I would drop my Android phone so fast you'd think it was on fire if Musk released a Starlink sattelite phone... or any phone. FUCK Google and Apple, I hate them.
I think if this were to happen, they go full Australia and try to ban math (encryption), unless they're given keys. No way they let him launch his own devices along side his own network. Way too much freedom for their comfort. It'll be blacklisted along side Huawei.
imagine in 2015 trying to tell somebody that the largest app store companies were going to ban one of the largest social media networks on the planet because it wouldn't censor opponents of the Democrat Party
which is what this was always about. Democrats being extremely threatened by anybody who could criticize them on the Internet and demanding that dissidence of the corrupt government be censored..
but imagine talking about this like it's normal. that's what the problem is. that you see this shit as normal. the largest app stores for the biggest phone manufacturers Manning and the top social media Network in the world because it won't run cover for the Democrat Party
people talk about the hunter Biden laptop story like it's normal for the largest social media networks in the world to just censor news stories that are damaging to the political party that they support..
you talk about that like it's fucking normal. you've normalized it. you go back to 2015 and tell somebody that shit they'll ask you what the fuck you're smoking. that's not normal stuff
and we were ringing the alarm bells trying to nip it in the bud before it got that bad but conservatives wanted to be lazy
and now you're at a point where someone openly declaring that social media will censor an entire political party to benefit the other political party is just fucking normal everyday stuff to you..
Brother I was screeching about this in the 90s. It IS normal. This is the way evil operates, the prince of this world is the father of lies. It's ALWAYS been that way.
That it happens to have concentrated itself politically is no surprise, it's just a modern manifestation.
It's always been this way. We've turned a blind eye to evil calling it just another way of living. Our modern sensibilities are going to get us killed.
See, that always irked me. Many conservative pundits have their bank accounts cancelled, their credit cards suspended and banned from other services, put on no fly list and if they try to create their own social media site, get more or less kicked off the app stores (parler, gab, gettr). Yet somehow Trump was immune to all that? The banks didn't cancel his accounts? He wasn't banned from owning a credit card? His app wasn't thrown off the app store?
What alternate reality have you been living in that you think they haven't been trying to get to Trump every way they can. They raided his freaking home. Brazenly stole his second term. Blame him for everything. Tried their best to cancel him. And you're irked he's not on a no fly list? Wtf has happened to this site? Maybe just maybe those pundits aren't at the same level as Trump. It's like asking why a hyena will attack a lioness but runs like bitch when the male comes around.
We were given an approximate date for Starlink satellite Internet of 8 months, because we were told our area was at capacity……4 months later we got a notification that our package was ready to be shipped.
Is it possible to have something other than a metallic rectangle with a touch screen? Sounds like a stupid question, but have we thought this out to the point that we're sure there are no further possibilities??
I swear that some of the people on this site are no different than the shriveled-up old prudes in the 1980s who said that playing Dungeons & Dragons would turn you into a serial killer.
None of them ever want to hear it, but them spending decades doing everything they could to piss off absolutely everyone including other conservatives with their bullshit is largely how we got here. The crazy leftism didn't take hold because it was doing what it is now. It took hold because a lot of the right was doing what the crazy left is doing now.
Cause the puritanical evangelical Christians still make up a good percentage of republicans who all jumped on the maga train, so we still have to deal with their nonsense. Especially when they think they are the party.
They wanted nothing to do with Trump until a few months after he won and they realized he was actually going to do what he said he was going to do. They've been trying to convince everyone that MAGA was them all along. It's bullshit and never stop reminding them that enough of us remember and know better
My fellow pede, not everyone will pass these insane purity tests that many here put on anyone that even remotely helps our side at all. Can you, and people like yourself just take a step back and see that this guy is hurting the left? Is that so bad?
He is wearing their coat of arms while DESTROYING them in every facet of his life.
If that isn't a slap in your face mockery IDK what is.
On an unrelated note arnt democrats constantly spewing they are the bastion of democracy and the protectors of it along with saying they care about people while destroying every city they control?? Mhmmm wonder if that's a slap in the face mockery; To say "Im here to help and I care" but in reality you do the opposite...
To be fair, the only time I ever see them talk about democracy is when they are screaming about something threatening it. Not sure they ever said anything about defending it. Is almost as if it's entirely rhetorical.
And by weird coweenky deenky, they are the same thing about racism. And sexism. And every other ism.
Its not just that search engines are shit now, the content on the web is shit now. Back in the 2000's you could search for just about anything and you'd find a forum dedicated to that topic or hobby full of knowledgeable people and thousands of posts with info.
Today you'll get clickbait youtube videos, Tiktok videos, or advertisements disguised as blogs that you have to wade through pages or minutes of filler just to find the info you need (if its even there).
Sadly, I had to go to dreddit when my PS3 was acting up (it's a backward compatible... so it can play PS2 games)... I don't use my PS5 or PS4 much, but I love me some original FF-VII
Also because Reddit has many years of forum activity and a lot of random crap has a solution that you can find from some random person there at some point. Stuff that there aren't many good sources of information for anymore due to lack of traditional communities.
And over half of the articles you can find were created by an algorithm, not typed or edited by a person. It's why everything is random urls that seem like it's written by a Chinese speaker now
Its crazy to think that Yahoo search used to be manually curated by staff. I remember submitting our dumb little foosball site back in the 90s, and talking to actual people in email to get it listed.
