I’m waiting for that new Intel gear.

Whatever makes you feel better. Do what you can. If you know you can make a difference, I feel you should. Giving up IS an option, but, in my mind, not a required one.

And, we can try and avoid them. Or, we can pay trump through them.

There are so many android manufacturers that wouldn’t even spit in trumps direction. The choice is there. It can be taken. Or, we can shrug, find excuses, and just give Trump our money through apple (in this example).

In pretty sure Xiaomi don’t pay Trump. But, you never really know.

What we do really know, is Apple do. Spending with Apple is spending with Trump, guaranteed.

I agree. Definitely.

However, your money actually just went to Trump, via Apple, and their hardware and services.

Remember, when you buy an apple product, you’re directly supporting Trump.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/03/tim-cook-apple-donate-1-million-trump-inauguration

Surely it does this already?!

I worked in a first party, AAA gaming studio, back in the day.

We had the Maya sales dipshits, and a handful of Maya developers come to our studio, to ‘listen’. Maybe 5 or so in total. How they can improve, and help us, kind of thing.

Our tech team ripped them a new asshole. Asked why 5 year old bug X wasn’t fixed, when our internal team created a workaround in a couple of days.

Read them the riot act.

They made sympathy and apology noises.

They left. Nothing happened.

Just total corporate, bullshit.

They just, don’t, care.

Just because they’re a for profit corporation, doesn’t mean they’re going to deliver.

They’re not in trouble. They’ve just become used to fat wads, and that’s ok.

Every corporate clamouring over them the last few years, to show how inclusive they were.

So, once you get used to that, you get used to that.

That’s all it is.

I have my lemmy client set to block any items with the word Trump in it. Hence, your question made it through. It’s been a blissful few months, not hearing a thing about him.

This year, I’m going to focus on growing my business, and deepening my relationships. Family and close friends.

Nana nap. Every afternoon if I can. Just a half hour power nap, and the difference it makes is phenomenal.

I can stay sharp all afternoon, and right up to bed time, with just a very fast nap in the afternoon. I’m all for it.

I’ve been considering this for a while. Nice to see it happening.

But, it needs to be categorised.

License plates. Facial recognition. Private. Government. Etc

Oh my goodness! Syncthing without Android leaves me screwed. My whole digital life revolves around it.

This is the real truth. Man, the gall of that guy.

Hi, we are a spyware company. Be aware. Don’t load apps that don’t meet our surveillance metrics. Only download our spyware. Thank you.

Screw that guy. How about only sideload. There’s another world out there, and it doesn’t equate to surveillance capitalism.

My understanding is it’s 13 years or so of requests, and still nothing. Something so incredibly basic, and required.

Cool. Now how about image thumbnail in the file picker. I mean seriously…