I mean, the loss of the headphone jack was a downgrade for no reason beyond profits. Big screens were a tradeoff made on purpose because customers demanded it.

6 in phones are in no danger of disappearing though.

I hate small phones. I switched back to an iphone SE years ago and realized it was a pita to use anymore. Everything is… too small.

Firefox shipped sandboxing on Android years ago (before chrome) and then removed it. I’m not sure you gain much from it on Android. It eats up ram making performance crap on cheap phones and apps already run in their own app user context to isolate what they can access.

I will never understand how people expect software to gather no telemetry or metrics whatsoever.

I’m in Thailand and knockoff Disney stuff (and Legos) are pretty normal. And it’s nice. The kids buying them have to deal with seeing their ads plastered all over town, so it’s nice there are versions they can buy. I just wish they were so shitty quality and the big companies markup wasn’t so fucking insane. Lego sets pretty regularly hit $200-$300 here. There literally is no Nintendo Thailand, so game prices are pretty random based on import fees that retailers can negotiate (or sneak through).

The nice thing is no one gives a shit about piracy. No risks really.

Signing doesn’t provide security of privacy protections. It just means you paid apple a fee.

Google and apple both allow pwas right now though, don’t they? I don’t think it’s a threat. It’s just apple trying to say fu to the eu. The eu will slp a billion dollar fine on them. They’ll pay it.

They’re actually secure too. It’s always interesting to me how iphone owners are so concerned about security and privacy, right up until Apple tells them not to.

It’s weird the us but wouldn’t even mention human rights abuses perpetrated around the world.

Many people in abusive relationships don’t “fight back” because they’re emotionally abused as well, which seems likely relevant to someone searching for “x is yelling at me” (whatever the sex race or age).

Reading this new CEOs job history on linkedin is kinda infuriating. She goes from intern to head of consumer products at Skype in less than a year. Just… Frustrating to read that while I am and manage really good people who struggle for decades in the trenches to get even paltry job opportunities.

But she got her MBA from Stanford so nepotism ahoy I guess.

Americans: “Stop with the what-aboutism arguments when they apply to us. Others? Sure, I’m fine with that.”

We have plenty of evidence that were just a “random” assortment of atoms following natural laws. We see those laws around us everywhere. We manipulate them to build crazy things. We have no evidence were anything BUT that.

This guy’s argument would literally be that Mario maker is encouraging child labor because it doesn’t pay kids who make levels in it.

I’m surprised to hear /home is non standard.

I mean, ipads are pretty bloated with shitty version of things on launch too. Basically my first week with them is always trying apples apps and then realizing they’re awful and downloading something else.

I fucking hate the cold but I’m also lazy and hate wearing clothes. If it’s just a bit I’ll take the hit just to avoid putting (more) stuff on.

It’s nuts to me that teens use iMessage and not something secure they can hide from their parents.

The same people will have chrome eat ram or crash and just shrug and restart. It’s not about the browser. It’s the same “I use chrome because everyone else is insecure” “a zero day was reported for chrome last week” “yeah, everyone has bugs sometimes”. They have a narrative they want to believe and they self select to support it.