the expectation would be a better solution will surface in reference to streaming… the same way streaming was a solution to cable.

What would that look like though? The current streaming model was pretty easy to predict ~15 years ago with the advent of online video streaming in general, especially mainstream forms of it such as YouTube. I have a hard time imagining how any other business model for distributing video content would look like, but then again I don’t have a very entrepreneurial mind.

Have you ever questioned the nature of your own reality?

*un vélo

His program was more of a virus than a lot of computer viruses out there.

I don’t know how much you care about this, but even within each product class (i5, i7, etc) there can be a huge performance delta between specific models, especially in laptop chips. The same applies to AMD.

No, I’m talking about the hypothetical algorithm that fills a page with things you might be interested in. Twitter has it (even though it’s not necessarily good), even Reddit these days has some of that, it’s a feature in most social media websites and sometimes quite a useful one, and Mastodon just lacks it altogether.

You can, but the feeds that are supposed to help you find people to follow in the first place are important, and Mastodon’s are awful.

Don’t forget that he inflicted the blight that is JavaScript upon the world.

Since the App Store sits in between the ad click and App launch, there isn’t an easy way to track it without that.

How does that work exactly? Does the App Store pass along some information to newly installed apps or something? My company’s app, which I worked on for some time, also uses an external service to track installs (not Facebook or any social media), but I didn’t work on the implementation of it and never really got to grips on how it works.

If you look carefully at Meta’s actions in the last few years, you’ll notice they’re slowly stepping away from the Facebook brand and product. I suspect that they no longer internally consider Facebook to be their main product, giving way for Instagram, which at the moment is a lot more popular and despite the obvious association doesn’t have a tainted name the same way Facebook does.

Bingo. For a lot of devices, especially anything made after 2015-ish, there’s no real reason why mid to high-end devices couldn’t be running the most recent OS version outside of “it’s a lot of work to certify updates for so many devices”. Thankfully Android has a custom ROM scene which keeps devices going for a few years longer.