Well, that’s just sad.

Also, does this person actually want a partner, with thoughts and opinions of their own, or something that fits their idea of an “ideal” partner, and will never disagree with them or challenge them?

Weirdly enough, the best manufacturers for minimum bloat ware are the Chinese brands. Doogee and Ulefone have the bare minimum, just the basic Google apps.

You got taught how to rewire a plug in high school?

Some of them do, photoelectric ones don’t.

Same here, but I’d still be pretty annoyed if I had to do it to put together a drone, it’s a pain in the ass.

Yep, it’s still someone else’s platform, even if it’s open source.

Nobody is reading that text wall even if a human wrote it.

You know you can just make a new account, right?

Who’s forcing you to read half baked reckons on FB?

“It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms,”

I somewhat respect that statement actually.

He won the popular vote, you can’t blame that on gerrymandering.

What business though?

What is the use case for a $200 a month AI subscription? It’s a lot of money to spend on a novelty, clearly people are finding it useful.

That’s a very plausible theory actually.

I mean, most of the points you came out with are nonsense, and not worth dignifying with a response.

Especially considering a dead Starlink satellite will deorbit and burn up in under a decade, because they fly so low.

Serious question, have you ever been outside of a major city? Because that’s the type of ignorance you typically see from someone who’s spent their entire life in an urban environment.

You’re not running fibre out to every remote settlement, high country station, or remote farmhouse, most of these places aren’t even connected to the grid.

Never mind the many marine vessels that have Starlink.

I don’t see how regulations can help him there, especially given the nature of the Web. Bluesky can always move offshore, beyond the reach of the US authorities.

I also imagine both Bluesky and Mastadon users will tell x users, loudly and clearly, to fuck off.

Oh definitely, although the federated nature of the platform means it’s easy to block the angry Internet communists.

Personally, I just block all the ML domains, nothing good comes from there.

Yep, nothing but the dregs will remain.

There is a clear successor to X now, Bluesky, which means anyone not happy with X knows what their best option is.

My guess is, when X and Bluesky are roughly even in terms of active users, X’s user base will start to collapse and there will be a mass exodus to Bluesky.