Sometimes women, you can connect with them better on an emotional level as opposed to men.

Not just women ofc, but generally people who have been socialized to be more empathetic.

I feel like a part of the issue is the quality of the friends out there (including pov). Sure if you get “adopted” by a cool friend or group it’s easy to follow their lead, but so many of us don’t actually know how to be good friends.

We don’t let individuals own nuclear weapons. We shouldn’t allow individuals to wield financial weapons.

Should the second be punished in some way because of that?

It’s not a punishment. It’s a correction, required to maintain a healthy market.

Your lemonade stand would be more like if there was a stand on every block: By virtue of the scale of their business they could afford to undercut any competition that tried to start up. If they did that they could be slapped on the wrist for being anti-competitive.

Is Valve/Steam anti-competitive? IDK. It’s a monopoly, though, so you have to watch it extra carefully to ensure it doesn’t abuse its position as a market leader.

lol I’m imagining a line item on all transactions like

    Subtotal 13.21
        Taxe 6.02
Platform fee 6.33
   Yacht fee 10.00
---
Total      $35.56 CAD 

You’re right that going public would virtually guarantee they enshittify, but staying private does not guarantee they remain customer focused. It’s still a business, and right now the only thing making it so good for customers, IMHO, is an ideological vision that favours long term stability, and steady profits. That is not the norm in the business world (of tech platforms).

Yeah they were ahead of Steam there for a while.

I’m hoping it’ll be like with the desktop ecosystem – as the mainstream mobile OSes enshittify, more people (and developers) will be driven to use (and contribute to) the linux alt.

Sure, but someone will without a doubt add the functionality. They always do. Seems to be the case with anything linux.

Without a doubt. That’s pretty minor, considering I don’t think I’ve ever adjusted call volume in my life.

Like desktop level. Password protected. Encryption would be nice. As for reliability, I’m willing to put up with slowdown, waiting up to a minute to open apps, and maybe 2 hard crashes a day, if it means I get a fully free phone, or at least as close to it as we get now.

I like Graphene, but I’m at the point where I would put up with less security for more freedom – I just wouldn’t put anything actually sensitive on my phone.

It’s kind of silly that my phone should be an everything-device.

Or really, I just do my banking on the laptop.

Can’t you use a browser for banking? That’s what I do.

Right they hate these straw people. I mean, I;m not going to say my own cognitive projection of “conservative” is 100% accurate, but at least my nightmare scenarios are about actual bad things happening, and not like conservative nightmares of genetically inferior people getting to enjoy the gifts of civilization.

So… huh, so what’s the alternative then? I guess some other flavour of linux?

What?? I was not. I thought it was compatible, or like a fork idk… Guess I’ve got some reading to do.

I’m checking out Graphene OS next week and pretty pumped about it. This Google ratfucking has been just the push I need to get off Android.

And obviously I haven’t stopped telling people around me haha

Oh well that specifically wait and see, sure. But obviously it shouldn’t move the needle on your opinion of the state of Israel and their unconscionable siege of Gaza, is what I meant.

Well yeah, but we’ve got plenty of facts already. Decades of facts, in fact.

It’s like climate change. Yes, we’re constantly learning new things, but the fact that we are in crisis is not disputable.

We have more than enough facts to condemn and convict Israel and Netanyahu of crimes against humanity.

I just use startpage