Paying for content: fair enough

Paying almost A THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR for content: barely worth it

GrapheneOS requires specific safety hardware that, as of now, is usually available only on the Google Pixel line of phones. If your standard smartphone doesn't include it, I doubt a car does.

On one hand, it's a bit sad to see the average person not know about the Fediverse and claim "welp, there's nowhere else to go, it's either staying on the same ten junkyards I know or quitting cold-turkey". On the other hand, the relative obscurity kind of comes from the fact that there's no single main instance of the Fediverse. Sure there's things like Mastodon.Social, Lemmy.ML and Misskey.GG that concentrate most users of their niche, but by nature, there is not (and should not be) a centralized place where everybody is, that can be used as the poster child for the Fediverse.

I'm surprised that Twitch still doesn't allow users to upload pre-made videos besides of channel intros. Amazon has the technical infrastructure to actually compete with YouTube on its own turf, and they decide to just limit themselves for no particular reason

While I'm not entirely sure about this reasoning, it might be related to the status of soy as a meat and milk substitute. Omnivores claiming that "soy is not meant for human consumption in the same way that milk and meat are" must have eventually been shortened along the way as "soy is not meant for human consumption".

When people were joking about Tencent implementing social credits on Reddit, I didn't expect them to actually go and do it

Imagine if the players actually follow suit and the result is a country like, say, Nigeria becoming a superpower in rugby in a few decades

Since the beginning, I expected Beehaw to move to an unfederated software. They wanted a system where they could vouch for every user and comment, and even with a list of allowed instances, there was (and is) not enough control they can do to keep it to their standards.

Just add Winget with an UI to have a proper package manager and we're in

Just to be sure, how high are the chances of a mass execution for high treason at this point in time?

That's because you haven't found The Good Ones ™ such as TILVids

Wondering if this will see the same backlash that Mastodon had when users were planning to add a search engine - many users moved to Mastodon specifically because their posts are unsearchable by default, and that prevents some dogpiling that was common on Twitter.