Because Facebook is the posterchild for anticompetitive evil corporations.

They’re doing this because it will help them monopolize more content or more users. By nature, that will be harmful to the fediverse.

It is, but android Roms with good privacy features are relatively few and far between.

Yes. We shoot people for accelerating from a stoplight too fast here.

Honestly I just keep mine on airplane mode. Calibre was always a much better management tool, and libgen isn’t nearly as creepy.

I don’t know about stigma, but the whole family is just vaguely dysfunctional. We can’t really spend any time together for more than a couple of hours before someone starts a fight, generally (but not always) on accident.

The car I’m interested in holds its value very well, so the lifetime cost is lower if I buy new. I’m also planning on being slightly less poor before buying it.

And regarding the “fired at will” thing, we don’t deal with it. We just kind of hope. I’m a little bit tistic, so I’ve been fired several times for not engaging in the proper amount of small talk. You get another job and move on.

I disagree. IE was incredibly proprietary, and SMS is at least an open standard.

IE is…idk Facebook messenger or Imessage or something.

I think that one is pretty popular. Popular “smart” products are usually only smart to and make the manufacturer some extra scratch after sale.

And car touchscreens are either disliked, considered a status symbol, or considered necessary in order toobtains another feature. Very few people actually like them.

I agree, but I definitely think we reached a high point a decade or two ago. Windows switched to that weird hybrid GUI with 8, and websites now are obsessed with whitespace, scrolling fuckery, and the like.

While word 2003 was probably the high point for that product, I don’t think that about windows, Linux, or the web.