sabin
@sabin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 1 week ago:
Web browsers can work from day one. I used my web browser for all my mobile banking for months when a bug rendered the app unusable.
Tap payments might not work until banks make apps for it (or more likely until android compatibility layers are provided) but you’d have to be pretty petulant to suggest that this feature not having first class support from day one makes a device unusable.
Google is going the way of apple-like full control over their mobile devices while even lower end modern day phones are easily capable of surpassing the computational needs of 99 percent of daily users. The use case for mobile linux devices is growing all the while cost per unit sold decreases.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 1 week ago:
No the vast majority of people really don’t need this. The feature can be nice to have. If you don’t have it you’ll go around tapping your credit card like normal. That’s how I see most people around me make payments.
You could make the argument that not having these bells and whistles can make your platform seem less attractive and to an extent that might be true but I think you’re missing the point.
No one said Linux phones should launch and be immediately competitive with android/apple flagship products day one.
People who care enough about FOSS and privacy have ample reason to accept the trade off of not having some of these niche features.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 1 week ago:
Never used this feature. I think this sort of QOL feature is something I’d be happy to wait on. The ecosystem doesn’t need this to launch at least imo.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 1 week ago:
Anything I can do through my banking app I could just as email do through the browser
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 1 week ago:
How many things to you really use your phone for anyway.
Personally all I need is the basic things like a camera app, maps, authenticator, web browser, pdf reader, note taker, clock, etc.
It’s really not that much
- Comment on Anon plays GTA V 1 month ago:
I speak Japanese. You clearly do not.
- Comment on Anon plays GTA V 1 month ago:
It’s also noteworthy that japanese people typically refer to themselves by their name,
Talking in third person in Japanese is no less unusual than doing so in English
- Comment on Anon hires a goth chick 2 months ago:
No debate there but I don’t think you can extend that truth into suggesting that everyone could just as easily be fulfilled if they just “focus their energy on other aspects of their lives”.
- Comment on Anon hires a goth chick 2 months ago:
Wtf no your 9-5 (or in your case im guessing much longer) isn’t a replacement for a relationship.
If you’re somehow able to do nothing but work and self improvement all day and be satisfied with just that in your life then good for you but don’t assume everyone can just adapt to that mindset.
Humans are not evolved to find intimacy so irrelevant.
- Comment on what books about personal boundaries do you know that don't mention god? 2 months ago:
I don’t have any book recommendations but I can’t help but feel like the entire approach you’re trying to take might be too over generalized and you’re better off trying to approach each problematic social encounter one by one.
If for example you have family who’s down on their luck and trying to move into your living space despite you not wanting that, you need to consider what their other options are for living alone and if that would result in a quality of life you would be able to accept yourself, and weigh that against your own expectations for how the living situation would pan out in your mind.
Stuff like that family member’s previous behaviour, ability to show gratitude and value you equivalently, the degree to which they are responsible for their current living circumstances, etc, are all important to consider. This is nothing generalized advice about “boundaries” could possibly help with imo.
If on the other hand you’re a woman and have issues with men hitting on you at work, you have a completely different set of considerations you must make, with virtually no overlap with the previous example.
- Comment on what books about personal boundaries do you know that don't mention god? 2 months ago:
Speaking of boundaries it looks like you need to be able to follow some yourself. This is not your opportunity to proselytize your beliefs.
- Comment on Listen here, Little Dicky 4 months ago:
It legitimately IS exponentiation. Romanian lady was wrong.
- Comment on Sovereign's Stand 7 months ago:
The left hand is nightmare fuel.
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 8 months ago:
Source of radiation given to someone to hold in their wallet/pocket
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
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- Comment on 9 months ago:
I take it you’re not a fan of the borrow rules?
Would you rather manage your memory yourself, or would you rather use a language with a runtime?
Those are your only 2 remaining options for managing memory if you exclude rust-like reference constraints.
- Comment on Disgusting money driven mindset 10 months ago:
Why did you not censor the guys name??? All you’re doing is hurting them more by making this post.
- Comment on Workers Create Value 1 year ago:
Regardless of whoever is voted in in my country (Canada) no politicians will be capable of facilitating a system where in the average working citizen can comfortably afford food and shelter.
No one can do this because there is overwhelming sentiment that any attempt to socialize necessities necessarily devolves into some kind of dictatorship.
If you want to suggest I should align myself with those people you’re going to have to do a little better than fear mongering because the writing is on the wall for how the country is going to end up if we keep following this route.
Being able to vote for one of three people who are either unwilling or unable to ensure some basic standard of living for me is pretty damn low on my hierarchy of needs.