Im confused why people are confused that they announced federation without having servers to federate with? It literally just got announced why would people expect there to already be big servers for them to federate with?
WebOS really was so hard ahead of its time. A card based interface, gesture-based navigation, unified and always online email and account systems. There were many things WebOS did that we take for granted now, yet they did it no less than 5 years before Android or iOS. Really it was just the Palm Pre’s hardware (I had a Palm Pre Plus) that held it back. Some aspects of it were already a bit dated, even in 2010.
Really it was just the Palm Pre’s hardware that held it back
I'd argue it was just purely the rat race of "the most apps" where all other vendors lost out to iOS and Android. It didn't matter that it had all the essential applications, as well as having plenty of the fads/gimmicks of the time (Angry Birds, Pandora, et al) natively supported, it still boiled down to the normie logic of "BUT I WANNA RUN ALL THE APPS!" There was also the whole culture sentiment of "if you make a niche Android/iOS app and sell it, you could become like a millionaire overnight" that people seemed to clamor around, as another gimmick economy (as The Next Big Thing(TM) after the dot-com bubble).
There was also the tidbit that most of the operating system (outside of Linux kernel and standard utils) was proprietary. It's only when it was pretty much given up on, that they started to open it up as various open source projects. Comparatively Android was far more open source than webOS at the time.
@arcanicanis@southernwolf@boredsquirrel >There was also the whole culture sentiment of "if you make a niche Android/iOS app and sell it, you could become like a millionaire overnight" that people seemed to clamor around, as another gimmick economy (as The Next Big Thing(TM) after the dot-com bubble).
Oh I remember this so vividly, this was the mindset among the tech illiterate because they read about Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg and saw they were rich. Or they'd hear a news story about how RANDOM KID GETS RICH FROM MAKING APP without knowing the how and why he did it, just that he can get rich from making an app. They're like the guys in college I saw taking sysadmin classes thinking that maybe they could make video games or some shit, before all but the shittiest community colleges added gamedev courses.
I also remember during this timeframe that the niche mobile OSes with users would notably attract the same kind of developers as unpopular microcomputers did (Linus Torvalds and his Sinclair QL come to mind): random guys making up for how said platform was being abandoned by the world. Windows Phone 7/8/10 had a lot of these developers who would write third party clients for websites or chat platforms (one of the NZ shooting victims was one such dev) and back in the day everyone pretty much had to use one if they didn't want to struggle with IE. Some of these types of devs still exist in the tiny KaiOS sphere.
Something else about the Pre I vividly remember was that the Pre was not only carrier locked, but it was carrier locked to one of the CDMA companies. There was unusually no unlocked GSM version for sale in the USA. This was a big sour spot during this timeframe, anyone who remembers this era also remembers the years of Verizon users asking for a CDMA iPhone or Geohot making a name for himself by unlocking a iPhone 2G to work on T-Mobile. This hurt a phone trying to be mass market when you could only buy the big name phone on Sprint of all places.
Great video but I really can’t agree with this protest pushing abstinence from voting on the upcoming election. I get that the current administration is enabling this, but the vote for the American president encompasses so much more than international strife. I wish we could separate that notion because it feels like a it’s been driven by foreign influence to sway the election. We cannot allow another Trump term. Cannot. If you think a protest for Palestine today is going to impact the presidential election as a “lesson” to your fellow Americans then the next protest against the policies of Project 2025 and Trump, will end up overshadowing all that you’re protesting now and the genocide will continue. Project 2025 will destroy America and anything left of Palestine. Yes war needs to stop, but voting for the lesser of two evils is all we get now. There will be not reckoning event for Democrats, they just need to claw back enough power to hold the legislative and keep it from the GOP while also making considerable changes to their own power structures within their party.
I didn't see any lyrics in the song that prompted not voting. He says in the song that he's not voting for Biden. That's not the same thing as not voting.
Everyone should vote for who they want to lead/represent them.
Let these companies cripple themselves all because they don’t want to pay fair wages. If they can’t be bothered to ensure humans can live, they don’t need to be in this world.
This is just bully tactics. Take the Loblaw strike/van and apply it to every one of these companies. Let corporations for once die and fail if they can’t handle the realities of this world
The people were living just fine before. Now, they don’t have a job in a state with high unemployment. Seems like the governor created a problem when things were working just fine.
then what are you disputing? People do better employed than unemployed in a high unemployment state. California has the highest unemployment rate in the country.
