robotshmobot

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by robotshmobot 8d ago
fwiw, it’s likely not product designers making these decisions. More likely, designers and researchers planned to explore use cases people would actually use and benefit from, but were told to focus on the ones leadership deemed important
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by robotshmobot 10mo ago
Some of you in here blaming the victims of a fascist regime couldn’t make your sexism any clearer
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by robotshmobot 10mo ago
The absolute projection of “it’s like this for me therefore it must be true for you” is astounding here
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by robotshmobot 2y ago
Exactly. Creative Cloud launcher digs its greedy fingers deep in your system, running hundreds of processes and constantly phoning home. It’s the model I point to when people say they want alternate app stores. I would much rather download
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by robotshmobot 2y ago
The Play Store is absolutely not malware free unless you don’t consider apps that take over your launcher and Lock Screen, serve you ads, and links to their own apps malware. Had to remove this garbage from my grandmother’s Pixel
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by robotshmobot 3y ago
I’ve been using addy.io for quite some time now. I have a burner tld and every time I sign up for something new I input servicename@mytld.com. Addy forwards that email to the email I have chosen. Works doubly better if you don’t use gmail a
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by robotshmobot 3y ago
Undoubtedly. The Venn diagram of businesses that require this much surveillance and won’t provide hardware is probably almost a circle.
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by robotshmobot 3y ago
> including stuff like Revanced. Glad my YouTube Premium subscription subsidizes your theft
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by robotshmobot 3y ago
Perhaps echochamber is likely what they meant?
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by robotshmobot 3y ago
The lack of imagination at these large social media companies is astounding. Everything seems driven by finance departments.
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by robotshmobot 3y ago
> to survive we also need heat 10 months a year and air conditioning for the other 3 For the uninitiated, there are 13 months in Canada
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by robotshmobot 3y ago
>It will most likely flop because it has no reliable input. This reads like the critiques just after the iPhone was announced that it will flop because it didn’t have a physical keyboard…
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by robotshmobot 3y ago
> If no one did it, the whole would die. Skipping that work voluntarily is a kind of freeloading (and also would typically involves redirecting the personal resources that would have gone to it towards increasing selfish consumption). Th
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by robotshmobot 3y ago
Bought full license some time in 2014. Watched them disintegrate into subscription hell while making the apps worse. Moved everything to Firefox and Apple Passkeys. They integrate better with my workflow anyway.
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by robotshmobot 4y ago
It'd have to be something like AI both solves climate problems while making it profitable to do so. I'm not talking about greenwashing, but using machine learning to solve hard science problems and tying them to economic benefit.
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by robotshmobot 4y ago
You want to quantify feel? Gruber's saying the vibes are off, that the attention to detail in the interaction design isn't there.
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by robotshmobot 4y ago
Good god that UI is such a waste of space with tiny buttons and half the screen used for background mountains. Why are the skip track buttons down next to the home button? What does the plus symbol do? What are the icons on the black bar fo
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by robotshmobot 4y ago
>There's something about the way you phrased this that just made me just realize there's a very real possibility that the internet could turn into television part two. My friend, we're already there.
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by robotshmobot 5y ago
Sometimes people just need a final straw.