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> My point being, Reddit is likely the easiest platform to give up because it never provided any value/intrigue in the first place.

Not for me. I really like reddit but I feel the same way as you in some regards such as the "The parrot club".

I mean, at some point the discussions in r/GilmoreGirls ran stale and repetitive but I can't say I didn't enjoy the ride in that subreddit, and if not for reddit I wouldn't have read so many different and equal opinions to mine regarding the show.

Even the subreddit dedicated to my country. Years ago it was this place to share opinions about what is good or what needs to be improved, interesting places to visit and really funny anecdotes(Keeping in mind they can be false). Now it's just a place to complain about the current government.

Reddit got really popular in the last years and it shows that quantity increased at the cost of quality.

If the plan is to start it before the US elections why not start it in the next 5 minutes? What are the men behind the curtains waiting for?

It IS a race-to-the-bottom.

Products will be cheaper because they will be cheaper to produce thanks to automation. But less jobs mean less people to buy stuff, if it weren't for a credit-based society.

But I'm talking from my ass. I don't even know if there are less jobs than before. Everything seems to point that there are more jobs now than 50 years ago.

I'm just saying I feel like the telephone operators. They got replaced by a machine and who knows if they found other jobs.

Did they use chat-gpt to fix the bug?

Automation does reduce the workload. But the quiet part is that reducing work means jobless people. It has happened before and it will be happening again soon. Only this time it will affect white collar jobs.

"My idea of a perfect company is one guy who sits in a small room at a desk, and the only thing he's allowed to decide is what product to launch"

CEOs and board members salivate at the idea of them being the only people that get the profits from their company.

What will be of the rest of us who don't have access to capital? They only know that it's not their problem.

I'd really like you to expand in the forced to use Chrome at work. How does that work?

I'm also at corporate and they are really integrated with Edge. But it doesn't mean I can't do my work in Firefox (Which I currently use)

What do you mean by forced? What happens if you don't log in? What happens if you try to log in in firefox?

Edit: Ah I missed this from your original comment:

> Chrome is mandated at many companies because of its GSuite integration/ Context Aware Access.

You might be right, I'm too lazy to try this in Firefox.

It's just a general rant towards climate-change-apathetic people

> Having a laptop a lightly technically minded person can repair easily makes little sense if it isn't targeted at their niche.

I disagree. There's value in a laptop that can be easily repaired/upgraded for non tech people. And I mean that. People that will only use their laptops for zoom, lightweight internet browsing and stuff like that.

Because, they will fucking break something and better to have it easily repaired than having to go a specialized center.

Keep in mind I'm not talking about people that can afford new iphone every year but people that can afford a mid-budget Android phone every two-four years.

> Generally you start deep in the niche and move mass-market as you expand.

Isn't that how you piss away your niche market?

That's exactly why I'm sad of the precautions I take. Back then drivers had less distractions while driving. Of course there was the occasionally distracted driver but nowadays is more common than what it used to be thanks to the smartphone.

> It would be very difficult to accidentally find yourself on this street, driving quickly.

As a parent of a 6 years old, I always assume all drivers are not paying attention to the road but rather to their phones when my kid is playing in the street (with supervision because I don't know if he will react quickly to a car coming his way)

It sucks, because I used to play in the street without supervision (to my best knowledge). But today, cars are faster and drivers are more distracted.