Expected.

Really expensive over here, so people only buy them for status basically. Having an iPhone signifies that you’re well off enough to not worry about price.

I had a friend who said exactly this. She was just buying it to show off basically. She didn’t even believe me when I said the back was glass for some reason lol. And when she got it, she had to get used to counter-intuitive behaviour like the power button cutting a WhatsApp call. She did this multiple times on a call with me, it was pretty funny!

Another friend kinda regrets buying it now because he feels locked in to the Apple ecosystem.

Personally, I don’t think I’ll ever switch because F-Droid is a huge part of my phone experience. When my Pixel runs out of support, I’ll probably just root it.

It’s a great phone. Solid hardware, good software. Just not for me.

This makes it sound like you ate his shit…

Honestly, they are pretty well funded and don’t need the money. I just redirected my money to SciHub and Lemmy now.

Except it was complaints from reactionaries which made them delete the option to donate through crypto after accepting it for years!

So, they were worried that an asset that has consistently gone up in the long term was too unstable to receive payments in? Your arguments make no sense.

I used to, but then they removed crypto because of propaganda efforts by reactionary idiots masquerading as progressives. Now, I have no way to donate to them.

I think there’s a setting to bring back the buttons, if you want that.

Settings -> System -> Gestures -> System navigation

I think people have already answered your question. Just to add on, think about stuff that happened before the creation of an IP regime. Were people not creating things back then?

I would also like to clarify that I’m not talking about forcing people to reveal their secrets. If you want to keep your thing a secret, you’re welcome to. But, there should be no state prosecution if that thing gets made public.

And I do buy things if I enjoyed them and want to reward the creators. When I was a poor kid with no funds, I pirated a lot of videogames. Now that I’m a slightly older kid with some funds, I buy the games that I enjoy and my game piracy has gone down a lot. Without piracy, these future sales from me would have been lost because I probably wouldn’t care about videogames. Not a justification, just my feelings.

All piracy is ethical because Intellectual Property is a lie.

I will pirate from megacorps and indies, anyone who sets up a demand based distribution system for products.

The only products I will not pirate are those that have a needs based distribution system and are finite.

100% of the crypto hate I see is from citizens of neocolonial states. You lord your control of the financial system over us and when something threatens it, it’s always delegitimised for any number of reasons.

Take your pick: scam, destroying the environment, eroding state power etc.

A decentralised system/society will need a value layer to transact. You think Visa should be in control of that?

Just because you don’t like it, doesn’t make it snake oil. I hope you never find yourself at the mercy of a government that persecutes you and imposes capital control so you can’t even run away with your money. If crypto existed when my people were literally being genocided, my parents would not have to end up in a new country with nothing to their name.

Why would I want a nation state to run on anything? The end of the nation state is the communist utopia!

I am for whatever erodes the illegitimate violence exerted by nation states to safeguard their parasitic domain. If it’s crypto, it’s crypto. If people not eating apples brought about their end, I would be out there burning orchards.

Why are the Lemmy devs asking for snake oil on their Donate page then?

Sitting comfy in a country where the financial system works for you elites is the real snake oil.

Socialism is actually full daddy-state.

Communism would be a stateless existence.

There is no need for all businesses to be cooperatives. Just require that majority voting shares be held by workers in a business always. Other people can buy shares to sell if they go higher or for dividend payouts. This would secure worker ownership of a business while still allowing for markets.

While banks should be part of the funding structure, disallowing VCs would have to mean disallowing any person from investing in anything, since that’s what VCs are, just a bunch of people getting together and putting money into things.

I’m in law school.

If I could replace my government with the EU, I would not hesitate.

No way that’s true. Most social media users are in Asia and Africa where Android is King!

Just use Firefox? Available on desktop and Android.

It even has adblock extensions on Android!

That would be:

Dota 2

Warframe

Path of Exile

Skyrim

Mass Effect 3

Dragon Age: Origins

Apex Legends

Didn’t this game have a massive controversy over homophobia or something?