Absurd to pay so much just to remove ads only for smart TVs. There are easy ways to block ads on phones and computers.

And pay a shop to do it? Do you realistically think the average person is gonna be willing to do that? I think it’s more likely they’ll complain to the phone company about their bricked phone.

I also don’t know enough, but is a bricked phone “fixable”? If it is, the person could do it themselves. But that’s just one example. Other examples include installing unsafe OSes because social media said so. I don’t think the average person is tech savvy enough to give them this kind of freedom.

You’re not wrong, but users should then be held accountable if they fuck up their device. For example, if you decide to force companies to allow unlocking of bootloaders, and the user decides to flash something that they shouldn’t, and the device bricks, whose fault is it?

Yup, notice nowhere did I say they shouldnt. People read and infer what they want

Yup. Most of us aren’t CEOs, so we don’t have a lot of say about how most companies are run. All we can do is improve ourselves.

For some reason, a lot of people seem to be against that. They prefer to whine.

Nah that was just a bad CEO

Sure, believe what you want to believe. You can either adapt to what’s happening, or just get phased out. AI is happening whether you like it or not. You may as well learn to use it.

Hmmm maybe you’re misunderstanding me.

What I mean is “coding” is basically the grunt work of development. The real skill is understanding the requirements and building something efficiently. Tbh, I hate coding.

What tools like Gemini or ChatGPT brings to the table is the ability to create small, efficient snippets of code that works. We can then just modify it to meet our more specific requirements.

This makes things much faster, for me at least. If the time comes when the AI can generate more efficient code, making my job easier, I’d count that as “works” for me.

Definitely be coding less I think. Coding or programming is basically the “grunt work”. The real skill is understanding requirements and translating that into some product.

Well if it works, means that job wasn’t that important, and the people doing that job should improve themselves to stay relevant.

Sucks for you then

Fair enough.

I think it’s perfectly reasonable to not expect a company to perpetually support a sub-$100 device. Especially if said device has been around for 5+ years at least.

That’s what clickbait aims to achieve. Just make people rage. People need to learn to read the article before raging.

What has this got to do with who owns the copyright? And why is anonymous uploading allowed anyway?

Why are you twisting it to make it seem like Cara is doing a good thing? What’s your motive? What is the difference between Cara owning it by default and the uploader owning it by default? Why can’t it just be the owners property?

They don’t NEED it, sure. But it sure makes life a lot easier. It makes the software easier to maintain and scale.

You’re cherry picking the negative points only, just to lure me into an argument. Like all tech, there’s definitely good and bad. Also, the fact that you’re implying you need to be “pretty far on the spectrum” to think this is good is kinda troubling.

Haha you can put it however you like. It’s just that y’all don’t really have any bearing on my life, so convincing y’all won’t really make any difference. I’d rather save the effort.

Nah I just can’t be bothered to discuss with closed minded people