I didn’t learn until well into adulthood that food safety wasn’t actually the message Upton Sinclair was trying to get across.

Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice.

With actual people that saying goes the other way 'round, but corporations are inherently sociopathic by nature and deserve no benefit of the doubt.

I’ve got some bad news about the quality of your neighbors.

Delorean built his cars in Northern Ireland during the Troubles while also smuggling drugs to try to keep the company solvent, and he still managed to produce a better vehicle than Musk did. At least Delorean managed to pick a stainless steel alloy that was actually stainless!

Hmm… Well, I guess that’s not as bad, but it’s still a little inconvenient since it would require Class 1 and 2 ebike riders to more carefully monitor their speed instead of just riding all the way up to the assisted top speed knowing that they’re still in compliance.

We could have had Scheme or Python (both of which are also cross-platform, BTW) embedded in the browser instead. And yes, Netscape was seriously considering those two specific languages before Eich oozed into the situation and fucked it all up.

Javascript did not “need” to happen. The only reasons it exists are Not-Invented-Here and Dunning-Kruger Syndromes (specifically, Netscape wanting something new and vaguely Algol-like that they could name to glom onto the Java hype at the time, and Eich having the inexperience and hubris to think he could hack together a half-assed design in a week and it would somehow turn out okay).

Yes it’s grown out of something that was originally messy, but a lot of work has been done to make it better.

Yeah, no shit! Literally millions upon millions of man-hours, probably! Do you have any concept at all of how much better the Web could have been if all that effort had been put towards something actually useful instead of working around Eich’s mistakes?!

Fake: you said yourself that you made it with photoshop in response to the other greentext

Gay: “Femanons?” Female 4chan users? I don’t think they exist.

There was an LTT video last year that recommended a $20 ‘Onn.’ (Walmart store brand) Android TV for its ability to be rooted/hacked. I bought a couple to replace my Roku, but haven’t actually gotten around to messing with them yet.

If it hasn’t changed/been locked down since then, I think it’s a better option than a Raspberry Pi at over twice the price (you forgot the cost of the case and power supply, BTW).

I’m so used to computer-things being files I edit sovereignly on my device that I find it hard to understand the serfware.

I like your framing and terminology!

“Respect” for you as the user means you shouldn’t have to do stuff like that in the first place.

Who also inflicted Javascript upon the world, the incompetent piece of shit.

I won’t say that’s worse than the homophobia because I don’t want to seem dismissive about oppression of queer folks, but it sure as Hell isn’t better, either!

Oh look, a troll who thinks he came up with a ‘gotcha’ question is getting ratio’d because everybody rightfully recognizes it as the bad faith bullshit it is.

Credit to @Skullgrid@lemmy.world for pointing out the relevancy.

How convenient: in typical ‘David vs. Goliath’-type cases of individuals being abused by huge corporations, good rulings in favor of the little guy apply extremely narrowly, while bad rulings have vast reach.

What part of “end of” did you not understand?

It skips the step where you have to sift through a bunch of results and determine “is this what I was looking for?” and “how does this apply to my specific context?”

Right: it skips the part where human intelligence and critical thinking is applied. Do you not understand how that’s a fucking problem‽

Looking up a list of resources that you then evaluate yourself is very categorically different from getting an “answer” from a bot.

Thanks, I remember reading that a long time ago but hadn’t been able to find it again since.

Many of the problems with cars are inherent to the nature of cars, specifically, how large they are relative to how many people they carry. E-scooters scaled up would not cause the problems that cars do.