Hard to say, cuz they were kinda pre-committed to this strategy by always casting themselves as the more private option (vs Google) and eagerly adopting unified memory and heterogeneous SoCs.

Apple is about to pop the AI bubble with this and indirectly save the PC build market.

Luckily, we’re not just “consumers.” We’re also citizenswho can exercise political power. That’s hard work – but so is organizing a co-op or a boycott. The difference is, when we dog enforcers who wield the power of the state, and line up behind them when they start to do their jobs, we can make deep structural differences that go far beyond anything we can make happen as consumers:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/18/administrative-competence/#i-know-stuff

We’re not just “consumers” or “citizens” – we’re also workers, and when workers come together in unions, they, too, can concentrate the diffuse, atomized power of the individual into a single, powerful entity that can hold the forces of capital in check:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/10/an-injury-to-one/#is-an-injury-to-all

And all of these things work together; when regulators do their jobs, they protect workers who are unionizing:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/06/goons-ginks-and-company-finks/#if-blood-be-the-price-of-your-cursed-wealth

And strong labor power can force cartels to abandon their plans to rig the market so that every consumer choice makes them more powerful:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/01/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-ship/

And when consumers can choose better, local, more ethical businesses at competitive rates, those choices can make a difference:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/10/view-a-sku/

Antimonopoly policy is the foundation for all forms of people-power. The very instant corporations become too big to fail, jail or care is the instant that “voting with your wallet” becomes a waste of time.

No, “convenience” isn’t the problem: Enshittification isn’t caused by “lazy consumers.”

Using Amazon, or Twitter, or Facebook, or Google, or Doordash, or Uber doesn’t make you lazy. Platform capitalism isn’t enshittifying because you made the wrong shopping choices.

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When [we] blame corporate power on “laziness,” we buy into the corporations’ own story about how they came to dominate our lives: we just prefer them. This is how Google explains away its 90% market-share in search: we just chose Google. But we didn’t, not really – Google spends tens of billions of dollars every single year buying up the search-box on every website, phone, and operating system:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task

Blaming “laziness” for corporate dominance also buys into the monopolists’ claim that the only way to have convenient, easy-to-use services is to cede power to them. Facebook claims it’s literally impossible for you to carry on social relations with the people that matter to you without also letting them spy on you. When we criticize people for wanting to hang out online with the people they love, we send the message that they need to choose loneliness and isolation, or they will be complicit in monopoly.

Subsequently, however, aggression is no longer needed as gamergates secrete chemical signals that inform the other workers of their reproductive status in the colony.

So everyone around them can smell gamergates’ reproductive status?

Indeed, and as Cory Doctorow says: “The most important thing about a gadget isn’t what it does; it’s who it does it for and who it does it to.”

Never mind that money ultimately belongs to the state anyway, and is only worth anything because if you don’t pay the state then it will do Bad Things™ to you.

Not only is it impossible to “run out” of a currency that you control, it’s also not “other people’s”. So the only correct term in the whole phrase is “money”.

peadophile

I haven’t. But it has a 2.4GHz dongle too, so it should Just Work™ like a regular HID if you wanna use that instead of Bluetooth. I would recommend it over Bluetooth anyway, for a permanent wireless setup. BT is nice cuz it’s lower effort for a temp setup, but 2.4 is lower latency.

Linux and Mac. Corded most of the time. Bluetooth sometimes for my work Mac.

Their nuphy.io web app is pretty great btw. (Requires Chrome, but other than that.)

I got an Air65 v3 with blush nano switches. I also got panda nano switches separately.

Overall, very happy!

I’ll say, I think the blush switches are more sensitive to manufacturing tolerances, so I got double inputs on several keys at first even with high debounce. I reached out to support and they sent some replacement switches without much fuss.

Layout’s perfect, knob is an excellent addition. Good build quality, good aesthetic. 5/5

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“These politicians will represent the will of the people instead of their own beliefs, including the part where the people get bored and move on to the next shiny thing.”

Call me crazy, but isn’t this like the best-case scenario for a politician? Accurately representing the electorate?

Hell yeah, my guy is in rare form. Ya love to see it.

Very “if we stopped testing for COVID there would be no cases” energy.

“Foreign suppliers generally follow the highest-return opportunities and can allocate most of their supply to data centers,” Duann said. “Chinese suppliers cannot do that in the same way because the government can provide guidance and encourage them to support certain local industries.”

So, kind of? But it still might be a long time before we see any relief on the consumer electronics front.

Ahem… per Uber’s regulatory strategy, these aren’t “cars”, so technically nobody got “run over”.

Just a casual collab from three of the most evil names in existence

Yep. And that’s exactly why we need to keep electing self-proclaimed socialists.

That’s quite a cherry-picked quote, and to connect it to Bernie and AOC is to completely disregard the rest of the text.

Rosa draws a distinction between being a legislator in a parliament – where you’re able to battle the state within its own arena, and expose its contradictions – and being an executive in a cabinet – where your job is to manage crises and therefore hide contradictions.

But coming from a minister, social reforms can’t have the character of the proletarian class, but solely the character of the bourgeois class, for the minister, by the post he occupies, attaches himself to that class by all the functions of a bourgeois, militarist government. While in parliament, or on the municipal council, we obtain useful reforms by combating the bourgeois government, while occupying a ministerial post we arrive at the same reforms by supporting the bourgeois state.

She also explicitly endorses political engagement as a means of class struggle:

Personally, in this great gathering of the different socialist organizations in the free play of the daily political struggle, we don’t fear the least danger for the doctrine of Marx and the principles of democratic socialism, in as much as they have already taken root in France. There is no better school for socialist democracy than the great and living class struggle freed from abstract clichés. The materialist conception of history doesn’t allow us to believe in the development of a living popular movement begotten of abstract formulas; on the contrary, it’s on the material base of a great and strong class struggle, embracing all of the proletariat, that a clear conception of theory and principles will be erected.

And not for nothing, the Communist Manifesto does too:

In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.

In all these movements, they bring to the front, as the leading question in each, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time.

Finally, they labour everywhere for the union and agreement of the democratic parties of all countries.

The broader theme of Rosa’s text is to not accidentally align yourself with liberals in a cross-class coalition by focusing only on the political question of the day. I think we’re in danger of doing that with memes just as much as self-proclaimed socialist politicians are in danger of doing it by entering government.