I was also thinking about buying it, but I want my phone to be my phone.

I actually use my browser from time to time. What is the use of a phone if you need a “backup phone” just to look something up?

Also, their reasoning for blocking the browser is absurd: “you could use the browser to access social media.” I don’t use TikTok, Instagram, X, or the like, so why do I need to be nannied?

They said that they specifically blocked this.

That’s why I mentioned that they finally reached human trials. That’s the last big step before they can be released. New technology needs time to go from the lab to practical use.

We are getting there. There are human trials for a medicine that regrows teeth and another that restores teeth.

I would be interested, but the amount of paternalism is disgusting.

No browser? I’m an adult; if I want to google something I forgot (when was that event?), that’s my f’ing right. Don’t try to patronize me.

They sabotage themselves by trying to teach you “to be a better person”.

No social media or internet browsering for you, young man! Now do your homework. 🙄

Ah, easy fix there: half the income and the rest disappears on its own and the little guy can go on.

On the one hand, I can understand the people who used Steam cards being pissed. On the other hand, I’m impressed with Steam for putting scamming victims over profit.

Remember: Valve made money from gift cards, whether from scammers or legit users. They chose to give up this money just to avoid supporting the scammers. If everybody did this, scammers would have a much harder time.

There are mainly two big drives behind browsing today: horny and hate.

I’d be happy if more people browsed because of horny than hate.

I thought Star Wars has neither fences nor railings?

I think the problem is that you think that, while a majority of people think little, if at all. Dumb people and kids for example.

There are enough people who just consume media without reflecting for ads to work, or ads would simply disappear. Companies know how to use statistics.

Yeah, real mystery there 🙄

We don’t choose egoistic people as ruler, egoistic people (and psychopaths) try to become rulers, regardless of the price or morality.

AI is one of those buzzwords that can make your company look more valuable. So everyone includes it, weather it’s useful or not.

And it’s so easy: you use text somewhere in your application? Send it to a LLM together with a prompt and voila - you now have AI in your system. Bam. +200% market value.

Of course I exaggerated a bit, but a lot of people see it like that.

Long-term gains from things like user satisfaction are hard to measure and predict.

That’s why you see these ‘Were you happy with our service?’ questions everywhere. Still, the people who answer these polls are in the minority and a specific subset of respondents, which is bad for statistics.

Doesn’t anyone restrict their AIs rights? An AI should not be allowed to delete the backup. Only someone with admin rights should be able to do that. Normal users, developers and AIs of course should not have the right to touch the backup. Do these people run AI agents as root?

I’d swap EA and Ubi. EA is as bad as Ubi AND has the tendency to take beloved franchises and kill them. Definitely Chaotic Evil. A tumor on the games industry.

Well, it also doesn’t help that the new owner throws nazi salutes on television.

Trump is probably bi. No joke, just a fact. We know from the Epstein emails that he ‘blew Bubba’. While we don’t know exactly who that is, it paints a certain picture.

Ah, a good little peon, owns nothing but debt. Those won’t riot against their master, even if the masters are pedos and try to take even more from those who have nothing.

Everything is as planned.

Wage slavery. The US is one of the worst offenders. By binding your healthcare to your employer and having next to no worker protection laws, the loss of your job might cause homelessness or death. Is that really a choice? Work or die? And with stagnating wages who has the financial security and time to fight for their rights?

This is of course by design.