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phoneymouse

@ phoneymouse @lemmy.world

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  • Apple pulls remaining Lightning-based devices from European stores

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  • I agree USB-C is small enough, but micro and mini usb were not reversible. I don’t think Apple was intentionally making cables that fell apart easily. I agree that they did, but I don’t think it had some profit motive behind it. Apple makes dumb design decisions some times because their designers like certain looks or materials. I just honestly think the designers liked the material of the cable and its feel. It was admittedly nice, but it just falls apart within a year of everyday use. Now they’ve changed to a cloth material.

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  • Better to hire “a one hit wonder”

  • Apple pulls remaining Lightning-based devices from European stores

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  • Seems like a bit of an overreaction. The complaint you’re making is about the cable not the connector. The cable can still fray near the tip with a USB-C given enough wear and tear.

    The lightning connector was great for its time, moving Apple devices off the giant serial connectors present on the iPod and early iPhone. In comparison, the lightning connector was small, reversible, and durable. It’s still even smaller than USB-C today.

  • If you live in the Pacific time zone what are the advantages and disadvatages over living in the Eastern time zone?

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  • If you’re just wondering about time zones — not many advantages: the stock market is already moving at 6am and closes in the early afternoon. If you have east coast family, they’ll text you when you’re asleep in the morning. Then, when you have time to text them at night, they’ll be asleep. Big events like presidential debates and addresses start when you’re just leaving work or commuting, so you tend to miss out on them.

  • What successful or popular movie that many loved you just HATE?

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  • I think the interesting thing about the Barbie movie was its “IP” holder basically acknowledging that a lot of the current generation thinks its product is toxic.

  • A late Christmas find, but I loved it too much to pass up

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  • I think you just appointed yourself founder and moderator

  • How the Democrats wandered away from America’s workers

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  • I think the original sin was that democrats after Reagan felt they needed to court big business and so Bill Clinton passed NAFTA. NAFTA basically gutted the middle class and accelerated the erosion of union power, which had been the base of democratic power as well. So, the Republican Party now has both the ultra wealthy and the white working poor. This is pretty remarkable given that their interests do not align at all.

  • Who Got Duped? MAGA Activists Worry That Nativism And Tech Oligarchy May Not Go Hand In Hand

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  • Elon Musk wouldn’t be a literal strongman, if only because he doesn’t officially run a country. Though he does behave similarly in running his companies. Strongman might be the wrong word. Narcissist might be better. I think with those types, Trump can find himself needing to defer to bigger narcissists than himself.

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  • A lot of TnC’s have opt out forced arbitration. I do often read the TnC’s and follow the steps to opt out. It’s often as tedious as possible, like writing a letter, printing, and mailing it. Really depends though on whether it is some service I think I’ll be using often and that could have big negatives from not opting out like my bank account.

  • Musk calls MAGA element "contemptible fools" as virtual civil war brews

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  • Fight, fight, fight

  • /c/politics basic rules:

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  • That's increasingly a not very nuanced or serious stance to hold given that actual journalists and columnists do publish on substack, especially those that are trying to break away from billionaire controlled "news sources" with owners that are actually interfering in editorial and reporting decisions. Do you remove all op-eds from your "news sources"? If not, you're saying billionaire-controlled "news sources" are legitimate, but not independent journalists and columnists with actual bona fides, including having been part of establishment media or worked in government previously. The internet has destroyed journalism, seems wrong to tune out those who are trying to put it together again.

  • Who Got Duped? MAGA Activists Worry That Nativism And Tech Oligarchy May Not Go Hand In Hand

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  • Strong man has a specific meaning in politics, it doesn’t mean they are strong.

  • MAGA vs. Musk: Right-wing critics allege censorship, loss of X badges

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  • Elon has been banning left accounts since he bought twitter, finally the right is learning that Elon’s free speech ideology is bullshit and its terms of service is narcissism.

  • /c/politics basic rules:

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  • So, op-eds from main stream media are allowed, but journalists publishing their work through substack is not allowed. So, only the establishment is allowed to have their voices heard. Got it. Quite the hill to die on @jordanlund

  • Vivek Ramaswamy dragged after wild rant on how American workers suck

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  • This DEI hire doesn’t know the meaning of hard work

  • Power outage

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  • Yeah — stop making me reset the god damn oven, microwave, and coffee maker every time the power flickers. At the very least my coffee maker has a small battery in it that seems to endure shorter outages, but if manufacturers aren’t willing to have a back up battery for this, then they should take out the god damn clock altogether. It’s mostly pointless— especially these days. My microwave is so tedious too — it asks the day, month, and year. Why does my microwave need to know the fucking date? It actually serves no purpose.

  • 'Very troubling': Leader of 'Abandon Harris' movement now anxious about Trump appointees

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  • “Abandon Harris” movement, you mean half of Lemmy? Where are you clowns now?

  • Who Got Duped? MAGA Activists Worry That Nativism And Tech Oligarchy May Not Go Hand In Hand

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  • Trump seems to be easily dominated by other strongmen. It’s possible Trump is afraid of Elon Musk and won’t have the confidence to stand up to him, nor the financial means.

  • Leaked Documents Show OpenAI Has a Very Clear Definition of ‘AGI’

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  • But OpenAI has received more than $13 billion in funding from Microsoft over the years, and that money has come with a strange contractual agreement that OpenAI would stop allowing Microsoft to use any new technology it develops after AGI is achieved

    The real motivation is to not be beholden to Microsoft