I haven’t heard his name in a while, loved his ted talk. What a good dude. But yeah, excellent points. Too many people seem to think ostracizing others is going to solve things, I think it has only made things worse.

Sucks though, it’s only a software update away from being national.

Well said. A lot of the freedoms we enjoy are a use it or lose it scenario. For example a business is more likely to stop accepting cash if only 1% of their customers use it, so I still use it even though I would often prefer my card.

I feel like if you ever replace that water heater you’ll never find one again that lasts that long.

Vintage audio equipment. It’s purpose built without gimmicky features, high quality, high performance, and built to last with discrete components and service manuals. Really it doesn’t have to be vintage, but it’s usually the old stuff that prioritizes these traits. I usually play local files (mp3/flac) over a bluetooth DAC but vinyl is fun once in a while. The same living room system gets used for movies and whatever else too.

Great ones, respect.

Same with my car. I think it’s more important than ever to learn how to fix things. “Buy a new one” is becoming less and less viable for certain types of products if you value longevity, privacy, independence, finances, sustainability, etc.

Get ready for the ISO to double in size

Probably the rock in a shoe trick as well if that’s actually a thing.

You may have bought an expensive camera, and spent a good amount of time honing your skills, that doesn’t mean I’m paying you $6000 for 3 days of work.

Aside from how the phones actually compare, I think it’d be good to show there is a market for a factory graphene phone. I want companies to see the difference (financially) when they start taking privacy and other pro consumer ideas seriously.

Always good to learn sewing or find a friend that does in this enshittified world

I had the same experience, haven’t gone there in years because why would I pay more than double for the same quality of food as their competitors?

I often add the word “forum” to my searches to help get some actual human discussion instead of ad farming AI slop articles. Seems like the only way to figure things out these days.

Suspects picture looks AI generated

Cybertrucks. I saw a thread here recently and people were way to passionate about it imo. I’m not going to spend my energy worrying about the mere existence of an ugly car.

Same. Luckily common sense and open friends were enough for me to be informed.

Not that I totally trust my phone’s OS, but do you think bluetooth and wifi MACs are discoverable when they are toggled off?

My last pair tore in just a few months of offiice work, I’m not buying vans anymore.

You also don’t have to either? Weird thing to be triggered about.