Well, it’s definitely tangential. The only overlap is how their refunds don’t actually fix anything and there is no path to actually addressing the original customer intent. A new order would be more money, and a gamble on the same error happening (maybe even intentional neglect by the people at the restaurant). And having to go out and get it yourself breaks the whole reason you engaged with the company at all.

It’s a very broken customer service system they have. And it has to be that way to keep their margins.

It’s like DoorDash giving you a partial refund and not actually getting you what you ordered when there is a fuckup by the restaurant.

How satisfied are you with your customer support? I didn’t get what I fucking ordered!

It makes this supposedly being an American phone even more ironic.

woof. Why can’t platforms just be themselves.

Also, Twitter tried this under Elon and recently changed their minds after, I assume, it didn’t work out like they had hoped?

“It will be a federated decentralized face database that lives on each users phone.”

Yeah, it’s really sad.

The irony is off the charts.

lol, and it’s probally because someone got through to him that most of these projects look impossible to finish in a reasonable timeline. And that there is not yet proof that the demand will be there for what they are specifically building at the end of the timeline.

He gets to act like he’s making a compromise when really he’s just covering his ass.

3D video isn’t a stepping stone for VR. It’s just one application that VR excels at.

It’s like saying photographs are a stepping stone for screens.

For the 3D video one, VR headsets perfected it. It’s actually awesome now. And looks the best on the newest devices like the Vision Pro.

But, VR devices are slow to catch on.

Anyway. I say this to just note that 3D movies and video has continued to improve despite the format supposedly being dead in the eyes of your average consumer. Apple currently has the largest 3D movie selection ever assembled from one vendor. And it’s the only place to watch 3D in 4K. Blu-ray does not have a standard/specification that supports it.

3D movies have been around for many many decades. And only recently have they become “perfected” from a visual fidelity POV. The hardware form factor needs more refinement though. I’m just reinforcing your point about how at least one of the technologies has not and will not go away.

Any of the companies framing it as a utility hope you don’t think too deeply about it.

Just more marketing for the NSA. Oh wait.

You can’t “rebrand” a month. Every month has multiple things people have attached to it. Most days of the year too.

It’s definitely intended to be an opposing cultural event though. But like most conservative culture of this sort, it’s pathetic, and won’t really go anywhere.

I guess so. But the original definition was useful and encapsulated a specific thing. And then everyone discarding that definition is a bummer. But it’s not like there is anything to be done about it. And Doctoro has said he’s not too annoyed by it himself.

I’m not talking about ignorance here, just one of the facts about how Microsoft was being shitty.

Are you defending Microsoft’s choice to be shitty? Or just excited to share how you knew better?

I ran across “tender shaped chicken” from Walmart’s “Better Goods” brand recently. 😩

I’m here to just say it is worth your time. This and Hypernormalization are Adam Curtis’ best works. IMO.

That word is only used correctly about 5% of the times it is used.

Well, the point here is the deception. So, if you can find a similar link from the past from Microsoft…