The is no such thing as self made wealth and an insane majprity of it is already being very comfortable and just going full bore.

There’s basically one self-made billionaire I’m aware of. Wealth turned him into a right-wing asshole unfortunately, but the original creator of Minecraft, Notch, is the closest thing to a self-made billionaire I can think of. He originally built Minecraft on his own and it was already doing insanely well when other people got involved. He did not have a rich background.

Now where we can argue about the self-made part: 1) None of what he did would’ve been possible without prior work by others (same goes for ANYTHING to do with computers nowadays), 2) There’s no guarantee he could’ve sold the game for over 2 billion dollars without help from others.

The CIA knew it was bullshit but Cheney wanted there to be WMDs so chose to believe bullshit artists instead, if John Kiriakou is to be believed. One of the only times in history where CIA might have been the good guys.

I don’t know much about Iran, but do they have legalized slavery?

It’s debatable, and I’m by no means an expert. But forced marriage is still a thing, where you sell your daughter to a man to clear your debts. If you ignore all the sex slaves, there are still about 600k people living in “modern slavery” conditions. The government isn’t doing anything about it either from what I gather.

So no, it’s not legal the way it is in the US through prison systems, but it is very much a huge issue that isn’t being corrected.

But I mean between the US, Israel and Iran… There really are no good guys. Each of these governments does some real horrible shit.

There’s a podcast by two stand up comedians here in Estonia (well, WAS a podcast, now that Ari Matti is in the US and gathering international fame - no new episodes in months) where one of the very first episodes discussed this: Having a common enemy brings people together more than anything else they have in common.

“Oh we both went to the same school? Yeah, cool…”

“Wait, you ALSO hate that person? Of course you do, how could you not, they’re terrible… Have you noticed how they speak? It’s so weird…”

I’ve yet to decide if I’ll use the same name or create a new identity entirely. But my addiction won’t let me just have nothing to scroll. I’m on lemmy because it’s less horrible than reddit or toktik.

I feel like Android and Linux (being that it’s what Android itself is based on) do the whole “everything is an app” much better than, say, Windows. On Windows, generally speaking, your entire desktop experience is built-in and so tightly coupled that it’s hard to switch it out. On Linux, you don’t NEED a GUI at all, but if you want one, you’ll have a display server, a window manager, etc. On Android, at least without the desktop mode, the base GUI is the launcher, which is just an app.

System apps that require root access are still apps. Of course the kernel isn’t really an app and I don’t think Google Play Services fits most people’s definitions of an app. System libraries aren’t apps. So those are the parts that you could consider true “OS updates” as opposed to “app updates”, but since the “apps” part of the system (if you include system apps) is so much more visible to the user, an OS update will seem like it’s mostly a bunch of app updates.

Thank you! It’ll be my last :(

What did Trump say about Elon’s computer knowledge winning the election again?

Round Iron Man 2 coming out and his cameo, I kinda felt that way too. Some 2-4 years later that feeling was entirely gone.

Yeah I actually liked the whole Vista/7 era Windows looks. Didn’t like anything else about Vista but that wasn’t Windows Aero’s fault.

It’s a washer but it’s also AI generated most likely. But also not too uncommon in tiny apartments.

Isn’t that what Whatsapp and Telegram are already used for?

Gen whatever slang often borrows from AAVE though.

I mean yeah, you’re right about the desktop mode, but 90% of new user facing features are going to be in one app or another generally.

Technically the desktop mode itself might also be an app, though a window manager or desktop environment isn’t something we conventionally think of as an app.

No idea when I’ll get to touch a new enough Android to play with it. My old Oneplus is on shaky custom rom support and my daily driver is an iPhone (which will likely get much longer software support and is newer to begin with)

Oh if it’s him personally, I’m not interested. I was hoping there would be a selection.

Allegra

Everything in Android is an app tbh, even the launcher is a completely normal app.

Man it’s porn, not guns. Children should not be near it!

Oh wait this is France

Anyway, I agree with you. We’re talking about regular ol garden variety porn. Everyone will probably see it at some point. Parents can limit what their kids see until the kids become smart enough to bypass filters. At which point they can probably handle seeing pennis n vagene.

Good ol’ Anja und Katja definitely helped me out in my teenage years.

And if one gets a hole in it, you don’t have to throw out an entire pair, just the one sock. It’s what I do