Indeed, sounds like a legitimate win to me.

It’s basically a FOSS Chromebook.

PSA: The old Opera guys have a new browser, Vivaldi.

It’s quite nice and I use it daily.

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Corpreddit.

Lemmy feels very much like the old, old Reddit. When it was mostly IT folk and tech savvy people (talking about 2005-2010).

I think reddit peaked around 2015 or so. A much broader audience had found it. There was interesting content from a lot of people.

Now, it still has a lot of good content. But it is definitely past its peak

Way too often, news sites primarily rely on twitter.

For example, yesterday I wanted to know which countries voted against the UN resolution. I used Google, found a news site with the info, but it was an embedded tweet with an image.

And to enlarge the image, I had to click on it and it opened the tweet on Twitter.

Same is also true for a lot of videos on what’s happening in Gaza or Ukraine.

Thanks, today I learned.

How do Calyx and Graphene compare?

I see Calyx does support Fairphone.

The Fairphone 4 supports /e/.

It seems graphene is limiting itself to Pixel devices. The developer is also mostly a one man show, so I don’t think he has the capacity to support many devices. He’s probably just busy keeping up with Pixel devices as-is.

What I would like to know is, how do /e/ and GrapheneOS compare.

Can’t really find info on that.

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Up until a few weeks ago, it seemed these bots were mostly absent on Lemmy.

But recently, I have noticed they have arrived here, too.

I fully agree with your analysis.

You are literally contradicting yourself.

And it’s childish to downvote someone who is actually responding to you.

I’m not going to waste my time on someone who can’t be reasonable and civil.

I have no disagreement on this argument.

But C-suite compensation is not a significant part of prices.

Energy prices, tax, labour costs and the cost of capital (i.e. returns to shareholders and creditors) are what drives prices.

The sad fact of the matter is… math

A corporation might have 10 C-level guys dividing $50 million amongst themselves and 10.000 workers earning $70K, which costs about $100K due to overheads (health insurance, retirement, etc). Together, that’s a billion, which is 20x more than the C level guys.

The C level guys aren’t the big expense, not by a long shot.

Labour, government and shareholders divide most of the earnings amongst themselves.

For the record, I do think we need to tax the wealthy more and the workers less.

Read what I said. Labour Unions, not corporations.

Dude, I’m old enough to have lived through it.

Making toys and other plastic shit was never a high paying job in the West.

And no, it wasn’t charity, it was a win-win that increased living standards on both sides.

But it did have an impact on low paying manufacturing jobs in the West and that impact was accepted by Labour unions for the two reasons I gave: we (rightfully) concluded there were enough other, better jobs available and didn’t want to keep Chinese workers poor.

While that is part of it, the other, bigger part is that Western countries actually do have higher labour costs: better salaries and conditions for our workers.

When China was outcompeting us on undesirable, low productivity, jobs, we accepted that. It was better to raise a billion Chinese out of poverty than to protect our lowest productivity factory workers. And those workers mostly transitioned to other jobs with higher productivity.

But now China is richer and their labour force is shrinking, so they will compete with highly productive factory jobs.

Politically, it is unlikely that car workers will accept unemployment. Nor will other highly paid workers.

So a trade war is brewing, you better brace yourself for it.

I spend way more money on streaming services than I ever spent buying DVDs or CDs.

To say that “I don’t intend to buy anything” is a BS accusation. You have no clue about another persons motives.

If there is no easy way to own what you buy, then piracy becomes a moral obligation to preserve culture for future generations.

No, you are wrong on electric tankless heaters.

Their only redeeming quality is that they take less space.

You can’t power them directly with solar power. They need way too much power for that. They put a high strain on the grid during peak hours and therefore impede progress on decarbonizing the grid.

A water heater tank is a thermal energy store. Technology Connections made a video on that.

I have a tankless gas heater, too. Very common in Europe.

But let’s not pretend they are good for the environment.

They are not.