No, because I am using what I like.

WTF kind of logic is that? Something that you choose to do is not creepy. If they took your pics without telling you, then it would be creepy.

Show me the stats to back that up.

Yes, this is a social media hit piece. MSM hates social media because it’s a way for the public to circumvent their lies. The entire article is based on (likely fabricated) anecdotal evidence:

“It’s really bizarre to me that everyone’s gone to this place in their mind that content has to be so curated,” Bruening told us. “So curated that you can’t show what you’re cooking for dinner, because that’s not cool enough.”

Everyone? Did they take a global survey? Do they see my instagram feed? This person just has shitty friends. Or they are lying.

The Pixel Pass is basically just a bundle of optional services that can be added to your Fi account for a very slight discount.

$300 over 2 years is not slight.

I understand completely. This is profiteering and another example of google killing a product I like. Fuck google. They finally got me to switch to an iphone after buying Nexus/Pixel for a decade. I’m switching out of spite.

I have been a lifelong googler. Owned every Nexus phone and Pixel until the Pixel 6, when I got Pixel pass. They finally made me mad enough to switch to an iphone. I dislike Apple very much, but I can rely on their services still being around 2 years after they launch.

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Netflix gained 5.9 million subscribers in the same period.

This story is for virtue signaling morons who want to BELIEVE that the password sharing crackdown didn’t work.

It did. And now those losers are upset they can’t mooch off paying customers anymore. Hence the headline.

There is plenty they can do. They created this mess with their algorithm. They can undo it by changing it, again.

Google does not objectively score or rank a site based on what you are actually looking for. They rank based on how much time other people spend on the site. How many other sites link back to the site. They rank based on how many words are on the page, regardless of if that actually matters.

This is why when you google a recipe, all the top results are blog posts from soccer moms telling a life story about food. You don’t care about that stuff - you just want the recipe. But that’s what google cares about.

Google can change this.

I’d really rather see coverage of the exploits found in discord, zoom, slack, etc.

You intentionally clicked on this link.

Word and PhotoShop

basically it has some killer features for my job

This is why people make fun of apple users.

Can we not compare a science fiction film about traversing entire solar systems and fucking time travel to landing on the…moon?

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Lemmy users’ ability to cope with opinions and choices that don’t affect them is crazy. They argue strawmen in the comments. Just wild.

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Tesla surely benefited from being the first to market with a mass scale luxury EV. But they still have SERIOUS quality control issues. And putting all the controls in a touchscreen is a gimmick that has worn off. The major players were slow to catch up, but when they do get products to market, they are more reliable and easier to use.

Tesla is not improving on core issues fast enough, and it is going to cost them in the not-so-distant future. I think we are seeing it already with Hyundai. They are the new EV darling. And I do blame it on Elon Musk. Dude is spread way too thin, and has become way too dysfunctional and delusional to successfully lead any company.