People like to bemoan the funding model, as well as the Mozilla Foundations broad overview and general “business vibe”

I mean, that argument starts to wade in to the Mozilla foundation as a whole, and what their purpose is, and that’s a giant kettle of fish.

Theoretical game. They lowball Google on how much Google pays them. How do people react? I don’t see them doing that and say, “Man, I’m glad Firefox is reducing Google’s influence over them”. I see them making a thread about how Firefox is giving Google a discounted rate because they’re all corrupt technofacists.

The core problem there still exists IMO. Funding.

What we really need is a reasonable way for open source, free, software, that exists for the good of the whole, to get money. But that has it’s own kettle of fish, where does it come from, how big is big enough to get some, what if they charge for support, how open is open enough.

Something something, seize the means of production, communism, etc.

Ok idealist.

What is your alternative funding stream for Mozilla?

It’s bad.

Is it worse than the advertising owned browser that gives your information directly to said advertiser?

You can, but it requires more skill and more effort.

Skill and effort are often in high demand and low supply.

I could… survive this layout.

But when selling a house, you want to appeal to as many as possible. And this kitchen does not have wide appeal.

Oh, they care.

They got your money one way, and now their getting it another way!

But they want you to use their app.

And they’ve decided if you have a HA plugin, you won’t.

So we do our research, and avoid scumbag companies when making purchasing decisions, or more likely, pick the lesser of a several evils.

This is ridiculous. It is truly ridiculous. How can something that enables the user to efficiently control their AC cause “significant economic harm”???

I assume they have their own app and run ads/user analytics through it that make them money.

I have to wonder if you bought their products on the basis that they worked with HA, if you could have some sort of claim here.

Give it another 10 or so years and we’ll be going even deeper

It’s also because the blocks form “Loss.” The infamous Ctrl Alt Del comic.

Honestly, I doubted this, and looked it up.

Why do you think in only a few years AirTags have become so ubiquitous, while tile has had nearly a decade on them, and are so barely known?

Really? Because the only ones I’ve seen have been based on the “Tile” system.

At last check: Requires everyone to have the system on the phone and turned on (Opt in vs opt out), and don’t have user replaceable batteries (manufactured ewaste).

And your implied claim that Android is an open system and lets any developers in while Apple do not is also false, for example: https://www.momax.net/en-us/products/br5

I believe it was originally to do with focus, and applying “Shallow depth of field” effects, aka blurry backgrounds.

But now you can get cool features like, being able to scan things with your phone (for say 3d printing), but it’s far more accurate than anything else on the market.

You should rethink how the “hostile” thing works, because that’s not how interpersonal relations work.

I’d think of defending its accessories as things like; lightning/USB-C to 3.5mm jacks… which android phones also have.

At this point, airtags are all but a product unto themselves, except that you need an iphone to use them. But they are an incredibly cool product, which I can’t use because I am not in the apple ecosystem (and haven’t been since shortly after Steve Jobs kicked the can).

I could also point out that including LIDAR in their phones is cool, and has opened up new features and functions within various apps. You could also say that Crash Detection and Emergency SOS via satellite are “Killer Features” too.

But with all that said, attacking people over their opinions is very much a fanboy thing to do.

Iphone does have some cool, closed garden things, eg, airtags.

Yes. Android has alternatives, none of which are nearly as good as airtags.

Being able to use your phone with multiple screen sizes and formats depending on what you’re doing.

Also: being able to put the phone at 90degs and use it as either a camera or flash light stand.

Oof, 10 series GPUs being left behind.

V3 manifest got too much bad press so they had to hinder it’s ability to gimp ad block.

So now their trying another approach, this time they will probably develop and push this proposal out, and have multiple adopters before anyone can do anything about it. See also: WebHID.

Your typical dev is not a technical writer, and shouldn’t be doing the proper write-up.

If you feel (and it seems you do) that this skill is missing from the Lemmy team, perhaps you should volunteer some time.