Marketers do not just passively give users what they already want. They also manipulate what users want. This isn’t some conspiracy theory, the marketing discipline is quite open about this. When something is in the interest of the company making more profit, they convince users that it is in their own interest. This is just capitalism being capitalism. Not being able to easily replace your battery is as clear an example of such a thing as you could ask for.

Yeah I’m sure phone companies communicate engineering truth to us, and not what their marketing departments find most in their interest.

NetBeans

But that´s 4 tires to cut and glue! Easier to cut and glue the one post…

Did you ever find out what was up with the 18s? That´s some twilight zone shit!

People asked for this on reddit for years. This should be a no brainer.

I don’t know what your families nationality is, but this is very common in some countries (not for memorial day, specifically, but picnicking in the cemetery on a holiday).

I am and always have been against walled garden internets, and against corporations owning and controlling what essentially becomes a part of people’s culture. I let myself get sucked into Reddit despite that without thinking about it, largely because a 3rd party app shielded need from the shittier consequences of that (like ads).

Watching spez display his true colors has just served as a reminder of why it’s not okay to build your communities somewhere that is at the mercy of a corporation. There’s just no way I’m going to support something controlled by someone like that. It’s a matter of principle now.

It’s disappointing to me how many people don’t seem to see it as a matter of principle, or else don’t see a principle as being worth any inconvenience, or being willing to give up anything they have gotten used to at Reddit.

I miss seeing fireflies too. I’m not sure if where I’ve lived since childhood is just not firefly territory, or if they are just much less common.