My kids laugh that I drove to CompUSA to buy a boxed copy of Netscape Navigator, found an ISP in the newspaper, mailed them a check and used my modem to get AOL email that took minutes to download.
Indeed. I'm launching a video game soon, and I got to work setting up a domain and website for it - only to realize when it was all done, that it would all be for nothing. Who goes to websites anymore? If people want to see your product, they'll go to youtube. If people want to talk with you about your product, they'll reach out on twitter or email. For on-going discussion, they'll have a Discord server. To host and sell the game, it'll all be on Steam or EGS or some such. I could not think of a single reason why I even bothered setting up the website, besides simply wanting one.
It's because of stupid seo and domain authority pyramid scheme. Hobbyists and individual experts put out some great info with no desire to monetize but rarely rank. So less and less bother to share. Meanwhile Wikipedia and pos healthline pop up for every search.
I've used Brave for a few years and while I endorse it with few reservations, search is among them. Brave search is barely functional for major, obvious searches; it fails miserably for obscure or phrase-based searching, unfortunately.
Hint: Amazon is not profitable, relies on government subsidies and subcontractor rape (see USPS delivering Amazon packages) to become profitable. All of it is illegal, yet for whatever reason no one speaks up about it, perhaps there's hush money involved there?
Amazon Web Services generate their profits. Been that way for years. It's mind blowing how much of the interwebs and technology they control. They even control crypto - over 60% of Ethereum nodes are on AWS. Muh, decentralization!
I didn't know this. I totally believe you, as I'm in the freight business. I know Amazon fucks over people who've bought 10+ trucks (or whatever amount) to deliver their products.
If they can find a cheaper way themselves, or find someone else who will do it for less, they'll F you over in a split second.
I'm not sure it still applies, but I know drivers who had a route. Ya get paid the same ($150) if you do it in 10 hours, 8 hours, or 6 hours. So as the guys got good, rather than being rewarded for efficiency, Amazon would say "oh, you can deliver more than we thought. Let us add 20 stops to your route."
I don't think they still do that, but they used to.
Do you have any links? All I have is word of mouth and the occasional FB post.
Oh they definitely still do that. They've been slowly ramping up how many stops they expect drivers to take on. Result: Constant turnover in drivers. Does Amazon care? Nope. Not in the slightest. Always more where they came from as far as they're concerned.
Don't even get me started on how broken Mentor is.
Amazon makes money on AWS first and foremost. Gadgets and Prime subscriptions are also a nice chunk, but the marketplace is all Brand. If it weren't for that no one would really know Amazon, so they should care less about profitability.
Amazon isn't (very) profitable because of its growth-high model, same as Tesla, so most of its profits are reinvested into the business/getting new customers.
Amazon also first became profitable in 2003, so it's not like it couldn't return money to shareholders if it wanted to.
Amazon was one of the few to survive the dot-com crash for a reason.
It was really fucking dumb to pull this shit on an edgelord meme smith rocket scientist richest man in the history of human existance. He has the money an intelligence to pull this shit off. Hes one of the most productive humans ever an he has a stable of geniuses that will follow him.
For sure, nvm that you would need millions in hardware to handle the types of user numbers they would want.
That's why that comment might as well be a "fuck you," where it's exceptions like gab that can start off humbly and with principles and building up bigger.
Remains to be seen. Now that he's shown he's willing to fight them, rest assured the Biden admin and the deep state will target him for destruction just like they did to Trump when he declared war on them in 2015.
just semantics regarding richest man in history, but its kind of accepted that there are already Saudi trillionaires. They just have no reason to publicly disclose their wealth.
Highly doubt that. They literally kidnapped tons of Saudi billionaires an wouldn't let them leave until they agreed to give up a large portion of their wealth. They wouldn't do that if they had that much money. Sounds like they were desperate.
Trump didn't make Truth for the money, so he should find a way to merge or partner with Twitter / Elon and other alternate platforms. It'd be better for everyone and his 2024 run.
Trump can post any political message he wants on twitter as soon as he posts it on Truth without violating his exclusivity agreement with Truth. He has no need to merge with Twitter and Elon has no reason to do it either. Elon wants to cultivate an image as a neutral party. Partnering with a POTUS candidate wouldn't do that.
That should be the future of the technology, anyone can have their own social media "nation" and they all hook up with a common protocol. Jack was promising such a protocol years ago and never delivered. Too busy spirit cooking.
Of course he did. Trump could have sent to Parler or Gab well before he was banned on Twitter. He knew he was on an enemy platform and chose to stay until he could launch a competitor.
That's what I've been saying.. purity testing on this site has made Elon controversial. He's transhumanist but he bought Twitter and infiltrated the left. That's a huge win, people seem to overlook the good he does.
Well, are Twitter, and Truth really in competition? You can easily sign up for both, and spend your time on both. It's not a black and white choice. It's not like choosing between a Coke, and Pepsi. If you drink a Coke, you're going to be too full for a Pepsi. Not so with social media. I got to a ton of different websites. And people have so many places, and the time to consume social media. Lots of people shit, and tweet.
It's probably cheaper and better to go after Apple for AntiTrust and their abuse of a monopolistic platform. Apple play-store needs to be separated from Apple. The AntiTrust stick needs to be taken out and used against both Apple and Google. Funding lobbyists to do this is far, far cheaper and with all the right people a massive suit can be brought upon them.
