As I typed my comment, I realised someone would correct me with hyperspecific linux terminology. But I support your correction good sir.

For anyone else wondering, this is a X11 vs Wayland meme - i.e. desktop window managers. Yeah.

I’m no Mr beast fan, but the dystopia you feel isn’t his fault. It’s the fault of our society. It’s the fact that some people have to rely on a clickbait youtubers generosity to have vision surgery, instead of it being freely available. It’s the fact that inequality is so rampant and ever growing due to our infinite capacity for greed.

I mean you nailed it. It’s entertainment - validation for people who want to buy the shiny new Apple thing. “Look how cool it looks in these artsy shots”, forgetting it’s a carbon copy of last year’s model.

And I did. The issue is they put in a QR code for their own $800 500 GB SSD in the bios error message for when your SSD breaks.

My non-technical friend had no idea it’s an obscene price and may have bought it just to get his laptop working.

Most obvious comment ever. I wish this were the answer to everything, but its not,

If only life were that simple. Whose laptops am I going to buy?

Dell: Marks up replacement SSD prices by 10x (including the predatory behaviour of embedding QR codes to these in the bios to be shown in error states)

Apple: …

Lenovo: History of installing literal spyware

Microsoft: Bad products

I understand that’s the reason why they’re doing it - but what excuse can they give? I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised at the things consumers will endure - just look at literally everything apple does.

Can someone explain why there’s a cloud printing service involved here at all? We’ve been able to print over WiFi for a decade now.

Interesting point about tourniquets is that improper use can be worse than just not using one. If it’s tied too loose you compress the superficial veins but not the deeper arteries, increasing blood loss.

Its Deus Ex time

Sadly I don’t think boycotting clickbait channels is a solution at this point. First, because almost every Youtuber does it. Second, even if you boycott it, it will remain a shockingly effective strategy. Case in point, after installing this extension I was shocked as to how little I wanted to click on videos - clickbait works.

CGP Grey is personally painful to me. He used to be a no-nonsense education youtube legend, but in the last few years he’s just maximised clickability - even going thorugh his whole back catalogue and changing titles and thumbnails.

For example, he made a great video about generative adversarial networks ~5 years ago but now its titled “How machines like ChatGPT learn” - despite coming out before GPT.