[-] 4grams@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

nah, you're thinking of the guy who owns x. like anyone would be dumb enough to destroy that much brand recognition by renaming twitter..

[-] 4grams@awful.systems 25 points 1 day ago

something about this seems familiar. I swear, there was some dude who wanted to buy twitter to prevent this exact sort of thing from happening.. wonder what ever happened to that guy?

[-] 4grams@awful.systems 214 points 4 months ago

I have no opinion on the Star Wars/Dune debate but that is one fantastic comment. Kudos to the author, brought me quite a smile.

[-] 4grams@awful.systems 128 points 4 months ago

I have an m2 iPad pro. The last thing it needs is more processing power, what it needs is better software to make use of the power that it has. I’d love to run full OS X on it considering I paid more than some MacBooks.

[-] 4grams@awful.systems 483 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I am not a conspiracy theorist. Reality is trying it’s damnedest to make me one.

[-] 4grams@awful.systems 107 points 7 months ago

and half this country wants to see these kind of headlines coming from ours. 😢

[-] 4grams@awful.systems 89 points 7 months ago

Still my favorite Gadsen flag parody with text "dont read to me"

[-] 4grams@awful.systems 84 points 8 months ago

And yet, somehow his supporters will see this as a sign of strength.

[-] 4grams@awful.systems 101 points 8 months ago

“Minimizes diminished App Store revenue”

I am an Apple user and in the end I’m more comfortable with them having access to my data than google.. but man, they don’t even bother to pretend it’s a pro-consumer issue thing anymore.

Been noticing that a lot lately, corporate weasel language is dying as these companies grow more and more emboldened.

[-] 4grams@awful.systems 97 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I do, and I miss it. What’s more I’ve never once seen a Mr beast video.

Avoid the cruft, roll your own content and find smaller, individual communities like these tubes used to be a decade (or more) ago.

[-] 4grams@awful.systems 147 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

For me anyway, the modern web feels like the realization of those early internet pioneering ideas. I run my own personal site, with a nice open source google photos replacement, hosting my own VDI, streaming services, you name it. It’s all running on a pile of discarded speak and spell’s in my basement (a joke but only barely, this junk will run on anything that can host a container). It’s all possible thanks to the open source shoulders of giants I’m standing on and in spite of my lack of coding experience (I’m dev/ops). The fact that I run more infrastructure than my first few jobs combined, as one hobbyist, kinda blows my formerly teenage brain.

It’s still out there, just so long as you are willing to DIY. I am holding great hope for the fediverse, although I’ve been getting used to disappointment lately.

[-] 4grams@awful.systems 266 points 10 months ago

I say this as a rare person who prefers to work in office.

Good.

Seriously, would much rather work with productive happy people. the remote work phenomenon has proven that between reduced traffic, the commercial real estate bubble, the fact that we’re literally all connected to each other 24/7 through the series of tubes means it’s about time we restructure the workforce.

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