t use windows, stop assuming things about me

Seems a bit silly to comment confidently on changes happening within Windows that you don’t experience then, no?

So glad I didn’t actually go through with opening a Yotta account. Maybe it’s not them directly that screwed everything up, but their money (their customer’s money) just went poof.

The finance system is sketchy enough, Fintech gives me the willies.

Daen’s Kitchen: “That’s cute”

Decent chance it’s an img2img conversion using the prompt for a rusty dumpster

An annoying chud who is a game industry vet, with several scandals and mismanaged projects in his wake. Addicted to being an anti-woke Twitter influencer.

Think catturd, but Gamer™.

Considering that the goober on the right is Grummz, and the image on the left is a traditional Japanese illustration of a samurai, I’m going to go with: Yes

Oh now we’re all in agreement that the notch was awful

♥️ winget my beloved ♥️

Free my man Tux

The libre shall not be infringed

So I wasn’t the only one thinking it