placatedmayhem

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There's no official time frame, so you'll get different answers. Also, generations are somewhat arbitrary delineations that are defined by things other than age, particularly major events and themes that occurred in early life.

For example, it seems that "millennial" is congealing around 1981-1996, at least according to Wikipedia, but there's still variance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenial#Date_and_age_range_definitions

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Fewer than originally expected. Apple cut the initial production order[1]. Also, "selling out" is a hype generator now.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-forced-make-cuts-vision-pro-production-plans-ft-2023-07-03/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're not the only one I've seen. It's pretty entertaining that Google's decision to neuter adblock plugins in Chrome then deploying anti-adblock measures on Youtube is pushing folks off Chrome.

Welcome back to Firefox. :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Credentialism. Some doctors treat their staff the same way. If an argument, no matter how logical, comes from someone that doesn't have an MD, PhD, or other doctor initials behind their name, it gets automatically dismissed. For some, it's even on non-medical stuff. This happens with non-medical academics, too.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

No. There are a whole bag of tactics to get you to enable it like "Whoops, got re-enabled in an update. Our bad.", which has happened before, or a myriad of dark patterns. By changing the name of this at least twice now when it got backlash from users, Google has shown it doesn't care about Chrome users' preferences, only that it wants this to fly under the radar so that every Chrome user won't know to disable it.

Change to a browser that actually gives a crap about your privacy. As a bonus, changing helps reduce Google's ability to dictate what happens to the web via Chrome's huge user base, like the recent "Web Environment Integrity" push.