I’ve heard and experienced WAY too much supporting anecdote to just wave it off as confirmation bias. Official statements by telecoms and such be damned, this shit is 100% happening.

Spyware, now in rainbow!!

I was talking to a guy with a Pixel 7 who said the woman he was dating thought it was a red flag. She’s 28.

What’s funny is thinking that’s a red flag is itself a red flag.

If I was dating someone who revealed they’re focused on petty shit like that, I’d be worried about a relationship full of drama.

'Murican Android user here. I’ve never gotten any shit pertaining to iMessage compatibility or this chat bubble color thing. I think what we’re hearing about is just a few toxic circles being presented as the norm for everyone here.

Roms and emulators!

Nintendo’s entire library from their first game THROUGH all of the N64 games are a grand total of like 60gb iirc, which will all easily fit on a modern phone.

Touch screen isn’t great for a lot of them, but it’s also surprisingly not horrible, so for mobile gaming it’s not bad, even for the more input intensive ones like the Zelda 64 games.

That’s the scary part about Twitter.

Most companies turn the burn up slowly. Musk took one look at the frogs, then turned the stove up to max, hired a technician to hold a welding torch up to the base of the pot, hired a chemist find an additive for the water to increase its boiling point and heat retention, pissed in the pot, and is actively pouring gasoline all over the kitchen with one hand while flipping the frogs off with the other.

And the frogs are just taking it.

What message does that send to YouTube?

I was worried we’d be seeing waves of this kind of anti-user aggression from large websites. My hypothesis is that twitter is running an active experiment to see just how user-unfriendly you can make something with an established userbase / what level of profitability corresponds with what level of fuckiness.

YouTube n’ friends have been watching from the sidelines and picking their own jaw up off the floor after seeing just how much the average user will bend over and take.

…which all makes me absolutely LOVE to see communities like this. Yo ho, motherfuckers!