Wait, porn?

While I like those options, they are definitely not for everyone. Those problems are collective, protecting the privacy of 1% of the population is as good as protecting nobody.

Would this mean I could finally ditch what’s app and use only Signal?

There are plenty of way to have an ad free experience and you can probably support creators 1000x more if you give your money’s subscription to them through patron or similar.

They’re bereft of sense if you consider the goal of a good user experience. If you set the goal as to have your user addicted and stay on the platform as long as possible, they’re perfectly logical decision.

For windows, yes. For Linux and OSx, 8gb si still ok for most usecase

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I accidentally scratch those cars with my keys every time.

I use Chris Titus script for this exact same reason

Unfortunately, it’s not like that. The current state of internet services and social media is inherently addictive and problematic, and that’s especially true in formative years.

While education is extremely important, it won’t be enough.

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Fair enough

Hilarious!

But if you just want to watch YouTube and shop on the Web you definitely don’t need an M3.

An M3 chip with a 8gb RAM is just plain stupid. The problem it’s not the 8gb RAM per sé.

I’m sorry but WTF is a Star Wars credit card? And why?

So cool!

I did too and, while the benefit are higher than the loss, I usually feel really left out from one kind of partecipation to society and it’s a bit sad.

You can decide to use something because you like it and have a positive value for you, and then end up abusing that same things because of addiction.

Facebook and other social media actively engineer their service to exploit our natural brain functioning in order to became addictive. On top of that, they also give well designed services which can be useful and fun to use. People decide to use those services because of that and ends up becoming addicted and using them for a lot more time. This has nothing to do with good design.

It’s like with smoking: people can find it a legitimate pleasure because of the taste, the social meanings and the gesture, but you ends up being addicted because of the nicotine, not because it’s a pleasure per-se.

Well designed service and addictive are completely different concept.

Addiction is not about how likely you are to use something and if you like doing so. That’s naïve.

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