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Comment Change is Scary (Score 1) 35

According to the story, the only group that appeared to actually like this new UI were Gen Z. For everyone else, "Yes, change is scary". Apparently, that's how you deal with people that don't want a device that they may have paid 4-figures for that now looks like a child's toy.

Why is tech change always forced on people? Is there a cultural issue where having something that works and does what someone wants is now something that has to be changed?

Comment It doesn't matter if women message first (Score 2) 35

It never mattered if women messaged first. They'd just send a handwave emoji or a 'Hi', and the system would allow it

Bumble's problem remains the same - the users suck. And until they do something about that, nothing is going to change. Half of the people you see were already married, another group was looking for a third, and there was an abundance of overweight single moms looking for top 1% men. Not a recipe for success.

Comment Like a cheap solar install... (Score -1) 206

This reminds me of the people that want to spend 5 figures on a solar install, so that they can have 'free' electricity. The capital expenditure itself has no meaning. At least if you stay in the house 20 years, you'll break even and even save some money. If you're buying an EV to save money as an Uber driver, you're then committing to driving for years. Which I guess can be an option.

But the hybrid is better. Still electrifies 80%+ or more of the driving, without the hassle of needing public chargers. But I know, ICE engines need constant maintenance and break down every 12 miles, and are our wayyyyy to complex to drive on public roads. They cost $20k/year to keep running, and no one can fix them anymore.

The overwhelming complexity of modern OS and cell phones, that do need constant fixing/patching/maintenance, though, is okay.

Comment Re:My first Linux distro (Score 2) 36

I remember back in 1993 getting a CD in the back of an OpenSUSE book, and spending many hours exploring the code. You could modify a file to describe the modules and config you wanted, then run a few commands to compile an entire distro kernel and all, and install it.

Fascinating stuff!

Compiling was even more fun. Once you made it through 'make menconfig' to configure your kernel options/modules, I think it was 'make zImage' or something like that to actually start the kernel compile. On an old 486SX with little ram, it would run for 3-4 days.

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