making an item accessible to being searched for is a form of advertising
also keep in mind that what teenagers (including me) tell adults is often not what we actually think, for various reasons
i can assure you that my impression of the youth is more encompassing than yours
i am the youth, nobody thinks this and in fact playing with a game console versus a phone is in fact even a fashion or cultural statement that people think is cool
ngl this seems significantly better than the alternative which is give them nothing. obviously solitary confinement as a concept is questionable but prisons using technology to offer prisoners entertainment and stuff is good and we should support that
not to be a downer but you could very likely buy a higher performing laptop than even the top framework laptop for less money than even a minimal build
i kinda fucks with it it’s fun
My point is basically that matrix/element is arguable the much more ethical chat solution because of its openess still with a focus on security.
signal protocol is basically the opposite, open source but the company is hostile to 3rd party client development
Thrift stores in America are usually corporate and not for charity. Or, they pretend to be charities (but aren't)
Goodwill is fucking evil.
"It's installed by default and all my friends are on it" - 50% of Americans
They don't need to worry about the fact that the other half of Americans are not able to comfortably message them, or participate in group chats, because those are people poorer than them that they might not even want to interact with anyways. Some of them might even be not white.
This becomes even more extreme as ages become younger, with around 98% of college age students and younger having iPhones (this is obviously biased to higher income colleges in metropolitian area but the data is still useful). The peer pressure of not having an iPhone is genuinely incredible (trust me, i experience it). I have genuinely had people stop wanting to be friends with me once they learned I had an Android phone.
Apple has a monopoly so powerful that they influence the social circles of almost every grade schooler and college student in America. This is why they don't want to give it up.
I’ll add that I’d love an app that can specifically filter for campsites that aren’t for rvs.