You get the fuck out of here with your level-headed reasoning, the torches are already lit and the pitchforks sharpened!

Apple does plenty of shitty shit but this isn’t much of anything. Go after labor conditions in China, piss on them for succumbing to the ads game. There are other real things to hold them accountable for.

Best for who?

For people who want a streaming box.

They insist upon themselves

Hate to break it to you, but AppleTV really is the best option.

I haven’t tried it, but I would think that running something shitty like a Roku but gating it with a pi-hole would be reasonable. You just have to make sure that there’s no open networks within reach (neighbors, etc).

Gather ‘round kids, time for a story. The year was 2003, and TiVo had defined the category of DVRs and instantly become indispensable. People loved that they could fast-forward through commercials, much to the chagrin of networks and advertisers.

But a new competitor entered the scene: ReplayTV, a product that did everything TiVo did with one major added benefit: it automatically detected and skipped commercials without having to press a button. It was glorious. So naturally, like all things which improve the life of a consumer, the powers-that-be took umbrage. Funded by TiVo lobbying, the FCC decided that not having to press a button on a remote was a bridge too far. ReplayTV was crushed by a heavy fine and ban, relegating them to the tech scrap heap. Thus TiVo maintained their position as market leader, despite having an inferior experience.

All this to say: fuck you TiVo, you wasted your brand clout and position by getting into bed with the same lawmakers who fomented your demise when the HD era was legislated to ban commercial-skipping mechanisms.

Ah, looks like you’re following ’murica’s lead. Don’t worry, it gets worse!

Your Walmart only has two carts like that!? The one near me (which I refuse to go into) looks like a shopping cart battlefield.

Walmart is the physical manifestation of not returning a shopping cart.

Having spent a decent amount of time in Germany (but not integrating into society): what about it is shit? From an outsider’s perspective, you guys seem to have it mostly together. Sure AfD exists, a percentage of the population will always be trash. But social services are there, mass transit is acceptable, and the economy is probably the strongest in Europe.

I just think it’s a hilarious illustration of how dumb trump is and use it to remind people of that.

They used to refuse access to people’s private when the govt/law enforcement requested it unnecessarily. They are supposed to be the customer-centric company who doesn’t have government contracts. Steve famously contributed to progressive causes.

Well my point is, they could use this as a battle line against the fascists. Help galvanize support against them by showing us that they aren’t putting up with his shit.

Good point. Sigh.

This is a deadly ignorant take. If every home has 2 EVs to charge, it won’t make enough of a difference to matter. It’s like leaving on extra lights. Residential solar panels are cheap and only getting cheaper.

Meanwhile, data centers have to build diesel turbines because the grid can’t handle their massive draw. But by all means blame the EVs.

If the robots could really replace the people, you’d see the robots smoking weed by the dumpster on their break. But you don’t, and that proves they won’t be able to make a good pizza.

Yeah give me a good opportunity and I’ll do it. As long as it’s not in vain though.

Oh I thought he got too big for his britches and left to do “bigger and better” things. Like his utterly terrible standup special.

Right. It’s a normal antidepressant. I guess they can use it for OCD but I don’t think that’s its primary use case.

It’s just Lexapro

Edit: whoever downvoted me, look at my damn prescription:

So the software engineers who worked on the failed product get laid off, but not the people who decided to make the thing and directed its development. Cool cool cool

Dual stream can be an issue. But when it is, I clean up my fucking piss. People are gonna miss or splatter; a decent human being should clean up after themselves. Most people are not decent human beings.