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by ornornor 2y ago
Same as it would be nice to win the lottery. Not everyone is so lucky and others will be jealous they can’t do it too.
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by ornornor 2y ago
It’s not only about current value. As anyone who has had their house wiped out and an insurance payout, acquiring everything again when you settle back is a massive time sink (let alone cost, if you were insured at fair market value rather
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by ornornor 2y ago
> stress free But he’s not. He’s specifically spelling it out by saying his gut and stomach issues are very likely tied to the stress of his no stable income.
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by ornornor 2y ago
> I don't mean to be one of those people that shout "privilege" at every turn on the Internet, but most people with no savings and barely any income would be freaking out unless they had some family or support network to l
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by ornornor 2y ago
And this is why self regulation by for profit companies cannot work, in case we needed yet another test to verify.
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by ornornor 2y ago
Everything else about flying sucks though. You have to waste hours before and after because the airport is far away, security, waiting for your luggage (which gets lost more often now it seems), go through the dehumanizing security checks,
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by ornornor 2y ago
Old habits die hard
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by ornornor 2y ago
And according to this article [0] (from the mindustry article on Wikipedia), it was a hit on prison-issued android tablets until they banned it. [0]: https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2024/03/31/popular-vide
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by ornornor 2y ago
Thanks! Love the marketing on it: « the body is moderately thick and thin »
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by ornornor 2y ago
> being easy to talk to What does that look like in practice?
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by ornornor 2y ago
That’s a lot of water!!
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by ornornor 2y ago
> Some families told me they had spent a lot of money on building a house, but their kids didn’t know how to do anything because they had spoiled them so much. In hindsight, they thought it might have been more important to send them to
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Global water crisis leaves half of world food production at risk in next 25 year(theguardian.com)
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by ornornor 2y ago
The color display seems pretty neat! I also love how they’re mentioning sustainability just below a picture of someone using a kindle on a plane… and what’s sustainable about the kindle? That it’s box is made of recycled cardboard. Times li
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by ornornor 2y ago
> If you don't want the crappy fast food, quit making your own copies of it! “If alcohol is bad for you, quit drinking it!” “If crack is bad for you, quit taking it!” My point is that there is more to it than that. You make like it’
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by ornornor 2y ago
FWIW, junk food makers are thinking up new ways to stay relevant and still sell a modified version of their junk foods adapted to people on GLP-1 medicine… Nestle, Mondelez, etc are all scrambling to do so. Here is an article (in French) on
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by ornornor 2y ago
After Reddit committed suicide (when they killed the API), I deleted my account. I now only use specialized forums for the things I’d use subreddits for. Except slightly more friction by having to register for each forum separately, I don’t
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by ornornor 2y ago
Whoops, http only
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by ornornor 2y ago
> Really, the only reason I'm not running it everywhere is that the industry has kind of settled on linux-style containers for... absolutely everything, and the current solution for that on FreeBSD is basically "run linux in a
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by ornornor 2y ago
In some parts of France, you can’t dig without getting a specialized surveyor inspection and certificate it’s safe to dig this deep in that place first.
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by ornornor 2y ago
Wait until they tell you it needs an Olympic swimming pool in the penthouse
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by ornornor 2y ago
That’s neither here nor there. I was saying it’s insane to me to pay several thousand dollars for a phone that’ll be replaced after 2–3 years (typically)
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by ornornor 2y ago
Most iPhone users keep their phones less than three years: https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/10/how-long-people-keep-iphones/ I’m also buying used iPhones and keeping them longer than that but we’re outliers.
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by ornornor 2y ago
Nevertheless, it is a lot of money to ask for something you will drop, break, lose, replace in a couple of years because its battery has failed. And you can’t even really do what you want with it.
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by ornornor 2y ago
Shareholders’ expectations I suspect.
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by ornornor 2y ago
Also, paying 1000+$ for a… phone is insane when you think about it.
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by ornornor 2y ago
I had no clue there was a scanner in the files app.
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by ornornor 2y ago
Looks very interesting , thanks for sharing
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by ornornor 2y ago
Went through a similar thing, two years on I’m still not recovered. Just to say that even though it might not feel like it right now, it eventually gets better. You have to give it time. Sometimes a long time. And seek support from friends
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by ornornor 2y ago
Pretty neat! Any plans to make it work for people not living in the US too?

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