Maybe they really believed that this shit was so good that nobody would ever return or even sell it to third parties in the future

I can’t believe that I watched a 30 minutes rant about puyo puyo until the end, it was interesting even if I’m on the Tetris side, sorry

Unfortunately the hardware is so closed that even themselves can’t reset the software for refurbishing

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/7/24211339/humane-ai-pin-more-daily-returns-than-sales

Once a Humane Pin is returned, the company has no way to refurbish it, sources with knowledge of the return process confirmed. The Pin becomes e-waste, and Humane doesn’t have the opportunity to reclaim the revenue by selling it again.

You phone doesn’t have the low-res laser projector gimmick that is invisible in daylight, runs extremely hot and drains the battery in one hour

The fact that suddenly it went to watch a leisure website during work… did they use stolen screen recordings from human activity for training? Like if some corporation allowed them to record all the activity of their employees for training

I went back to watch my Facebook since years and I scrolled and scrolled. 24 sponsored posts before seeing a post from someone that I knew! And it was a post from someone out of the country who did a 1 week workshop with me ten years ago (=someone that I barely know). Next post is from a schoolmate after 21 sponsored posts. Need to-scroll through another 21 sponsored posts to find another real post. Again from someone who I barely know (the teacher of that workshop where I went ten years ago)

How can people enjoy this shit? They actually enjoy watching ads?

Years ago it was really interesting, could follow all my friends and see what they were up to. Now it’s ads, suggested content and sometimes, accidentally, I can see some uninteresting post from someone I barely know

It’s pure greenwashing.

They made a deal with a company that has zero practical experience with nuclear reactors, literally built nothing.

It’s impossible that in just 6 years they will manage to:

1. Build a test reactor for their new unproven technology that as of now exists only as a PowerPoint presentation to show to investors
2. Have it approved by the government
3. Build the full scale reactor
4. Have it approved by the government
5. Get a license to use enriched uranium in a private setting

Even if they finished yesterday to build the final version of the full scale reactor, 6 years aren’t enough to go all through the regulatory red tape

Now that they promised that will use “green” energy in the future, Google can continue to use energy from coal and in 2030 everyone has forgotten about this vaporware deal

this is assuming that mozilla won’t ruin firefox as usually by copying the bad parts of chromium

seeing the latest 5 years, i don’t have much hope

Yes, prestashop is faster than Woocommerce. I manage two e-commerce with both. But while with Woocommerce all I needed extra was a $15/lifetime stock synchronization plugin, with prestashop I would need $100/month of plugins to have feature parity. So I keep prestashop basic as an simpler store under a different domain that doesn’t need stock synchronization or mass import or blog.

Odoo, I loved it at first sight when I tried the 30 day trial 5 years ago. So much snappier than Woocommerce, and with so many features. Its main problem was price and complexity. Official hosted version required a subscription for every single feature. Invoices? That’s $19/month. List of clients? Another $19/month. Blog? Add $19/month. For the tiniest extra feature, needed a subscription. In the end the full package was completely unaffordable and the bare minimum was unusable. The free self hosted version is the most complex install that I had to do in my life. I installed a third party plugin and I broke it beyond recovery. Because it’s in python it requires a dedicated server and not a normal hosting. Unless you’re a Linux guru you have to pay for their hosting service. Luckily recently they realized that their pricing was unaffordable for everyone except huge corporations, so now the full package is around $20 per month.

I feel that’s even worse than Woocommerce in that regard. There was a reason it was forked as thirty bees: v1.7 broke almost all the plugins and had a very slow adoption rate, and plugin developers continued to target 1.6 as it was more popular. The situation stalled for years

Edit: but as a e-commerce is faster than Woocommerce

Maybe, a good alternative that offers everything while also being fast is odoo. But you need to pay for their service, as the free version is very difficult to install and maintain

When I saw this post I assumed it was a parody

Really? A $100 alarm clock with WiFi that requires a Nintendo account subscription? It’s going to be sold out tomorrow.

Use a better alternative store like droid-ify, it can do automatic updates for all the apps it installed first

can’t wait to run an emulated copy of “new new super mario bros wii u deluxe switch 2 edition” on my pc

Sometimes they publish a masterpiece that really pushes the hardware limits, sometimes they publish a shitty lazy unimaginative port of a port

In both cases they sell millions of copies

Wait, Russia need to import potatoes? I thought it was a major local product

Well, while I don’t understand their stubbornness of supporting Google drive, (Google restricts it so much? Ok then just remove it and blame Google. Replace with Dropbox/WebDAV/ftp/whatever) IMHO they’re right about the piracy. Years ago I tried to be an app developer for Android and iOS and I personally experienced that iOS users are willing to pay for everything. The in-app purchase to remove ads on iOS was bought by many, while on Google play literally a single person got it. Maybe it can be simply that because iPhones are 5x more expensive than the average Android (in my country there are no carrier locking and no carrier discounts at all), then users are wealthy or they’re adult workers, while kids and students get the cheaper Android phones.

I closed both dev accounts years ago and now I’m android user. As an user, I simply cannot imagine paying $5 on Android for a glorified text editor with all the free alternatives that are available. Maybe android users are cost conscious?

This is the top 10 most sold apps in my country:

1. Game Booster 4x Faster Pro (users tricked by deceptive ads)
2. e-Connect (an app to manage a specific home security system)
3. Threema
4. Obd torque pro
5. IPTV extreme pro (used by pirates that want to watch soccer)
6. Peakfinder
7. Metronet (an app graphically identical to e-connect but with a different icon and name)
8. Analog Rolex Royal Watch face (with obvious trademark infringement but of course Google doesn’t care)
9. Tasker
10. Nova launcher prime

Now, this is definitely alarming.

A smartwatch watchface is the #8 most sold app in a country with 30 million android users???

#2 and #7 have a combined download count of 20k! And are in the top 10???

Peakfinder is the #6??? How many people in October are trekking so much that they need to know which mountain are watching???

Tasker and nova launcher?? Yes I also bought those two apps but are for power users, the 1% of users.

it’s nice and faster than woocommerce, main issue is that almost every extra feature is provided by a plugin that needs a subscription and i hate subscriptions, i prefer to get a permanent license and pay extra for a new version only if and when it’s actually updated

Thirty bees is a fork based on an ancient version of prestashop (1.6, released TEN years ago). While it’s much better than what prestashop was at the time of the fork, IMHO it’s better to go with prestashop 1.9 (now called 9) if you need any extra plug-in, as third party developers abandoned support for 1.6 a long time ago.

Wasn’t that obvious? It would be crazy to keep them for other 4 years