Programmer buddy of mine was telling me their theory that AI is the last hurrah of Big Tech and Venture Capital, shifting a patient that has been in place since most of us were children.

Even after the Dot Bomb area is the 2000’s, FinTech taking it in the chin in the 2008 global financial crisis, three meaningful Crypto rises and falls, and now AI, there’s always been some new for train to institute and sell to the retail investor and the general public.

The beleaguered finances of middle classes pretty much everywhere, hand in hand with the deleted brain trusts from AI making us really dumb and unconfident (or falsely confident), convinced with the lack of new productivity borne from these last few market cycles (AI and Crypto not actually doing much for the majority of humans commensurate with the hype) results in a possible chance for actual market accountability and seeing only genuine market growth.

I think that megacrash and the world waking up to the marketing machine is considerably less likely, but agree with them (given their best experience in FinTech) that it might meaningfully end our collective beliefs that Silicon Valley can steer everyone towards brighter shores.

Hahahahahahaha

I just need a search engine the will also give calculator and unit conversation results. Everything else sounds be search results.

At this point, it’s been too many years that I will just query “76 f in c” or “2500*12/3” from my url bar, so this I appreciate the most modest “intelligence” from my web browser.

Literally everything else makes my experience worse, though.

So I’m taking recommendations for more search engines to try out. I don’t know why I start page bothers me so much, but it feels like the results my ISP would give me through DNS capture a decade and two ago.

Things are getting Hua-wei out of hand!

It normalizes the anti-equity principles of the granting party, which now occupies the US govt.

The benefactor had already shown exactly how they treat people that aren’t white Christian men, and it’s up to schools, businesses and organizations like the Foundation to show resistance and inclusivity.

Where can I read about the requirements? Did whole, I’m prepared to pay dues to belong in a guild or union, depending on cost, and also I’m currently unemployed. Am I welcome, even? Lol.

Thank you for reaponding with specific claims. Others have already addressed the technicals (the packages themselves don’t include NSFW offending material, they are merely engines or interfaces), but I thought I would point out that in American workplaces talking about violence is absolutely commonplace, as it is in the rest of the prevailing culture surrounding us.

It’s absolutely common for people to be descriptive about the violence they see in entertainment, or to discuss violent real world matters.

Even if you set aside the critique of violence espoused in the Christian Bible, there is a mountain of adult themes and sexually explicit abuses which our categorically not safe for work in most places.

To be fair, these children also shouldn’t be at work, but I agree with the sentiment.

Man, this is exhausting. Thanks for trying to carry as far as you did. Some folks just really need LTT to be a bunch of villains, and will move the goal posts to get there.

Part of why I still have LTT shit a listen was because of how I’ve seen him conduct his company’s focus, and course corrections, and how they HAVEN’T sued people trying to attack them.

I think his org has consistently done its best and I still tune in across the channels. I know that I couldn’t do better with matched resources, without experience and a lot more considerations.

Listening to everyone hate on a whole media group puzzles me a bit.

Thanks for the analysis. I’ve got to say. We on Lemmy can be vicious.

Poe’s Law is alive and well.

Dude. On what hardware? My 1 years old AND 4 years old Samsung phones now lock their bootloader.

Random, fly by night China phones won’t have enough documentation or enough consistency in hardware to be a viable rally point for firmware devs, will they?

Don’t get me wrong. I will buy exactly that Linux Phone for my next device if it gives me three browsers and enough untracked fundamental functionality like calculators and contact lists.

But I’m genuinely worried there won’t be a hardware vendor in the game in my market (the land of Y’allQaeda) to sell me a compatible device that plays nice with the three mobile providers that still exist here.

Control. Where else are we going to go?

Thanks for sharing all of that. I got to think a little bit about stuff that normally I would take for granted.

Meanwhile…

If Reddit Old would play nice with said device, and doesn’t have a native app, I probably will settle on that when my ReVanced 3rd-party-Boost finally dies. (I also use the same developer’s Boost for Lemmy app).

I already use Amazon in one browser instead of its app, and Facebook in a whole separate browser on my device, even.

But there are apps on in daily, like my brokerage account and my budget/financial app (Monarch Money is worth the subscription, for me).

I would absolutely pay for access to

Honest question - why not fork android which already has all of the infrastructure needed for things like 5G handling, power management, and a widely supported ecosystem of components and vendors?

I would try a Linux phone, absolutely, but why not just Android instead?

The issue is current and future vendors for current and future Android phones are largely tainted and lockstep with Google.

But wouldn’t developing off yesteryear Android still be leap years ahead of just reinventing the wheel around Linux? I kinda thought Android was Linux for our devices.

I’m mostly saying this just because I’m jealous to bring all of my APK’s with me into that future.

I don’t want to give up my reddit app and my current trio of browsers.

I kind of feel like MS tried three distinct times, first with their WinMo products pre-Apple, then with their Nokia partnership, then finally with one last push through the mid-10’s before Intel finally made x86 on mobile an impossibility (nuking the Atom line, selling their 5G modem business to Apple, etc) and before there just weren’t any paths forward for MS.

Amazon and FB having their own phone product lines felt like the weirdest me-too-also-ran Android reskins to extend their own walled gardens, but also felt like both threw in the towel after like 18 months?!?

MS had to be a loser for more than a decade before they gave up. They were really great at being a big loser.

It’s just … apparent that nobody is going to do this for the love of the game, and that they can only get minimum market presence by financing their way to launching yet another walled garden ecosystem. Which is exactly what we all want to avoid in this group.

You need a certain critical mass to enter this market, since you need to be able to get an army of Foxconn slaves to produce the handsets.

No company is going to be and to swoop in and eat those two’s lunches.

I’m sorry, you lost me at…

but the vast majority of investors are aware of the risk of not diversifying your portfolio

The vast majority of investors, myself included, are … not that savvy. I only sorted diversification this year and I’m still tech-heavy but we all are just eating what’s on our plates and available.

I don’t believe these markets will have humanity’s interests at heart, either.