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I think that we are both well aware that the statement was not about "Candy Crush" or "Louis XIV". As the "America's poor have a higher standard of living than medieval kings" was not about technological progress.

Some more thoughts for you: since 19xx workers are productive to the scale of 10x (feel free to downplay it to whatever factor over 3x as this is the minimal amount, everyone agrees on except of those that harvest the difference) against those times. But we are still working 8/8/8. Who takes the difference? Of 10x (or 3x)?

> America's poor have a higher standard of living than medieval kings.

False Equivalence, Red Herring, Chronological Snobbery, Fallacy of Relative Deprivation, Contextomy.

So, by this logic, a homeless person with a used iPhone is better off than Louis XIV (who literally owned all of France) just because the king couldnt play Candy Crush?

This statement confuses global technological progress across centuries with an individuals actual financial security, social power, and quality of life within their own modern society.

I simply just cant understand why would someone repeat such a statement (and I have seen it everywhere).

Why would we? There is HN, works well, respects our privacy, doesnt abuse its users, so why would be any need for EU alternative?

I fail to see your logic, are you claiming everything American is bad and should be replaced?

As I really dont see it this way, I am using HN but on the other side I will never use Facebook.

And if there would be such an abusive site as Facebook in EU, I wouldnt use it either.

It is simple, if all the American sites would be respective to people as HN is, there would be no need for this topic. It is not that we are anti American people/sites/software, we are anti policy on our data or/and abusive practices. Why it doesnt bother Americans is beyond my comprehension. Or why you understand it as anti American.

I thing that the issue is Ireland. Corporations are avoiding their taxes there and they are earning a lot from corporation entities registered there.

This is literally money grab from their presidency in EU, on the expense of all EU citizens.

> But then again if the EU was working for the good of EU citizens, we'd know it by now.

And we do, we have GDPR.

I hope they will support M4 soon, I cant stand macos and its desire to be different than everything else by custom keyboard shortcuts etc.

After 2 years of usage, I still have issues with basic actions like copy paste.

edit: omg, writing this post, i checked if there is some way to use linux shortcuts and there is (Kanesh/KMonad or Karabiner-Elements). Maybe my suffering will finally stop.

I bought Jolla Phone 2026. Was thinking about Pixel 10 and another round of GrapheneOS, but changed my mind.

Was using Sailfish OS on Sonys phone but drove me nuts for two reasons:

- had to reverse banking up to kick out the checks each time when new version came out and I became quite proficient at it (decompiled into git and each new version over it, then git diff, and fix the checks, committed the changes)

- worse part was that there was no bluetooth to android bridge and local bus company required it for contactless paying

There was nothing I missed from the phone, even reversing banking app was not really an issue, but bluetooth was just needed.

I defected to GrapheneOS after two years, now I am moving back, I hope for good. The fixed the bluetooth while for hardware I dont care.

I have solved the banking app issues by changing the bank and getting cheap old pixel just for banking app. It doesnt even have SIM, only wifi and used Automatize to turn on airplane mode on lock screen and turning it off for unlock.

I dont care about NFC payment or any other android junk, for photos I have EOS and phone just doesnt cut it, while camera is good enough for taking shots at everyday things like shopping list.

I really hope I wont need to see android ever again.

I would like to present DX team another metric.

It is called "not wanting to work in a company that is insulting me with measures like metrics, spying on screens, squeezing every drop of sweat and exploiting its workers for already huge profit.

My last job change was exactly due to company acquisition by USA company that started to exploit everything work related, removing wfh, ruining life-job ballance,... And who leaves first? Those who can.

So you are not really measuring developer productivity but helping company get rid of most productive people, while all others stay.

I am using MacBook Pro M4 with 64GB of RAM and I have it on direct path of air conditioning airflow, 40ish cm from the device, while running LM Studio opened to network. No noise, not hot to the touch.

Using linux for actual work on my workstation.

Was preparing a rant about CAD solutions being free as long as people didnt get hooked and then closed behind paywall with ever increasing price.

Then I see that I can self host it. This is interesting novelty.

But there were so many bad apples in CAD area, that I will stick with FreeCAD and after 20 years, if this will evolve and prove it is just not another scam, happily give it a try.