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  • Gimmick features in general. So many android phones are just designed to be android flavors of an iPhone, removing all the character that used to be one of the benefits of not going with Apple.

    I had a phone that had a built in kickstand. It was both useful for propping the phone up and as a fidget toy. My last phone had a camera that would pop up out of the top of the phone so they could put a better camera for the selfie cam while also not having a hole in the screen.





  • Barring terrible company policy, those people who can’t do more than allow the AI to think for them will find themselves out of a job pretty quickly if they can’t do the work themselves.

    Bad employees and stupid people will always be stupid, the newest tech isn’t the cause of that. Maybe it lowers the bar of entry a bit?

    Lastly, you’re clearly gatekeeping “the ability to critically think” based on some arbitrary conditions you made up based on “how things used to be”, so to speak. Maybe you could have used your superior boomer wisdom to figure that one out.



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    6 days ago

    This is some boomer-tier gatekeeping and just another “back in my day, things were better because…”

    The people who aren’t problem solving beyond typing something into a chat bot are the same people who wouldn’t have done so before the chat bot existed.

    You can absolutely find similar complaints about the internet being invented, or search engines, or any other technological expansion in the past entire human history.




  • I see this repeated a lot, but I’ve never experienced it or seen it in person. Just because something is repeated by reddit over and over doesn’t make it true. What I usually find is that both exist, usually with some interplay between the two. Maybe I’m just not a part of the communities that have gotten rid of their forum structure.

    I hate ads as much as any other lemmy user, but quests are pretty non-invasive. I guess it’s annoying to close the popup once every so often. Nitro is still massively overpriced, but seems to only have features a normal user wouldn’t need.

    I don’t like look forward to it getting worse, but I used Skype for some time after it became nearly unusable, so discord is still way better.