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SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

It’ll get fun if he decides to cut Apple devices off Starlink.

treefrog ,

Even funnier if Google also partners with a competitor, and Elon’s employees have to go back to flip phones

Speculater ,
@Speculater@lemmy.world avatar

Self-driving Cyber Phones with stainless steel cases that almost kind of fit, but not really.

DSkou7 ,

And also are sharp enough to cut your hand if you hold it in the wrong way.

PunnyName ,

Ugh, enough about the cybertruck!

shutz ,

Cuts like a knife, don’t it?

dohpaz42 ,
@dohpaz42@lemmy.world avatar

Sigh

TrainsAreCool ,

The final hilarity would be Elon forcing Twitter to re-enable SMS based tweets, then hackers using it to fake tweets from Elon himself.

drcobaltjedi ,

Not necessarily, my job used to have a flip phone that the sales team would use for after work calls, and it ran android.

9tr6gyp3 ,

Honestly, this is a good take, SatansMaggotyCumFart.

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

Sorry about that.

Num10ck ,

yay for net neutrality laws

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

Do people just use the Starlink router without their own firewall behind it?

Never in my life have I ever used the AP/switch function of the supplied router. That fucking thing can live outside my network, I don’t trust an ISP to wipe their ass after shitting, let alone keep a router updated.

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

Apparently they’re just plug and play wifi, you have to pay for an adapter to connect Ethernet to it.

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

Yah, i had to get the Ethernet dongle before I’d use it.

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

When I heard about that I thought it was pretty condescending.

Like give me an Ethernet port so I can plug my shit into it without giving you more money for something that really should be included.

That’s like not putting door handles on a car.

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

I was pretty surprised and pissed off when it showed up and I couldn’t find a way to plug in a cable.

On the other hand, it’s the best internet I’ve had out in the ass end of nowhere.

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

I hear the speed is very dependent on how many people are using it nearby.

RedEyeFlightControl ,
@RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world avatar

Do it. I dare ya. Keep digging. It’s fun watching the hole get deeper while you disappear into the darkness.

foggy ,

sighs

He’s still so fucking wealthy tho

ArtVandelay ,
@ArtVandelay@lemmy.world avatar

Fine, I say we take every single bit of his hundreds of billions in $1 bills and bury it on top of him. I’m sure that weighs quite a bit

fartsparkles ,

0.63 Empire State Buildings. So yeah, quite a bit.

Kalkaline ,
@Kalkaline@leminal.space avatar

Americans will use anything but metric as a unit of measurement.

drcobaltjedi ,

I always hate seeing that, then i remember i’ve used both football feilds and time to drive somewhere as units of distance. So yeah, we will use anything

MindTraveller ,

Time is a perfectly valid unit of distance. Just look at light years. On Earth, I mostly use the unit of distance me-minutes

Interestingly, analysing distance in me-minutes reveals that spacetime is not flat, because a distant location on the train line can be much closer to me than something 5 km away but far away from public transit.

5in1k ,

Living in Michigan I show distance by pointing to spots on my hand.

drcobaltjedi ,

Yo, same. The mitten makes it easy.

fartsparkles ,

I’m European

activ8r ,

Then you should know better.

Holyhandgrenade ,
@Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world avatar

A small boulder the size of a large boulder

vividspecter ,

No, no. Dig up, stupid!

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

LOL your loss bro

Drunemeton ,
@Drunemeton@lemmy.world avatar

Do it you man baby!

PhlubbaDubba ,

So how does this man being an executive officer not immediately send a company’s stocks into the shitter at this point?

Speculater ,
@Speculater@lemmy.world avatar

Everyone’s too deep to escape.

Sanctus ,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

Isn’t the Tesla board made up of his buddies?

Nollij ,

The CEO is chosen by the board, which is chosen by the shareholders. The shareholders have the ultimate power, if they can unite on a goal/decision. Overwhelmingly, the only thing they can agree on is that they want to make the most money. They often can’t even agree on how to go about that.

So, the board won’t fire him because the shareholders won’t force it. The shareholders won’t force it because they want the most money, and musk as CEO seems to be the best path, or at least not a problematic one.

As for how that can be, it gets into how absurd Tesla stock is in the first place. There was a period where Tesla’s market cap (total value of all shares) was higher than the entire rest of the auto industry combined. This was despite having no feasible path towards that level of production, and even growth in general wasn’t looking too hot.

radicalautonomy ,

“Tesla shareholders are money-hungry idiots” is what I got out of that. They are like Lenny…when shit goes south, they just keep holding on tight, no matter how much worse they make things, until next thing you know Curlys’s wife is dead.

