To put it differently, Yotta’s customer’s misfortunes are because they are poor and not politically connected. If Fidelity fails, their customers are rich and they vote: they must be made whole.
Kind of like the SVB failure. SVB customers were made whole. Systematic risk and all that.
I am planning to make the switch this year. As a long time Pixel user, Google's support of its own hardware has been subpar. My phone was only officially supported for 3 years.
They will increase support for new phones, probably because Apple does the same. It is too little, too late for me.
I've had every htc g1/nexus/pixel. 3 years hasn't been too big a deal, we have 3 phones in the household and the phones trickle down based on preferences for camera, phone size, and us. Did run up against the 3 year limit a few times. Fortunately the pixel 6 and 7 switched to 5 years of support.
I was considering switching to iPhone, but then I tried GrapheneOS. It's only for pixels, is easy to install, and focuses on privacy and security. Suddenly it feels like it's my phone. Zero crapware, something pixels have been pretty good at. I can remove any app I want, even the play store. It ships with a de-googled chrome. I'm impressed.
Is there any hope of getting these operating systems (grapheneos/leaniageos) to run on anything other than the pixel phone?
I've been using Samsung all my life (tablets, phones, watches, TVs) since they've been providing consistent quality, but after samsungs silently leaking my keyboard input to grammarly and not providing me the features I paid for on their galexy watch, I decided to move out of the samsung echosystem for good.
The thing is that I still really like their hardware. I just want to change the software running on it to something more sane and less shady.
Long time Android user here (since 1.5 on G1), had all the Nexuses and Pixels as well. Give the OnePlus phones a try. My family's switched to using them and I've been impressed with the battery life and hardware. The software is closer in spirit to the Nexus line.
Don't. Older OnePlus devices (1-3) were great, but the newer ones are pure trash, basically e-waste phones due to how poor the SW support is: good up to date HW, but buggy SW and poor SW update cycles with late updates which often add more bugs and remove features and don't address older bugs leading to never ending frustrations (just read their forums).
They even did bait-and-switch where they promised X update was coming in the future for your phone, and later axing that update completely while quietly removing all mentions of their promile from their webpage and forums. Stay away from them, there are more pleasurable ways to burn your money away.
My mother asked me for a phone recommendation and I told her to try OnePlus. It is a beautiful phone (for an Android) but very buggy. It often fails, at random, at it most basic job of making phone calls without needing a restart. I regret making that recommendation.
I had an early pixel and the Pixel 4 coming out and being ass was what drove me to iPhone. I wanted a phone with clean software, instant updates, and face unlock. The Pixel 4 being bad made me realize that the iPhone had all of those things for a long time.
Here is why I find it hard to believe there is a cabal of mods: what is their motivation for shutting down Reddit? If this is true, these fiefdom mods are hurting themselves financially and personally by keeping their subreddits shut down.
The simplest explanation to me is that they protest because they care. It is not just Apollo. They don't like the overall direction Reddit is heading in.
> Here is why I find it hard to believe there is a cabal of mods:
Reddit mods doing things like this is well known [1] [2]
What is really strange is how the mods will tend to infiltrate a subreddit, get mod rights, and then bring over a bunch of other mods that are already cross-modding important subs across Reddit.
This has led to weird situations where a few mods control much of Reddit's top subreddits [3]
Mastodon believes this and willfully denies search functionality. Tech built to search Mastodon (https://fedsearch.io/) was aggressively decried as violating privacy and such.
So yes, there is certainly at least a vocal subset of people who believe that "finding information is bad actually" and deliberately building tech along those lines.
I didn't even get into the minister pushing for the reform doing crosswords during a parliamentary session on his subject, the inflation absolutely exploding in France, the surge of students falling below poverty lines and needing food stamps worse than during covid, the ministers genuinely advising the population to "wear turtlenecks during the winter", the abuse of 49.3 article (similar to Canada's notwithstanding clause) exactly 10 times in order to push laws that were not democratically agreed upon, the fact that the prime minister got a football t-shirt for Christmas that had that very same "49.3" number on it and really appreciated it.
Or the political failure when handling the CCC (citizen's climate convention) that Macron himself created to satisfy people's expectations, and which actually delivered amazingly as a panel of 150 citizens representing all parts of France giving educated and actionable input on what the country should do. The energy prices putting small business owners on the street in a country where nuclear power could have pretty much carried the load but has been grossly mistreated (admittedly by nearly every single president in a long time). The recent Uber papers, where Macron was directly cited, at a crucial time where now most poor jobs in France have literally been called "uberized" in pejorative terms. And that his party calls for "decency" in the mist of all of this.
French people aren't dumb, contrary to what the sneering suits might believe. This was not only poorly timed, but absolutely tonedeaf by the government, and revealing of the amount of contempt they have for people who at a majority reluctantly elected Macron.
