I think the main reason they want the status quo is that they are already effectively an independent nation (just not “officially”), and that any change to the status quo is simply a significant risk to the continued functioning of their effective independent status.

I feel like this about SimpleX. It was a hellish struggle to get people to use Signal (and still a bunch only use Instagram or insist on doing plain phone calls/SMS). Some of my family continuously complain that Signal is too complicated despite the interface being pretty much exactly the same as whatever app they want to use. I really don’t want to try to get them to use another app ever again.

You’re talking about surviving without X. Well, we survived without washing our hands, showering, brushing our teeth, etc. for 99% of human existence as well. Better be consistent in your beliefs and return to living as a hunter-gatherer in the woods.

Should stop washing your hands or showering regularly if that’s how you decide whether something is important.

This is a fucking idiotic question. If naturally our bodies heal ourselves without issue and thus “natural immunity” is better than vaccination, then why do so many people die from illness when unvaccinated?

I suppose eradicating smallpox was a mistake. We should have just let 20-30% of those infected die instead of eradicating the disease through “unnatural” vaccines.

The main issue with Session is they removed PFS when they redesigned everything. Also, it’s admittedly been years since I tried it, but I remember the app being noticeably buggy.

I do think the lower-end chips actually have great battery life, but once you start going for the higher performance ones you unsurprisingly sacrifice battery for power, so the battery life becomes merely “good” instead of “great.”

They have better battery life than most laptops, but it also strongly depends on what configuration you use and what you’re doing. For instance, my M1 Max laptop has never hit its stated battery life and frankly is pretty close to my AMD laptop (when its battery wasn’t half dead). The AMD laptop is admittedly heavier though.

AFAIK they’re about the same as the M4 in terms of battery life. If you look at their marketing, their battery life improvements are based on their Intel and M1 laptops (whose owners they seem to be targeting for upgrades).

From what I’ve heard, there are AMD laptop chips with better multi-core performance, although worse single-core. Other than the spec bump, this is pretty much the same as the M4 laptops.

Basically if you like macOS (and only macOS since Linux will probably take half a decade to show up given the current rate of Asahi Linux support with newer chips) and specifically need more perf for whatever reason (especially for AI), it’s a nice upgrade.

Hopefully this develops to be a real alternative in the future. Unfortunately, it seems to not really have much of the kind of music I tend to listen to atm.

I like how this fuckwad claimed the layoffs were weighing him down or whatever a few months ago. Apparently he was being weighed down by the boost to his pay.

Achieved double digit revenue growth (15% year-over-year), affirming our success at developing products and services our customers value.

I’m sorry, why do you need to lay off so many workers with this sort of revenue growth? Tech companies have really been masks off with how little they care for their employees recently.

With the voice model already downloaded? That sucks, but honestly kind of expected with everything Google’s been doing lately.

Interestingly, according to one of his recent-ish comments, he left FUTO in February.

IIRC they all kind of suck. There’s Transcribro or whatever, but I don’t think it supports many languages (maybe only English?). I used to just use Google’s and then revoked network access.

Wolf also was spouting about how great Trump is and how “woke” shit is ruining society or whatever in January IIRC. I briefly trawled through their social media when I was investigating their keyboard, Grayjay, and Immich and promptly decided to never, ever give them money.

Note that their keyboard doesn’t require network (at least as of now), so if you don’t give them money or promote it to other people, they don’t really benefit.

EDIT: Also, there are claims Rossman has a Kiwi Farms account and is at least somewhat active there. I haven’t investigated those very thoroughly though.

Your kubernetes seems a bit unstable.

I vaguely remember something about some torchlit march (in Bavaria?) and people accusing suckless devs of being Nazis. Also their entire concept is just kind of elitist.

Note that I have no idea if the Nazi claims are true or not.