AliExpress is a rock solid platform. You just need to know official Chinese brand accounts there. It’s just like Amazon - you order random shit there, you get shit in the mailbox. You order from a reputable branded shop there and you get a high quality item.

Late stage capitalism is a myth.

Can you fly on it?

I was once hired by a company to investigate what their front end team is doing and why. They had great ideas with a great implementation. I wrote a report that their front enders are awesome :) I hope devs got some heat off their backs, they were doing really good stuff.

Google will simply find a different contractor company. Problem solved.

It’s about oil war between SA/Russia and US.

Yes

Russian missile guidance is probably good, but it was last serviced in 1990 and since then it “lost” half of its components. Just like gunpowder in Russian active tank armour turned out to be just plain sand - someone needed a new villa. It’s not that their armour is bad, it’s just never got deployed to the battlefield together with tanks.

Because you’re a 13 year old perv and your parents have blocked porn for you.

Nah, they didn’t suck.

This is definitely an off-topic, but the problem with repairs is that no one really needs them and repair support is very expensive. People are used to simply change phones every two years and change cars every 3-4 years. This is a very different market from a few decades back.

When device turn-around is so fast, most devices won’t break until their “end-of-life” of 2-3-4 years. It is better to simply offer a buy back scheme and recycle components into new phones, cars, etc. This is what consumers want and this is what companies are doing. Basically companies are doing two things: production and recycling.

This is different from days long gone when people used to buy a radio and then use it for over a decade. The business model in such climate was: production and repair. Repair requires specialty tooling and spare components and you can earn money on them. But if majority of your customers never repair anything, investment into repair will be a huge waste.

So, companies don’t like Right To Repair because it’s expensive for them. If it’s expensive, there are only two solutions: increase the prices of goods (and no one likes that, not companies, not consumers) or stop recycling and force everyone to repair (which most consumers don’t want and is an additional stress for companies).

Consumer attitudes should change for repairs to become a good option. It’s like people crying about lack of headphone jacks on the internet. Reality though? 99% of billions of people give ZERO SHIT. If people really wanted headphone jacks, they would stop buying new phones en masse and jacks would be back in days.

And it’s the same about privacy, micro-transactions, etc. No one is forcing you to play a game with micro-transactions, but most people do AND, most importantly, USE these micro-transactions. If they wouldn’t there would be no crap in the games.

And none of them are doing what WordPad is doing.

That’s a silly rumour. Microsoft might not care about Windows as much as it did before, but it still powers a lot of other Microsoft businesses like XBox and different B2B solutions, which are very important.

Humans block ambulances even when they’re not drivers https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/climate/i-would-block-ambulance-with-dying-patient-onboard-says-xr-founder-roger-hallam-b2185727.html There are way too many shitty people.

Wut?

But there’s one thing in which America is homogenous - school and mass shootings.

I see, even the simplest English sentence is confusing for you. No wonder you think the way you think…

They’re not.

Electric buses in London are bloody amazing! Love them! Trains are better though…

Car is a privilege not a right. Use bus.