Yes. Microsoft's Windows phone died. Amazon Fire phone died. Samsung hasn't been able to break out either. Pushing out a new OS will NOT be a pleasant fight.
It would not be a Tesla phone. Tesla is public, he doesn't like that. Probably X phone. X will become larger than all his other companies and eventually will take Tesla private. Imo.
Nope I threw that shit in a river about five minutes after I started seeing google ads for thanksgiving recipes after I started talking about thanksgiving last fall in some random conversation in the middle of may about five years ago.
At&t sent me a letter back in august of this year saying that they were going to discontinue my landline service but here's a sweet deal for a cell phone, so I just don't have a phone anymore.
Which is very interesting because right to repair seems like it would be right up Elon's alley with the things he talks about and his autistic obsessions.
I am very interested in what he has to say. Has anyone ever directly asked him about this topic before?
If Elon built a phone that worked off his Starlink constellation and could somehow keep it from being tapped by the CIA/FBI, freedom loving Americans would pay a significant premium for it.
This is why I roll my eyes at people around here who are like "Elon must be a plant because the regime isn't stopping him, he's making it look too easy!"
This man is a GENIUS, and he's got $200 BILLION dollars. Yes, he can literally just make a competitor phone for spite if he gets kicked off the app store.
The globalists are trying to fight actual Iron Man here. There's nothing they can do that he hasn't thought of, and can't UNdo by throwing money at it.
Getting a phone that doesn't spy on you and lets you download whatever apps you want is dead easy.
The problem is with common users. Even though Android is open source, the common user is fine with running the closed-source variant provided to them by their phone's manufacturer, or sometimes their carrier.
And the real problem comes down to the distribution of apps. Even on most closed source variants, installing an app from the Internet is usually completely possible and not that difficult. But common users are not accustomed to doing that. The only way they know or want to bother with is using the Play store. Which leads Google to have a monopoly on wide distribution of apps on Android devices.
Anti-trust laws should have been used to break up big tech a long time ago. Especially Google.
The Play store is shit, by the way. It turns out that having the monopoly on Android app distribution by the same company that provides ads for Android apps is a major conflict of interest.
Every time I think of something stupid basic I want my phone to be able to do, I cannot find an app for it. The apps I do find that claim they do it are either completely fake, executed stupidly bad, and/or utterly riddled with ads. Things that I know some developer has certainly made for themselves and released for free for others to use. But Google Play won't let you find them, and I've heard it discourages developers from uploading basic apps like this by making it difficult.
Nothing ever "just works" anymore.
The same conflict of interest exists with their search engines. It's why when you search something you only find poorly written, but search engine optimized, blog posts vaguely about what you searched for. They used to have algorithms that deranked sites with aggressive SEO. But it seems they neutered these after realizing these sites have their ads on them and sites with good information often don't.
I feel you 100% on this. You would be surprised at how many people agree. Everyone is unhappy about the spying. They get that the collusion is corruption. They have seen enough Star Trek to understand the potential of technology and its abuse.
They used to have algorithms that deranked sites with aggressive SEO. But it seems they neutered these after realizing these sites have their ads on them and sites with good information often don't.
Your personal identity and psychographics are far more important than optimizing web pages. Even high end technical SEO. They have replaced much of the original algorithms with Deep Mind. With natural language processing and semantics they can make a lot more decisions faster and far easier. Display can also be highly personalized. There is no way for almost anyone to detect how these systems adjust content to who, for what reason, or at what scale. They can be shifting what people understand from a console. That kind of control doesn't change your convictions. But it is the current thing.
What I'm talking about is how the majority of results on a Google search for a technical question (like diagnosing something on your car or whatever) are blog-style posts that are written like a middleschooler trying to reach a specific word-count, but only found one sentence worth of information to base his entire report on.
I agree with you completely, I would just like to add that it is getting more and more difficult to run Android open source due to carrier control. Certain cell service companies (specifically Verizon because I have experience with them, and I'm sure others as well) go out of the way to make it difficult to run AOSP devices on their networks. These companies will make agreements with the OEMs to lock down the bootloader, among other things, to make it insanely difficult to replace the ROM. The last time I had to buy a phone, I had to do a long search just to find an affordable (sub $200 used) phone that both had an SD card and headphone jack (non-negotiable requirements for my phone buying) and an unlockable bootloader, that was compatible with Verizon. I settled on the LG v20, which has been a great phone for me, but now the carriers want to shut off non-LTE voice calls, and conveniently, there is no VoLTE support for non-stock ROMs for that phone. I don't need a supercomputer in my pocket, I only need a device that will allow me to call, text, browse PDW, play podcasts in my car, and take pictures. I can wait to go home and use my PC to do everything else.
What IMO needs to happen is a lawsuit along the lines of the one that broke up the original AT&T, where it was determined that Bell could not force you to use one of their rented landline phones if you own a compatible phone from someone else. A cell phone service carrier should be only that, a service carrier. You should be able to use any compatible device on their network given you pay for the service.
I can wait to go home and use my PC to do everything else
The worst part is that even though many of us do have supercomputers in their pockets, they are incapable of doing these more intensive tasks, even though the hardware should be able to facilitate it.
In everything except tailored tech demos, they fail when trying to show off their power. They struggle to even do basic things consistently without bugs.
