trump loves guady gold plated pieces, he thinks its the epitome of fine furniture or wealth.

The shareholders should be ashamed… That’s not good business, that’s evil.

Capitalism’s natural end stage

🎮🎮

I understood this reference! Probably because I, too, am a dinosaur.

Whoa whoa there, slow down. You’re talking crazy. Let’s be reasonable.

The only way to get any sort of reliable data is to let BOTH camps go nuts and see which one gets more attention and results.

Because the CEOs will biy the new people. Better to off both.

You do know that they will buy more? Legislators are a dime a dozen for oligarchs.

vance who is also mostly closeted too. peter thiel defenestrated his model bf.

Ernst Roehm did it first

his sugar daddy is a nazi, harlan crow.

It’s pretty clear by now that the character Stinkmeaner is based wholly on Clarence Thomas

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This couldn’t be more true, class war over any war.

Almost like it’s a completely bullshit excuse, like “just following orders”.

Crime isn’t suddenly okay because it’s profitable, no matter how much capitalism wants you to believe it.

It’s like nuclear weapons

Unless everyone gets rid of them nobody will

Being the only one not to “bend the knee” will just hurt you if everyone else kisses his ass

Don’t forget the $200k gold bar bribe attached to it

See, I disagree with this sentiment. Coming from a Canadian we’re seeing products in grocery stores and other places we’ve simply never seen before because all the american product is rotting on the shelves. For instance, I’ve seen legit Canadian brands of laundry detergent whereas my whole life all I’ve ever really seen is tide, bounce the usual corp crap.

This is slowly but surely propping up alternatives in a way that simply wasn’t possible before and directly contributing to what is currently small manufacturers, farmers and other retailers into becoming viable alternatives to the usual suspects.

You’re not wrong—and yet, nobody decides to do anything. Still.

Shouldn’t we?

You’re on Lemmy and haven’t heard the word of our lord and saviour Linus Torvaldes?

I want WebOS back.

Or a clean, normal, non-Android phone version of Linux.

European alternative: sailfishos.org

Linux phones will eventually get to a point that I can ditch the big two entirely. I hope. But yeah if I didn’t need the apps for my job, I’d go back to a Nokia T9 in a heart beat. I was a live long before smartphones were, I don’t need one.

Class consciousness

Is this a “you criticize society yet you participate in it” thing?

Maybe if we were on reddit, here I really don’t think that’s true.

Ya but I am pretty sure Google has done a lot to help Trump. Any big tech company wants to be on the good side of Trump.

Nope.
I am typing on a slab of the biggest AI alop search machine with a capital G

I’m typing this on a Lenovo laptop keyboard (V14 series, the plastic casing is just a catastrophe near the lid hinges, though I’ve seen the same with the magnesium casing, it has plastic parts inside).

I’ve also pirated some Apple TV attempt at Foundation episodes, but honestly felt like The Arc. Sci-Fi with some right initial ideas, but ultimately thoroughly idiotic.

In case of Apple TV’s Foundation, I couldn’t help thinking that they were trying to make it “look expensive” and “feel elitarian” similarly to their products, first priority, make it feel “diverse” and in social interactions representing a certain prestigious set of political ideas, second priority, make it feel nuanced and intelligent more than be nuanced and intelligent, third priority.

Honestly even with 90s Apple stuff virtualized I feel something bad, like nausea, I wouldn’t be able to use it probably. Too much visual design flexing.

You’re right it’s both now can we fuck off with the “buh buh buh the other company!” bullshit?

Article is about Apple not Google.

real big yet you participate in society energy

All in plain sight. Brass and shameful. Why has this been normalize? 😡

It’s a bribe in disguise. It’s a tribute and a public spectacle of loyalty. And the top voted comment thinks Tim is playing 4d chess with Trump…

Nothing will improve until these people are eliminated from their positions of power. Stop giving Apple your money.

He pretty much says it, right? 'here’s a 24k gold bar… to hold the plaque we engraved your name on

At this point it seems like half of them became billionaires just to be the ones harming the children.

