812 karma · joined February 25, 2015
I have a much younger brother and I can watch him being mentally harmed from having access to a smartphone.
And even worse, the UIs are so simple, the kid doesn't even get computer skills out of it like we did.
I myself got some mental illness out of the deal but at least found gainful employment in the process.
I assume you stay off Reddit and Instagram on your phone then? I personally find mobile to be the biggest time sink for me on the low-brain-energy social media (memes and short-form videos, really) consumption front.
"Who even needs their supposed products"? If they deliver the technology they are supposedly building, they'll cure blindness, quadriplegia, and shepherd in the genesis of cyborgs.
Based on Elon's track record, they'll probably never deliver anything, but to pretend that nobody wants their products is ridiculous.
Be the change you want to see.
reddit has support for user-preferences for exactly this. if you want the old site, you can make reddit.com resolve to the old site, or resolve to the new site, depending on your preference.
/endrant
It's intellectual property, and duplicating it is piracy. Do I judge pirates? No, they're taking risks, and that's their own prerogative.
I am all for available and affordable resources, but expecting a book someone else wrote for free is a bit ridiculous.