I have a Thinkpad Yoga 260. I disable the keyboard in "tablet mode" and use plasma-mobile for better touchscreen UX. It's a tolerable experience this way, but it's nowhere near as polished as a mainstream tablet or smartphone.
LinkedIn claims it has "1 billion members in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide". You can build a similar platform, but you cannot get the network effect of one billion people that easily.
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> And these companies, they use the same kind of central planning that we so despise in communist systems. I know. I’ve done it.
The work of János Kornai made us realize that it is impossible to find an exact solution for economic planning, so a completely centrally planned economy is destined to have major inefficiencies (he was also a notable inspiration for the Chinese reformers). It also seems like some kind of planning is inevitable in market economies to achieve long term goals as market prioritizes short term gains.
The answer is: small-size groupchats and they are already here. It depends on the location and your interests, but WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram and Discord groups became prevalent in the previous few years (I don't know about Asia though). I'm personally a member of like 5-6 similar communities. There is virtually no overlap between these, separate groups of friends and people who share the same hobbies. Between 3 and 8 members per group. Usually async communication, but random audio/videocalls are also happening.
The actual platform/app is not really relevant outside of core functionality (chat, audio call, video call, attachments), the main motivational factors seem to be:
- private: yes to inside jokes, no to unknown people
- real: yes to random, realistic, sometimes ugly stuff; no to the empty and fake nature of social media as we know it
- dynamic: spontaneous calls, random pictures about things we see, hear, experience
- prefer actual reality more than virtual reality: groupchats work more like an augmentation than a replacement of real-life communication and gatherings
What I like about it that requests are defined in a simple markup language called "Bru" and stores as simple text files, you can easily throw them around.
I think what we need is to legalize abandonware. Abandonware is now something that happens in practice and works because nobody is interested about going after these games and other types of software.
What if a game would become legally abandonware after:
- its company went bankrupt
- it got pulled from (online) stores
- required servers were turned off
After this, the abandonware would become freely distributable but commercially unavailable. Online games and services should also publish server binaries.
> With today’s announcement, TikTok is seeking to further present itself as an educational hub for the millions of young users on its app as a way to counter criticisms from lawmakers around the world
This is ridiculous. Tiktok will not magically become an edtech platform by filtering short videos as this so-called "STEM-related content" is what really? 20 second clips about rocket launches or "math tricks"? What can you learn from this? Nothing.