I also believe that he wanted to use the extra profits that Ford made to invest into better processes to make the cars cheaper and to increase the wages and conditions of the workers.

Then the share holders sued him saying that he had an obligation to give them their share of the profits and won…

I think the worst part is not that they added it, but that they removed regular S3.

They’re doing it as part of reducing their carbon footprint. There’s so much carbon produced during manufacturing that they need devices to continue being used for about ten years after the original sale, otherwise the company will never be carbon neutral.

Bull fucking shit.

Apple goes out of their way to stop repairs. They ask the companies that supply their microcomponents to create a new version of them, just different enough for the original not to work, then make them sign a contract to only sell to them. By doing this, third party component level repair shops can’t just buy the components from the supplier and have to have a stock of donors boards in order to repair anything.

When you go to the Apple store because something in your board failed, they charge you the price of a new device to repair it and then advise you to just buy a new one. Even if you decide to do the repair because it’s more eco-friendly even thought it costs the same, you will lose all your data, because they just replace the entire thing instead of the milimeter capacitor or microchip that is broken.

Apple’s newer models, that are supported for self repair, are designed to be easy to repair. That’s why they’re the only ones that are supported.

Apple devices are still a pain in the ass to open and use non-standard screws with tons of different sizes, making sure that if you mix a longer and a shorter screw, you will probably break something.

Is this machine by any chance a recent laptop?

Newer laptops with Intel cpu (not sure about AMD) don’t have a real sleep mode anymore. Instead, they have a mode where, besides the ram, the cpu and the network device are also kept alive for communication.

In theory, this means that when you wake up your device all of your apps and stuff will already be updated with the latest information from the web with little battery loss. In practice, it just overheats your laptop while in your backpack and kills the battery.

The ping you see while it is “sleeping” might be from this.

They only introduced this recently because of the always increasing backlash against their practices.

And thing is, they only sells parts for a small subset of devices from the last decade. If you have one of the latest devices (from iPhone 12), great. If not, get fucked.

Yup, people have been suggesting this for a while, but that goes against the interests of Apple.

Also, it’s still confusing to me how they just allow for someone who sees you put your pin and steals your iPhone to be able to hijack your iCloud account.

They say it’s to stop people from stealing iPhones to sell for parts.

What they don’t say is that the only reason there is a market for that is that they aren’t willing to sell the parts directly at an affordable price…

I said in my comment that Europeans made it worse. I was just saying that those places were never peaceful to begin with.

The thing is averages don’t mean shit when you’re talking about individual people, because individual experiences always deviate from the average, especially if you talk about average wealth where a few millionaires and billionaires skew the data for a lot of poor people.

But sure, let’s follow your logic. Black people on average are poorer and have worse jobs, so we need to discriminate in their favour.

Well, statistically there is also a lot of evidence that black people on average commit more crimes than white people.

So should I be scared of a black person I cross on the street? Following your logic, yes. Following mine, no.

It’s a stupid term that is based on an antiquated mindset where Asian people are not creative and cannot invent anything of substance; we are only able to poorly imitate what the West develops. It needs to die.

The term at least since the 90s means to modify stuff to your heart’s content and literally creating something new, unique and personal.

Idk where you went to get that “can’t invent anything of substance” thing, but you might want to check your internalized racism.

Sorry friend, but reasoning with these people is always changing.

If you think it’s ok and you’re not from the affected demography, you can’t have a voice and “you’re probably white”.

If you think it’s ok and you’re actually from the affected demography, you’re just too dumb to understand your condition and have to let the white saviors and the “right” people from your demography explain to you why you should be angry and offended at everything.

Ah yes, selective discrimination based on race and gender is anti-racist and anti-sexist. So glad we advanced as a society enough for this to make sense in some people’s heads…

We live in a time where there are black people that experienced extreme wealth in their lives and white people that know nothing other than extreme poverty (this one has always existed), and to take nothing of that into consideration other than just the skin color is idiotic.

But hey, thank you for admitting that it isn’t actually about improving productivity and output at companies, but just to tick percentage boxes so that your virtue signaling intake is filled for the day.

Didn’t say it was.

But here specifically I’m refering to optimization, as in changes the manufacturer did to either streamline the production and make it more efficient (cheaper) or to differentiate from similar products to make it more appealing.

Surely you chose your devices on some sort of criterea and other people would come to a different choice.

This I believe can only happen under capitalism.

Wait wait, do you think the rest of the world was in perfect harmony until the white man came?

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA

Where the fuck do you think African slaves came from? Most europeans didn’t enslave them, they just bought them in the well established african slave markets after other africans and arabs enslaved them first.

In North America, do you think the indians only started scalping when the europeans appeared, or that it was a common practice in tribes that were at constant war with each other?

In South Africa a lot of the land europeans got was payment from tribes for help fighting other tribes.

Did europeans cause extra suffering in the places they colonized? Definitly.

Were those places peaceful before that? Fuck off.

You are using an open source platform, developed without a profit incentive, running on one of the most impactful publicly-funded infrastructure developments of our lifetimes, which is also powered by near countless free-and-open-source tech stacks.

I can almost guarantee every single physical thing you used to type that was the product of capitalism based optimization.

What a fucking brain dead take.

How is wanting to treat individuals like… ACTUAL FUCKING INDIVIDUALS and not generic groups based on their appearance nazi-like behaviour?

If anything, it’s the opposite of what a nazi would do.

The diversity that creates that is diversity of thought and life experiences.

To me, the idea that you can just fill boxes with people from x race or x gender on the base that that characteristic is what determines what I mentioned above, is one of the most racist and sexist things someone can do.

I just think it’s stupid people are always crying that Chromium forks are “controlled by Google” when they can do whatever they want with the fork.

I’m not saying that Firefox is bad because they take Google’s money.

I just think that if you consider that, they are more dependent on Google than Brave is.

And since one of the main complaints of people is that they want to turn away from Google stuff, that should be taken into consideration.

The complicit part is the most bullshit thing I have ever heard.

They said unequivocally that they won’t support it, just like they didn’t support Manifest V3.

Just because Brave forks of Chromium, that doesn’t mean they have to accept every change Google does and they can also do their own changes (ex: not supporting Manifest V3).

At least they are financially independent from Google, which you can’t say about Firefox.