Trump has no idea what he is doing he just want free gifts like the stupid used airplane

“Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election, and Google donated $1 million to the inauguration fund”

But Apple cares about children. They were the first to run CSAM scans on their cloud storage and devices.

/s

Jesus short memories.

Apple phones have been built in by Chinese kids in buildings with suicide nets on them since the beginning.

When the fuck did Apple EVER give a shit about anything other than its value?

What if he’s on the list and doesn’t want his name coming out.

He is vending the knee

I hate when I try to buy the knee, and it gets stuck in the machine…

Oh yes, let me protest this thing that just happened by throwing my Android-OS phone that I bought years ago away. That’ll show 'em.

You’re just as disingenuous and stupid as the morons on the right who smashed their Keurigs.

FYI, my next phone will probably be a Linux phone anyway and I hardly use YouTube at all these days, and when I do it’s with AdBlockers on, and I never gave a cent to them for premium, so I cost them money to use their platform if anything. If PeerTube or some other non-Google video hosting service could go mainstream, I’d use that in a heartbeat. I’ve de-Googled my life as much as I could reasonably be expected to, and this was before their CEO kissed the ring. So fuck off with your judgemental attitude.

It’s not solid gold because anything solid would be out of character for Apple. Note also the surface texture.

They already get that from the PRISM act.

You know how those Trump supporters thought we were supposed to be really offended at “Fuck Biden” but no one gave a shit because even most Democrats were never really cheerleaders for Biden?

Even people who hate Apple know that Google is a piece of shit too. We aren’t (generally) Google cheerleaders. You don’t need to whatabout all the anti-Apple comments.

Dude. We know.

How about we make all tech ceos work in the cobalt mines instead of children

Yeah the real story here should be hey everyone, look how transparently easy it is to manipulate the President of the United States

Is it a bribe or ransom? Trump is extracting favors by threat.

‘you’

A gold bar gifted to an institution would still count as corruption in most sane jurisdictions. Sure those loopholes exist, but we tend to disguise them as investments or charity.

An hour

Note, this can differ by region. For example, “an historic …” is common in the UK, whereas it would be “a historic …” in the US due to accent differences.

aaah i know this and normally don’t make this mistake, thank you very much tho, i will fix it right away 🫡

Wait for the price tag on the upcoming golden monitor stand.

Funny, I’ve been an IT professional for over 2 decades and most of my coworkers have used Macs for development and system administration.

Cook isn’t handling it like solid gold though (it looks too light). I bet it’s 24 karat gold plated zinc.

Of course he has his own phone. Let me guess, it randomly charges your account and you can’t cancel the plan?

With the mid range Pixels you get a very polished and high quality Android I’d say.

What do you mean by “don’t work well for long”?

I’ve been using my Sony Xperia phones for many years, without significant issues.

i kinda like how they dealt with gaddafi. i think thats the way to go.

I’m sure this has been pointed out before, but it’s very appropriate that the video for “This is America” was shot in an abandoned factory building.

PowerBribe™

You’re kidding, right? Right?

Yeah, like … Imagine a shitty dystopian scifi with ultra corporations.

Now understand and accept that that’s what real life is.

Steve was a c off the old unt block but he sure would’ve told trump he could only have a gift with FUCKWITNET engraved all over it🤣🤣🤣🤣

For most people Apple products are absolutely consumer friendly, what are you talking about? They’re amazingly simple to setup and go, the ecosystem actually works well, and they’re far more reliable than anything Microsoft could dream of putting out. They also don’t go obsolete within in a year, that’s total nonsense, and in fact they have generally had better support than their main competitors as far as I’ve seen. People I know have kept their Apple machines for a very long time without much issue. I myself had my first MacBook for ~11 years, from 2010 to 2021.

For people who to tinker with software there’s still a lot you can do on them but back in the Windows vs. Mac days some ill-informed people decided that because Apple products work well they must be hard to code on, despite the Unix based nature of them. Currently, many people I know in software are issued MacBooks and say they work very well while the Windows machine I got for something as simple as AutoCAD was constantly having issues.