Man I'm sorry I missed this post it was a great and refreshing read. I wish more people like yourself would discuss this more often. I agree with a lot of this and have some knowledge on how serps work. Especially in data compiling and volume. It is all surveillance. The power these companies hold over businesses is completely misunderstood. And it is vast. Then they track all the work force and then everyone else. We can go on.
What Librem is trying to do is in part the right direction. I don't know a better direction right now. I like what they are doing with chips.
At this point Apple and google better not be doubting the man can and will do what he says he will do. But they're so full of themselves they probably are.
I love how the Tolerant Left says "if you don't like censorship and 'woke' Leftist Agenda propaganda, just make your own (whatever.)" Then if someone does make their own (whatever,) they screech "DAS RACIST STOP THAT reeeeee."
Kids don’t know what a BlackBerry is, it’s a boomer thing at this point. I think Elon would want to brand his phone as the Tesla phone or something like that.
I do love Apple products from a hardware perspective, and even from a software perspective. But I fucking hate them from a corporation and activism perspective. Just drop the activism and everything would be ok.
We don't ultimately know Elon's heart in these matters, but I wish the ultra wealthy conservatives out there would see that they can have a huge impact in this war against evil and faggot communists.
Two years ago the guy was saying smartwatches and phones are yesterday's news, neurolink is the future.
When you press his hand to have to dabble in what he considers antiquity, you know he's gonna just bring the fire......like his Tesla Not A Flamethrower
I looked it up. He can't afford it. But he doesn't need to. He has his satellites. If he could make an affordable, compact, satellite phone, he's in the communications business.
For the love of god make a good spec linux phone that allows you to run a full mutli monitor linux desktop from a docking station that has an x86 emulator so you can run windows apps on top. You'd take a massive market share in the mobile space.
I mean apple figure out how to run x86 apps on arm flawlessly with m1 laptops. Imagine if ur phone was a half decent spec desktop that could emulate x86. Samsung dex is nifty an all but its clunky, it cant run x86, an it only supports 1 1080 monitor.
Better use for Starlink than Ukraine.
I would drop my Android phone so fast you'd think it was on fire if Musk released a Starlink sattelite phone... or any phone. FUCK Google and Apple, I hate them.
This
Their tv ads are visual AIDS. Thats not even scratching the surface.
underrated
Make sure to let google know REPEATETLY, how unAmerican they are on at least a weekly basis.
I think if this were to happen, they go full Australia and try to ban math (encryption), unless they're given keys. No way they let him launch his own devices along side his own network. Way too much freedom for their comfort. It'll be blacklisted along side Huawei.
Then he'd buy Iceland. I'd move there.
Yes
I just got told there aren't enough satellites in my area so my expected date moved to summer of 2023...fuck.
imagine in 2015 trying to tell somebody that the largest app store companies were going to ban one of the largest social media networks on the planet because it wouldn't censor opponents of the Democrat Party
which is what this was always about. Democrats being extremely threatened by anybody who could criticize them on the Internet and demanding that dissidence of the corrupt government be censored..
but imagine talking about this like it's normal. that's what the problem is. that you see this shit as normal. the largest app stores for the biggest phone manufacturers Manning and the top social media Network in the world because it won't run cover for the Democrat Party
people talk about the hunter Biden laptop story like it's normal for the largest social media networks in the world to just censor news stories that are damaging to the political party that they support..
you talk about that like it's fucking normal. you've normalized it. you go back to 2015 and tell somebody that shit they'll ask you what the fuck you're smoking. that's not normal stuff
and we were ringing the alarm bells trying to nip it in the bud before it got that bad but conservatives wanted to be lazy
and now you're at a point where someone openly declaring that social media will censor an entire political party to benefit the other political party is just fucking normal everyday stuff to you..
Brother I was screeching about this in the 90s. It IS normal. This is the way evil operates, the prince of this world is the father of lies. It's ALWAYS been that way.
That it happens to have concentrated itself politically is no surprise, it's just a modern manifestation.
It's always been this way. We've turned a blind eye to evil calling it just another way of living. Our modern sensibilities are going to get us killed.
No one is saying it's normal (except leftoids, who are only here to earn tendies from Feds/Soros). Who are you talking to?
No one here normalized it but no one knew what to do about it. We complained we got banned. Most people just ditched SM altogether.
Well said. It's past time for citizens to put up with this crap.
See, that always irked me. Many conservative pundits have their bank accounts cancelled, their credit cards suspended and banned from other services, put on no fly list and if they try to create their own social media site, get more or less kicked off the app stores (parler, gab, gettr). Yet somehow Trump was immune to all that? The banks didn't cancel his accounts? He wasn't banned from owning a credit card? His app wasn't thrown off the app store?
What alternate reality have you been living in that you think they haven't been trying to get to Trump every way they can. They raided his freaking home. Brazenly stole his second term. Blame him for everything. Tried their best to cancel him. And you're irked he's not on a no fly list? Wtf has happened to this site? Maybe just maybe those pundits aren't at the same level as Trump. It's like asking why a hyena will attack a lioness but runs like bitch when the male comes around.
I'm rural and this is the best service we've had here by far. Even in shitty weather it's pretty solid. Hang in there. It's worth it.
We were given an approximate date for Starlink satellite Internet of 8 months, because we were told our area was at capacity……4 months later we got a notification that our package was ready to be shipped.
That isn't too far away.
Is it possible to have something other than a metallic rectangle with a touch screen? Sounds like a stupid question, but have we thought this out to the point that we're sure there are no further possibilities??
