Haha nail on head so the motive for ‘get your ass back in the office’ was never the motive we all heard

Mobile ecosystem is crap as a dev, crap as a user.

People don't like the phrase enshittification, but the process Doctrow describes is so accurate (serve the users, then serve business customers at the expense of users, then serve the platform at the expense of users and business customers) it's hard not to see it everywhere. Phone platforms fit the template exactly, sadly.

Please for the love of god just put the max price plan up like 4x or 5x in cost and make it actually work.

As a bloke I think I can see one reason why - I buy sports kit the model looks good in but I won’t. Every damn time! Then end up buying again.

Then just try it out and if does not look good don’t buy it.

I believe that’s how most of us try clothes out. It’s not only a matter of body shape, but also skin color, hair color, facial hair, face shape, hair cut…

You always need to try out the clothes before buying…

People buy heavy SUV when compact car would do, "dress for the job you want", "temporarily embarrassed millionaires", nationalistic fervor for your country getting more territory when even with the current one you don't know what to do, and so forth... Humans are an aspirational animal, and it is pretty easy to sell into that aspiration be it a ticket to Moon or a nice looking on the model jacket :)

To the commenter below:

Exactly. The societies where aspirations have been dampened or completely suppressed have been collectivistic and/or totalitaristic - USSR, North Korea, etc. - ie. where individual will is totally suppressed.

Mankind is aspirational when we are allowed to act as individuals. The silent majority has a different character because it's a simpler animal.

Stop putting card machines in a single place… till in the back was the key.

Absolutely love my boox palma! Since getting it I’ve read dozens of books, just because it’s so easy to carry. The complaints I’ve read before on Reddit don’t seem to apply to my device which is good.

We did this at uni - hpmprinter on twitter and it was on GitHub as twinter :)

Depressing comments section conflating crypto with DLT. Money bros will always be money bros the platform doesn’t matter.

ClubHub is free forever - and lets users create clubs and events, and allows them to be exported to a set of calendars (iCal).

As club members ourselves we wanted to build something to help alleviate the inevitable 'social-mediaification' of absolutely everything. Even platforms like Strava are becoming more and more proprietary and trying to make it difficult to share GPX files, not allowing 3rd party apps to interact as easily...

The feature set is small so far, but we want to ensure people can organise real-world stuff without having a social media platform attached to everything they do.

It's super early days - we built this over 3-4 weeks and now are letting people loose on it. The system 'should' be robust - but let's find out.

Bugs/comments/slander/whatever absolutely welcome!