Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net

@froggie But who knows, maybe Apple is recognizing its shift out of being the "mobile device company" that Tim and Steve lamentably announced back in ~2010, instead into the *data company* it has clearly become today. I suppose that would be most evident if they started offering more affordable devices again, but easing off all the constantly screwing service customers is a first step. This would nullify any remaining threat of a Louis Rossmann, if he ever even presented one.

@froggie The latter, at least, if you'll take seriously the prognostications of salivating shareholders. There are plenty of others leveraging Apple's reputation to make similar incisions to your privacy right now. (like, I bet Credit Karma sells everything it can access, down to my tapstream data, to reporting agencies, and that's relatively benign!) https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2022/10/18/apple-will-launch-health-insurance--in-2o24-says-analyst/?sh=11deb92162db

@froggie I still don't know what to make of these moves in context. Truly no corporation is more capable of drawing applause from a pittance than Apple, the pioneers of ROM chips that detect when they're being reused for repair and self-destruct, and who sold phones for 15yrs on a broken ethic of "privacy" that quickly earned the trust of the world, building a data empire that readily hands you over to states when it's not using your biometrics to set your health insurance premiums.

@skry All factors contribute to eye strain, but focusing distance has the most dramatic effect in my experience. The 20-20-20 rule says to look at something 20+ feet away for 20+ seconds every 20 minutes. Seems like a decent minimum, at least.

Once these projects are done, with all their screen-staring, I'm looking forward to getting mostly offline for a couple weeks straight so my eyes don't crap out for good. They are so sore and blurry today.

Let me never be mistaken for somebody who sold you Mastodon as a cure for anything. I am a historical materialist. It's a step in the right direction.

Really, it's a pretty dramatic fundamental break (FOSS ffs) that is fated to years of transitional pain undoing its vestiges and illuminating its new potential.

It's one thing when nonwhite people say something like that and I have zero reaction -- they deserve all the space they need to vent about the shit they're experiencing. But when it's constantly white people preaching to their neighbors to "stop being so racist", especially devoid of content or self-criticism, it stinks like cloutfarming whiteness-distancing horseshit.

Telling white people to "drop the whiteness" is the most laughable shit. what planet have you been living on. even the best of us struggle to do this, this is not viable public messaging for practically any segment, not even committed leftists

like at least cite specific things that are happening, to challenge people's broken understandings of whiteness with something unflatteringly relatable & directly applicable. I still have little idea what's happening HERE so differently from anywhere else

I continue not to understand this nonsense affectation, but not because I have another suggestion for "what white people should do" about anything. The only way this space becomes less culturally white is by becoming less demographically white. Whiteness is primarily displaced by nonwhite people. We are notoriously and necessarily incapable of solving these problems ourselves, especially from a position of power -- power which, thankfully, literally anyone can take for themselves. Displace us!!!

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