Piers

joined 1 year ago
[–] Piers@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

We need something that isn’t THE internet, and is only accessible if you have the patience and knowledge to connect to it.

That kinda does exist it's just that you and I lack either the knowledge or patience to connect to it.

[–] Piers@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Google ended up giving up the fight on SEO to save money and let their own search tools degrade in quality.

I really miss when search engines were properly good.

[–] Piers@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

It's because the people making these decisions aren't incrntivised to think about the long term effect for the company. All they need to worry about is if it makes line go up in the short-term so they can get a fat bonus then use how much line went up to get a job somewhere else before the shit hits the fan. Rinse and repeat.

[–] Piers@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Just double-checked. My current smartphone that I partially picked for it's 3.5mm socket does have built in FM radio that works great and only functions with earphones plugged in.

[–] Piers@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One reason is that every implementation I've ever tried relies on using the wired earphones as an aerial and Apple magically convinced everyone that having a 3.5mm port is somehow a bad thing.

[–] Piers@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's not about more reusable hardware it's about software being constrained to support existing hardware rather than ditch it to save a fee bucks on development.

[–] Piers@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If all the food in my fridge is warm I don't immediately assume my electricity has been cut off rather than something is wrong with my fridge.

[–] Piers@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

If it's anywhere near that long you should see a doctor.

[–] Piers@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I really don't understand why it's such a common confusion. None of these people struggle with the difference between their gas supply and their oven.

[–] Piers@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago
[–] Piers@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Wrong. The real question is why do we presuppose that the output of creatively driven individuals must generate profit for a capitalist economy to have sufficient value that those people be permitted the basic necessities of life? Frankly I suspect most of our most valuable contributors to culture are never given the opportunity to be bad enough long enough to develop into their potential.

This whole "oh no, AI is going to take away our liveihoods" notion fundamentally accepts the false notion that people are only deserving of a functional life so long as the primary activities of that life is ultimately to contribute towards increasing the wealth of a tiny percentage of individuals.

It's the same mistake that leads us to massively undersupport educators and carers and will have people freaking out about how they'll "earn a living" once robots are able to do everything we practically require to be done.

People are fundamentally entitled to a living. If someone is being denied one, then look at the system that causes that not the specifics of that particular flavour of how it's happening.

[–] Piers@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's a troll account. They're intentionally making bootlicking comments everywhere to get a rise from people.

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