On Halloween, you boob
I swear that some of the people on this site are no different than the shriveled-up old prudes in the 1980s who said that playing Dungeons & Dragons would turn you into a serial killer.
Occam's razor might suggest it's more likely they're leftist shills.
Occam's razor suggests that they're just dopes.
I'm honestly not sure where Occam comes down on this because all three seem possible.
I think the simplest explanation is that they're bitches.
Probably some of that, too.
A lot of shill posters here, handshake accounts.
None of them ever want to hear it, but them spending decades doing everything they could to piss off absolutely everyone including other conservatives with their bullshit is largely how we got here. The crazy leftism didn't take hold because it was doing what it is now. It took hold because a lot of the right was doing what the crazy left is doing now.
Cause the puritanical evangelical Christians still make up a good percentage of republicans who all jumped on the maga train, so we still have to deal with their nonsense. Especially when they think they are the party.
They wanted nothing to do with Trump until a few months after he won and they realized he was actually going to do what he said he was going to do. They've been trying to convince everyone that MAGA was them all along. It's bullshit and never stop reminding them that enough of us remember and know better
It's fine though, we all need each other, but yeah those evangelicals are Reaganites who voted for Bush not Perot.
I'm happy to have them under the tent. My problem with them is they seem to think that they own the tent.
They are as bad as woke morons. Same energy different outlet.
They are the same ChristFags that scream about freedom as long as it's what they want. No different from leftist cocksuckers.
Probably blending in so the demons don't eat him
Could also be a play on Devil’s advocate, which is certainly what he’s doing now from the perspective of leftiods.
Like most people, he changes his profile picture once about every six weeks.
Like most people, sometimes it's more often, sometimes less often.
Retard.
My fellow pede, not everyone will pass these insane purity tests that many here put on anyone that even remotely helps our side at all. Can you, and people like yourself just take a step back and see that this guy is hurting the left? Is that so bad?
Wonder if someone who calls out the evil of Hollywood, Would dress up to mock them at their own party after being given an invitation.
Naw critical thinking wont allow it.
says who? you? Lmao.
He is wearing their coat of arms while DESTROYING them in every facet of his life.
If that isn't a slap in your face mockery IDK what is.
On an unrelated note arnt democrats constantly spewing they are the bastion of democracy and the protectors of it along with saying they care about people while destroying every city they control?? Mhmmm wonder if that's a slap in the face mockery; To say "Im here to help and I care" but in reality you do the opposite...
Maybe? do you think a little bit?
Says who. you? LMAO
You are dumber than a box of rocks if that went over your head. XD
To be fair, the only time I ever see them talk about democracy is when they are screaming about something threatening it. Not sure they ever said anything about defending it. Is almost as if it's entirely rhetorical.
And by weird coweenky deenky, they are the same thing about racism. And sexism. And every other ism.
Strange isn't it?
Hey Taylor!
Dressed as Iron Mans Tony Stark, since it was based on him...
Do it.
Please
While he's at it, I'd appreciate a search engine that isn't wok (Google) or Jewish-owned (DDG) and an Amazon alternative
Search is totally destroyed in 2022. I just want a search engine from 10 years ago.
Its not just that search engines are shit now, the content on the web is shit now. Back in the 2000's you could search for just about anything and you'd find a forum dedicated to that topic or hobby full of knowledgeable people and thousands of posts with info.
Today you'll get clickbait youtube videos, Tiktok videos, or advertisements disguised as blogs that you have to wade through pages or minutes of filler just to find the info you need (if its even there).
And Reddit. Instead of independent forums all we get are crap subreddits.
That's why Reddit is best used to just find some random dude that had a similar problem as you like 10 years ago and figured it out.
That's pretty much how I use Reddit
Sadly, I had to go to dreddit when my PS3 was acting up (it's a backward compatible... so it can play PS2 games)... I don't use my PS5 or PS4 much, but I love me some original FF-VII
That site needs to be twittered
Why so many top search phrases have "reddit" in them, because the normal search results are total dogshit. CERN 2012 dead internet.
Also because Reddit has many years of forum activity and a lot of random crap has a solution that you can find from some random person there at some point. Stuff that there aren't many good sources of information for anymore due to lack of traditional communities.
And over half of the articles you can find were created by an algorithm, not typed or edited by a person. It's why everything is random urls that seem like it's written by a Chinese speaker now
They favor AP and Sinclair. Sinclair gets all its stuff from AP... media circle jerk in full effect
The worst thing is I’m usually half a page in before I realized it’s just autogenerated garbage that I can’t trust.
Its crazy to think that Yahoo search used to be manually curated by staff. I remember submitting our dumb little foosball site back in the 90s, and talking to actual people in email to get it listed.
My kids laugh that I drove to CompUSA to buy a boxed copy of Netscape Navigator, found an ISP in the newspaper, mailed them a check and used my modem to get AOL email that took minutes to download.
Yes
Indeed. I'm launching a video game soon, and I got to work setting up a domain and website for it - only to realize when it was all done, that it would all be for nothing. Who goes to websites anymore? If people want to see your product, they'll go to youtube. If people want to talk with you about your product, they'll reach out on twitter or email. For on-going discussion, they'll have a Discord server. To host and sell the game, it'll all be on Steam or EGS or some such. I could not think of a single reason why I even bothered setting up the website, besides simply wanting one.
