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and killing others in them while watching YouTube.

also, as a bonus, the video was transphobic and the creator is a fucking bigot.

I can’t speak for everyone but I find facts and history important when discussing the behavior of any person or organization’s behavior.

Steve Jobs did make Apple very successful - but at the same time, Apple still did bad things and those things are a part of what he did, for better or worse, and refusing to critique them is also not advisable.

because they allow third party stores and less lock-in does not mean their product is better

each person can choose the product that suits their needs

less lock-in is better for user choice and user experience, as defined by the meaning of lock-in. If a user is massively inconvenienced by a service or device when they attempt to move away from it or if something else fits their needs better, that stifles user choice because the switching costs are too high.

your original comment mentioned that users want their devices to “just work” - do you think Apple’s more aggressive lock-in is conducive to devices “just working” when the user wishes to switch to Android or PC as opposed to iOS or Mac?

okay so you are right about people wanting their tech to work, but it really is categorically untrue that Apple is the only way to achieve that, or that they achieve that consistently at all.

Take for example the Google Pixel: price competitor to the iPhone, has parity with iOS on software updates, features, and functionality. I got my mom the Pixel 6 4 years ago, and she has never had an issue using that phone. in fact she uses it so heavily you’d think she’s a power user, despite having used a flip phone until 2018. it certainly can break, but I can buy Pixel genuine parts on iFixit and replace my battery or a friend’s.

Windows is actually ass, I’m not defending it - but it does “just work” for many non-technical folks, as bad as it may be.

and let’s talk about MacOS and Mac computers in general. Have you tried doing something as basic as snapping a window on stock MacOS, or worse, had one fail in some way and needed to have it repaired?

Soldered SSDs that you can’t remove are not user friendly and don’t “just work” when 20 years of photos just went up in smoke because you needed a board-level repair expert to de-solder and read the NAND chips only to discover that they’re dead, not to mention having to buy a new machine every few years as the chips continue wearing out, and are serialized and paired to the device so you cannot replace them. Obviously, the customer won’t understand all that. But they will understand that they lost their photos and spent thousands of dollars that they could have saved, not because the repair tech wasn’t skilled at their job, but because hostile Apple design lost them 20 years of photos and forced them to get a new computer.

not to mention Apple’s literal crime against privacy in the UK. Also, those SSDs I mentioned? FileVault backs their encryption keys up to iCloud by default, meaning if your key goes to iCloud in the UK, the police and anyone who gets access to iCloud can decrypt and read the full contents of your machine by booting it into recovery mode and decrypting the volume with said key, because Apple bent over for regulators instead of just disabling iCloud for their users entirely and blaming regulators, or just leaving ADP as is.

I’m not sure what you’re defending Apple for.

some of the later Swift albums are preferable at least to me - they’re almost bordering on synth pop especially on 1989.

entirely agree on Florida Georgia Line. fuck that noise, it’s pure garbage

this!

it’s the most insane thing that I’ve been on the flip side of this rhetoric coming from that part of the political spectrum as well. when I told my brother I was transitioning (MtF), he freaked out and said I was going to lose muscle mass and all my strength. of course that’s part of what estrogen does, and is kinda the point, but I find it silly that they admit it and simultaneously refuse to admit it.

motherfucker threw the bat in the woodchipper

Windows Bluetooth paired my Google Pixel Buds Pro once and refused to unpair or delete them no matter what I tried, but would happily connect to them every time I booted the system. I had to literally wipe the install clean and start fresh before it was ever fixed. And those same earbuds worked everywhere else, even my fucking gaming laptop with a MediaTek wireless card running Arch. genuinely the worst experience I’ve had with Bluetooth so far.

if you’re considering Qobuz, it’s amazing, and if you’re a student it’s quite affordable with their student plan.

unrelated tool, for more technical folks <3

i happen to be prototyping (just drawing and speccing) this with high gain directional 5GHz Wi-Fi radios for my local community. I worked as an engineer in the fixed wireless space for some time, so I think it’s definitely viable to setup a few point-to-point and multi-point radios around and get a small metro area network running. at this point I just need to get my hands on the hardware lol

fucking DoTerra…and Young Living…and Juvva…and LulaRoe…and MonaVie. and Xooma. and- yeah, i think Utah has a bit of a problem. what the fuck?

agree. i hate it here. I picked a bad time to start on my own, huge fumble lol

source? :>

Axing CISA was such a mask-off move in my mind. of course if you want to tamper with voting and computer systems in the US, why wouldn’t you?

fucking idiots. we didn’t even recover from Salt/Volt Typhoon yet smh

not transmasc but the “HELP??” response is totally me lol

Bernie cooking as usual

y’all got removable hands? how else are they gonna catch them?? /s

thought this was vomit for a second tbh

the day my egg cracked, i remembered a convo with a friend of mine who is a cis lesbian - she had told me that Mother Mother’s “Arms Tonite” was about lesbians, and my response being “okay, and? that’s cool af” :)

The signs, y’all :D

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