My bad, it was a single line comment. Quite a pedantic thing to remark, but ok.

“Coffee maker”, in this context, pretty clearly means an automatic drip-brew coffee machine.

I don’t think anyone is disputing that or confused about it. It’s precisely what my response was about.

It would be like if we were talking about basketball, and I said, “my net is made of chain, as it should be”, and you were to reply, “how dare you, nylon is a perfectly fine material for fishing nets.”

Awful analogy. The brewing method changes the taste of the cup, a lot. A more adequate comparison would be saying that there’s only one way to make pizza. It’s not a minor detail. Even the net thing would be a weird thing to say, though.

Seems like you where the one confused after all. Oh well.

Here’s my big issue. There’s no need for a smart device to contact someone else’s server. It could just connect directly to whatever device you’re controlling it with.

Yup, on that we can agree.

How can I take it “out of context”? I replied to a single sentence comment and said comment is right there.

If you’re only against the coffee maker having an internet connection (and I agree on that), maybe you should’ve phrase your comment differently, I guess.

Define computer. Good espresso machines use a PID controller and some have ways to tweak the pressure curve + other features. There are even DIY projects to make your own. I think the part that bothers you is the data collection and internet connection. That is 100% not necessary.

here != hear

“As it should be” is a strong statement. There are many more ways of making coffee.

It’s a lot more expensive in Europe, 9EUR. Not saying it’s not worth it, just that I don’t really feel like I need it.

Symfonium is a paid app. I use Tempus (which is free) and while it has fewer features, it’s more than enough for me.

What do you expect them to do run on a 1% margin like a grocery store?

Why would you assume this? I said that they maintain the margin. I never implied or said that they should provide their services for free. They should reduce their cut imo, not eliminate it.

Really, writing entire paragraphs to defend a corporation that could not care less about you and is taking a large cut from devs is pretty pathetic.

That’s true. My point, however, is that the narrative around Valve is that they’re the “good guy”. In reality they’re just not as awful as the rest and are only doing the bare minimum. They’re part of the problem. You’ll never in a million years convince me that gaben is a decent guy when he owns 6 yachts. The biggest one even has a hospital, it’s ridiculous.

I’m confused. According to the article he was blocked due to his cpu id. That means that they just comapred a string basically. Why would that use your “cpu cycles”?

They are ridiculously profitable though, yet they still maintain their 30% cut.

Not at all. But ok.

Not only is it illegal in several countries, it is also proven to negatively impact attention and reaction times.

Not sure where you got the link but even the youtube app lets you shared a timestamped link nowadays. Timestamped link.

Do “average people” use lemmy and browse the “technology” community?

They’re a memory manufacturer, what did you expect the answer to be? It also wasn’t “spectacularly sarcastic”, don’t be dramatic. I was just pretty surprised that you weren’t aware of how shitty they are. Memory manufacturers called themselves a “cartel” and have been fined for price fixing in the past too. So this isn’t unexpected or new for them.

Besides killing their consumer brand (Crucial), not honoring warranties and price gouging literally the entire world?

But also fuck micron. If this impacts them negatively, I support it.