This comment is good illustration of why most democratic gouvernements lose support over time. The media collect a list of disappointing behaviors, social media push said content to disgruntled citizens, and the government loses all credibility over time.
The ability for a government to not slip is crucial for slowing the decay.
What's your point? That seeing how we're getting screwed is bad for us?
How about having the government actually do better and be accountable for it instead? How about Macron promising to follow the CCC's recommendations on dealing with the climate crisis and instead throwing it all in the trash?
That you attribute my remarks to some kind of misled social media craze is what's actually messed up in this exchange. And as far as I can tell, the guardian or euro news are far from being simple tiktok ads, but people who refuse to see things will continue to find arguments in bad faith to do so.
0% Interest Rate Phenomena. Much of the funds come from extra capital sloshing around the system, looking for returns. Once bought out, some companies incur more debt (easy because of 0% interest rates) much of which goes back to the new owners as special dividends. Finally, once stripped to the bones, the company goes public again.
I can't wait until this vulturous business model gets smacked in the face by tighter financial conditions.
No, you are right as my reply was ambiguous. Inflation is high which (i believe) would usually call for a higher Fed rate as they did in the 80's. As it stands, they are keeping rates relatively low. I just looked it up and Volcker pushed rates up to 20%(!) in 1981.
It is my belief that the strategy is for inflation remain higher in order to drop federal debt.
I'd say that's the strategy for about 530 of the elected representatives in Congress (and by extension, for just about everyone), whether or not we recognize or acknowledge it.
I'm glad it works for them, and I am a little skeptical whenever someone fawns over Notion (is it a paid placement? Is it someone who is trying sell templates?). To me, as someone who uses Notion for work, it is a dystopian vision, like using JIRA for my personal life's tasks.
I very much prefer simple, low tech solutions to dealing with my life's problems.
Well.. it does look like a paid placement.. she's a Notion Ambassador.. I have no idea what that means.. but if her domain is "notionthings" and she's preaching about Notion... I'm taking a lot of this with a grain of salt.
That said, the only reason I didn't adopt Notion for my social club (went with Confluence) is because Notion has a surprisingly small file storage for free accounts. Basically made it a non-starter for setting up something basic to try and convince my club to adopt.
I share the skepticism, but I will admit that I can see it benefiting some people. I just know myself enough to know that I probably would not be consistent enough to keep it updated.
For my day to day, I currently just use Zim. Not perfect, but it is just text and just works:D
Selling Notion templates is a complete cottage industry right now. So many people who were once selling video courses are just bundling up what they think mid-level managers will think looks sexy/smart from a note-taking/organizational system and selling it to them.
I know that's not anything new, but it's interesting to see how pervasive it is for one, specific service. Seems much easier to do than selling like... Asana automations? Zapier zaps?
It's also possible to use Notion / Logseq / Notes.app in a very brutalist, low-system way. I work at Notion but a huge system like this that's big on filing would never work for me. I use it like Notes.app, except I create databases for filing stuff like interesting links, furniture shopping, and a few other things, as needed. No upfront big shenanigans, and certainly no filing workflows!
Notion has an entire ecosystem of paid templates, it's a side hustle for many.
Unfortunately this has kept off of Notion as trying to look up videos of how it works usually leads to a wall of "Notion-fluencer" thumbnails, all of whom look no older than first-year university student.
I absolutely love Notion. I first started using it where I work now, and was blown away about how easy it is to organize. Is it great in every way? No (looking at you search!) but it is the best of the tools out there.
I feel for the OP. I would just like to plug a good porting experience I had with Twilio recently. I ported a phone number from Vonage to Twilio. They did an excellent job keeping me up to date.
I totally expected something to screw up, especially on the Vonage side.
Adobe has been unable to find technological innovation organically (To their credit, their stock price soared through financial engineering). Adobe has instead augmented its capabilities through acquisitions. Today's acquisition of Figma is no different.
And maybe that is fine. Adobe is not alone. Many big companies can only expand their capabilities through acquisitions. Those big companies are doing fine.
Specific to Adobe, the acquisition of Macromedia was a huge success in part because it injected a lot of talent into Adobe that stayed and succeeded. Maybe Figmates will be able to do the same.
> their stock price soared through financial engineering
Not disagreeing with your point, but they can kindly fuck off piggy-backing on the good reputation of engineering, which is about building things, not rent-seeking and gate keeping. It would be like saying Intuit is innovating "political engineering". Or calling an unpaid internship at Goldman Sachs "volunteering". I have similar thoughts about "growth hacking", btw.
> Adobe has been unable to find technological innovation organically…
In-house innovation is not the problem¹. What Adobe hasn't been able to replicate with XD or Illustrator is Figma's success with network effects related to collaborative editing and review.
In house innovation is certainly a problem on the product side. What new Adobe products have come out in the last decade? Every new product or service is from an acquisition.
Kind of like the SVB failure. SVB customers were made whole. Systematic risk and all that.