Same, I had been on android since the OG Droid and switched around the same time for similar reasons.

If Apple is going to charge premium prices just to splash ads on their products I’m moving on again.

I’ve only owned windows machines… well since my first DOS machine in the 90s. I made the switch to Mac after hearing about the embedded Ads in 11.

I’m sure there are many more going to Linux.

This is why you use AI to destroy AI.

After I was perma-banned, I used a bot to re-open my past posts and replace my original content with AI generated garbage.

Salt the fields upon which AI grows.

I don’t buy civ games until they release all the DLC. Since CIV 5 it seems like they have released unfinished games that lack major game mechanics on launch and the game only gets finished through DLC.

Poor adoption and sales with CIV 7 is their own fault. They have conditioned the market to wait for the DLC.

It’s simultaneously a grift and a way to impose a flat sales tax all in one package.

1. Republicans have been creaming their pants for years at the thought of imposing a regressive flat tax on all sales while doing away with income based taxation. This would forever shift the majority of the tax burden to the poor and middle class. Which is why we see Trump cutting taxes on the wealthy with his Big Ugly Bill and imposing a tariff as a way to tax the unwashed masses while simultaneously claiming he isn’t. Hopefully the courts strike down his power grab and force Congress to vote on Tariffs. The weasels will probably give it to them but at least we get to see Republicans go on record as voting for a tax increase.

2. Trump has announced or will announce tariff exemptions that benefit large companies that have donated to him. Sometime later if he feels he needs more money he will announce a higher random tariff on the exempted goods and shake these corps down for more money/favors. All the while he can claim he is doing our industry a favor.

Never forget Trump is a grifting piece of shit who will always stick it to the little guy.

Reicht Wingers: Hey birthday rates in the US are plummeting!?!?

Tech Bros: Let’s make 20 and 30 somethings work 72 hours a week!

Reicht Wingers: Genius!

Intel is at deaths door. You just need a gentle push…

I keep a partial local copy of Wikipedia on my phone and backup device with an app called Kiwix. Great if you need access to certain items in remote areas with no access to the internet.

I’ve had that experience on all social media platforms. Sometimes just straight up hard right propaganda will appear on my feed and I have to block it again and again.

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People are looking to much into his Tax Bill and Crypto Dinners. They can’t pass legislation secretly in the dead of night if the media and public aren’t distracted by bullshit.

It hasn’t been half a year yet and the firehouse of chaos that is Trump is impossible to keep up with.

CSJDIA.

Well I won’t buy one now.

Moneys decided it. No one is going to click on a image for a old wrinkly white guy

This is the stupidest fucking trade war. Trump is an odoot who can’t recognize or understand what a service based economy is. Most of tech and IT is service based.

Services don’t have tariffs so the US made out better in the deal. Now he’s fucked that gig for so much of our companies and people.

Bullshit. The amount of times I’ve had random conversations about odd topics for the very first time with my wife and the fucking subject appears in a FB add three hours later.

Nope, go peddle your corpo propaganda elsewhere.

I hear what you are saying, but I still like to see Nazis hurt.

Let’s make Tesla a penny stock.

Thundermail… yeah yeah. :gently pushes my aol.com account under the sofa:

Bezos wants his own X…

Never thought I’d root against an American company but here we are…

We’ll be around. We may not be a democracy but we’ll be around.

China though, it’s cooked .