Say you have your display, this is made up of millions of lights that on their own just light up in whatever single colour you want, but together they light up to create an image.

Your software takes care of breaking down that image of a cat you want to look at into its corresponding pixels - with a value for colour and brightness.

For example it’ll say this area in the cat’s eye is black, so it’ll request the no light to come out of it. Another area might be a pale red so it’ll request red with some middle level of brightness.

Now your firmware takes that requested black for a specific Pixel and it’ll physically cut power to switch off all the lights in the required area. For the pale red it’ll power that the red ligh ON with hald power, whilst green and blue are OFF.

(things get more complex once you consider back-lightning)

Because of course people are always reasonable and back people and policies that are in their interest.

It seems like by and large there’s support in Russia for the invasion in Ukraine. They might not be willing to go to full mobilisation, but if they don’t have to die themselves they’re fine with the invasion.

Do you propose that the Ukrainians should stop fighting and plead with the Russian people to overthrow Putin?

There’s not that much choice there, it genuinely takes 2-3 years to implement hardware that is radically different from what you’re currently doing.

Because they’re making millions upon millions of phones, they need to really nail the design before they start mass production. And that’s neither cheap nor fast.

The big manufacturers can probably afford to do this faster, but the smaller ones might struggle so you need to make it fair.

By ‘those privacy laws’ do you mean GDPR? Because that’s caused Threads not to be released in the EU, and you’ll notice that all your devices now have USB C. These regulations have had a pretty significant impact.

So? You have a narrow use case that has nothing to do with what’s being discussed here. Every time SUVs clogging cities is discussed you people come out “but how will I run my farm”.

People running farms or similar businesses have been using pick-ups and other utility vehicles since times immemorial. I don’t know if you’re lying about the farm or not, frankly it doesn’t matter, it shouldn’t be any of your business whether or not suburbia is using massive trucks to ferry their kids to and from school.

Actually they’re actively hurting you. Because manufacturers now target people who won’t ever use them as utility vehicles, you can no longer buy basic cheap reliable pick-ups. They’re all swollen with plastic bodywork that won’t hold up to farm work, all the pointless faff inside is adding weight that’s actively hurting your fuel efficiency whilst again making it less rugged.

The target audience is now an urban/suburban dweller who will lease it for three years and swap for a newer one, so everything is now less repairable when something goes wrong 6 months after the warranty runs out.

Plus now you’re paying a luxury tax.

Really I fail to see how your life has been improved by the SUV invasion into cities.

Personally I think you’re disingenuous and making a strawman argument because you like your lifted truck that’s never seen mud.

Okay, so far successfully exiled to Belarus.

What’s the next step?

I’m still struggling to believe that they’ve taken the wrong turn at every point.

When this whole thing happened I figured they’d soften their stance a bit, only to go back on it months or years later and essentially boil the frog slowly. I figured I’d just move to the official app, not that big a deal, especially if they improve it.

Yet 2 weeks later I’ve deleted reddit and running Jerboa now, the way the community rallied is nothing short of incredible and I’m really proud to be here.

You know protests don’t work, because the people in power are telling you protests don’t work.

I must admit I was a bit skeptical about whether the protest will work, especially since from the beginning there was a 48h deadline on it, which set us up for failure.

But the way the community has rallied around this cause makes me so proud.

Reddit the corporate entity is failing us, but they’re learning that they only have power because the community chose them. Wish them good luck with their upcoming IPO with reddit currently being a dumpster fire.