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iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery
  • Always cool to see ‘retro’ tech brought back, especially with major overhauls. Kinda wish Apple still did dedicated ‘dumb’ MP3 players, if I’m being honest.

  • Valve doesn't sell ad space on Steam so it can make room for surprise hits: 'We don't think Steam should be pay-to-win'
  • It needs to be viable first, which obviously won’t happen when the management keeps stumbling into PR nightmares weekly.

  • Imagine
  • ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • Imagine
  • Define ‘we’. Not all of us are communists.

  • What’s a company that objectively improved after it got “bought out?”
  • Every day I'm on this Earth, the sheer breadth of human diversity (especially when it comes to thoughts and opinions) continues to astound me.

  • What’s a company that objectively improved after it got “bought out?”
  • Certainly not rich enough to host the amount of content it does, or pay content creators what they get paid.

  • What’s a company that objectively improved after it got “bought out?”
  • YouTube too. For all the shit we give Google for it, there's no way it could've grown into what it is if it didn't have all that spare cash to burn.

  • What’s a company that objectively improved after it got “bought out?”
  • Honestly, it feels like Google lost the plot (for the most part) almost a decade ago. Android was really the only product that was consistently chugging along; most of their projects have been nothing but premature cancellations, even if the product was actually good (I'm looking at you, Inbox).

  • What’s a company that objectively improved after it got “bought out?”
  • Nah, that would've spread the company too thin. Apple needed that laser-focus approach they had in the iPhone days, else they'd be dead.

  • What’s a company that objectively improved after it got “bought out?”
  • An incredibly rare example of 'I won't buy it unless you pay me to' actually working out in real life.

  • What’s a company that objectively improved after it got “bought out?”
  • Yeah, I don't think anyone's denying that MS is a shitty company; we're just talking about companies that have either improved, or haven't gotten significantly worse, because some other company bought them out.

  • What’s a company that objectively improved after it got “bought out?”
  • Great looks and shit everything else would be super on-brand for Jaguar

  • What’s a company that objectively improved after it got “bought out?”
  • As others have said, something being stupid in the past doesn't excuse it being stupid now. And hey, I'd get it if we were still dealing with a couple movies a year, but now it's a flood of content that nobody can keep up with unless Marvel is their only hobby.

  • What’s a company that objectively improved after it got “bought out?”
  • I'm sorry, but She Hulk? Loki was whatever, the Xmas special and BP2 were fine and Guardians 3 was amazing, but really?

    Sorry, I know it's just an opinion but I got severe whiplash seeing that title up there.

  • fair share?
  • How much of it? The world's largest and most famous billionaires don't even make up a rounding error in the world's economy (hell, most countries blow Musk's entire fortune annually on the dumbest conceivable shit), nor is their money 'removed' from it. Hell, the richest people in the world have the vast majority of their wealth tied up in their own company's stocks, which by definition is money that's playing an active role in the economy.

    Like seriously dude, there's good reasons to hate billionaires and the current state of the global economy, but at least come up with valid arguments and criticisms that can convince people; otherwise, you're just blowing hot air that only serves to paint legitimate critics as crazy people.

  • fair share?
  • So what's your solution to all this? Because if the US is down, you know China will emerge as the next hegemon and they're magnitudes worse.

  • fair share?
  • Great idea genius, next you'll tell me that the solution to get rid of human greed would be to get rid of humans!

  • There's still room for improvement, but Linux gaming has come a long way in a short time.
  • Then multiplayer should be its own app. Making a whole single-player game unplayable just so you can push anticheat cruft into everything.

  • B-but both sides
  • What, you expected people to stand up against a tinpot dictator who would happily torture them and their families? Would you do that?

    And Trump was literally about to take the final step towards killing democracy in America. He might not have invaded Mexico during his term, but he sure was setting up the environment where he could've gotten away with it and quashed any protest against it.

  • fair share?
  • Complaining about capitalism isn't an argument.

  • The UI just started sliding off on its own

    Never seen the app go rogue like this. UI elements just started…sliding off? on their own. I’d upload a video if I could.

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    Idea: Make the floating ‘action bar’ stand out a bit less

    Basically, the gray bar that contains the ‘up/downvote’ arrows, replies etc. Its current design, with the distinct gray background, looks a bit…off?

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    I kinda miss the large headers this app used to have

    The way this app used to look was quite reminiscent of actual iOS apps.

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    This place has become a ghost town

    Which means we’ve finally moved on from bitching endlessly about Reddit!

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    Those fuckers pulled the plug early
    mastodon.social Christian Selig (@christianselig@mastodon.social)

    Well, looks like Reddit pulled the plug a little early. Apollo started crashing, but I just manually revoked my token and it looks like it fixes the crashing, but no more Reddit access haha. Those folks are fun to the very end! 😛

    Just one last shitty surprise from Spez.

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    Those fuckers pulled the plug early
    mastodon.social Christian Selig (@christianselig@mastodon.social)

    Well, looks like Reddit pulled the plug a little early. Apollo started crashing, but I just manually revoked my token and it looks like it fixes the crashing, but no more Reddit access haha. Those folks are fun to the very end! 😛

    Just one last shitty surprise from Spez.

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    Those fuckers pulled the plug early
    mastodon.social Christian Selig (@christianselig@mastodon.social)

    Well, looks like Reddit pulled the plug a little early. Apollo started crashing, but I just manually revoked my token and it looks like it fixes the crashing, but no more Reddit access haha. Those folks are fun to the very end! 😛

    Just one last shitty surprise from Spez.

    0
    Those fuckers pulled the plug early
    mastodon.social Christian Selig (@christianselig@mastodon.social)

    Well, looks like Reddit pulled the plug a little early. Apollo started crashing, but I just manually revoked my token and it looks like it fixes the crashing, but no more Reddit access haha. Those folks are fun to the very end! 😛

    Just one last shitty surprise from Spez.

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    Dark_Blade Dark_Blade @lemmy.world
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