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Thanks for clearing this up, as I don't work in that area.

Personally I'd say that it's a problem that prices of consumer goods go up that far to satisfy this part of the market. We could need a more sensible way to advance the technology.

What the fuck is wrong with you people? You are glaring over the technology, defending it as the coming of christ and have no sense for security? Are you serious?

What right wing news source is that? They paint a pretty one sided picture here. Some truths but not all. Germany was on its way to be energy independent with wind but that was blocked by Merkel and right leaning governments since 2010. Without that intervention we could be big in wind and having a lot of people work in that sector. Instead they turned back to gas and coal.

The dependence on cars and the incompetence to get excellent on software are a huge problem here in Germany. But the educated part of the people here saw that coming.

The will to change is what is dragging us down in Germany.

I don't get why whole developer circles didn't leave the platform yet. You can't ask people something via DMs without paying for the blue checkmark and it's totally unhelpful, plus it sends the message you care not enough about the right wing messaging that is send by the platform now. Or these people are just ok with that, I don't know.

It's good that we go in a direction where we have accessibility to the devices components and the high end technology. I can't assess how easy it is for the layman to repair an iPhone, but the inertia is there to make a device longer usable.

Only 3% of the 30% go to payment processing. Hence why they still want 27% when developers choose their own payment system.

The 27% are seen similar to Sony and Nintendo as fees to be on a platform which has wide reach but also gives tools and does stuff to enable app distribution.

Is that too much? I don‘t know but it‘s what all appear to do. The platform politics didn‘t evolve as fast as the tech though. So what about apps like Patreon, Netflix, Spotify, that was never on the table in 2008.

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I abandoned it too after hearing what a mess of a company and personal is behind it.

GPT-4o 2 years ago

No problem, I'm here to keep the language sophistication level low.

I think I'm a tech guy and know my fields. I still have no real clue how passkeys work, how it is better, what it really is.

When your security feature is not as simple as - remember a name and a password and store it somewhere safe - it doesn't work.

Something about keys that are on devices. But what happens when I use a phone and a pc? How to get access then? Do I need a User/PW for the first time? Or do I need one of those keys I have to plug into the device first?

I went to school in a brutalist building from the 70ies? and I always hated it. I didn‘t know why at the time but the concrete everywhere and the soullessness influences the inhabitants.

This could be done better with wood paneling or painting it. But even as architecture from the outside it just looks sad, cold, depressing.

That's true. We restrict access to Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram, FB, they can use WhatsApp, YT, iMessage, Phone and Pinterest. I'm fucking annoyed by other parents that don't set boundaries that way. I have so much discussions about other platforms. Pushing them to physically meet is hard too.

We grew up at a time where SMS was a thing when I became 16. I know that keeping up is cool, but social media is a disease. The amount of dumb and uneducated people that couldn't even listen to expert advice during a fucking pandemic is driving me up the wall.

I'm annoyed mainly because people around me make bad decisions that have an influence on my own life.

You are very right.

I want my iPhone to connect via cloud with my Mac, because I can scan documents with the iPhone and open them there. Without me doing anything to connect the devices apart from first install.

I want to experience new things like new music hence why I use Spotify to get something new washed in (but in the past it worked better).

All the gain but without the pain of fixing it. I already have to fix packages during work time and debug through software. Not in my spare time please.

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We use a German Slack clone and it has the same attitude to changes.

Interesting to read this now. Lego was in a very good position during that time. But in the last years they declined in quality (bad prints, a lot of stickers on AFOL sets), increased the prices and the lack in building fun of the sets. Lots of catering to grown-ups and weird choices in the kids section like the city road elements.

The mixed reality sets were not well received. Why give a kid something to do with Lego bricks and then pull them in front of a smartphone again?