into music (drumming) and programming in new york, ny
No question, removing swappable batteries was pretty brazenly consumer-hostile.
One of the main reasons I’m 100% on board with stuff like the Pinephone, at least in theory (just wish Linux phones were actually ready to be used as phones… maybe in another couple of years).
I’m on a Sony Xperia 10 IV now. Amazing battery life, decent for one-handed use, has a headphone jack, SD slot, and meh camera. Mostly solid overall- agree the situation’s getting worse and worse every year
I’ve been voting with my wallet on this one for years- no headphone jack, no purchase
I’d vote for Windows 2000, but the point stands. All it needed (in hindsight) was virtual desktops
The only exceptions I can think of are streaming services that simply couldn’t exist as standalone one-off products (Spotify, Netflix etc). But yeah, there’s no logical reason something like Photoshop should ever require more than one transaction.
Technically I’m not, but fair point
True, or maybe I’ve actually gone too far back to the pre-boomer era with this one
Alcohol is toxic, carcinogenic garbage and we’d be noticeably better off if everyone voluntarily stopped drinking it.
Ubuntu at home (with sway), and unfortunately macOS for work (with its badly-broken and nonsensical window management)