It’s a device to brew tea in.

There’s like 2 syntax errors in this one liner.

I love the raspberry pi, but it’s far from being competitive to something like an apple m4, a Qualcomm snapdragon or an am5 chip from AMD.

For its intended purpose it doesn’t need to, but it’s way slower and less power efficient.

I’ll contact the maintainers of all my favorite FOSS programs written in x86 assembler, to ask them to port the software to RISC-V.

Or use a precise title. It’s not a backdoor or a “backdoor”.

In a normal company they could, but the board are all loyal to him, not the company. Recently they insisted in giving him a 50 BILLION bonus, yes, with B. No chance they will intervene. And putting a puppet CEO like at Twitter won’t have a strong effect either.

In Europe, sepa transfers are free and instant transfers will be mandatory free from October.

To pay in e-commerce, revolut has unlimited one-use cards, no need for PayPal.

People back then didn’t have Healthcare, cars or iPhones. I like all of those.

Communist countries work even longer hours, look for instance 996 in China.

I don’t have to, I could go half-day and have a decent living, maybe downsizing the house a bit, but I like the big house and the fast car, and the sushi for lunch.

That sounds super uncomfortable, the emergency braking is quite brutal…

Yep, I want to be a contrarian, that why I brought politics in a discussion about tech. Oh, wait…

None of those things are about capitalsm, so still irrelevant.

And I know what the article is about, I just think it’s bullshit first and the most minor of minor problems second.

Tech is a huge net positive and even when it’s annoying it’s a fucking trivial thing to work around.

I have never lived in the US, my man. I am not a programmer, either. So 0 for 2.

Keep up the good work, you convinced me with your Lols. Consumer definitely decide the price of stocks. And the color of the sky. You got it, champ. Typed on an electronic device. Sent over the internet. I love the hypocrisy ;)

What’s sad about a lunch pause? Do I need to keep working 8 hours straight?

Or about a car braking automatically? I has saved me twice in four years, I was looking to see if someone was coming from one direction while the guy in front of me braked suddenly. Car stopped before I rear ended the other guy.

I must be missing something…

You attack capitalism in an article about tech, so let’s ask how is that your takeaway, then I’ll answer.

Consumers don’t buy stock, and deifnieltely not enough to influence trillion dollar company valuation, let’s begin with that.

I never said they go for “the cheapest option, period”. They are willing to spend extra if they get perceived, or real, value, like aestelhetics (your example) , social status (cars for instance) or functionality (iPhone).

I’m very far from libertarian, so let’s abstain about speculating about each other’s beliefs and let’s talk about ideas.

Majaority of people in the world do NOT live in smaller communities, first, and tech only increases choices, second, so even if the first was true it’s still an argument in favor of tech. I can get the new York times (or the helsingin sanomat) in the smallest village of Germany, again thanks to technology.

I don’t understand the question…

Again, tech doesn’t FORCE anything, people choose to fuck customers (and workers) and sometimes happen to use tech as an excuse. You don’t need any tech to raise prices or lower wages, and those are some of the biggest problem we have. Whether I use an app or coins to pay for my parking is not the issue.

In a world with lobbyists, monopolies, big corporations donating billions to politicians, a QR code is nowhere near the top of the problem list.

And consumers are quite rational, the go consistently for the cheapest option that fulfills their need. You see it in online services, electronics, flights, etc.

The solution is… more monopolies? Please enlighten me.

I agree, and good for you for leaving the restaurant. You could open a competing restaurant that doesn’t use apps and let people vote with their wallets. It’s not the nature of technology, its the decision of some people who are bad at knowing their customers. I don’t “have to” wash my clothes in the washing machine, but you bet I won’t even think about doing it manually. Forcing the use of an app is like only offering a vegan selection. If your customer didn’t ask for it you are going to have a bad time. If you are the only place in town is a monopoly problem, and a different discussion.

Having to use an app to order food might be slightly annoying, but it beats working 12h a day in the field to feed my familiy. It’s the firstest of first world problems.