chaosCruiser

Qalculate is a fancy calculator available for Linux, MacOS and Windows. I use it for calculations that involve unit conversions, but it can do much more.

Recently, I watched a YouTube video about phones designed to minimize distractions. While they aim to solve the problem of smartphone overuse, their utility in today's world is questionable. Essential tasks like using banking apps, navigation, communication, and parking apps often require a smartphone, making these distraction-free phones less practical.

The video mentioned some "smart" distraction-free phones, but if you need those features, why not just adjust the settings on your regular smartphone to achieve a similar minimalist setup? Ultimately, traditional dumb phones seem too limited for modern needs, while the smarter minimalist phones are essentially just smartphones with minimalist settings. It's hard to see who the target audience for these phones really is.

I have a feeling that we’ll be seeing more news like this one. Like the phone thing is just one huge scandal waiting to happen. Looking forward to seeing that spectacular crash. 🍿

All of this spying and data hoarding has resulted in a finely tuned advertising machine that directs car ads to people who specifically hate cars with a burning passion. Peak of targeted advertising.👌

And people still wonder why I use every means within my disposal to block ads. Even if I allowed ads, they aren’t targeted enough to be much more than an annoyance. Even when they somehow manage to show me something I care about, I’m seeing an interesting product from the highest paying company. It’s not the best product in that category, nor is the one that would serve me best. It’s the one from the company that was willing to pay more than any other. Advertising is just so broken in every way you can think of.

Oh, so consumers stop consuming, retail companies fire employees to maintain profitability, etc. Few rounds of that and you have even more poor people who can be exploited to maintain the wealth inequality or even widen the gap. Was that the idea?

What about all of the Trump’s billionaire buddies who depend on the general public spending money on stuff? This can’t be good for business, now can it? If this is some sort of clever tactic that results in them getting more money in the end, please tell me how that works.

Consider sharing that with [email protected]. I’m sure they will appreciate it.

Only if the value goes so far below zero that you get an integer overflow.

It won’t disappear, but the version number will be frozen. I kinda prefer to have security updates on a regular basis.

That’s an impressive amount of optimism you have there. My guess is, you can kiss that money goodbye, but I hope everything somehow works out anyway.

Thanks. I’ll keep an eye on that later today.

Have you considered resorting to a hard stare? I mean, it works every time in the Paddington movies.