> The thing that determines whether you’re the product isn’t whether you’re paying for the product: it’s whether market power and regulatory forbearance allow the company to get away with selling you.

Or more simply:

> Companies don’t make you the product because you don’t pay — they make you the product because you can’t stop them.

As far as feature development goes, Meta isn't looking under the couch cushions for change. If they want to invest in a feature, they will.

That was my last time going to that restaurant.

I haven't held a Neo myself, but it seems like a solid device. Personally I would probably go for the Neo.

If you altered the game to say that only some fraction of the population get the choice, and everyone who doesn't get the choice is assumed blue (or, is killed if less than 50% of voters choose blue) then there's some question to be explored here. But at it stands there is literally no reason to choose blue.

So I expect your solution would fix all of it, as a second order effect, in that running one would stop being a viable business model.

Can't lie flat due to camera bulge. No headphone jack. Fingerprint sensor on the front that screen protectors interfere with. No sim slot. Ai bullshit triggers if i keep my thumb to close to where you touch to switch apps. Ai bullshit also replaces the old power menu, which now requires a combo button press.

Such a let down.

Source: played a bunch of Kerbal space program

If so, Nebius is just a fancy name for Yandex, beholden to everything that matters to Yandex LLC headquartered in Russia. They just chose a distinctly different name, presumably to avoid the association. When we were doing a deep-dive into cloud GPU providers, legal counsel veto'd them for this reason.

Some info from Eric: https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-...

There's a lot of seeing faces on toast going on, here.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/17/fake-it-until-you-dont-ma...

I fly next week, I will have to decide whether having this conversation is worth not trying to get out of the opt-out procedure. The difficulty will be keeping a straight face.

This was the only time I've gone through the machine since they were introduced.

I used to "punish" the rude or particularly slow ones by insisting on a private screening (since that involves two officers, and Is A Whole Thing) but I haven't gotten a rude one in a few years. But that also just makes it take even longer.

Also, I very much recommend using your own domain. It greatly eases the feeling of having to commit, because your email address is not tied to your provider. That is, if you ever decide fastmail is not for you, next time the switch will be invisible to everyone else.

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1. Register your domain (if you're doing that) and get fastmail set up -- I remember feeling a physical discomfort clicking "register" on fastmail, it felt like such an insanely impossible thing to do.

2. Set up the IMAP link so that anything sent to your gmail gets delivered to fastmail. Doing so also allows you to send email from your gmail address (with valid spf/dkim) if you want to.

3. Import all your old mail using fastmail's import tool, which Just Works.

4. Set up a vacation autoresponder in gmail that responds only to people in your contacts with a note telling them your new address.

5. Set up a label and filter in fastmail for anything that was addressed to your gmail, so you can easily see what is still sending you email on your old address to assist with migrating services.

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It worked a charm. I was completely convinced of it within a week, long before the 30 day free trial ran out. I have been an immensely happy customer since then. Could not imagine going back.