Dude hipsters don't exist anymore. The kind of young hip dude or dudette that would qualify as a hipster is so thoroughly beaten down these days they've just faded into nothing. They're busy putting 60 hours a week in at Uber for just enough gas money to do it another week.

The core market for this is neurodivergent people who are being actively harmed by.. I don't want to call it social media because it's not. We need a new word to describe the kind of nastiness that Twitter and Facebook do where they actively keep you in a state of panic and fear and misery for the purposes of engagement so they can serve up advertisements and slurp up your data.

It's like how we tend to call right-wing extremists "conservative". When somebody's going to do something really awful they make sure that they pick a word to describe it or a phrase to describe it that is the exact opposite of what they're actually doing. Otherwise they couldn't get away with it because well, it's like you wouldn't buy a bouquet of dog shit would you?

It's not the approach that substandard it's the quality of the phone. It's a $500 device that you can buy the equivalent without the blockages for about 150 bucks.

I mentioned Twitter and Facebook has the kind of places that someone who is having trouble with doomscrolling wants to avoid and therefore wants a device that refuses to install those apps. That's presumably the selling point here you can't install the kind of apps that you would use to Doom scroll with. You're not searching Twitter you're wasting time on it while it makes you angrier and angrier and more frightened and more upset. You're not enjoying yourself but you can't stop because the algorithm has trapped you and you know this and you know you ought to just uninstall the app but you find yourself uninstalling it and then going back to it for another hit off the pipe.

The point is that sites like Twitter and Facebook use complex algorithms to take advantage of people with a variety of problems. It would be one thing if they were offering them something positive and good but all they give a shit about is the next engagement and the next opportunity to serve up and advertisement or the slurp up some data they can resell. They are more than happy to help you feel horrified and miserable as long as you're generating revenue for them in some capacity.

There's a bunch of neurodivergent people out there who know that they're being manipulated and they would be interested in a device like this because it makes it harder for them to fall off the wagon and reinstall the app. But the app shouldn't be allowed to be that addictive and destructive in the first place.

It's literally one group of ghouls profiting off of people's misery and another group of ghouls selling a potential solution to the first group. That's what sucks. And that's why it's peak capitalism

I just buy my phones directly and throw a Sim in them so I can uninstall anything I want.

I remember years ago I had one of the old Huawei ascend phones which was the first really cheap Android. It could just barely run angry birds and that was a big selling point. I didn't care about angry birds but it was nice to have a cheap Android phone back then but it barely had enough storage to run the operating system and I remember being pretty pissed off that some stupid bubble bubble clone was marked as a system app and could not be uninstalled. So I couldn't remove it to save space.

What's the French for "woof, woof woof"?

I assume they'd already jurisdiction-shopped and were expecting it to be rubber-stamped in a country that's somewhat more dysfunctional (try setting up a business in Greece some time) than other EU countries which would have given them a harder time over it.

If only those pesky Europeans were like the US, put Kushner on your board of directors, make a donation to the ballroom, and all of your regulatory problems just... go away.

It has been for some time. That's why I said Chrome is the default.

From what I can tell Chrome will use less ram if you are someone who uses 1 to 10 tabs. The kind of lunatics around here the keep 100+ tabs open at all times are going to benefit from Firefox. It's a difference in design philosophy. Chrome is catering to the more average user that isn't going to keep a shitload of tabs open. I don't understand why people keep all this tabs open you can't possibly use them all and 90% of websites are going to figure out that you haven't been on that tab in a while and reloaded anyway. But I guess you do you. I know it really bothers people to have their tabs fucked with

You know that the industry is hurting.

To see commodore or the husk that is commodore taking advantage of people who have mental issues when those people with the mental issues are looking for something like this because another company is taking advantage of them.

There's just something uniquely fucked up about a clearly substandard product that exists specifically to cater to someone who can't just uninstall Facebook and twitter, and again I am not blaming people for that Lord knows I have my own mental issues as my detractors will no doubt a test to. But there's something really fucked up about selling what's very obviously a $150 device, I mean for fuck sakes it's a cheap Media tech phone with a cheap display, and charging a premium because the phone blocks apps that the person buying it knows they can be tricked into installing even though those apps make their lives objectively worse.

It's also possible that this is going to get marketed to kids but again you have a bunch of people doing a fucked up thing and another bunch of people selling a product to solve the problem caused by the first fucked up thing. How about we just don't do the fucked up things in the first place?

It really is peak capitalism though I'll give them that. One group of capitalists Selling me a substandard solution to a problem created by another group of capitalists.

If it's a good idea then it isn't. You really don't want to be instituting a change like this when you find out you need to.

On the other hand there's no clear path to usefulness for quantum computers whatsoever

The point was that even in its infancy 15 years ago there were fairly reasonable options.

EVs are bigger sure, but tech has advanced considerably in 15 years.

These won't prove anything because they're ugly.

That's what we call a confounding factor

They don't know shit, some fraud convinced some policy maker that their snake oil was real

Doge wasn't all him. It was just project 2025. And he didn't make big decisions, he made stupid and easy ones to kill children in exchange for tax cuts that made him a trillionaire.

In the real world he has teams of people whose job it to prevent him from making decisions at his companies.

Can we use these glasses, or are they just as worthless as Google's and Meta's, where they choose everything for you, and you'll likely get a DMCA complaint if you try to use them for your own purposes?

If not, then $21.95 is about as much as these people should be charging for the product, which is obviously intended to get its revenue through proprietary software/services sales.

Not as much as it boggles the mind how people can still think Musk is a genius. Literally all of his wealth is based on their beliefs making them make stupid decisions which enrich him.