There’s no better ad for piracy than the greed of corporations. Don’t let ads shit in your head. They disrespect you, you disrespect them.

I dont really care about any of this crap. Let me install my own internet browsers, fix the poor keyboard hit boxes, let me build my own predictive text library…

Made a complaint to the California Dept of Consumer Affairs. I used the way back machine to show at the I purchased the phone, their policy was “full refund, no questions asked” which they silently changed a few years later and then hide behind as an excuse to deny refunds. Turns out that’s illegal.

A shady company that I had to fight tooth and nail to get my money back after literal years of false promises and moving goal posts. They’ve burned any respected reputation they had.

Yeh, I’ll wait until the bugs are ironed out and my distro (mint) determines it’s stable. No need to start asking for troubles when everything is working smoothly.

• Online discussion: Lemmy
• Private messaging: Signal
• Music: Direct purchase/download
• OS: Any linux flavour
• Mobile OS: Unfortunately needs a little more time…

Walled garden platforms doing what walled garden platforms do I suppose…

My theory is that it’s just the fact that there is always a new generation of people around the corner who haven’t learned the lesson of how capitalists work. Therefore, there is always a market vulnerable to being swindled. They can keep using the same tactics, there’s always a delay in people figuring out the grift, then by the time they do there’s a new group of suckers ready to fall for it.

It’s taken longer than I expected, but more and more people are realising streaming services as a model are not good, by any measure.

They cost more in the long run, you are made powerless as a consumer (perpetually increasing costs and removing your favourite content), and you can’t even get ‘everything at the convenience of your fingertips’ cause the market is fragmented and they remove things periodically. You own nothing and pay more. Absolutely stupid model that deserves to die.

Why bother with making any apps these days when you can just build a web app and have it work across platforms.

Great idea! The iphone keyboard is horrible. Have always missed having tactile keyboard from blackberry days. Im in.

It’s a real shame. Monopolies in any industry/product inevitably lead to fucking over consumers… time we broke em up I think

People keep buying big tech products and subscriptions then are shocked when they fuck you over? shocked picachu

Yeh, exactly, both famously disappointing games

It’s just so bland and formulaic. Against deep RPGs like BG3, it just pales in comparison.

I think you must have it set to america mode

I didn’t say it was?

Punishing people based on accusations isn’t just.

Since when did innocent until proven guilty stop being a thing? Not defending anyone here, just seems that principle is all but forgotten in modern society.

Others did it and faced no consequences. No government step-in, no mass customer loss. When there are no consequences for greedy monopolistic behaviours, greedy monopolies act greedily. Welcome to market capitalism without proper regulation.