Not smoke.

Any religion.

I personally fucking hate it. But my whole friends group use it for events (bad, birthdays), and messenger chat.

How do you convince ~30 people to switch to something else?

What app do they switch to?

Is it just me or is that more of a hinderance?

Because they risk being bullied or left out. Denying their kid a phone only works if all the parents do it.

Edit: I don’t have a solution; maybe an anti-bullshit law that punishes people from spouting bullshit? (Good luck religious folks!)

But denying a phone may just replace one problem with another.

How do I confirm it’s enabled?

Is this also how they know which ads to feed you?

I tried it and was underwhelmed, but also overwhelmed.

I love the idea of choosing everything I want, but Arch also meant the pain of learning to install everything I actually need first.

Is there a minimalistic distro that installs all just the essentials (drivers, services like DHCP, a package manager, desktop GUI), and then I choose from there?

I started moving from Firefox to LibreWolf and found a few too many convenient features broke.

I think password and bookmark syncing was too difficult to move away from, as I use them across devices/phone.

Haven’t had time to research alternative methods or practices.

Satire is well & truly dead.

Yeah. Then I’ll fill up my free 15gb quota with garbage OS files, and be prompted to pay a subscription to backup the other 1-2tb of data.

You don’t have to have children, don’t feel pressured by friends & family.

You don’t need to be in a relationship, don’t feel pressured by friends & family.

Go travel. See things, eat food, drink wine, enjoy yourself.

Well, Bosnia did attack Croatia in early 90’s didn’t they?

Nice.

This might just be the push to fully switch over from Google.

Microsoft: It’s not difficult to turn back on

Isn’t a cheaper subscription better than no subscription Google?

Is there a reason to actually like them?

They have an edge with compatibility between all their own products?

UI is ok, but not customizable.

Super expensive compared to alternatives. Upgrades are expensive.

Lack of options and customizability; for a company that spouts “think different”, there certainly not a huge difference in design & choice.

Walled garden.

Poor design, cheap components, against right to repair (check out Louis Rossmann YouTube channel). They gaslight their customers.

How’s it pay to win though?

Can’t I can unlock those same operators with renown?

Aren’t older operators still better for this and that?

I feel like ChatGPT just takes more wild stabs in the dark lately.

I always seem to get it when it hasn’t had it’s morning coffee or something.

I keep thinking this during my daily commute along a 3 lane freeway. If a bus/truck overtakes another bus/truck (often), it basically becomes a single lane freeway. And during peak, that little manoeuvre is going to cost you and hundreds of cars behind you, probably for a long time.