It looked more like a one time development expense, instead of an ongoing salary.
chaosCruiser
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AI tools need a lot of oversight. Just like you might allow a 6 year old push a lawnmower, but you’re still going to keep an eye on things.
Not too long ago, that statement would have sounded controversial or even crazy. Nowadays though, I’m shocked how much sense it makes to me. Never thought that I would agree with something like that.
Suddenly the ultimate fighting champion decides to run for president.
Basically a lot like what my work phone is for now. It's just phone calls (yes, those still exist in the B2B world), SMS, Teams, and Outlook. Literally everything else happens on my work laptop. Most of the time, my work phone just pretends to be a wifi router + 4G modem. On remote days, the battery drains super fast, but when I'm at the office, the phone battery lasts way longer than you could reasonably expect. Then again, I don't really use that phone for anything, so I guess that's why.
I think I could do that with my personal stuff too. Get a nice laptop and prioritize using that for everything. Maybe I would end up using the phone like once a day at most.
Would be really curious to find out how that works. Got any good sources?
They've been busy reading the history books to find out what Android did 4 years ago so that they can start developing those same features today. Any remaining time and effort went into creating vacuous marketing hype.
You need to have the right technique, but it also requires some skill.
Exploitation.
People in rich countries have stuff manufactured in countries with a lower living standard, less regulation, nor work safety, no unions, lower wages etc. Same goes for the raw materials all stuff is built out of. If you don't have to care about anything, you can make everything so much cheaper. As long as this exploitative relationship between rich and poor countries exists, the rich will have access to cheap stuff that doesn't need to be fixed.
Repairing broken appliances and electronics has different dynamic though. You're paying a trained professional in a rich country to work for you. That doesn't come cheap. Even though the parts may be cheap, labor costs a lot. That's the exact reason why everything is manufactured in poor countries where labor is cheap. See also: planned obsolescence
We've been doing this for centuries already. It's a tradition by now. Global inequality fueled the Dutch East India company, Made England rich etc. Oh, and American cotton plantations too. We're just getting started with this can of worms.
That happened in 2024? About time! Sounds like F-droid is actually becoming viable.
We're all trapped. If you're not using either Android or iOS, you're pretty much screwed.
Technically, you can use one of the alternate phones, but the software support still leaves a lot to be desired. You can get most basic things working, but when it comes to crucial deal breaker apps like anything involving payments or banks, it gets a lot trickier. The world has become increasingly dependent on mobile phones, and if your phone can't handle train tickets, mail deliveries, restaurant reservations or pay your bills, it suddenly becomes very difficult to live in the 2020s.
More and more hardware also depends on specific iOS or Android apps, and those apps may also require GAPPS or some OEM Android. At some point, it just isn't worth the hassle, and it becomes easier to pick either one of the toxic platforms everyone else is already using.
Demand for these services was clearly taken into account in the salary.