@raccoon @thelinuxEXP @404zzz @newt Who cares what you assume is "appropriate"?
A tool can be used however it can be used. The original intention of a thing is irrelevant.
IIRC, the wheel was originally a children's toy in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Then eventually they were introduced to or thought up the idea of using it as a serious tool.
Also,
>The oldest wheel found in archeological excavations was discovered in what was Mesopotamia and is believed to be over 5,500 years old. It was not used for transportation, though, but rather as a potter's wheel. The combination of the wheel and axle made possible early forms of transportation, which became more sophisticated over time with the development of other technologies.
https://www.thoughtco.com/the-invention-of-the-wheel-1992669
I think it's handy to read news on a social platform. That way you can comment (or shitpost) in the replies and the original poster can see it.
The real problem is that historically a closed, centralised, censored platform was used for this. Which Musk appears to be changing by raising the profile of fedi.
The only problem is fediblock.
A tool can be used however it can be used. The original intention of a thing is irrelevant.
IIRC, the wheel was originally a children's toy in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Then eventually they were introduced to or thought up the idea of using it as a serious tool.
Also,
>The oldest wheel found in archeological excavations was discovered in what was Mesopotamia and is believed to be over 5,500 years old. It was not used for transportation, though, but rather as a potter's wheel. The combination of the wheel and axle made possible early forms of transportation, which became more sophisticated over time with the development of other technologies.
https://www.thoughtco.com/the-invention-of-the-wheel-1992669
I think it's handy to read news on a social platform. That way you can comment (or shitpost) in the replies and the original poster can see it.
The real problem is that historically a closed, centralised, censored platform was used for this. Which Musk appears to be changing by raising the profile of fedi.
The only problem is fediblock.
@raccoon @thelinuxEXP @404zzz @newt Sorry if I came across as rude. I couldn't think of a better way of expressing myself at the moment and I couldn't be bothered to spend ages drafting my post.
Also, I'm autistic.
Also, I'm autistic.
If you think about it though, it's the danger of being wildly successful. If you end up creating a car company larger than every other car company on the planet combined, and then and a claimed space company, and you have a bunch of other things that seem to be doing fine, the message that the entire universe is sending you is that you're something special.
That's how you overextend yourself, and we really do see it with a lot of these really successful people.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm sure Elon works very hard and makes a lot of good decisions, you don't get to be in the spot that he's in without doing some things right, but there's an awful lot of stuff that was pure chance as well. Just happened to be the guy running the company that all the investors decided to dump all their money in during an era of unprecedented money printing. Just happened to become the darling of the environmental movement. Just happened to become super rich in the com blow up, and be one of the few people to keep their wealth.
Once you temper your view of yourself as an infinite genius with the reality that no matter how infinite your genius and how virtuous your life is, you only get the opportunities that you get, and if you're the best it's probably because you got some opportunities someone else didn't, then you stop imagining that everything that you do is going to be immediately and automatically successful.
Now getting away from all that stuff for a second, seems to me that if you wanted to produce an open ecosystem, it would make a lot more sense to support the existing open ecosystems. Instead of making a brand new operating system, pay some people to contribute to the existing open operating systems such as mobian, and if you're going to make a new phone, figure out how to make one that's powerful enough to run the software that already exists. Pine phone is great, but it's like a 15-year-old phone and that is immediately apparent once you load Android on it.
That's how you overextend yourself, and we really do see it with a lot of these really successful people.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm sure Elon works very hard and makes a lot of good decisions, you don't get to be in the spot that he's in without doing some things right, but there's an awful lot of stuff that was pure chance as well. Just happened to be the guy running the company that all the investors decided to dump all their money in during an era of unprecedented money printing. Just happened to become the darling of the environmental movement. Just happened to become super rich in the com blow up, and be one of the few people to keep their wealth.
Once you temper your view of yourself as an infinite genius with the reality that no matter how infinite your genius and how virtuous your life is, you only get the opportunities that you get, and if you're the best it's probably because you got some opportunities someone else didn't, then you stop imagining that everything that you do is going to be immediately and automatically successful.
Now getting away from all that stuff for a second, seems to me that if you wanted to produce an open ecosystem, it would make a lot more sense to support the existing open ecosystems. Instead of making a brand new operating system, pay some people to contribute to the existing open operating systems such as mobian, and if you're going to make a new phone, figure out how to make one that's powerful enough to run the software that already exists. Pine phone is great, but it's like a 15-year-old phone and that is immediately apparent once you load Android on it.
Teaching people to install an apk seems a lot simpler than getting them to fully switch ecosystems.
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