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New comment by SmarsJerry in "Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help"

SmarsJerry — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:56:33 +0000

There was a point where a significant amount of menus in windows and office used only icons. It made it basically unusable for anyone over 60.

New comment by SmarsJerry in "Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy"

SmarsJerry — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:22:54 +0000

Saying despite Elon is delusional. You probably watched some left wing propaganda at some point to come to that conclusion. Just because he supported Trump doesn’t take away from all his achievements.

New comment by SmarsJerry in "How the Supreme Court paved the way for ICE's lawlessness"

SmarsJerry — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 14:52:17 +0000

This headline is like ??????????

New comment by SmarsJerry in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

SmarsJerry — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 19:22:40 +0000

There must be some confusion because they aren’t cutting programs approved by congress. They are literally cutting funds that were NOT explicitly approved by congress only.

New comment by SmarsJerry in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

SmarsJerry — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:06:13 +0000

If you are finding the government is sending money to terrorists as they have indicated and need to stop it there are quite a few emergency powers. Pausing is the first step.

New comment by SmarsJerry in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

SmarsJerry — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:00:14 +0000

You keep saying Musk and you are right Musk has no power, he just reports information to the President Trump who makes any call. So that part is irrelevant. The government can say we want to spend $1,000,000 on hammers but it doesn’t mean you have to spend $1,000,000 on one hammer. If the president finds you can buy a hammer for $10 then he can direct to 100,000 of them there instead. Also, if he finds government agencies are not performing on their obligations he can get rid of them. And lastly, a lot of changes are going to take effect until the next budget, which will be ratified by congress. Just because he says “we’re cancelling X” it doesn’t mean he’s stopping it now but once a new budget it passed.

New comment by SmarsJerry in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

SmarsJerry — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:18:41 +0000

You have to realize that’s not how it works right? First of all “idiots” aka voters don’t need to be convinced because these people are hired not elected. You mention them being “unelected arbiters” already. However while unelected they are not arbiters. They report to the president who is the arbiter and was elected. Lastly, the president can decide how to implement lanes until his control. If the govt was buying a hammer for $100,000 instead of Home Depot for $10 then yes it can buy the hammer at Home Depot instead.

New comment by SmarsJerry in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

SmarsJerry — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:12:22 +0000

I dont know if people are lying and/or intentionally gaslighting. DOGE brings information to Trump, Trump acts on it. The illegal part is made up by their political opponents who have apparently being using governmental agencies use to influence other countries to also influence the US - that’s where they went wrong.

New comment by SmarsJerry in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

SmarsJerry — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:07:25 +0000

You must realize attacks made by political opponents are always exaggerated and many times false. First of all doge can’t close USAID. What “they” aka Trump did was pause payments for review.

New comment by SmarsJerry in "Banning TikTok Is Unconstitutional. The Supreme Court Must Step In"

SmarsJerry — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 05:51:10 +0000

A foreign citizen or foreign corporation does not have first amendment rights so this is constitutional. However they should not ban TikTok if they want to hold any moral high ground over China.

New comment by SmarsJerry in "Tesla is under a federal wire fraud probe for misleading investors"

SmarsJerry — Thu, 09 May 2024 15:03:11 +0000

Short answer yes. If you invest in the S&P 500 you should know what you’re investing in.

New comment by SmarsJerry in "Tesla conducting more layoffs, including entire Supercharger team"

SmarsJerry — Wed, 01 May 2024 15:04:29 +0000

There are a crazy number of charging companies out there. They literally just install a charger at any parking spot anywhere and connect electricity. It’s the simplest thing in the world, there is no ploy to be a monopoly in the space. The issue is there is not enough EVs on the road. Think cell towers in the middle of no where, sure you wish they were there but they just are not useful or profitable to many people.

New comment by SmarsJerry in "Vision Pro Demand Dwindles as Customer Interest Dropped After Initial Hype"

SmarsJerry — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:46:02 +0000

It’s hard to claim the launch was anything but a disaster. It’s an expensive toy, one that doesn’t offer much benefit, if any, over its much cheaper counterpart which is 1/10th the price, which also isn’t blowing up in sales either. Should have waited to enter this market until it could at least double the features of the cheaper counter part at this price.

New comment by SmarsJerry in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

SmarsJerry — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 21:18:41 +0000

Those stores can be abusing their monopoly position as well. Apple has the greatest sales of all of those stores though so it should rightly be targeted first. They flew under the radar for far too long. People are literally going back to using websites rather than apps because of their decision, but Apple even tried to kill progressive web apps recently - which are basically just shortcuts to websites on the Home Screen.

New comment by SmarsJerry in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

SmarsJerry — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:26:52 +0000

In their App Store they absolutely have pricing power. They take a high tax, which is higher than most actual taxes, on nearly every single application installed despite doing basically nothing. Things like denying a application the ability to even mention services can be bought elsewhere are the worst offender of their misconduct and other offenses would be forcing apps to use their payment system, again with an extremely high fee, even on recurring subscription charges. Normally a payment processor takes 2 to 3 percent, not 30 %.

New comment by SmarsJerry in "Tether reveals partnerships with Secret Service, FBI in letter to U.S. Senate"

SmarsJerry — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 17:53:10 +0000

In lay men’s terms this is called ass kissing.

New comment by SmarsJerry in "uBlock Origin 1.53"

SmarsJerry — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 15:11:53 +0000

I think they are requiring apps on their store use ads provided by their store as well though.

New comment by SmarsJerry in "Waymo says insurance data shows its driverless cars are safer than humans"

SmarsJerry — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 01:37:42 +0000

If you are comparing insurance rates then you are already comparing a similar area. If insurance companies would give you a discount if your car had self driving enabled that seems like a pretty sure fire guarantee that self driving is better.

New comment by SmarsJerry in "Ask HN: Why does Apple want me to expose my iPhone password to repair my screen?"

SmarsJerry — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 16:01:25 +0000

I’m pretty sure this has to do with phone theft. When you get your phone stolen, the thieves disassembling your phone is China will send you hundreds of texts asking you to disable find my iPhone. I’m hoping it’s because you can’t even used the pieces for parts if that was enabled.

New comment by SmarsJerry in "YouTube blocks Russell Brand from making money through its platform"

SmarsJerry — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 14:25:58 +0000

It’s not even an allegation, it’s a news story. It’s pretty crazy that they would do this because of a story, not even criminal charges being brought. Apparently you don’t even have to get formally accused anymore. People say “it’s bad for advertising” but these acts of extreme abuse of moderation on YouTube have hugely contributed to other websites springing up. I have no doubt their market share overall is slipping despite their revenue growing, it will only be a matter of time before advertisers realize they can get more eyes more cheaply elsewhere. We’re long beyond the days where people believe a random advertisement on the same page as some random guy they don’t like matters. Somehow companies are stuck in the idea of the days of television where you sponsored a specific show. Now everyone knows if your advertising on google it doesn’t mean the advertisement agrees with every action of every person who appears in a search result.