Their consumer unfriendly tactics aren’t directly to connected to the capability of the machines. They 100% do some bad shit on that front, but it’s not enough to push most regular customers away. If you can’t figure out the difference between yourself and a regular customer then this isn’t a conversation you clearly have all the information for. Most of what you’re saying is just the usual parroted garbage that muddies the conversation and frankly makes it harder to deal with the companies actual failings because it just shows a grotesque inability to understand why people like their products.

I will be very clear: This overt move beyond the usual corpo nightmare has soured me a lot on their products, which sucks because they are objectively very good. I also don’t entirely know what to do about it as making a switch to Google products is just as bad a move. I’ve heard of a couple alternatives, we’ll see what the landscape will look like in a couple years when I need a phone and several years after that when a new laptop is required.

My only Apple computer was a G3 Powermac, which I got used from the resale store at the University I used to work at, which means I got it real cheap.

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Compared to the boring and clunky Windows XP machine I had, I loved the design of the hardware and the software. I loved that to access the mobo to upgrade the RAM I just had to lift up a latch on the side of the case (my Modern case isn’t even as easy as that to get into). I liked the colors and the ‘handles’ that made moving the tower around easy if you needed to. I had a very tacky aesthetic back in the day where if something was made of clear blue plastic I would buy it, so that Mac fit right in with my ‘decor’ lol

Compared to XP the UI was a lot more sleek and modern imo, the dock was a game changer because I rarely used more than a handful of programs so having them always available was cool. Plus my simple minded ass was impressed by the animations. The “hot corners” were super useful. as was resizing the windows by dragging them to the edges of the screen. The overall look was just much more nice to look at. I think it was 10.3 Panther if I recall correctly.

At the time I was just starting to learn about Free and Open Source software, so I thought the fact that they based OS X on Unix was pretty cool. The first DE I ever installed was on that Mac (LXDE?) and the first FOSS programs I installed was on there, VLC and The GIMP I believe. I also loved how easy it was to install programs. You would just download the file and drag it into a folder called ‘Apps’, and to uninstall you just deleted or moved the file out of there. Compared to the ‘install wizards’ and the ‘add/remove’ control panel on Windows, it felt like actual wizardry.

I think more than anything the geek in me just liked learning a new set of skills and a different way of doing things, but overall I loved the experience. When they announced the iPhone I was excited. I was actually one of those people who carried around a mobile phone, MP3 player and Digital Camera at the same time. So the thought of just having to carry around 1 device to do all those things was like a dream come true. Then I heard about the price and was less excited (it was almost $1000 in today’s money adjusted for inflation). I was a working class stiff after all. Then I found out about the lack of apps and thought that was weird. But still I was pretty much on board.

I got a iPod Touch to replace my Nano and kept my flip phone. That’s when I realized that I had to jailbreak it to fully unlock the functionality. That’s where they finally lost me. I had been planning on buying another Mac but I figured if they were willing to lock down their phones like that- it was only a matter of time before they did the same thing with their computers.

It ended up being a good decision because on my next (Windows Vista) PC I learned to install Linux and I could do some really tacky things with the UI then! lol. Compiz anyone :D

All this to say I think Apple was actually in fairly decent (if still too expensive) place prior to the iPhone, but their whole ‘walled garden’ approach to computing just wasn’t my bag at all.

They just made an assessment what it costs to fight vs what it costs to just kiss his ass and hope it will pass. The outcome is obvious.

There was once a time when a small company built out of passion could elevate a normal guy into CEO, so as recently as 30-40 years ago you could still have some decency at the top. As the barriers to entry have shot upward, today to become a C-level you get an MBA and carefully scrape out your soul as part of your “leadership” education which has nothing to do with the widgets your company will produce, and everything to do with fellating the shareholders.

It’s sad because I grew up in an era when a guy could still get ahead by being sharp and having good ideas, but now it’s only by Playing The Game. So those of us with morals are stuck with low earning potential because of it.