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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115911144289594973
When they reach for ads to monetize a website you know it’s basically over

The title of the blog post blog was clickbait for me. It argues #Thinkpad fandom boils down to price, build quality, and repairability.
There is one glaringly obvious omission any longtime user should spot immediately. There is no mention of the unique trackpoint-based keyboard design that you can't find anywhere else.
I've stopped using ThinkPads as my primary platform f…

The Myth of the ThinkPad
Lenovo does not care about you.IBM did not care about you.Thinkpads do not exist for your benefit. There are a lot of videos and blogs seeking to answer the question “why are ThinkPads so popular” …

More context:
https://www.essence.com/news/money-career/howard-intern-spotify-wrapped/
Basically:
- Spotify Wrapped used to be a dull email
- Design intern proposed turning it into an ~~experience~~, demoed her idea
- They didn’t hire her, but the redesign looks a lot like what she proposed
- Spotify says “nuh-uh, and besides lots of people contributed to it.” OK.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115741043600230762

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116086284243421319
The more I think of this the more disgusting it gets.
Seeking fame standing on the ashes of incinerated children.
Fuck that.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116092491198574746
science forbid I make a joke in a shitpost and people start getting at each other’s throats in the replies
for the love of Carl Sagan’s turtleneck, grow up

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116083589029041168
Update: Microsoft has removed this abomination, yet the site it was on is still full of bullshit, inaccuracies and half-truths.
For example, they claim that commits and branches are GitHub features, not git features.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116092491198574746
Here’s so many technologies that are actually helpful and amazing and I’m exited about, here’s some more:
- e-paper
- health tracking that alerts to possible conditions
- safety features in vehicles
- new vaccines
- those soundboards for pets allowing them to form sentences
- 3D printing
- LED lights
- new, less dangerous battery technologies
And so much more

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115900896398619371
Yay, the "good" (still very slow but not like molasses) Internet is back! ~18-hour outage.
Hope those techs are getting some sleep now.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115905194480224518
An exception is possibly when you make a website that looks awful on purpose, e.g. for nostalgia for marquee elements and so on.
(Even then please make it honor user preferences.)