I kid you not, my aunty had a perfectly fine smartphone still she shilled out 800 dollars for an iPhone so she can take it to parties, family and social gatherings, and business conferences.

You’ll be dearly missed comrade, hope you have a good time or at least a tolerable time

That’s good!! You’re safe then!

Man do I want a flip phone, I am ready to use my laptop if my phone can be used for like making small payments

Like literally use anything, genuinely I am not jesting or joking here despite this whole place being jesting but for this comment I am serious, use Android, use linux mobile, fucking throw the iPhone away. I will never understand the desire to burn $5000 dollars on a laptop

Well if it has been more than 5 months since you last touched an iPhone you must be clean of the pollutants that come with touching apple ecosystem

It is that or Chinese smartphones, Huawei especially. Apple users are a plague on our species

Dw I live in India, iPhones cost three month’s income here even if you’re in top 8% of earners

I hate how some people say “it would’ve been fine if it was renewables” well where would all the heat go

Many, mostly after Palestinian genocide was put into fifth gear in 2023. I left like half a decade long friends because nothing matters more now, if I can’t fight for liberation, if I can’t do industrial sabotage, I can at least say that there are consequences to siding with genocide

Not like I have money for latest consoles but man that hurts still.

That doesn’t guarantee a place free of ableism especially, disability is kind of a litmus test to see if a person is good or some level of enthralled in status quo, if they want a sick person to live a comfortable enough life while contributing whatever said person can then they’re good and if they say anything adjacent to “well they need to represent themselves well, they need to dress and speak normally” they’re fucked up on some level and want to do eugenics to an extent if they can.

And honestly some people, even on the left, are so weird about IP laws like if you can’t understand difference between a corporation owning a piece of art in IP laws and artists owning their labour so it doesn’t get exploited or alienated from them in form of abstraction in algorithms. Seriously so called Marxists struggle with understanding the fact that data and labour are quite intimate part and by training deadend algorithms with them, they’re just alienating people not only from their labour hut themselves, every single becomes an algorithmic slop tailored to addicting you and you feel so detached from everything. This is why I like platforms like fediverse where an algorithm isn’t running background to curate my feed.

Literally, open source means something like linux, something that can be studied on the most fundamental level.

Something I noticed in bourgeois countries, things are always written in lawyer speak but in socialist countries they’re simpler, like if you read translated versions of soviet constitution, it was simple as hell to read.

That’s our plan, like yes yes white genocide is now!!!

That’s the plan, when white sturn violent we put them down by their systems of industrial extermination

It feels weird but good, finally have a collective and individual humanity affirmed, yes our life, our chats, our conversations, our data, our labour, these don’t exist so a deadend algorithm can trained, our labour exists so we can pass on our knowledge for the practice of the next generation. It is never for us, at least not us alone, it is for everyone now and in future.

Yea you can do that, but pepsi, coca cola, fanta, sprite, dr pepper, all are forbidden

Yea that’s the point