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  • I, too, think humans become incapable of learning from their mistakes when they become wealthy.

    IMO it’s a side effect of money being seen as the most important thing in life and the measure of success. Our culture says the more money you have, the greater a success you are.

    With that in mind, imagine you’re a rich person. In your mind, that makes you a success.

    You hear people with less money than you giving their opinions of what you should do, and you think “well why would I listen to these people? If they were as clever as me, they’d have as much money (read: success) as me. They do not, ergo their ideas must be worse than mine.”

    In the mind of a mega-wealthy person, any normal person trying to give advice is met with the same reaction that a minimum wage toilet cleaner would be if they tried to give life advice to a median earner. “Huh? Really? You’re trying to give me life advice? Lmao. Ok buddy, sure.”

    It completely explains why so many wealthy people surround themselves in yes men. It not necessarily that they hate any pushback (although of course it sometimes is this), it’s that they won’t take it seriously from someone who, by their perceived metric of success, is less qualified to call the shots.

    And you know what? It’s not actually a completely unreasonable deduction. It’s just based on a flawed and extremely fucked up premise. Any person thinking clearly of course realises that there’s so much more to life than wealth.


  • Not really. The UK is very anti-Musk and very anti-Trump.

    Ireland and the UK being the only ones to grow is likely due to the way Tesla delivers Right-Hand Drive cars - they deliver them as one large batch each quarter rather than constantly trickling them out like LHD cars.

    If you look at UK and Irish sales figures across multiple months, they swing between being up and down, depending on when RHD shipments come. Overall Tesla is down (and the UK even before Musk’s recent actions bought far fewer Tesla cars than France or Germany)



  • You’re right. People say “1984” to mean “dystopia” or “things I don’t like about modern society”.

    Tangentially related, there was a survey a while back that found most people who say they have read 1984 haven’t actually read it. So that may be part of it.

    Personally, if we’re going with the classic dystopian novels, I think we’re more aligned with:

    • The anti-intellectualism/distraction from the real issues like we see in Fahrenheit 451. Arguably we have already started the book-burning. (Tbf, there’s also practically no pre-big brother material in 1984, so clearly they went down the same route, although Orwell didn’t go into that as deeply as Bradbury)

    • Keeping people docile with an endless stream of entertainment content and consumerism like in Brave New World.

    …than we are with the “Oppression through fear and brainwashing from an all-powerful, all-seeing government” that we see in 1984.

    But even then there are significant differences. E.g. unlike in Brave New World, there’s no government-provided Soma drug to further placate us. Well, not unless you believe the chemtrail conspiracy theories lol







  • We can, there’s just less demand for them. Sony was among the last holdouts for small phones with their compact series, but they stopped because they were their worst selling models.

    Even Apple stopped selling their small SE model (that was basically iPhone 5 sized) despite it being the cheapest iPhone to get your hands on, because it sold terribly.

    Small phones is something the tech community says it cares about, but the market has proven that the average person doesn’t care. Same as the headphone jack and microSD slot.

    I don’t like it either, but phone companies aren’t deliberately leaving money on the table. If they thought small phones would sell gangbusters, they’d bring them back.





  • You kinda get what you deserve if you connect to unprotected WiFi that you don’t own/setup yourself.

    I’m not sure I agree with this line of thinking. Most people are clueless when it comes to security, that doesn’t mean it’s fine to spy on them or scam them and just say “well you connected to an unprotected network, so it’s your fault. You got what you deserved.”

    On a place like Lemmy that’s generally tech literate, you’ll probably find no shortage of people thinking that.

    But would they feel the same if a car mechanic scammed them by taking advantage of them not being knowledgeable about cars?





  • Brave will support it until it becomes inconvenient or difficult to do so as the Chromium base keeps moving. The more time goes on, the more work it’ll be for Brave to maintain this forked functionality.

    My guess is at some point Brave will discontinue V2 and say “just use the Brave inbuilt adblocker”.

    Regardless, Brave have their own skeletons in the closet… crypto, the Windows installer installing other Brave applications during browser install without consent (that one is straight up malware behaviour. Reminds me of the days of software installing Internet Explorer toolbars without consent), injecting their affiliate links when nobody asked, a CEO who donated money to homophobic causes more than once.

    E: my above theory was correct, sort of:

    We will keep Manifest v2 for as long as it’s still available in Chromium. We expect to drop support in June 2025, but we may maintain it longer or be forced to drop support for it sooner, depending on the precise nature of the changes to the code.

    They are only committing to enabling the disabled Mv2 code in Chromium. Once it’s removed altogether, Brave probably won’t bother keeping it and maintaining it. Basically, if you want Mv2, only Firefox and its derivatives are committed to keeping it.