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23 Aug 23. Ya, no ambiguity. /s
2023-08-23 is the way.
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Honestly, I’d trust a vanilla iPhone over that hacked together mess you’ve got going there.
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Dude is still simping for Musk. No sympathy.
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I’m in the minority here, but I don’t think any governments should be regulating the choice of cable in smartphones. I think it’s a convenience that they can dangle in front of people so they can say they are pro-consumer, while ignoring the working conditions of those who manufacture it, the taxes paid by corporations who make the phones, the lobbying done against right-to-repair laws, and the monopolistic tendencies displayed by these companies.
The governments have a real responsibility to hold these companies responsible for a lot of things, but I don’t think the choice of one small piece of the technology pie should be one of them.
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Nothing about Saudi Arabia is pro-consumer.
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I’m not defending anything, other than basic usage of the English language. I’m not saying Bluetooth is better, objectively or subjectively, than a wired connection. You’re free to prefer one over the other, but any preference is just that, a preference.
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Don’t think you understand what objectively means.
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Not objectively
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They are going to answer with some stupid reasoning like removing the 3.5mm jack.
But truly Apple stance on right-to-repair really is their only non-defendable stance. And this is coming from an Apple fanboy.
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Facebook is one of the biggest contributors to OpenStreetMap and makes lots of open source software.
I'd like to know more about this.
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But the crowd reaction is what really freaked me out, it’s scary if you think of it.
I said basically the same thing when people were laughing at the dead billionaires in the submarine. But I think you can laugh at dead nazis.
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I'm certainly not trying to be an Apple apologist here, as iMessage has plenty to critique. But it bears consideration that iMessage falling back to SMS is a certain amount of openness, is it not?
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Not an unfair complaint against Apple, but ignores Google's/Android's problematic "support" for RCS, and in this context of this comment seems to imply that What'sApp isn't "closed" like iMessage.
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apple hates open standards
What about WhatsApp is open?
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Wouldn't say I'm dying on any hill here, only saying there are very few people whose deaths should be celebrated, and these are not those people.
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I've got no love for billionaires, and obviously this story overshadowing the migrant boat sinking in Greece is infuriating, but I'm really not a fan of the glee so many people on social media are expressing at the deaths of these five people.
Also, on another note, I seriously cannot get over the fact that the late CEO of the company, Stockton Rush, has the absolute perfect team name for a minor league football team from central California.
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I have not, nor intend to do so.
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If this is the thinking I can expect on this instance, perhaps this is not the instance for me.
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I feel that maybe you're reading my question as 'critique of China is inherently support for the west/US/etc' which I absolutely do not mean. I think that it's possible that painting all critique with a broad 'xenophobia' brush (while undoubtedly warranted at times) can prevent discussion in good faith.
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US here. There are, of course, flags flown on at government buildings and those most often also include the state flag as well.
Flying an American flag personally definitely identifies you as someone who leans right-wing, and I think that's unfortunate because I quite like flags in general and would probably have a many different flags to display at different times (including the American flag at times) depending on the time of year.
Had a bit of a showerthought this morning. c/books could do a monthly book club pick but with the additional feature of inviting a related community to participate. For example, if the book pick was "Two Wheels Good" by Jody Rosen, [!bicycles@lemmy.ca](https://lemmy.ca/c/bicycles) could be invited to participate. Seems to be a great way to encourage more people to read and more people to subscribe to the sub.
I have an instance running (blitzen.org), and right now just two other instances are in my white list (lemmy.ml, lemmy.ca). If I wanted to mirror, say, lemmy.ca's white and black lists, is there a way to export/import such a list?
I heard once that the case for which instance (for any federated app, be it Lemmy or Mastodon etc) on which to sign up is to choose based on "administration" not subject. That is to say, it is better to experience the fediverse through moderation and other administrative decisions than it is to do so on a server that is "subject based." Thoughts?
Say what you will about reddit, at least an established subreddit was *the* place to gather on the topic, ie r/technology etc. With Lemmy, doesn't it follow that similar communities on different instances will simply dilute the userbase, for example !technology@lemmy.ml and !technology@beehaw.org. How do we best use lemmy as a (small c) community when a topic can be split amongst many (large C) Communities? This is an earnest question, in no way am I suggesting lemmy is inferior to reddit. I'm quite enjoying myself here.