Chinese phones are generally pretty good and cost a lot less so it’s not surprising at all.

They could have just paid the CEO a little less to cover it too. It was just greed so they could sell the data at a pittance, even though the cat is already out of the bag.

Australia is super concentrated, the duopoly own 70% of the grocery store market as well as others like 60% of the alcohol market. The rest is made up of convenience stores (mostly one company, IGA) and Aldi, the latter having single digit percent.

You basically sell and buy groceries though these two or you don’t exist. The CEO of one of them got so cocky during a recent interview he was forced to resign over it.

As an Australian who has to deal with the duopoly of our grocery stores after we let them all merge years ago, it absolutely will drive higher prices and nobody who isn’t a shareholder should want this.

They basically “collude” to fix and raise prices here and have whole teams of people who’s job it is to monitor and extract as much money out of us as possible. They also force growers to accept shitty deals or they reject their produce due to “not meeting their quality standards” and there’s basically nowhere else for them to sell it in the quantities they need to.

Nobody wins in grocery store mergers except the shareholders.

This is so sadly America it’s not funny.

It’s never a good idea to talk bad publicly about your boss.

I’m perfectly fine with the unwashed masses flocking to non-federated services, it means things will remain sane a while longer over here.

The outdoors is pay to win trash anyway.

So Capitalism, gotcha.

Only seems fair if you don’t pay your bills.

Traitor.

Being a loser sounds pretty great actually.

You’re also completely at the whims of your power company for your heating/cooling needs. Here in Australia they privatised the electricity companies and our power bills are astronomical unless you are one of the fortunate few who own their own house and can install solar.

Enshitification comes because of the unsustainable growth required by Capitalism in order to appease shareholders. Line must always go up!

I’ve said this for years but my colleagues are all hooked on chasing payrises for themselves and won’t work collectively because they think it’ll hurt them doing that.

I don’t think the people dating in this situation do a lot of talking or even have much in common other than what’s in Daddies wallet.

I finally stopped using it entirely when they started paywalling the answers. I don’t know if you had to actually pay or just sign up to view them but whatever it was went too far for me. Nothing of real value was honesty lost from my existence either.

Whenever I’m forced to use Edge for work it reminds me of old IE that your grandma installed the Ask toolbar in. Functions about the same too.

LLMs definitely provide value its just debatable whether they’re real AI or not. I believe they’re going to be shoved in a round hole regardless.

This right here is my experience, don’t recommend.