People like this surely already have issues, but AI seems to make it much worse. Also, I think this affects many of us in a similar but milder way. I would lie if I said chatgpt has never made me feel like a genius.

fairphone is definitely better than samsung etc. I’m just being excessively negative like a good Lemmy user 🫡

I don’t understand how people can get by with disabling JS? Like aren’t 90% of modern website just straight up useless without it?

Mostly the FairbudsXL which are basically a scam, as the parts fail chronically but fairphone has abandoned the product and the firmware. I have bought the same replacement part 4 times. Also much of the product is proprietary and they don’t allow you to run your own software on them.

The fairphone itself is not awful and I’m still using my fairphone 4, but I increasingly get the idea that they are increasingly abandoning their values in favor of profits.

Sure.

1. What is the “natural” state of money?
2. How could we in theory achieve 0% inflation and what do you estimate would be the side effects?
3. You say that the wealthy create inflation to encourage people to invest. How does this benefit them?

I posted a rant here. Looking back, I was a little to worked up and excessively negative, so take with a grain of salt.

As a side note, I’ve grown increasingly disappointed with fairphone. I recebtly switched to shiftphone, which also supports degoogled ROMs, and offers the same repairability. I think shift is much more aligned with the values fairphone claims to represent.

Exactly, which is why poor people go bankrupt during deflation, while the rich can just save their money and get richer and richer without even taking risks or investing (no investment, no jobs)

Type 2 in this case is not an overall deflation in the economy, just for one sector. It also seems hard to me to measure the inflation/deflation there since the sector doesn’t have the same products over time, constantly innovating. Are people spending less money on electronics now than they used to? I find that hard to believe.

Sorry but the beliefs you’re expressing are deeply neoliberal (and false).

First of all, NOTHING is natural about money.

If people are saving in cash, then more and more money is removed from circulation, which leads to economic downturn (see any example of deflation in history). This is among the reasons why most countries aim for 2% inflation target.

Also, investment is important actually (shocker). If you don’t want to invest in business or anything you can invest in government bonds. That’s right, the entity that creates the money in the first place also gives you a tool to save your money and mostly beat inflation.

“We could have 0% inflation if we wanted” - No we can’t? If a raw material becomes scarce and the price goes up, the products have to increase in price too. These prices don’t go back down on their own, thats unfortunately not how markets work. That’s literally what this whole post is about.

markets and money are entirely human creations. Nothing about them is natural. Stop worshipping them.

Usually inflation is calculated per month but over a full year. So this is inflation since april 2025

Inflation is always a distribution issue. If all the prices and wages went up at the same rate, the only thing being eroded is stockpiled wealth, and this would make the rich less rich. But that’s not how inflation works in a price shock like this.

The article says prices rose 3.8% and wages 3.6%. If that doesn’t sound like much difference it’s because it isn’t. The real issue is that the prices of gas and food have risen far more than other goods (and will continue to do so, probably). People with lower incomes spend a much bigger fraction of their income on those consumer goods.

Also, those 3.6% wage growth aren’t universal. The very lowest incomes haven’t all been lifted by that number.

One way to combat this is to raise minimum wage and strengthen unions so they can negotiate better wages. Of course, that would increase overall inflation a little more, so the rich don’t want that to happen.

Another way to combat this is to make heavy regulations such that US domestic oil production covers most needs, but the oil companies don’t want to miss out on record prices, and people have been taught that the government should never do things, and to let the market regulate instead.

Welcome to the market.

uhhh people still be using torrents for movies and shows

BlackRock does asset management, so technically their clients own all the stuff, but BlackRock allocates it. 12+ trillion USD worth.

KDE is an organisation, if we’re being pedantic

They manage about $12,500,000,000,000 in assets. Choosing how to allocate that capital is still an insane amount of power.

I tried getting in touch with my heritage and using OpenSUSE but it really doesn’t click with me. From the installer to the whoke YaST thing, others love it but I’m just a bad German.

I also don’t own a car or watch football so this tracks

Use apt. I think apt-get and such are only kept around to be used in scripts or for backwards compatibility.

KDE is not a display manager

KDE is sometimes still synonymous with KDE Plasma, although the standard display manager for Plasma is now SDDM. So maybe they are talking about SDDM. Although I have a suspicion that this is nothing to do with SDDM and is instead a Plasma behavior.

thanks for the explanation. I always get confused between what does what between the display manager, login manager, and compositor.

Is my understanding correct though that SDDM has nothing to do with the behvior OP is observing?