sodapopcan

"At least you got your bag" is the saying these days.

I think I was responding to you when I accidentally responded to someone else (perhaps, I'm a bit confused now, but that's my fault).

How is it obviously not true (genuine question)? I am not an American myself, but used the American definition as it's the simplest (it's very absolutist, as per my understanding). But what definitions exist where it is not defined in terms of how the government can treat you? I'm from Canada. We have concessions against hate speech, for example (maybe the US does too, though? I'm not sure). But "free speech" doesn't mean you are free criticism from fellow citizens or even businesses based on what you say.

I'm not American. I chose to use American terms they have (from what I understand) the simplest definition in that it is considered absolute. Other countries have concessions for things like hate speech and other such matters (and yes, there is a lot of nuance to it). But my point was is that "free speech" is in regards to how the government treats you, not: "I can come to your business and treat you like shit and you have to sit there and take it."

EDIT: I just realized you were not responding to me... oops!

I think that any reasonable person who is just misinformed is going to understand, possibly after some time if they are the sort who find it hard to admit they are wrong. Otherwise, if they are going to try and claim that "No, constitutional 'free speech' means I can say whatever I want without consequence from ANYbody" then I don't think there is a good-faith way to argue that.

You are speaking as someone who gives a shit about technology. Many people don't. "Just another account" is a big ask for many, as lots of people don't have password managers. There are a whole shit ton of people who want to use as few apps as they can. Even lots of tech-savvy people, myself included, feel this way.

> After that you forget it exists until someone messages you.

Until you get a random notification asking you to take steps to keep your account active or whatever. You may not care about this, but many people get stressed out about this kind of thing.

> 98% of the time people are talking about the former

I'd say damn near 100% of those 98% will still cite the constitution, sometimes even crying "1st amendment!" in lieu of "free speech," so I'd say your overall point is wrong. They are basically saying both at the same time, with intent, while still not understanding it.

This is my hope, I'm not sure I believe it will happen, at least not in my life time. Despite reading this tech forum right now, I've been taking steps to heavily reduce my reliance on technology-for-technology's sake. But how you encourage others to? I'm not totally sure. So far I talk about it (to people, face-to-face) but everyone is still staring at their smartphone.

At for me here in Canada it's showing as Lake Ontario. No parentheses, no "other name," just Lake Ontario.

Oh right, ya. This is something my brain often refuses to process.

I also make music and would also love to know what alternatives the author is exploring (as a Rubyist I'm very familiar with Ryan).

I've been unemployed for 8 months but I'm pretty ok with money, am single with no children, so I can keep up unemployment for at least another couple of years. I'd rather not, of course, but it's been very fun hanging out with my dog and recording music. I got my 4-tracks serviced and have gone back to those which has been very fun and rewarding... for one it's made it so I can cut out screen-time while recording! Has other benefits too.

But ya... uh, I dunno, stream-of-conscious there since your comment resonated, I don't have much of substance to offer.

> Thankfully I haven't had to do that since before the pandemic.

That's why you haven't experienced this. Pre-pandemic it was the same for me as in I only ever did one or two interviews then got an offer. I changed jobs twice post-pandemic and it took many 10s of interviews before I found something. I'm not sure pandemic is the cause here (not saying you were saying this either), it's really after Elon bought Twitter, fired a bunch of people, and a whole bunch of other companies followed suit.

That would be great, yes. I'm "semi-loud" about it (I'm trying to avoid be obnoxious about it) to hopefully "convert" a few people. But ya, I really hate smartphones, especially now that I don't have one. Now that I can't also stare at my phone in a group of people also staring at their phones, it's become so in my face about how much people do this. I always knew they did, but it's even worse than I thought since I would just do it myself.

Get rid of your smartphone! It did it eight months ago, no regrets.

That actually does sound nice, hmmmm.

> Canva now owns Affinity.

Insert Michael Scott "God no" meme

That's terrible news. I only use photo-editing software to lay stuff out for print once in a while, so hopefully I can get away without upgrading indefinitely.