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I mean, to keep morale in check maybe? But why would you kill off your own slaves? That's like burning your own car.

Sing sing sing sing! Everybody starts to sing!

Since it's from china, some security trust issues aside, musing from perspectives of OnePlus and Onyx Boox, yep, you completely control the device and what you put on it.

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I think you have been lulled into submission by the decades-long "Let's make it really complicated to repair for no reason other than profits" narrative. This is exactly how devices should look. This is exactly how your TV, radio looked 30 years ago. Easy to disassemble, diagrams on the bloody box, extra fuses, relays if one blows.

Hell, this is exactly how your desktop looked and still looks. Lots of extra screws, replaceable parts. Easy to disassemble (not even using screws for the panels).

What?

Decentralization literally fights power centralization. There is no inherent position of power.

Anonymization has no talking point in the discussion of virtual internet power points. Only makes people more true to who they are.

... yep, they're rich. This saying has reached a full circle.

Their job is literally to do things that make company profits. What fantasy land are you talking about? And what do I need to take to go there??

It's some kind of intense mental gymnastics to think the Trump administration has a thought process behind their policies...........

I think it is quite beautiful to see how much <some politically, even if self-perceived, powerful person who is a moral trashheap> falls into the usual strong narcisism tendencies of projection.

How do these apps make money then?

It's not really any different than usual dust, other than it is even more likely to scratch your phone (oh no!). The surprising thing is the bullshit price number, I'm sure it's some brain-dead economist looking at the point-price for diamond and with great effort making a single multiplication.

Edit: The study does note industrial diamond manufacturing, but doesn't go into detail on why it's so expensive for diamond powder, other than saying "it would require much more industrial diamond than is currently produced".... Which is just.... Empty? Considering industry would change to account for such a drastic rise in demand.