butchkass · HackerTrans

20 giorni fadiscuss

It’s litterally the hottest month of June ever registered in France, beating a 23 years old record. Very typical heat wave indeed.

EDIT: actually yesterday was the hottest single day ever in recorded french history, and it happened in the merry month of June, not August. Truly your typical heat wave.

EDIT2: I was wrong, the record is not actually 23 years old, but… 1 year old, as the record had already been broken in 2025. Can’t wait to get my next dose of very typical 44C temps in may next year.

butchkass

28 giorni fadiscuss

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How exactly do you expect me to know I don’t want to buy something without thinking about it first ?

A product was presented to me -> I analyzed the product’s specs -> I compared those specs to the product’s asking price -> I concluded the asking price was too high for the specs -> I concluded I do not want to buy the product

I didn’t think about this any more or less than I should’ve.

butchkass

28 giorni fadiscuss

I use zero social medias and I have a phone that wouldn’t tell me no if I (a grown adult) did want to use them.

In fact I’d believe this is exactly for social media addicts because needing to be blocked from even accessing the domains by your OS to not use them is truly something.

And it is nostalgia bait. Wide sweeping nostalgia bait (C64 and Y2K). Corny nostalgia bait because surfing on pre social media Internet and Y2K aesthetics has been an overdone low-hanging fruit for at least 2 years already.

My main problem is the price. This has barely any more capabilities than a burner AliExpress dumbphone. Their margin is most likely egregious (because you’re paying for nostalgia bait).

butchkass

28 giorni fadiscuss

  -> $500   
  -> Corny nostalgia-bait   
  -> No web browser   
  -> No social media   
  -> System-level DNS blocking

Lmfao. What even is the point of this ? I could see an argument for not allowing to install social media apps, but blocking me arbitrarily from even accessing them through a browser is crazy. The OS is Linux-based too, so there’s no technical constraint, they just went out of their way to add always-on parental control.

For $500 (FIVE HUNDRED) you get a $30 dumb phone with Whatsapp. Wow.

butchkass

30 giorni fadiscuss

There’s a middle ground between going to cybercafes with sunglasses, and submitting a 4K scan of you gov ID before watching a YouTube video where someone says a bad word.

butchkass

11 mesi fadiscuss

Go right ahead

butchkass

anno scorsodiscuss

least disconnected from reality HN user

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