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as an adult with ADHD (and a child who was diagnosed at 11) i dont understand the fascination by laypeople with confidential mental health treatment.

if kids can have ADHD surely adults can too. i feel that these types of critical pieces often embolden critics of mental health and i dont quite understand why these people feel so aggrieved by allowing people to participate fully in the modern world

it's ok to do your own thing sometimes. if you want to share a nice meal with your wife without your phones just say so. people are often more social now than they used to be, at the cost of some personal attention, sure.

i hang out with and eat out with my partner almost every day all the time. i don't need to be present 100% at every single moment, and if i or he wants to be during a meal, we will simply share that thought. i've never had issues having normal social interaction with people when out, even with some phone usage. it's normal.

when people feel the need to write "impassioned polemic"s about the use of technology in reducing paper waste and moving the world into the modern era, i have to think of principal skinner from the simpsons.

i love and appreciate the world greatly, and physical objects too, but i've never once felt a thrill from touching a paper menu which outweighed the convenience of using a QR code and mobile system to order food. the joy of dining out comes from social interaction not holding a menu

apple designed and built the OS, hardware, APIs, servers for building and hosting your app, payment systems, subscription APIs, developer support etc.

i'd be fine with apple saying "we take 0%, but then you have to do literally everything yourself, have fun" and then you can see how it will work.

i don't understand the entitlement. don't develop for iOS then, or make your own phone. it's not easy and costs a lot of money. 12% doesn't seem like a bad deal to reach billions of people and make money enough to be a mobile developer fulltime.

normal people don't care about web apps or app stores. they care that they can tap-to-pay securely and effortlessly, and that there are pretty background photos for contacts. they care about mostly first party apps and tiktok and web browsing, and no they don't care about chrome or firefox or safari.

developers need to realise most of the world just wants a phone that works, and outside of nerds, they don't give a crap about who pays what to whom.

personally, as an engineer, i don't want any third party doing OS-level tampering or opening up secure areas of the hardware, nor do i want random power-hungry runtimes and code being ran. i want my phone to work the way it was sold to me, and i don't want meta or some leet haxxor's apps or app stores

the first two or three paragraphs dont really make sense. developers are not end-users, and if they are making profit to pay the 30%, they are making money. small businesses are only charged 12/15% anyway.

seems like it beats using a diaper and waiting on the cold times square street for 12 hours; i'd never do that in 1 million years!

very thoughtful and eloquent response. i echo this sentiment, as i stopped taking meds in high school, and i struggled more then and at uni, and just in general. i recently got back on meds and they’ve been an invaluable tool to organise my life.

i was successful unmedicated despite myself, but definitely would have been better equipped personally and professionally, had i continued care.

this might be the “best outcome” for some nerds or android users, but it certainly isnt the best outcome for most consumers.

iOS has resisted a lot of the crap and cruft of windows and android because of its opinionated nature. sure, siri could use improvement, but at least iPhones never fail to call 911.

it’s always been child abuse, just sanctioned or commonplace.

children can be raised to do the right thing without fear/pain/trauma.

i don’t think we need AI to solve any of these issues, or that we should be using AI as a kneejerk solution to almost anything currently

one case is poor media reporting during a war, the other is a man literally agreeing with and supporting white supremacists and neo-nazis. NYT wasn't being antisemitic, but elon undoubtedly was

most american/anglo content ever.

why can’t we just take knowledge from others and recognise that we have some obligation to ourselves to use our brains?

identity “verification” by ssn is stupid; almost every other democracy has national id systems and residential verification and it works better and is easier to get benefits or prove yourself than real id and any other absurd american invention.

get better led bulbs.

i honestly dont understand how people become so fixated on minutæ. my led bulbs look great, and i’ve never thought “wow i really miss inefficient, energy-wasting, hot, single-colour bulbs from 30 years ago”

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it’s only been getting worse because half the country believes freedom and women’s rights, and marriage equality shouldnt exist, and that we dont need fair elections, so i dont think twitter has really improved anything.

classic HN. business can do whatever it wants with impunity but god forbid people actually have any equal power.

did you know the nordic countries are among the happiest and have some of the strongest social benefits in the world while still being wealthy?

the second is in reference to technology and customer experience, don’t be obtuse.

comparing apple’s integrated approach to cocaine drops for kids tells me all i need to know about your bias; consumers like apple products, they are privacy focused more then any commercial competitor and their chips and OS are better than anything else precisely because of their integration.

and people want those devices.

vendor sw (hp, samsung, htc, gateway, dell) is some of the worst sw i’ve ever experienced.

i want safari, mail, and messages tyvm

terrible idea.

people buy apple products precisely because of how integrated they are. this idealism and desire to force companies to support everything (as much as i want gaming on mac/linux and drivers for things supported) is the single most dangerous idea that would completely ruin the user experience for millions.

if you keep posting the same thing in every reply to everyone in this thread, it won’t help.

we can have a nuanced conversation about how you support making thought-crimes illegal, and how we alreasy know videogames dont cause violence, but somehow because children are involved we have to ban every single thing possible

how is it bullshit?

windows is/was laden with malware, requiring antivirus, just full of crap for decades.

oss tools are just annoying to use or bad ui. also, every time i have to use a mailing list i want to cry

funnily, the poster now works 4hrs/day and has a team, so they’ve become a capitalist in an extremely low cola country and can do whatever they want.

not saying they dont want to hack still, but as they said, there’s no end to the limit, and ramen profitability wasnt enough

some people dont care about lock-in. i like that my iPhone and mac work together, i can text from my computer, share all my apps/data across oses, and that macOS gets out of the way to let me do my work.

95% of what i do is in the terminal, and the typeface rendering and emulators are great. apple silicon performance is mindblowingly good

i’m a linux hacker/coder. have been for ages. macOS and macs are my thing bc they have great hardware, unix os, and amazing app ecosystem.

i grew up on slack, did lfs a few times, and played with most distros under the sun. in the end of the day, i love linux but macOS just works amazingly well AND has all the tools i need

this isnt true at all, in practice. there’s so much onerous bureacracy, kafkaesque visa policies, and the fact that even naturalised individuals will still be othered.

japanese nationality is tied to ethnicity so much due to how homogenous the society is

people who’ve been saved due to automatic crash detection would beg to differ

i don't think it's the single event but the constant disregard for middle eastern cultures to the point where nobody even checks that a written text is correct.

imagine if everywhere you went you saw english test like "helo, how you are?" and all sorts of weird grammatical issues, spaces wrongly inserted. if this was your entire life in the west you'd feel pretty alienated too, especially when people were doing so as an act of 'inclusion'

if the pope felt it more prudent to preserve the church than save the jews, that says all i need to know about christianity