artyom

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

It's not what I believe and it's not what I've said. I was very clear about what my position and you're just intentionally misrepresenting it. You're being blocked now, goodbye.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

This would eat MacBook Air's lunch with 16GB (market-wise). They're just intentionally kneecapping it again.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 point 6 hours ago (1 child)

Yes because your comment was so witty...?

[–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

So we're back to "everyone is stupid except for me".

No we're not. I've already addressed this, please scroll up.

Customers want thin, light, and good water resistance.

  1. We already had several models with all of those things
  2. Even the iPhone Air is thick enough to fit a headphone jack.
  3. For the third time, none of this is about what consumers want.

So we're back to "everyone is stupid except for me".

If your strategy is to repeat the same nonsense over and over without addressing my rebuttal then you can go ahead and stop replying to me.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 point 6 hours ago (3 children)

Okay so there's not even an option for increased RAM, huh? 🤣

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 point 6 hours ago (5 children)

I only see a $600 option. What's the $700 option?

[–] artyom@piefed.social 8 points 9 hours ago

I really don't think any of that is to blame, it's always been that way. The blame it's squarely on LLM search. People really do believe the nonsense these bullshit machines pump out. I have people sending them to me all the time. And I see creators using screencaps as sources as well. People are fuckin dumb.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 10 hours ago

I've been waiting for this for a while. Is it really "stable" though? There's very limited info on this but what little there is seems to suggest it's not ready.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (5 children)

Why isn't that good enough?

Why isn't people liking something they were swindled into paying way too much money for not good enough? Do you really have to ask that? Maybe you can ask the anti-trust regulators why they feel the need to protect people from themselves?

It's absolutely about the average consumer

It's absolutely not. It's not about what the consumer wants at all. These companies didn't remove them because customers wanted them removed. They removed so that they couldn't use them anymore.

And how does that help the competing manufacturers who also removed their 3.5 jack?

Because they also made buckets of money removing them. Every fucking one of them removed the jack and then immediately introduced new Bluetooth headphones that were several hundred dollars. Even Fairphone went down this hole.

No one makes money selling $7 wired headphones.

Are you beginning to understand how things you don't buy still affect you yet?

[–] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

LMAO you actually bought into that 8GB = 16GB marketing nonsense

[–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 10 hours ago (3 children)
[–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 10 hours ago

A fancy processor is meaningless without RAM. It's like a Lamborghini rolling on bicycle tires.

 

Several years ago I had a Discord community with hundreds of users. This was an IRL community, so it was very difficult to abandon but I did anyway. Tried to get people to leave but they were unwilling. So I handed it off to another member and deleted my account. Now that admin has contacted me again and let me know everyone is ready to leave. I found Fluxer yesterday while poking around #Discord on Mastodon and I think we're going to end up there.

Fluxer is still very early in development and they have plans for many advanced features in the roadmap but it's very feature-rich today. Current monetization plan is freemium + Patreon-like monetization. I understand that may be a dealbreaker for some but there aren't a ton of other great options, and everything is open source, and self-hostable, and if you do, you get all of the premium features for free, while still communicating with the main instance over federation (in roadmap). That still leaves it susceptible to Mattermost-style enshittification but honestly rolling back updates solves most of those style of problems.

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by artyom@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

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