Steve Jobs was evil af
Why, exactly? Genuinely asking. I mean, donāt get me wrong, Iām no Apple fan, and he was absolutely an insufferable douchebag to nearly everyone he knew; and was a verifiable self-righteous fuckwit who Darwinād himself out of existence by choosing woo-woo bullshit over medicine for a very treatable cancer.
Evil, though, I think might be a stretch ā Elon, Thiel, Vance, Trump, Murdoch, the Sackler family, the Koch brothers, etc. all excellent contenders for being truly evil ā but afaik Jobs was just a dickhead with an ego the size of a blimp, and I think we ought not dilute that term with just your run-of-the-mill dickheads. Unless you know something I donāt about him.
This told me nothing I didnāt already know. Like I said, he was a dickhead, to almost every single person in his personal and professional life. But evil requires a level of maliciousness that transcends the people you are in physical contact with, imo ā you have to be actively striving to make life worse for at least a few hundred people or more.
A dickhead and a shitty father, sure, Iām not defending his actions in the slightest. But āevilā would require him to have done something much worse than just treat his kid and the people in his immediate orbit like shit. Just my opinion.
To start with, Jobs lied and cheated Wozniak out of money. And this was Jobs friend, not some random.
If he is willing to do this to his friends, you know he did it to others.
Their ārepairā program is nothing but a scam to nudge you into buying a new Apple product to replace the broken one with overinflated repair prices and bullshit excuses like that.
Also it works exactly as Steve Jobs intended.
Heās one of the most innovative leaders of our time. One of the best lessons ive ever learned from him running my crypto empire was to give people extreme deadlines that normally would be difficult to meet. Iāve fired a lot of underperforming employees with this trick to make room for the best men who will work hard with little sleep to get rich off of crypto. Btw dm me if youāre interested in joining. We pay $8.25/hr but imagine the profit you can turn over once the crypto exchange goes up
thereās no fucking way, right? the 8 bucks an hour made me incredulous, as did the ābest menā wordingā¦ honestly, lately though, Iāve interacted with utter fucking morons here on Lemmy, which almost never happened in the first year or so. did some kind of very user friendly app come along with some awareness outreach?
This is almost exactly what happened to me except they told me my phone had mold growing inside it from the shattered screen I wanted replaced.
The āmoldā was pocket lint from waiting a month to get it fixed.
Bitch actually said right to my face that my phone no longer works so letās get you a new one. I powered on the phone right there and he started backpedaling and grifting āoh but it wonāt be long thoā. So I went home and still use it with the shattered screen because fuck them.
FYI, you can replace the screen yourself. Iāve replaced the screen and battery on an older iPhone. Bought the parts off Amazon, watched a YouTube video and thatās it. Super tiny screws so it may help if you have a magnifying glass (or one of those magnifying + light units for painting miniatures).
Never thought of doing that myself tbh but Iāll check it out, thanks for the idea. Id be happy if I could get a couple more years out of it because it sure beats these iPhone prices now
The other super useful tool to have is a heat gun. Go grab one from Harbor Freight for like $20 while they are on sale. This allows you to melt the adhesive they use to hold the screen in place
and Iām guessing you will still continue to use apple products and buy another iphoneā¦ apple users are such sheep
Iād love nothing more than to move back to android, but Iām a cheap bastard.
Iām going to drive this til the wheels fall off
Yea Google are much better with all their pro consumer practices like hosting thousands of malware apps. Also their manufacturing partners where both Google and the manufacturer get to spy on you and sell your data.
āSome of the parts were missingā
You motherfuckers put the damn thing together in the first place!
Ascend to Fairphone
While I get and applaud the mission of the Fairphone, there are some serious compromises you have to make spec-wise to be on it.
Even in the greentext, dude paid $60, not bad for + ~3 years of life. Your run of the mill Android will probably be cheaper as significantly less āpart serializingā bull happens on the android side
Itās not worth the power-handicap they shove in that thing.
āPower handicapā compared to what like a 2k phone? My almost 4.5 yo Pixel 4a is still doing fine in terms of specs. Only the battery is junk by now. I donāt need a phone that is more powerful and more expensive than my freaking PC, I just want one that does not make replacing the battery a huge pain in my ass.
Apart from the price premium, which is still far from Appleās, and seems rational considering they try to limit impact on the people and the planet, what are those serious compromises? I had the Fairphone 2, and I would agree this one was clunky, and you needed to be somewhat of an activist to stand it. But from the Fairphone 4 that I have now, and likely the 5th, I donāt see much compromise, everything has been perfectly smooth for me.
Writing on a Fair phone 4 itās amazing to easily replace stuff that breaks but they need to seriously sort out their software side never had a glitchier phone.
What glitches do you have? I also have this one, and I donāt have noticed much issues. The only thing that I noticed is the camera taking a bit of time to return the image when used inside a messaging app, which may be an issue of the app. I have no doubt every phone has some glitches sometimes.
Iāve had all sorts from ghost inputs, slow performance like super lag, going on and off charge affecting apps like Instagram itāll just play a whole new video and decide itās now on light mode even though my theme setting is dark. The camera takes ages to start, and you have to hold it still for a second after taking a photo, otherwise it blurs. Iāll add while itās cool you can replace things, they are often out of stock for certain modules had to wait months for batteries and screens to come back in. It all makes the having a flagship phone for more than 5 years a better argument, as Iāve seen very little response or ability from Fairphone to fix these issues. Great movement and ideology, I just donāt think theyāre skilled enough to maintain it well. They just move on to the next new shiny at the same pace a flagship would, defeat the point. They should be following something like the light phoneās development schedule only when itās nessary of LP doesnāt have the repaiability.