Social media hug of death or wrong link?

That’s where I went too lol

If the state can’t protect its people from the damage that technology and capitalism can do, they have no right to prevent people from protecting themselves.

Fix climate change. Tax billionaires. Address the housing crisis. Then we can talk about taking away privacy in the name of upholding the law.

I prefer a simpler view… leave people the fuck alone as long as they aren’t harming anybody.

I wouldn’t call it a conspiracy theory any more than saying Facebook is free because you’re the product. To each their own though!

I guess what I’m getting at is if you buy a phone outright, you have no incentive to keep using it…other than of course wasting your money. But there’s no additional penalty keeping you from leaving the Pixel ecosystem, the financial damage is done.

On a contract, you have a financial penalty for the act of leaving early. So it disincentivizes leaving before 2 years or whatever the length of the contract.

So Google can say to carriers "Hey, we will subsidize our phones for you so you can give them away on contract. You get a captive customer, we get good odds of 2 years of valuable data.

I don’t know if I’m right about any of this, but it explains a lot of questions I have about why Pixels are far and away the best value you can get on contract with any provider, where I am anyway.

I don’t think so. Better to have captive customers on contracts if that is their goal, no?

Maybe if you’re buying them outright?

Where I am, you can get them (with a contract obviously) for 0 dollars up front and like 4 bucks a month for 2 years. And no other similar phone has the same deals. So it could be between Google and the cell provider.

Pixels are dirt cheap because Google is harvesting massive amounts of data from Pixel users, so they give them away.

GrapheneOS lets you have a cheap Pixel without Google knowing everything about you, and those near you.

Just throwing it out there, and for the record I agree with you, but if you’re going to criticize people’s intelligence, you can’t make an egregious spelling error like that.

Populace.

Gee I’ve never seen this argued before. By golly you’ve cracked the code. Checkmate!!

But did you die?

Check which sub you’re in lol

That poor bastard

Wow, Elon himself on Lemmy!

This should bump the stock up another $50-60 tomorrow!!

That looks like it is super comfortable for the kitties.

That was a really good take on the whole thing. The Oatmeal is my people.

Some people just like to watch the mallow burn…

Uhhh why?