there’s no law that says you need to do college at 18. i started at 26, and it would’ve been a waste before that. i hadn’t even discovered any learning passions until just a couple years before that.

so maybe just avoid that problem like i did?

easier to be taken advantage of by employers too

how would android or chrome have the funding for development outside of google? really weird plan to fix this, seems like there are going to be a lot of unintended consequences.

and the ironic part about this, it comes at a time when google is on the verge of being destroyed by new technology and their own enshittification. i haven’t relied on google search in years now, it’s so bad. some monopoly

~all of them, i would wager

well, you asked “why” to a different question and i was answering that. but if you understood my response, that would give you the context of why you got downvoted. it comes down to you arguing the opposite of what you think you are, because you didn’t read the article or understand the context of the comment. you ‘chose violence’ instead, for no reason.

i mean, i did that for you. but you ignore it, even now when insisting it never happened.

techdirt has been gold across multiple decades now. I’m really glad more people are starting to become aware of it!

my college buddy and startup cofounder had a pathetically slow old laptop. he asks me the other day, “should i buy an ipad pro?” i was dumbfounded. bro you don’t even have a proper computer. we went around a bunch and he kept trying to get really bad ones like a base model mac mini. finally i persuaded him to get a 16" M1 Pro for a grand (about 700 after his trade in) and he couldn’t be happier.

I’m still using my M1 MBP like 4 years later. Don’t even care to upgrade! these things are great value

it’s what we all called it in first grade. past that bot so much

i heard of it as kid on some cooking show on PBS in the 90s. I thought it was super weird, but my mom had heard of it. Except it was cheddar cheese, not american. I tried it and thought it was pretty good, so i bring it up when people talk about apple pie. it never fails to weird them out if they’ve never tried it!

to keep from arguing the opposite of what you think you are

yeah let’s build “ghost printers” wait are we in a cyberpunk dystopia?!

drugs of course. i thought everyone had heard of it already!

it’s not my position, but the book author’s. i doubt i could do a good job explaining it, as i haven’t gotten very far in to it.

sometimes people are curious, and just want to know that the information exists. that is me. I’m reading the book as a challenge for myself, because i disagree with the premise.

other times people i guess think that you could cover a complex topic like this in bite-sized spoon-fed internet comments and memes. i feel pity for those guys.

but why do you have those options? why wouldn’t you have had them in the past?

proof me! now!

feels like a very reddit interaction, this doesn’t belong on lemmy imo

check out the book if you want to learn more about it! Determined

I’m currently reading his book. i would suggest those who are skeptical of the claims to read it also. i would say i am very skeptical of the claims, but he makes some very interesting points.