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miridius OP ,

They probably don't even have personal projects

miridius OP ,

Perfectly described!

miridius ,

Mate get yourself a second one, you'll never go back

US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones ( www.theverge.com )

The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

miridius ,

I only recently found out about iPhones having 50% market share in the US and that's insane to me. I think anyone who's used both Android and iPhones a lot knows that iPhones are both a worse product and worse value for money, so in a fair market they would be the minority

miridius ,

Agree to disagree I guess! I used an iPhone X as my daily driver for 3 years and was overjoyed to get the Android UI back when I switched back. The iPhone visuals are more consistent but the UX is significantly worse imo. There are a few things that I reckon are mainly just Apple being stubborn and refusing to admit they were wrong - e.g. the lack of a back button

miridius ,

You missed a very important one, fix the main reason billionaires don't pay any tax:

Using your unrealised gains (e.g. shares) as collatoral to take out loans should be considered realising those gains and thus subject to capital gains tax

miridius ,

Forced retirement of politicians at whatever the national retirement age currently is

miridius ,

Ban political donations, all political parties get the same, small campaign budget and allotment of advertising space/airtime funded by the government instead

miridius ,

That's an interesting idea. I've found personally that every time I've worked for a publically traded company I've hated it because everything is just about increasing share price no matter what. OTOH I think investment is very useful for progress though... I'm not sure how investment would work without ownership

miridius ,

Yeah I guess there would have to be some kind of bracket system like... the more people who are registered supporters of your party the higher level of campaign funding you unlock? And it starts at zero

Even executives who mandate a return to office admit that it doesn’t improve productivity: tech firm — Atlassian reports on first 1,000 days of its work-from-anywhere workforce ( fortune.com )

Even executives who mandate a return to office admit that it doesn’t improve productivity: tech firm — Atlassian reports on first 1,000 days of its work-from-anywhere workforce::1 in 3 bosses whose people are required to work in-person told Atlassian that it doesn’t move the needle.

miridius ,

Paywall :(

miridius ,

Nice idea but how do you propose they pay for the billions of dollars it costs to train and then run said model?

miridius ,

This is why we can't have nice things

miridius ,

Which workers rights are being infringed here exactly?

miridius ,

Even if that were happening (which isn't what the article is saying), while it would really suck for all those people, it still doesn't have anything to do with workers rights

miridius ,

Yep that's generally how housing prices work in Germany, since rent is heavily controlled and fixed interest rate loans are readily available, the value of a property adjusts depending on the current "cost" of a loan

miridius ,

I dunno what you're doing wrong but I bought an apartment in Germany a couple years ago and that wasn't my experience at all. I saw plenty of nice places big enough for a family of three for 250-300k. We had a little bit more than 50k in savings and were able to buy something much bigger than we need with a large garden (we spent 440k), but could easily have gotten something big enough with 50k savings. We're in a medium/large city but just not right in the middle, more towards the outskirts. Still only 15 mins bike ride to the centre though!

miridius ,

Misleading post title: altered the original to remove the word "recent"

miridius ,

The studies are from 2018 and 2020, "new study" in the post title is a complete lie

miridius ,

Even just calling it a "new study" is already a lie

miridius ,

It's amazing how much people will upvote something without reading it if the title confirms their biases

miridius ,

Yeah that’s never gonna happen, unless the EU forces them by law.

One of the many reasons I’m so so happy to be back with an Android phone after having to use an iPhone for work for a few years

miridius ,

Hello pot, meet kettle

miridius ,

It would be nice to spend one day on Lemmy without seeing a half dozen posts telling me to switch to Firefox nor 100 comments on every post that’s even vaguely browser-adjacent about how ever since they switched to Firefox their life has been nothing but joy and rainbows

miridius ,

We have come full circle!

miridius ,

Cool story bro. Completely irrelevant comment for this post but cool story anyway.

miridius ,

I’m glad you read the article, since it seems like nobody else in the comment section has!

miridius ,

Study by company that makes remote work tools finds that remote work is good

miridius ,

I do. It happened somewhere in my mid-late 30s. The two main contributing factors have been:

  1. Years of therapy so that I’m able to have my shit together
  2. Having a kid so I’ve got a reason to have my shit together

Order of those two is very important!

miridius ,

Google creates that problem though by continuing to use a ranking algorithm that promotes that type of content. It’s been an issue for many years and they don’t change it

miridius ,

Pretty important detail missing from the headline:

However, if ending the war would include Russia returning the territories that it has occupied and annexed throughout the conflict, only a third (34 percent) of respondents said they would support that decision.

miridius ,

Wait until you find out about wem and wen

miridius ,

We’ve had guns for 200 years but not ones capable of mass shootings. Semiautomatics only became widely available more recently, and most countries have since banned them from casual use but not the USA

miridius ,

Everyone who has kids or plans to have kids should go to therapy, it’s the only way to stop the cycle of trauma

miridius ,

Ah the classic “I’m going to vote no to something good for me because I wanted something even better” argument 🤦‍♂️

miridius ,

A union is a good idea but this is also something you can and should take into your own hands too. If your wage hasn’t gone up at all in a couple years you should be complaining about that very loudly to your bosses individually. It helps even more if you can get some other job offers to be able to compare your current wage to

miridius ,

If it was reasonably priced, I’d agree. But €20 is just insane, especially when the clients it competes with already have no ads for free

miridius ,

Shouldn’t have to pay for something that’s free in every other Lemmy app

miridius ,

It’s opt in, just not in America

miridius ,

Yes exactly it’s a question about Windows. Saying “use Linux” is not relevant to this post, which is about Windows.

It’s also terrible advice.

miridius ,

I hate this so much but I want to call out the Google and Apple are just as bad. I used edge for a while and I constantly got popups on every Google owned website telling me how great Chrome is and that I should switch, it was even worse than what you get from Windows telling you to use Edge. And don’t even get me started about Safari on iPhones…

miridius ,

European here. Which law is this breaking, exactly? Pretty sure advertising is legal

miridius ,

Yeah then instead of spending seconds closing a popup you can spend days troubleshooting driver issues

miridius ,

Clojure: hold my beer

miridius ,

I wonder how much of that on Reddit is just bots and shills, ie corporations paying to create and upvote posts and comments that support their agenda

miridius ,

I think there’s a wide range of people on Lemmy too but the extreme right and extreme left have ended up on instances that have been defederated from the main group. So what you’re seeing are the sensible, rational people, and in America such people are considered left wing I guess 😉

miridius ,

It’s worth noting that this setting also hides then from search results, which is pretty silly imo. So when searching, use a different account/different browser

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