For a game, websites are pretty worthless, I'd agree. At best an aggregation of all the places that people can find information on your game.
I'd still put up a site just for the added legitimacy. Index everything else there.
You can at least prevent someone from trashing your game using a website of the same name.
It's because of stupid seo and domain authority pyramid scheme. Hobbyists and individual experts put out some great info with no desire to monetize but rarely rank. So less and less bother to share. Meanwhile Wikipedia and pos healthline pop up for every search.
There's nothing left to search is the sad truth. The old internet is dead, it's just walled gardens now.
"old internet" to me is GeoCities pages
Bring back Ask Jeeves
The episode of Parks and Rec where the guy queries Ask Jeeves to get to Google always cracks me up.
Brave will also search Google if that option is checked.
FWIW, Brave is built on top of google chromium.
I've used Brave for a few years and while I endorse it with few reservations, search is among them. Brave search is barely functional for major, obvious searches; it fails miserably for obscure or phrase-based searching, unfortunately.
Agree. Search is more often frustrating than helpful. Maybe it'll get better over time but Google has such an advantage.
Google is dogshit now compared to just a few years ago.
Got better in the last few months.
This isn't true for me.
Hint: Amazon is not profitable, relies on government subsidies and subcontractor rape (see USPS delivering Amazon packages) to become profitable. All of it is illegal, yet for whatever reason no one speaks up about it, perhaps there's hush money involved there?
Amazon Web Services generate their profits. Been that way for years. It's mind blowing how much of the interwebs and technology they control. They even control crypto - over 60% of Ethereum nodes are on AWS. Muh, decentralization!
I didn't know this. I totally believe you, as I'm in the freight business. I know Amazon fucks over people who've bought 10+ trucks (or whatever amount) to deliver their products.
If they can find a cheaper way themselves, or find someone else who will do it for less, they'll F you over in a split second.
I'm not sure it still applies, but I know drivers who had a route. Ya get paid the same ($150) if you do it in 10 hours, 8 hours, or 6 hours. So as the guys got good, rather than being rewarded for efficiency, Amazon would say "oh, you can deliver more than we thought. Let us add 20 stops to your route."
I don't think they still do that, but they used to.
Do you have any links? All I have is word of mouth and the occasional FB post.
Oh they definitely still do that. They've been slowly ramping up how many stops they expect drivers to take on. Result: Constant turnover in drivers. Does Amazon care? Nope. Not in the slightest. Always more where they came from as far as they're concerned.
Don't even get me started on how broken Mentor is.
Amazon makes money on AWS first and foremost. Gadgets and Prime subscriptions are also a nice chunk, but the marketplace is all Brand. If it weren't for that no one would really know Amazon, so they should care less about profitability.
Amazon isn't (very) profitable because of its growth-high model, same as Tesla, so most of its profits are reinvested into the business/getting new customers.
Amazon also first became profitable in 2003, so it's not like it couldn't return money to shareholders if it wanted to.
Amazon was one of the few to survive the dot-com crash for a reason.
Also a PayPal alternative
Agreed. Didn't he help design the original PayPal?
Paypal absorbed X.com and Musk then became a shareholder of Paypal. Paypal was always Peter Thiel's project.
Are you sure? X.com is still Musk's domain and I thought he was planning to use that to launch his "everything app".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Early_history
He bought it back a few years ago
It was a merger between his company and the competing one.
Twitter will likely have it. It is the new "x" app
Will I lose my bank account and job if I notice?
He announced his plans for the Tesla Pi phone last year i'm surprised people forgot
Forgot? Never heard about it. But I also don't worship at the altar of Elon.
it's on sale in less than a month and dude's pretty great, brought my country reliable and affordable internet. Can't say i dislike much about him
No one forgot, he didn't ever say that.
He did though
Tesla's phone goes on sale in the US in less than 30 days
Source please
literally google tesla pi phone
I did, no sources
You found not a single result on the Pi Phone?
I found 4 articles written today alone with just a google
It was really fucking dumb to pull this shit on an edgelord meme smith rocket scientist richest man in the history of human existance. He has the money an intelligence to pull this shit off. Hes one of the most productive humans ever an he has a stable of geniuses that will follow him.
It's why the media is scared of him. He took their censorship toy and they are pissed.
Oh well, they can always make their own Twitter.
Can they? Waking up at 11AM and taking coffee for an hour before their yoga classes. Idk man.
For sure, nvm that you would need millions in hardware to handle the types of user numbers they would want.
That's why that comment might as well be a "fuck you," where it's exceptions like gab that can start off humbly and with principles and building up bigger.
They can call it: “Shitter”
Isn't Alec Baldwin a huge proponent of Shitter? Dude cut his thumbs off for their sponsorship.
He is the main spokesman! Who needs opposable thumbs when you can transmit your thoughts directly to Shitter?!
It's not very difficult to make a clone of any of the big tech sites. The hard part is to actually get people to use it.
Remains to be seen. Now that he's shown he's willing to fight them, rest assured the Biden admin and the deep state will target him for destruction just like they did to Trump when he declared war on them in 2015.
just semantics regarding richest man in history, but its kind of accepted that there are already Saudi trillionaires. They just have no reason to publicly disclose their wealth.
Highly doubt that. They literally kidnapped tons of Saudi billionaires an wouldn't let them leave until they agreed to give up a large portion of their wealth. They wouldn't do that if they had that much money. Sounds like they were desperate.
