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Experienced Product Manager, Platform Architect, and Lead Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the wireless telecom and big data industries.

Yeah, I hope they put displays on more things. The trends are weird though, since some things that used to have displays no longer have them; you have to use the app on your phone instead...

That's so they can charge a subscription

Nah to get you to give the “share location” permission while pairing, so they sell that telemetry to data brokers.

Some things should never have had a display. Eg touch screen for car controls.

Controls are different from displays.

You're probably shaking your fist at touch controls ? Would you be mad if it was a button or knob with some display ?

I recently drove a Mazda with a knob in the center console that controlled the Android Auto display. It was surprisingly usable!

I still have a TI-86 on my desk that I've had since the late 90s. I use it from time to time for calculations.

I would say cronyism rather than capitalism, but I agree about the "ruling class" sentiment.

Yeah, this "new" trend of "quiet quitting" sounds so silly. People have been behaving like that for a very long time and they've probably always done it.

It’s worse than silly. I had to ragequit this (https://hbr.org/2022/09/when-quiet-quitting-is-worse-than-th...) article from HBR on “quiet quitting” after reading:

> Quiet quitters continue to fulfill their primary responsibilities, but they’re less willing to engage in activities known as citizenship behaviors: no more staying late, showing up early, or attending non-mandatory meetings.

Yes, we should all bereave the withering of classical virtues—like sacrificing our health and time with loved ones in order to provide free labor.

Such nerve. Instead of the talking about the downsides of increased surveillance and quantification of worker performance, blame the worker for not going above and beyond. As an employeee in this new landscape, of course you'll save powder for your official requirements, that's OKRs and KPIs working as designed.

I'm not surprised by this. I gave up on the YouTube Home page, etc. years ago and I only look at the Subscriptions page. I've just found new channels to subscribe to through word of mouth over the years and I have more than enough content to choose from.

Same, but deep down I know that the chronological subscriptions page will be taken away soon, and that’s when I’ll stop using youtube except for direct links to videos.

Which is actually quite a good way to find youtube channels! I find them through twitter, 4ch, and friends.

>twitter, 4ch, and friends

I was under the impression that these three are mutually exclusive to each other

Maybe that's the point..

I'm not sure they would work well if you're listening to loud music or something. Personally, I don't think I'd ever buy a car that uses voice control as its primary interface; I greatly prefer physical buttons.

It actually does work on my Polestar even when music is played, it pause the music while listening. Polestar uses Google voice recognition which is great, but still I hate using it except for rare cases at it is slow and prone to misunderstandings. It is ok-ish for listening to incoming messages though.

Yeah, I just replaced mine a couple weeks ago. It wasn't hard, but it wasn't easy either.

That's great. 5G can work if it's deployed well and with sufficient capacity. Unfortunately, that's not the case everywhere. For example, there's no 5G in my area at all and even the 4G coverage and speeds suck. Thankfully, in my area, I have 200mbit cable internet and WiFi calling. So to use a cliche: Your mileage may vary...

That's why I stuck with an S4 for so long; there just wasn't a good replacement that met my requirements. I finally got an S10e a couple years ago, which has been pretty good. It's still a little bigger than I would like, but... Many people want the larger phones for various reasons and many others don't seem to care. Those of us who want smaller phones seem to be a minority, so we don't get many options. It's a similar story with headphone jacks...