Think you have to go to Alibaba for those

Nobody is against not having to work. People are against not having work in a world where you need work to survive.

That’s another way to do it, yeah

Haven’t had a chance to use it much tbh, I mostly work in backend development. I’d deeply prefer it to Electron for my personal ideological reasons (which is that running “native” apps in a browser is stupid), but I hear it’s not recommended for web, so you’d still have to develop two or three versions (depending on how feasible it is to keep desktop and mobile on the same codebase - I’m not sure on that). Still, it’s more reasonable than doing the desktop versions in Qt in this day and age, because C++ is just a recipe for footgunning yourself. This is of course negated by having significant C++ experience, in which case Qt is the way to go.

I literally bought it because I thought it would be fun.

It was fun. Once. Now I’m too bored to play it again tbh.

People will always want a human to put the blame on, ideally a single one. If it’s an AI model, it’s suddenly going to be Sam Altman’s fault that Johnson and Johnson poisoned people. Doubt he wants that - though the JJ board would certainly love the idea.

They get “fired”. Then everyone washes their hands of them and the exact same bullshit can continue under the next CEO because profit comes first.

Can’t happen. CEOs need to take the fall when the company is caught doing real shady shit, it’s why they get paid so much AND have golden parachutes to boot.

Soon as you replace the CEO with AI, the question rises: when the company is, for example, caught accidentally making people less alive than desired in order to make profits better, who’s at fault? The AI company? They wouldn’t take that blow to their image. Has to be an individual.

I’m not trying to say CEOs are innocent snowflakes. I’m saying they’re expected to be ruthless bloodsuckers and when the time comes, they protect the board by getting fired. Then the board chooses a new ruthless bloodsucker.

This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Windows, Apple and Android, and the companies that develop software that run on Windows, Apple, and Android, have all fallen into the habit of writing unoptimized, bloated code

Same goes for anyone who develops software that runs on Linux or more importantly, the Web. Unless we’re talking about command line utilities, which truly are bloatless. But they’re that way on MacOS too.

The issue is that 99% of the time you want your user interface to be graphical, and you want it to run on multiple platforms, unless you’re a Windows-only shop (realistically the only operating system you can afford to have as the ONLY target). But every OS has different libraries and frameworks for native GUI, so your options are Web technologies and either run it in the browser or package it in Electron, or a cross-platform native GUI framework. Those inevitably have worse performance than truly platform-native code, but not as bad as Electron. Inevitably, everything is running on Electron because it’s just easier to take your existing web app and repurpose it for desktop via Electron than develop two separate apps. And the web app itself, without Electron, is already shit. Why is it shit? Because Javascript is shit, the DOM is shit, everything is shit. We’ve been adding more and more and more to tech from the 1990s. It keeps growing in complexity and we’re just doomed.

Maybe WASM will fix parts of this, but at present time you can’t write a full web application in WASM without any Javascript involved. And you still have the DOM, and probably CSS, etc… All of which just suck ass.

Now, you CAN write an efficient UI in pure Javascript, maybe using jQuery, but not a big framework like React or Vue… But then you’ll find out duplicating so much work, it’ll take 3-5x as long to ship the product.

Mine doesn’t even have the weird UI ads people would always post on reddit, it just… sucks.

If you’re going to run an OS other than Android or Linux with Plasma Bigscreen, at least make it not suck. Tizen on Samsung TVs just sucks.

Unremovable buttons for Netflix, Prime and… WTF even is a Rakuten? on the remote which has a total of less than 15 buttons. Why… It was so minimalistic.

You’re right on the money with this one.

And here I was thinking I should upgrade to a nice big OLED and get a PS5 when GTA VI comes out, as it’ll undoubtedly be another console exclusive. Of course, LG was at the forefront of consideration, they do make nice OLED panels and mostly everyone else using OLED also uses their panels.

Now they’re out of consideration too, along with Samsung (which I currently own)

Yes, that’s the major difference, but the original comment pointed out you can’t have free things without getting assfucked one way or another. You can, but those free things don’t spend millions on advertising themselves.

A little bit of that, a little bit of plain ol power fantasy.

It’s not, but go look on github. There are so many projects out there that aren’t monetized. People just built them for the fun of it.

Hell, the entire KDE software suite is not monetized to the best of my knowledge. They ask for donations, but they don’t make a buck off you in any way unless you voluntarily donate.

It’s not, my point was more that you see a lot of things being hosted on the Internet for free just out of people’s goodness and curiosity.

Honey is not one of them. But it’s not the fact that Honey is free to use that’s the suspicious part. It’s the fact that they had an awful lot of money to spend on sponsor spots for a free product/service.

I pay $100/month for internet access.

Irrelevant to the point, but damn that feels so high. I pay something like 30 or 40 euros per month for symmetric 500 megabit, in one of the countries with the highest internet prices in Europe.

Lemmy may be free to access, but certainly not free to host. Am I paying for it personally? No, but someone is.

Well yes, someone is, but my point was, there are loads of examples on the Internet where something truly is free to use and hosted by someone who doesn’t ask for anything. There is real altruism to be found here.

You also don’t see Lemmy paying hundreds of YouTubers and influencers for ad spots.

Yes, this is where the difference comes in. When something is free AND the people running it have ridiculous amounts of money to spend on sponsorships and ads… Then you can be sure there’s a catch.

There are plenty of free things on the Internet. You’re commenting on a free social network.

Don’t be daft, everyone knows marines eat crayons because nobody gives them pointy pens.

They’re the only one selling physical products as their main business so they can afford to give you marginally better privacy and UX than say, Google, who’s built their business on tying tracking and advertising into their open source products like Chromium and Android.