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Cake day: December 16th, 2023

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  • HactaiiMijutoTechnology@lemmy.worldAll the other brands went along
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    4 months ago

    Oh no! They took out ports the vast majority of users would never use in their entire life, making production cheaper and also making room for new technology to develop and evolve, while enabling whoever needs a specific port to simply buy a fucking dongle and get the job done. Oh and this also made it possible for the entire machine to be lighter and thinner, more thermally efficient and have infinitely better battery life.

    The horror 🙄










  • Canceled all my streaming subscriptions this year.

    Final straw was HBO Max (in Europe). They don’t have an ad subscription yet over here, but the app decided to pause my movie and show a pop-up ad for Barbie. There’s no way I’m paying to be shown ads I didn’t agree to.

    It’s wild that internet ads are such an accepted thing. Back when you paid per megabits of traffic (mobile and desktop too), you were basically paying for the bandwidth that got hijacked to show you an ad you weren’t getting compensated for. We don’t think about that now that everything is unlimited, but the concept is still valid. Unlike TV or radio, the internet has always been “pay for traffic”.