The fuck is bitnet
cybersandwich
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Lemmy is hilariously reactionary and fickle. Never found a windmill that couldnt be tilted at.
I'm not sure why that still surprises me considering it's made up of a ton of people who self selected to leave a site in protest.
If you can't dodge a wrench, you can't dodge a ball.
Because a degree isn't job training. Education and training are very different.
Think of how sex education and sex training are wildly different things. They can compliment each other but they aren't the same. You go to college for the education.
I think that "get a degree so you can get a job" mentality that our parents and parents parents touted is advice from an era gone by. An era when having a degree set you apart from a sea of high school diplomas. It didnt matter if it was in medieval art History. It was a university degree (so you were smarter than the average bear/could learn and be taught).
It got distorted over the years and now we are here. Lots of degrees, people "go to school to get a job", and then can't land one because...well. it just sucks
I know that ploum blog post gets cited way too often on Lemmy, but this is a situation where I think Google has either intentionally or inadvertently executed a variation of the "embrace, extend, extinguish" playbook that Microsoft created.
They embraced open source, extended it until they've practically cornered the market on browser engine, and now they are using that position to extinguish our ability to control our browsing experience.
I know they are facing a possibly "break up" with the latest ruling against them.
It would be interesting to see if they force divestiture of chrome from the ad business. The incentives are perverse when you do both with such dominance and its a massive conflict of interest.
I'm gonna desalinization your butt if you keep it up Mango!
The vision "air" that's Apple's version of the meta ray bans is going to be their next major product line.
If they get it in ~$500-1000 they'd sell like hotcakes. The reviews on the Meta raybans are surprisingly positive with the biggest gripe being it's from Meta and people don't trust it.
Apples big privacy focus and their local first implementation of AI make it really compelling alternative to the Meta offering. Assuming it pairs with iPhones (and their built-in ML cores) it also drives iPhone sales similar to the watch.
Apple could do so much with an ecosystem play with something like that and it would/could also be a "fashion icon" the way white earbuds became synonymous with Apple and the way airpods don't look "dorky" because everyone has them.
It's fun to hate apple on Lemmy but I think they'd crush with something like this. An AR glasses setup integrated in their ecosystem with privacy respecting local processing.
I'd seriously consider switching to an iPhone if I got something like that.
I'm pretty sure you don't pay with telemetry data.
I think he's saying he doesn't connect the smart TV to the internet. He plugs in his apple TV (and that is connected to the Internet) and has all of the 'smart' technology.
Yea, who is actively participating on linkedin? Especially to the point where this is an issue?
It's not those people that this sways. They are a "lost cause" in most regards. It's the people who have hesitations and concerns. The people that have been lifelong Republicans but are feeling jaded or are starting to see through the facade.
It helps sway those people.