This is just more proof that a federalized society is untenable.
The wealth of the elders is due to many years of printing money.
Of course tacit ageism against the youth to protect old people who cannot do the work of keeping themselves alive is perfectly acceptable.
Everyone everywhere being on the hook to prop up dying people will never be an equitable system.
Deference to the past needs to go. I don’t owe believing other peoples grannies are worth the value printed on government totems of power (coins) and private bank statements (scripture of power with no real power if we don’t accept their validity).
It’s hilarious anti-government types are perfectly accepting of their spreading the gospel of the dollar; that somehow is not government conspiracy to co-opt agency.
Cancel the past. Their spoken traditions need not be ours.
I use it for toiletries and other routine consumables at home. Amazon trucks are going to be on the road anyway; may as well save my car trips for actually interesting trips.
Apple and customer are free to set the terms of their relationship without your input.
Freedom from, freedom to; law is semantic games not physics. You have the rights agreed upon by the rule makers.
Currently the free market you envision is not the status quo.
The only mechanism allowed in our social system to change that is vote em out or build a company that works how you want. Posting here is equivalent to echo “impotent rage” /dev/null imo
I don’t see the point in debating protocols when “the suckiness” always comes down to UI/UX
UX that works for async comms and real time comms can be “backed by” HTTP. One does not literally need the data model to conform to the presentation in mind.
“Email” view might be a good default. “Chat view” could be a toggle for when the group is online at the same time.
UX needs a rethink in general. What a designer finds trendy in the moment is user hostile. I want flexibility and customization at the presentation layer. Give me an API key and I’ll build my own UX in Docker containers, thanks.
There’s a free market to sell laptops in. What terms are attached are up to the consumer to consider.
Many people are happy with Apples terms. That some technologists are not is not evidence of a conspiracy.
Contemporary problem solving does not have to contort itself to the philosophy and nostalgia of some computer nerds. Same as we don’t have to kowtow to a Bible; it’s not about the what but who; present/future meat bags don’t owe past meat bags. No one asked to be born.