As for myself, and most men, ordinary and dull, being devoid of that which attracts women, the vacuous but sonorous, like me, fb is perpetually the Garfield cartoon where John is sitting by the phone waiting for anybody except his mom to call. And then cobwebs.
Deleted, I'll project my soul into the stars and find better company, and sing hymns with Epictitus and Nolan.
The main problem is in the name. It's a face book. As a famous male model said, "it's a face game", when asked why he didn't body sculpt. The face is hardest to change. If you're kind of ugly like myself, you'll never win in the superficial arena, because no striving beautifies but the soul. And I will assure you no woman was attracted by a pure soul ever, get the thought out of your mind. Power, yes, such as the power of the church and the security of it, but not authentic and actual virtue observable and present and real, never in the least, except as a mask, but not from the self, attested by the difference of fervency, no fever of devotion is caught by a woman for goodness itself.
So, the simple reason why fb sucks is that women are in charge of it, it's the gossip corner. And therefore it descends into the angst of pettiness and uselessness, as these are the names of the servants of the superficial.
But the reason why fb is a problem is the fault only of men, wimps who won't give it the one finger salute and delete it.
"Not everyone needs 64 cores, and AMD has been very clear about this in their messaging."
Can people stop saying that sort of thing? Yes, you might not need it now, but eventually everybody will need even more.
Everywhere commenting systems are a disaster. Here on ycombinator I had an utterly dull comment flagged and downvoted. Elsewhere, such as Twitter, scripts are distributed for mass downvoting/flagging of accounts. It doesn't help that people are egotistical enough to believe that Russia would spend the resources necessary to troll them on obscure sites. Ironically, it's China which has the resources to engage in such activities (including in computer learning, having a spy state, having a considerable financial interest in US opinion, known to disfavor Trump).
"In the three years before the Tesla crash, the device was struck at least five times, including one crash that resulted in fatalities. A car struck it again on May 20, 2018, about two months after the Tesla crash, the NTSB said."
Well that story was a total waste of space and time and existence. The roadway is unsafe, and it has nothing to do with Tesla. As usual. I remember reading about a guy who wrecked his Tesla into one of those pieces of concrete Dallas loves to stick in lanes. And I thought, "I nearly did that once myself". You're driving along at 60mph, round a corner, out of nowhere there's a big piece of concrete angled a bit to pretend like it's a legit lane change, like "there, job done".
I'm using Dex right now. It's pretty good, but it has some oddities. Okay, it has numerous oddities. Running unapproved appes requires developer mode to be enabled, which means using a videogame-style cheat. I have a quite capable Linux desktop that I use minimally, and a Windows laptop I also only use minimally. My reason is simple enough, I have unlimited data on my phone, but not unlimited tethering, and I refuse to pay for the available garbage quality dsl. Dex has made me a Samsung customer for life.
SNEAKERNETWORK (an humble submission to cure some crypto ills)
It's time to resurrect the one time pad (not referring here to 2 factor authentication (2FA), I should hope to include 2FA FIDO in a Sneakernetwork standard), but rather the process of generating random data, shared between only two people, for the purpose of the most primitive of systems of encrypted communication. Simplest, but most secure(!!!)
There is a lot of research in this area, and each issue can be addressed (for example, the risk of reuse can be solved in various ways).
What we need is a way to "sneakernetwork" our otp random data to our friends. Like a business card, only where it's a mutual otp between these friends. For most people, 99% of important communications could be handled this way, through only a single contact. Certainly one could easily text for life with a single SDHC card of otp. And an SSD could handle phonecalls. A lifetime of video calls (again, between the two parties) aren't out of reach either.
What we also need is a networking protocol that supports forwarding through the web of trust messages to parties known only at the fringes of one's social network. For example, connections of the 1st degree are sneakernetworked contacts. Like you visit your mother, you share an otp blob. Now, even if your mother is in another country you can never visit, you can always talk to her about politics or religion without any worries about oppressive authorities. But out from there, anyone who is in your mother's 1st degree network can be added to your own 2nd degree network, depending upon her permissions. This kind of p2p interworking.
Before you object that "real" encryption is also needed, I agree, "real" encryption in addition to otp (it needs to be throughout a well-designed sneakernetwork system). But otp is superior, and, if you have to choose, choose otp.
There is no reason why the security of assymmetric encryption should matter to ordinary (or the majority of extraordinary) people.
It might be different for you, but 100% of the people I've had important conversations with have been friends I know from life, family, which I unsurprisingly know from life, and financial institutions of various kinds, which have offices for physical contact.
And I know the very thought of otp makes some people ill. It reminds one of hack jobs. Yet there it is, as factual, the best encryption, perfectly suited to normal people, and with data capacities at the level where it's beyond practical. What we lack is adequate paranoia and vision in the tech community.