@wintermute_oregon While that is true, I doubt that most people in #California are doing "just fine", the state has tons of problems from cost of living to safety.
That is outside of the minimum wage increase. That is just bad government. When I left California, there were things I missed, but it was declining rapidly when I left.
I am not a huge fan of minimum wages. Their history is racist and I think they hold the market back. If we didn’t have a minimum wage, people could negotiate better.
@wintermute_oregon Eh. From what I remember, they were definitely needed at the time they were introduced, and I think getting rid of them will lead to the same problem today.
A better practice would be to keep the minimum wage static, and then stop contributing to inflation, although to be fair to #California, that problem is caused largely by the federal government, not the state itself.
I still agree that the changes were needed at the time though, the lower class at the time was essentially a slave class due to low levels of pay. People were being paid so little that young children were forced to work in factories in order for households to make ends meet.
@wintermute_oregon@realcaseyrollins a lot of those people are just useful idiots. they're mad about whatever they've been primed to riot about. they don't actually have a basic understanding of how food arrives at stores or the implications of wages on the cost of their coffee. it's really sad.
importing a Deluge from new zealand had an import duty of 0$ because the USA doesn't really charge other colonials import tax. the same device to a German musician held something like a 300$ overhead to the government.
in my recent reading about cinema cameras, someone was charged around 170$USD to have their camera sent back to black magic for servicing. the brits and euros it was more like 400$.
there are a lot of import/export fees and license buggery that just doesn't exist in the USA.
but my original point was you just have these wealthy or scholarship/loan people that want cheap coffee at school but then someone tells them to be mad about what the poors make, and i don't think it actually occurs to them that paying the barista 20$ an hour means the cost of their coffee is going to go up.
That's honestly hilarious. I see where Lego is coming from, though. I wouldn't want my product/character showing up in this context. Especially on a repeated basis. A meme by some guy is fine, but this feels more like a professional copacity, if that makes sense.
I assume this is seen by them as making their own purchases indirectly more expensive by more than the cost of moral guilt they’d feel by reporting the shoplifter.
It’s just another way people choose to spend their time. We are already free but the problem is chaos reigns supreme. Our governments are just “order” naturally made from “chaos”. So no government is actually supreme. I suppose protestation is also another segment of “order” from “chaos” but the the result won’t ever be a contrasting change made in our lifetime.
Same for education and change… And anything else. We are at the mercy of universal laws. Nothing will ever change that except maybe going full matrix and creating a digital world with coded rules that would take the place of universe/God and “humanity”.
Freedom is only found in the present moment. All else is wasting the future.
This was supposed to be a joke but I also think it’s true.
You sound like a Gnostic that believes that they are having a personal battle with the Demiurge. There are the rules of “spirit” also known as common sense that confine what nature can be. However the rules of matter often discover that the world is stranger than our cultural ancestors presumed and we should update our understanding accordingly. A more accurate understanding helps one understand why something exists. Knowing why something exists can tell you how to make something not exist. This applies to living things, people, societal concepts and all other things. To give up on the concept of understanding is to relinquish one’s power to those that want to keep power. It is the common sense of the spirit that fights understanding that truly limits ones power and freedom more than the limits of matter.
Why thank you. As an occasional VN enjoyer I’ll subscribe and give my impression once I play/read (what’s the correct term here?) one again. I still have The House in Fata Morgana on my Ally installed but just didn’T get around to put more than a few minutes into it. Same goes for The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles. But at least I got 2 hours or so in.
I also added the community to the sidebar, maybe it helps a bit with the “just compromised of you" part.
“Researchers in Malaysia have the impression that you pay to publish in open-access journals, which is associated with predatory journals. I do not want the quality of my work to be judged like that,” says Sivapragasam, who is now a master’s student in science communication at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK.
I agree that certain models people use (like the ones Orid used) can definitely be seen as real, as they look more like a real person, but I was more talking about characters from games that are semi stylized? Like they look like a human being but you can tell that they’re not a real person, you know?
At a quick glance I can tell they’re just 3D models. I’ll see what @Disabled has to say about this since I browse /3/ a lot so my perception of what constitutes whether or not a given image looks like a 3D model or looks real is quite skewed.
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