I still remember when people would complain about "fragmentation" in the Android market as a "problem." I mean, maybe it was in similar ways to how having a gajillion Linux distros as options can be a "problem" for a regular user. But honestly, since the beginning I have hated this complaint because guess what. Android is now "less fragmented" but that has only made it easier in the long-run for anti-consumer decisions to be made. This is a trade-off in my mind and I'd rather alienate regular users than make it easier for business to enforce a monopoly or oligopology on the firmware market. If a user prefers the opposite, they can go somewhere else. I say this as someone who now owns an iPhone btw. I just don't believe everything needs to always cater to everyone. I do think we should improve accessibility more generally, but to me that is a separate consideration from "streamlining" people's consumption or consumer choices.
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cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: (mrjunge@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 21:49:09 JST cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: Good morning fedi! :blobcatMorning:
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cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: (mrjunge@raru.re)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 21:16:07 JST cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: Good morning fedi! :blobcatMorning:
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cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: (mrjunge@raru.re)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 20:27:38 JST cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: @puniko my condolences :blobcatSadPats:
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cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: (mrjunge@raru.re)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 20:17:27 JST cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: @puniko how puni
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cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: (mrjunge@raru.re)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 20:12:21 JST cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: Good morning fedi! :blobcatMorning:
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cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: (mrjunge@raru.re)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 19:55:14 JST cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: @icedquinn but what if I wanna transition WITH introversion
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cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: (mrjunge@raru.re)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 07:02:16 JST cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: I've yet to find somebody that knows the band Cake from the 2000s. I thought they were bigger?
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cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: (mrjunge@raru.re)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 07:08:54 JST cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: Cinnamon desktop and XFCE are tbh my fav linux DEs.
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cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: (mrjunge@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 01:25:03 JST cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: Good morning fedi
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cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: (mrjunge@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 01:25:00 JST cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: @Shark that is classic fedi behavior and I am HERE for it 😎 How are ya?
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cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: (mrjunge@raru.re)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 06:46:18 JST cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: :bunHop:
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cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: (mrjunge@raru.re)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 06:31:43 JST cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: In sum, the freeloader problem in the context of work and production seems very real, but the concept of "freeloading" in a consumer market makes absolutely no sense. It's just consumers paying it forward for other consumers. This is a non-problem conjured in order to justify companies polluting the internet airwaves with noise, and for those rentiering via platform-provision to feel like they are solving a real problem rather than just capturing the commons to make money, whenever they attempt to paywall or lock people out.
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cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: (mrjunge@raru.re)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 06:31:15 JST cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: When I look at the pro-advertisement or advertisement-neutral arguments online, I find it hard not to think that there is this pernicious assumption that its more important that there be a monetary barrier to entry for accessing material than that people who make or produce the material get paid decently. There's even almost a kind of pretense that these are the same thing when they are not. It's like if it's not 100% of the audience for a stream or video paying for the stream or video, than the, lets say, 10-50% not paying are freeloaders and need to be made to pay. Even if the revenue from the other 50-90% of the audience is enough to maintain the show. The whole point of the economy *is* for the sake of consumption (this is not a pro-hyperconsumption take btw, I'm just saying the *economy* is for consumers), so its weird to factor in "collateral consumption" as a cost just because it isn't entered into monetary circulation. This only makes sense if growth is your eternal imperative, as then it would indeed be realistic to assess the inability to incorporate people into a market as a cost or loss. It also only make sense if you're a landlord (metaphorical or otherwise) and you're worried about maximizing your assets' "financial efficiency."
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cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: (mrjunge@raru.re)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 23:22:00 JST cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: @puniko It's going okay. My lack of e supply is getting to me but I'm chugging along.
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cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: (mrjunge@raru.re)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 22:37:10 JST cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: @puniko good myaowning, punyako
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cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: (mrjunge@raru.re)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 21:32:11 JST cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: Good morning fedi
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cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: (mrjunge@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 20:38:09 JST cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: Good morning fedi!
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cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: (mrjunge@raru.re)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 23:06:41 JST cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: Wimdy : 3
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cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: (mrjunge@raru.re)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 21:46:39 JST cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: @puniko finally, an honest seller uwu