(No offense meant to those with brain damage…the poor decisions they make are understandable and not their fault, of course. And I know that phenomenon isn’t unique to Tesla shareholders.)

barsquid ,

I don’t know if this explains the entire price but we have all seen his securities fraud on Twitter.

zcd ,

There’s money to be made when you know a company is going to tank. In fact there are people who specialize in bankrupting companies. When rich people commit fraud they don’t get in trouble

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

Sunk cost fallacy.

Lost_My_Mind ,

Me: Hates musk.

Also me: dislikes Apple.

Still me: See’s this story as Musk doing another stupid thing to kill more business on both ends.

Finally me: Yessss…this news pleases me.

Dju ,

Hopefully Apple counter-threatens with Xitter ban from their devices

Lucidlethargy ,

That would actually be a figurative nail in the coffin for X. Apple idiots love X.

Zeppo ,
@Zeppo@sh.itjust.works avatar

Ah, they guy who tried to get Paypal to switch to running on Windows strikes again.

originalucifer ,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

paypal deserves to run on windows

Whirling_Cloudburst ,

Both paths lead to the same destination inundated with AI ads and tracking.

MindTraveller ,

I hate paypal because they’re transphobic.

See, I made a paypal account long after changing my legal name, and I made the account under my current legal name. They asked for a birth certificate to prove my identity, so I gave them one. I have an amended birth certificate from when I changed my name that lists both my deadname and my current legal name. When Paypal saw my birth certificate, they changed the name on my account to my deadname, even though the paperwork clearly stated it wasn’t my legal name. When I complained to them, they told me I had to submit change of name paperwork to change the name on my account. Well I never changed my name while I had a paypal account! They did! I just wanted it un-changed to what it was before. If I need to submit change of name paperwork to fix their mistake, why didn’t they need paperwork to change it away from my legal name in the first place?

veeesix ,
@veeesix@lemmy.ca avatar

Elon contemplating an xPhone powered by crypto and NFTs.

undyingarchie ,

With memes and fart sounds.

doctortofu ,
@doctortofu@reddthat.com avatar

Yet another childish tantrum? Wow, is it another day ending with “y” already? How time flies…

Do it you pathetic spoiled manchild, stop flapping your gums and actually bloody do it.

morrowind ,

What are they going to use instead? Windows, which also has an OpenAI partnership? Android, which had Gemini and probably even worse privacy?

Or is the whole company switching to Linux and Linux mobile

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Switching to Linux Mobile would be a welcome change, imagine them heading a FOSS Linux distro to run on phones

Alphane_Moon ,
@Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world avatar

Not going to happen. Elmo is too self-centered to develop a phone in the spirit of FOSS. And then there are reputational issues to consider; many would be opposed to working for the benefit of Elmo.

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Yeah that’s probably true

someguy3 ,

Don’t think it’s about privacy. It’s about that he wants money from openai because he tried to buy them out or something, or was involved a long time ago, or tried to get involved, or whatever, but he thinks he should have a big payday from it now that its stock is up.

locuester ,

He was a founding partner.

halcyoncmdr ,
@halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world avatar

That left. And far as I remember it wasn’t a situation of being pushed out, he left on his own. Probably because he disagreed with everyone else about something.

Ironically with all the hubbub about Sam Altman, it seems like he somehow might have not been the clear worst of the bunch. Somehow.

locuester ,

Yep

thefartographer ,

This’ll end up just like the Microsoft/Netscape Navigator antitrust suit where Microsoft got broken up and sued out of existence for trying to suffocate Netscape Navigator by denying it access to the Windows Operating System. Netscape, originally the underdog, super-won and turned into Mozilla which is now a multi-trillion dollar company that provides a shining beacon of consumer rights done right.

Oh wait, I just remembered: Netscape died and barely anything changed—only the public ever really loses. Billionaires paying thousands of dollars in fines to fight for their turn to shit on their customers.

Nurse_Robot ,

You had me in the first half

Blue_Morpho ,

I know it’s a common meme but it still annoys me. Netscape’s own JWZ wrote about how Netscape destroyed itself. I have personal experience with Netscape being full of itself, buggy, and forcing myself and all other small isp owners (which were over 50% of the market at the time) to ship Internet Explorer CDs to customers despite our really wanting to ship Netscape.

thefartographer ,

Yes, Netscape really shot themselves in the foot with their premium browser and then shit in the wound with Communicator. All that Microsoft contributed was forcing people not to work with the septic poo-footed browser, but getting caught up in that kind of detail would have made people stop reading my comment. Gotta farm every sweet little upvote I can get so that my family will finally be proud of me when they print my karma in my obituary.

rickdg ,
@rickdg@lemmy.world avatar

“Tim didn’t even ask me about Grok”

PuddingFeeling907 ,
@PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.ca avatar

Okay transphobe

xantoxis ,

I’m sure the richest company in the world is super worried about this threat.

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