There has been tons of products with fake reviews for over a decade as well by now.

I remember back when Amazon was a source for trustworthy products in the earlier days. Then they let the shady sellers in. Then they hid the country the product ships from. Then tolerated blatantly fake reviews. And now they’re hiding the reviews they don’t like? Why would anyone want to purchase anything from that service at that point?

If I want something I have to order online nowadays I’ll go out of my way to find an online store that isn’t Amazon. And if it’s something I can’t find anywhere else, I’d go on AliExpress. It’s likely going to be a junk product but at least it’s priced accordingly. Amazon products nowadays are just AliExpress products with a 5000% markup.

What if he’s just really short so that’s the view most girls will have of him by default?

When did Metallica become Metallica fans?

The connector is flimsy, will wear out in applications where you connect and disconnect it often and the whole standard is controlled by big tech and they abuse that power to hinder open source efforts.

You have to be in visual range, or radar range if you have one, which is the horizon plus a bit more depending how high above sea level your are and how tall your target is.

If you’re on a ship, unless you’re using an advanced radar that bounces signals against the ionosphere or you have a meteorological phenomena called an inversion which can curve your radar energy over the horizon a little bit, your radar horizon is surprisingly short, something around 12 nautical miles give or take. And the sea is big and Iran is quite far.

This is one big reason why aircraft are used for surveillance at sea. They can go much higher than any ship’s radar antenna mast every could be which significantly expands their radar horizon. They can also scan a huge area relatively quickly as they can travel much faster.

Because if this fuck up, Iran now has the intel that the French carrier is approaching without even having to send an aircraft out to look for it. If they even still have the ability to do so at this point.

But what if what your are looking for is AI generated articles that don’t provide any trustworthy answers or top 10 lists of products that their manufacturers paid the site to figure on the list? Google is still the best for that.

Hopefully this doesn’t give Microslop executives the idea of turning it into a feature to force their users to save their files onto OneDrive

A very different kind of sci-fi show: Red Dwarf. Specifically Season 3 and up when Kryten becomes a regular character that ties everything together. Although the first 2 seasons are still worth a watch, just not as good.

Peaceful living as a smoldering skeleton

I agree. If the fediverse allows crap like that and it grows, new users will be turned away by their feed being filled with garbage posts like that.

This is a place for people to share interesting content for other humans. Not some cheap and easy way for someone’s bots to communicate with other bots while CCing the whole world. This garbage content is being sent to everyone’s feed by default but it can’t even be consumed by humans. What if someone starts uploading ads like that? Get that shit off of Lemmy.

You forgot to mention that the product they’re sacrificing everything for is widely failing to meet expectations and that they will likely expect taxpayers to bail them out when their investments fail and threaten to take out the entire economy with themselves

IDK if I’m understanding their response correctly in the article but it really sounds like the people affected are left to pay for the repair themselves

That’s a big oof for a product like Fairphone. They dropped the ball hard too by not standing behind their fuckup and left their customers hanging. Fairphone just got off my list of potential new purchases.

I wish the damages they had to pay were enough to bankrupt them. “Companies” that do this sort of stuff are purely parasitical in nature should be taken down.

I’d even argue that when it is blatant like that law practicing licences should be revoked and the higher management of the company jailed for attempted extortion.

It is baffling that people hadn’t clued in about this sooner

There are people actually paying for this crap?