The issue isn't really the OS in many cases.

The barrier is getting a battery replacement. Which many devices make exceptionally difficult, to the point where buying a new cheap phone is nearly equivalent in price as paying someone to tear down your phone and rebuild it to swap the battery

Damn those are some terrible distributed scaling mechanisms.

Entire comment sections are just bots, for the most part, if reddit is actually identifying bots and non humans then it would be normal to see wasteland threads.

The Internet is in a sad state.

Default Google Chrome embedded on Android with nothing configured and googled up.

17 bits.

I miss the internet being like this. I like this

By the same logic a disabled spouse doesn't mean you get any additional consideration right?

Exactly. This whole argument is just allowing corporate greed and manufactured resource scarcity to win.

Working class trying to remove rights and privileges from the working class because the ruling class creates a situation that encourages it.

Pretty much agree with the last statement.

Disagree with the first statement. Given that the survival of our species is one reliant on us not only having children but also raising them in a way that improves our world and doesn't make it worse.

The later of course is the Crux of the problem. A society that doesn't encourage parents to be good parents and just shits on them instead is not a society that wants to survive.

Yep. You essentially summed up my point.

There's a difference between data display for academia and data display for the general public.

The general public is generally not well educated on understanding the data that's presented to them. Big change in line up or down regardless of scale means big change. It could be from 100 to 100.8, but if the scale is zoomed in then that could be presented as a +80% change.

And often is and sometimes with the axes removed and shown on the news specifically to be manipulative.

I really don't understand why I'm being downvoted above.... This was literally part of my grade school education on identifying and avoiding misinformation. And later on, around how the general public understands data visualizations. They are largely understood at a glance and taken at face value without reading the axes.

This is a easy way to push misinformation. Not by actually pushing real misinformation but by taking advantage of the general public's tendency to not read it carefully.

Which is manipulative. Which is why it's taught in some places as part of the standard educational curriculum...

Or when they do listen all they do is treat symptoms instead of understanding or going after the underlying cause.

Because treating the symptom will get you out of the office quicker so their employer can make more money off of an overworked doctor providing subpar care.

20 minute chat with my doctor, that led to effectively nothing. $430. The system is fucked.

This the most tech illiterate take....

These are called query parameters. The standard part of the HTTP spec.

A huge part of the internet uses these simply as a way to instruct a page to display certain data or to display a particular view or layout of that data.

Calling for an extension to get rid of these it's like calling for an extension to get rid of headers because websites use them to pass metadata in the same manner.

Edit: that was harsh my apologies.

Way too much for sure.

Just the business internet to get the foot in the door for a static IP 5x's the cost of my Internet.

It's actually cheaper to just have DC IPs and proxy through hosted containers. Which is kind of crazy.

Negative aspect is that DC IPs aren't treated very nice.

I don't even have those.

No I think someone saying Google it is still worse.

The former is being intentionally unhelpful.

Your example is being unintentionally unhelpful.

Intentional malicious behavior is far worse than negligence.

Kek.

That could never happen!

looks at western countries and tik toc

Social media is a theater of war. Manipulating citizens of a country slowly and insidiously over time is a huge win that inflicts no casualties on your own populace.

Honestly nuclear isn't a bad deal for that. Clean, sustainable, safe, compared to non-renewables.

Though old ass reactors seem sus.

Using compressed axes to display data was literally "How to identify misleading statistics 101" in middle school for us....

It seems fine to you but for the majority of people it's misleading most people look at the lines and the relative distance between them to make judgment calls. Not literally the entire point of graphs, to visually display information.

This is a well-known effect and is taught in pretty much every major curriculum.

I honestly don't have an answer to that but from my understanding running a web tunnel from your home IP can have negative consequences in relation to your address being flagged as a public proxy.

With the potential to be added to certain automatic ban lists. But more likely than not you'll be added to a list of potentially untrustable addresses which means you'll be doing a lot more CAPTCHAS in the future

I'm not sure what argument you're making here yes of course parents should be teaching their children these skills instead of letting them go on social media.

How is that relevant to the argument that I'm making though?

This is obviously not occurring today so how do you expect it to occur tomorrow when we make no changes today?

You do realize that the children of tomorrow will be raised by the children of today right? And as we let the children of today become addicted to social media and don't provide them with the tools skills and safety to protect themselves from social media how do you expect them to teach their children how?

Sure I may be cognizant of this but again, as stated previously in these messages...., this is a systemic problem. You cannot solve a systemic problem by putting the burden of solution on each individual involved in the problem. Systemic problems require systematic solutions, this is largely an inarguable point.