A whole new meaning to the term “stable genius”
Can't do shit when he's in prison
Trump didn't make Truth for the money, so he should find a way to merge or partner with Twitter / Elon and other alternate platforms. It'd be better for everyone and his 2024 run.
Trump can post any political message he wants on twitter as soon as he posts it on Truth without violating his exclusivity agreement with Truth. He has no need to merge with Twitter and Elon has no reason to do it either. Elon wants to cultivate an image as a neutral party. Partnering with a POTUS candidate wouldn't do that.
That should be the future of the technology, anyone can have their own social media "nation" and they all hook up with a common protocol. Jack was promising such a protocol years ago and never delivered. Too busy spirit cooking.
Sounds kinda like the .win network
Of course he did. Trump could have sent to Parler or Gab well before he was banned on Twitter. He knew he was on an enemy platform and chose to stay until he could launch a competitor.
That's what I've been saying.. purity testing on this site has made Elon controversial. He's transhumanist but he bought Twitter and infiltrated the left. That's a huge win, people seem to overlook the good he does.
Well, are Twitter, and Truth really in competition? You can easily sign up for both, and spend your time on both. It's not a black and white choice. It's not like choosing between a Coke, and Pepsi. If you drink a Coke, you're going to be too full for a Pepsi. Not so with social media. I got to a ton of different websites. And people have so many places, and the time to consume social media. Lots of people shit, and tweet.
Smoke and mirrors.
I would love this. Do it please.
It's probably cheaper and better to go after Apple for AntiTrust and their abuse of a monopolistic platform. Apple play-store needs to be separated from Apple. The AntiTrust stick needs to be taken out and used against both Apple and Google. Funding lobbyists to do this is far, far cheaper and with all the right people a massive suit can be brought upon them.
This. Rather than make a new phone, make a new App Store that can install apps on any phone including linux or pi phones.
Yes. Microsoft's Windows phone died. Amazon Fire phone died. Samsung hasn't been able to break out either. Pushing out a new OS will NOT be a pleasant fight.
But Elon creating a new phone is: "A threat to our democracy!" ™
But then the leftists will go one level higher and pressure ISPs and carriers to block certain data.
It never ends with these power-obsessed leftists.
Competition is good.
I'd buy it.
Dude, starlink on a tesla phone? Hell yea!!
It would not be a Tesla phone. Tesla is public, he doesn't like that. Probably X phone. X will become larger than all his other companies and eventually will take Tesla private. Imo.
Tesla may do a buyback.
What is X?
X marks the spot.
I'd buy that.
Headphone jack, please.
One that had better embrace right to repair otherwise I will happily continue just not having a phone at all.
You don't use a cell phone?
Nope I threw that shit in a river about five minutes after I started seeing google ads for thanksgiving recipes after I started talking about thanksgiving last fall in some random conversation in the middle of may about five years ago.
At&t sent me a letter back in august of this year saying that they were going to discontinue my landline service but here's a sweet deal for a cell phone, so I just don't have a phone anymore.
Don't hold your breath. Tesla is the anti-right-to-repair poster child.
Which is very interesting because right to repair seems like it would be right up Elon's alley with the things he talks about and his autistic obsessions.
I am very interested in what he has to say. Has anyone ever directly asked him about this topic before?
I know.
Don't own a cell phone, but I'd buy Elon's.
If Elon built a phone that worked off his Starlink constellation and could somehow keep it from being tapped by the CIA/FBI, freedom loving Americans would pay a significant premium for it.
how do you communicate with people?
This is why I roll my eyes at people around here who are like "Elon must be a plant because the regime isn't stopping him, he's making it look too easy!"
This man is a GENIUS, and he's got $200 BILLION dollars. Yes, he can literally just make a competitor phone for spite if he gets kicked off the app store.
The globalists are trying to fight actual Iron Man here. There's nothing they can do that he hasn't thought of, and can't UNdo by throwing money at it.
I love Elon. That is all.
Then open source it, similar to git, destroying Apple and Google's arranged monopoly forever.
Android already is open source.
The problem goes far deeper than that.
Getting a phone that doesn't spy on you and lets you download whatever apps you want is dead easy.
The problem is with common users. Even though Android is open source, the common user is fine with running the closed-source variant provided to them by their phone's manufacturer, or sometimes their carrier.
And the real problem comes down to the distribution of apps. Even on most closed source variants, installing an app from the Internet is usually completely possible and not that difficult. But common users are not accustomed to doing that. The only way they know or want to bother with is using the Play store. Which leads Google to have a monopoly on wide distribution of apps on Android devices.
Anti-trust laws should have been used to break up big tech a long time ago. Especially Google.
The Play store is shit, by the way. It turns out that having the monopoly on Android app distribution by the same company that provides ads for Android apps is a major conflict of interest.
Every time I think of something stupid basic I want my phone to be able to do, I cannot find an app for it. The apps I do find that claim they do it are either completely fake, executed stupidly bad, and/or utterly riddled with ads. Things that I know some developer has certainly made for themselves and released for free for others to use. But Google Play won't let you find them, and I've heard it discourages developers from uploading basic apps like this by making it difficult.
Nothing ever "just works" anymore.
The same conflict of interest exists with their search engines. It's why when you search something you only find poorly written, but search engine optimized, blog posts vaguely about what you searched for. They used to have algorithms that deranked sites with aggressive SEO. But it seems they neutered these after realizing these sites have their ads on them and sites with good information often don't.
