373 karma · joined October 11, 2018
That feeling is mutual.
That may also be one of the contributing factors to why Apple began enforcing serialized parts in their product lineups but in my opinion, isn't anything new: we have such a system at my workplace that prevents components from being illicitly used or is blocked from being allowed onto a test flow because, this is "what the [big] customer wants".
- In my daily commutes, I dedicate my smartphone screen time to creating art and short animations.
- If I ever do feel the urge to read news, I'll pull up HN via the Harmonic app. If I stumble upon an interesting post with healthy comments threads, I'll bookmark it to read on a properly sized screen when I return home.
- My monthly data plan is purposefully capped at 4GB. I use an app firewall to whitelist the most essential apps while everything else is blocked by default from accessing cellular data.
- I don't use streaming services at all but I do occasionally pre-fetch longform podcasts for later consumption. I also disable all phone notifications and wear a "smartwatch" to tell time, track my step counter and monitor barometric pressure in that order.
- https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-new-ai-chatbot-trai...
The first thing/meme (before R. Dawkins coined it) was a screenshot of CS1.6's "Terrorists Win" overlayed on top the billowing of smoke where WTC was. The last was a short video where someone created a montage utilizing the parallax effect as well as added the instrumental portion of "Teardrop" by the band Massive Attack.