america sounds like such a hell-hole

that would be a nice compensation package in any first world country

You’re going to base an opinion on a third-hand story? That might not even be true just to illustrate a point?

I know a guy that passed BillG in a hallway and said, “hey, Bill, how’s it hangin’?” (Saw him do it; I was mortified.) Just a bottom-tier IC at the time. 20 years later, he still works there. Still an IC, though, so make of it what you will. :-)

So there, now you have another folksy anecdote to balance things out.

Well, not quite third-hand, the guy was working in my team. But not a US company, not in the US either though.

> insubordination

Are we talking about the military or some company?

US corporate culture has a stronger sense of hierarchy than many other countries. It is an environment where one can get fired quickly and suddenly and that instills a lot of obedience and discipline (if not outright fear) in employees.

I don't even think you need a strong sense of hierarchy. The meaning of the word would apply anywhere.

I think that term can be / is used for individuals at companies.

LOL. The military isn't the only organization with a hierarchy.

How can I do this when I don't have a phone?

Don't you people have phones?

Edit: Sorry that reference was a deep cut, I was quoting the devs of that awful Diablo mobile game way back.

A phone isn't enough, you need an Apple or Google account as well. So if your Google account gets banned, you might as well just jump of a bridge because it's over for you.

That is easy to solve though. If Apple/Google become essentially an utility, they are legally mandated to provide an account for any EU citizen =)

You want companies based in a country threatening to take over parts of the EU (Greenland) as being required for everything you do in society?

No? I had been with dumb phone for almost a year from like 2024-25? What point are you trying to make as I think that there are some good dumb phones in the market which even support things like signal.

I used to use the messaging app through SMS tho, the people that knew me (that 1 friend gets a shoutout here who used to msg me through SMS in the world of whatsapp and my mom!!)

Most phones are used for two things that my father used to quote: Whatsapp (messaging app) and youtube(social media)

Entertainment could somewhat be offloaded via music player etc. into dumb phones and to be really honest, I think that even things like hackernews could be operated on those dumb phones if given the ability to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdYrBpBJRI4 : this is the dumbphone which supports signal btw. Wish there was a way to make app for dumbphones like these just as how we can make apps for androids.

I was shocked by how much feature packed my chinese dumb phone was for 11.27$ lol. It just didn't have internet & yeah games as well.

Was it Diablo? I thought it was Dungeon Keeper.

Diablo Immortal, 2018. (How the fuck was that 7 years ago already Christ…)

For what it's worth, I chortled.

run terminals

Almost as if you can choose a browser on the desktop :thinking-face:

Windows even asks you if you want to use something else other than Chrome if you're in the EU.

> Windows even asks you if you want to use something else other than Chrome if you're in the EU.

And not by choice. It was a 2010 legal decision. Pretty confident that if the court didn't force Microsoft to do it they wouldn't give you that option.

Unfortunately not, but the fact is choice exists everywhere and is even encouraged in some jurisdictions.

The US is closer to a dictatorship than a democracy. Certainly now.

In properly democratic countries you would have more than 2 parties, with more than 2 viewpoints. You pick one that aligns with you, and they actually have a chance at winning.

Of course it did, it's been extensively covered in European newspapers and the article you linked doesn't even refute it happening. Microsoft is just twisting the truth to make themselves look less bad. Don't be so gullible.

It's pretty hilarious how the americans have corporate personhood so businesses can pretend to be people when it suits them, to shield their workers from the law.

But of course this veil can be pierced when it suits the administration, but not when it'd positively benefit the life of american citizens.

Firefox Console > Memory > Enable record call stacks, reload the page, take a snapshot, wait until you notice memory grows, take another snapshot. Then compare the two: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/memory.... You can also try a performance recording.

But you probably won't be able to make much sense of the results without a lot of effort because of all the minimization/obfuscation.

If you have an adblocker and it happens at the start of a video then this is intentional