Most users neither know nor care what that is.

I did say private individuals, Outlook is more of a corporate product.

YouTube should be fixing their buggy mess of a YouTube app, what a disaster. Every change they make, makes it worse.

That really nails it, I think. Tech is a hobby for some, a means to an end for the vast majority.

I’ve used my share of free software. Some of it worked well, but it always felt clunky, and just never as straightforward to use as a paid product.

But sure, I couldn’t possibly have reached that conclusion on my own, it’s obviously the marketing.

Christ this is such a Lemmy take.

The other option is users just not using tech at all.

I’ve said this before here, but techy people vastly overestimate both the ability and the patience of the typical user, and it’s the reason so few people use FOSS products.

Products from big tech aimed at private individuals are designed to be as simple to use as possible, which is why they’re so popular.

It will be like Russia, where they make nuclear threats on a weekly basis, but know they would be obliterated if they ever actually used them.

Having said that, you’re right about Israel having nukes being nothing to cheer about.

Why Hinge? Are you thinking of Grindr?

Also, dozens of people isn’t enough to make a significant blip.

Getting called ignorant by a Saddam apologist is… Something.

That doesn’t surprise me, the US in particular is very good at supporting their future enemies.

I really don’t think that’s the case.

I mean, rebellion was very much a core theme of punk.

https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123751&page=1

https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-id-of-mesopotamia

Let’s not pretend things were going well under Saddam Hussein either.

Do you think removing the Ayatollahs would make things better or worse for the Iranian people?

Probably worth pointing out that neither Israel nor the US seem interested in occupying Iranian territory.

The best outcome here is these toys are a massive flop, and cost Mattel a bunch of money.

That’s the language these corps truly speak.

Also the Simpsons, family guy, American dad etc.

[asked in 2004 what his I.Q. score was] I have no idea. People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. (Stephen Hawking)

https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0370071/quotes/