You throwing a communist party?

Would the army even exist if it weren’t for young, naive, and/or desperate folk?

Tl;dr election year in the US. It’s only going to get more intense until the actual election.

Oh man, you were born too late for the wild 90s era of experimental keyboards

Whatever happens before, after and in between, isn’t their problem.

OP is looking for Jim Bob’s Auto Repair & Adult Daycare

Clearly an overlooked business model

Businesses that can get by on convenience, natural visibility, and first-time clients alone don’t need to have good quality.

Businesses that are inconvenient to reach will die quickly unless they have something else (i.e. price or quality) to make up for the inconvenience.

They assume that, by driving your car to them and paying them to repair it, you are an adult who can actually figure shit out for yourself.

Some people would get in trouble at work if they were caught browsing Lemmy. Period. Therefore every post, and the entire website, is NSFW.

You define it that broadly and it’s meaningless.

It’s not belittling anyone. It’s about having an actual line and not making NSFW into a meaningless term.

Seriously, if you define “NSFW” as anything ANYONE won’t want to be caught doing at work, all of Lemmy is NSFW. Your personal definition of “I might get embarrassed by it” is equally meaningless and, again, would result in the entire website simply labeling everything NSFW.

Oh, what if I work in a conservative workplace and don’t want to get caught browsing a liberal sub? Guess everything liberal or left leaning is NSFW!

Oh wait, I’d be embarrassed by people knowing I have relationship problems, so any relationship advice is now NSFW.

I don’t want my co-workers to think I’m a dumbass, so anything like NoStupidQuestions or ELI5 is also inherently NSFW.

You want to broaden the NSFW term to the point of being meaningless, and have everyone else moderate their posts to your ill-defined benefit. It’s so meaningless that the tag may as well not exist at that point.

That’s a you problem, not a content problem, though.

Are we obligated to mark SpongeBob SquarePants as NSFW because you’re worried co-workers are going to be judgemental if they caught you watching it at work?

No. That’s just a fully clothed character. Any workplace where that would be considered “NSFW” is the kind of place where getting caught browsing Lemmy at all is NSFW.

Yeah but he got a bitchin soundtrack

People have been coping for so long it’s practically a genre in literature. People are convincing themselves so hard that immortality is a curse, yet literally zero people have actually experienced it.

Humanity’s sourest grapes.

Glass back is a premium design feature because it breaks easily, and customers who buy premium phones are expected to be rich enough to just buy another phone.

It’s a profit making feature.

Much like luxury cars, nobody actually expects BMW or Mercedes to last more than 3 years. People who buy them are expected to trade up for the latest model every few years.

Same with luxury fashion. Absolutely some of the cheapest and fragile clothing I’ve ever seen come from big fashion brands. And nobody cares, because by the time they break, they’re out of style and the buyer will be updating their wardrobe anyways.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned, expensive luxury items = cheap and breakable. Midrange products are where the customers tend to be concerned with longevity and value.

The “Metro” area generally refers to the main city and any other high density cities right beside it, probably linked together by high volume public transit with massive numbers of people commuting between each other every day. It would be pretty typical to live in City A, work in City B, and meet with friends or have dinner in City C all in one day.

The “Greater” area generally refers to a much wider area including many of the much smaller towns that even people in the same country won’t recognize, rural farmland, etc. Their economies and business are probably mostly dependent on the main city so they may be considered linked, even though there aren’t as many people moving back and forth between them daily. So someone living in Town D might commute into City A for work, but almost nobody living in city A/B/C is commuting out to town D for work.

I tried to hold out, but for my current phone I prioritized camera quality over headphone jack. I definitely use the cameras more than the headphones.

With that being said, those two features are essentially mutually exclusive. Good cameras are a “flagship” feature, whereas lacking headphone jacks are also a flagship “feature.”

The only exception is Sony, which unfortunately is very overpriced.

Probably plenty of critical infrastructure and medical systems.

Capitalism doesn’t “fail” per se. Capitalism is actually the default. All other systems require some kind of active intervention and oversight.

Capitalism simply “wins” due to being the best at making the most money. Whether that actually benefits humanity is a crapshoot.

Countries can set up some kind of socialist system, but things will “default” back to capitalism when corruption and/or stupidity inevitably happen.

I wanted a Tyco RC car as a kid. My parents actually got it for me after waiting nearly a whole year for my birthday, and it was one of the most expensive birthday gifts I’d ever received.

Turns out it uses a proprietary battery that wasn’t even included in the package! We’d have to go out and buy that separately, which made the thing like 50% more expensive.

We couldn’t afford that so I agreed to return the RC car and pick something else.

I’ve decided to boycott them for life. Stupid Tyco for running my birthday with a stupid toy that doesn’t even include the battery.

I would say the opposite.

The chipset is no longer important unless you’re heavily into smartphone games. Even a mid-range chipset from 2 years ago will run standard tasks just fine these days. Smartphone requirements have basically plateaued for a few years now.

Prioritize just about everything OTHER then the chipset, depending on what you really use the phone for. Cameras, battery life, screen quality, memory capacity… Prioritize chipset only if you’re gaming.