I feel you 100% on this. You would be surprised at how many people agree. Everyone is unhappy about the spying. They get that the collusion is corruption. They have seen enough Star Trek to understand the potential of technology and its abuse.
Your personal identity and psychographics are far more important than optimizing web pages. Even high end technical SEO. They have replaced much of the original algorithms with Deep Mind. With natural language processing and semantics they can make a lot more decisions faster and far easier. Display can also be highly personalized. There is no way for almost anyone to detect how these systems adjust content to who, for what reason, or at what scale. They can be shifting what people understand from a console. That kind of control doesn't change your convictions. But it is the current thing.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
What I'm talking about is how the majority of results on a Google search for a technical question (like diagnosing something on your car or whatever) are blog-style posts that are written like a middleschooler trying to reach a specific word-count, but only found one sentence worth of information to base his entire report on.
I agree with you completely, I would just like to add that it is getting more and more difficult to run Android open source due to carrier control. Certain cell service companies (specifically Verizon because I have experience with them, and I'm sure others as well) go out of the way to make it difficult to run AOSP devices on their networks. These companies will make agreements with the OEMs to lock down the bootloader, among other things, to make it insanely difficult to replace the ROM. The last time I had to buy a phone, I had to do a long search just to find an affordable (sub $200 used) phone that both had an SD card and headphone jack (non-negotiable requirements for my phone buying) and an unlockable bootloader, that was compatible with Verizon. I settled on the LG v20, which has been a great phone for me, but now the carriers want to shut off non-LTE voice calls, and conveniently, there is no VoLTE support for non-stock ROMs for that phone. I don't need a supercomputer in my pocket, I only need a device that will allow me to call, text, browse PDW, play podcasts in my car, and take pictures. I can wait to go home and use my PC to do everything else.
What IMO needs to happen is a lawsuit along the lines of the one that broke up the original AT&T, where it was determined that Bell could not force you to use one of their rented landline phones if you own a compatible phone from someone else. A cell phone service carrier should be only that, a service carrier. You should be able to use any compatible device on their network given you pay for the service.
The worst part is that even though many of us do have supercomputers in their pockets, they are incapable of doing these more intensive tasks, even though the hardware should be able to facilitate it.
In everything except tailored tech demos, they fail when trying to show off their power. They struggle to even do basic things consistently without bugs.
Man I'm sorry I missed this post it was a great and refreshing read. I wish more people like yourself would discuss this more often. I agree with a lot of this and have some knowledge on how serps work. Especially in data compiling and volume. It is all surveillance. The power these companies hold over businesses is completely misunderstood. And it is vast. Then they track all the work force and then everyone else. We can go on.
What Librem is trying to do is in part the right direction. I don't know a better direction right now. I like what they are doing with chips.
Teslas arent neither will be the phone.
Oligarchs love their data sciences. But if Elon made a secure hardware line and OS I'd buy the fuck out of it.
He should name it Waukanda Forever in respect of his African roots.
That should rustle the jimmies.
Oh PLEASE DO IT ELON.
At this point Apple and google better not be doubting the man can and will do what he says he will do. But they're so full of themselves they probably are.
Mask off with how important and influential Twitter is.
Hardly any changes apart from simply unbanning people.
I love how the Tolerant Left says "if you don't like censorship and 'woke' Leftist Agenda propaganda, just make your own (whatever.)" Then if someone does make their own (whatever,) they screech "DAS RACIST STOP THAT reeeeee."
The smart money would be on buying Blackberry and retooling it. Everybody loved their Blackberry.
This. This right here.
Oh, damn. That's a really smart idea... The whole company is less than $3 billion.
Kids don’t know what a BlackBerry is, it’s a boomer thing at this point. I think Elon would want to brand his phone as the Tesla phone or something like that.
I do love Apple products from a hardware perspective, and even from a software perspective. But I fucking hate them from a corporation and activism perspective. Just drop the activism and everything would be ok.
We don't ultimately know Elon's heart in these matters, but I wish the ultra wealthy conservatives out there would see that they can have a huge impact in this war against evil and faggot communists.
Dude literally has the infrastructure to make his own entire network.
Two years ago the guy was saying smartwatches and phones are yesterday's news, neurolink is the future.
When you press his hand to have to dabble in what he considers antiquity, you know he's gonna just bring the fire......like his Tesla Not A Flamethrower
He could probably buy Tmobile.
Maybe then we can have Model T.
I looked it up. He can't afford it. But he doesn't need to. He has his satellites. If he could make an affordable, compact, satellite phone, he's in the communications business.
For the love of god make a good spec linux phone that allows you to run a full mutli monitor linux desktop from a docking station that has an x86 emulator so you can run windows apps on top. You'd take a massive market share in the mobile space.
Been waiting for this forever. Instead we got crappy single threaded apps on android os.
I mean apple figure out how to run x86 apps on arm flawlessly with m1 laptops. Imagine if ur phone was a half decent spec desktop that could emulate x86. Samsung dex is nifty an all but its clunky, it cant run x86, an it only supports 1 1080 monitor.
Net worth, according to Forbes: $191,200,000,000
https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk/?sh=34f9e3527999
The next level of busy body bureaucracy types will get involved and then right wing people won't be able to purchase microchips.
Seriously fucking do it. I hate having my only real choice be google and apple.
Well Tesla is making a phone