HughJanus @ HughJanus @lemmy.ml

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Musk has made it clear that this was never about money. Er, at least not about Xitter making money.

The fact that it's online-only should be reason enough for no one to buy it and continue enabling this anti-consumer behavior. But whatever, no one cares I guess.

And MP3s are perfectly adequate for most applications.

Information is not property unless you create it

I'm genuinely interested in your interpretation of how your personal information can be considered "intellectual property" of a data broker.

It's absolutely amazing

It looks like we are actually getting a Steam Deck 1.5 with, at minimum, a new WiFi 6e card.

But then, last week we were supposed to be getting a new VR headset and console so...who knows.

But it's possible that speculation is causing a dip in sales.

I think iWatch has "walkie talkie" mode but no idea how it actually works.

...why would you do that?

As I said- you k ow damn well you’d do the exact same thing about it- which is nothing. And collect tons of cash.

No I would make it available to everyone in a fuckin' heartbeat because I'm not a scumbag but maybe that's why I'm not a CEO.

Kids are idiots and Apple is exploiting it.

how is iMessage fundamentally any different from texting

Not entirely sure what you're asking but

• iOS does not allow you to use any other messaging app for SMS. This is surely intentional to lock you into iMessage.
• If you're messaging iOS --> iOS your "text" messages (SMS) are automatically upgraded to the iMessage protocol, and there are a wide variety of features that are enabled without the user downloading any other apps or switching the protocol. It just happens.

No but it does have telemetry.

No platform allows you to tailor your feed or notifications anymore. Notifications get pushed to your phone and pressure you to spend more time in the app/on the platform so they just send an obnoxious number of notifications. After you turn them off they just constantly make new categories or jam them into your "direct messages". It's so sad.

These don't come through on old Reddit but I can't even access it anymore because none of the 5 browsers I have will allow it anymore. They've just let all the security measures lapse (I'm sure entirely intentionally).

Can't speak for others but mine puts up big intrusive banners if you don't connect it to the internet.

And the only proof we have that he doesn't collect data on Brave's users is the questionable word of the devs.

And...the source code?

Literally any Firefox fork is a suitable alternative that can be daily driven

That's simply incorrect. I've used a few and many of them don't load webpages properly. We can argue about who's to blame for that but at the end of the day they don't work the way any Chromium browsers would.

Most people recommend forks of Firefox

Not around here they don't.

Using a fork of Chromium is still using Chromium

That's not correct. Chromium is an entirely different browser. It has a logo that looks like the Chrome logo but gray.

and still helping Google's dominance in the browser market

When there becomes a suitable alternative that I can use for daily tasks and still preserves privacy, I'll recommend that one.

Currently I use 1 of 5 different browsers, depending on the task. I can't really recommend other people do the same. So the one is typically recommend is Brave because it's the only out-of-the-box privacy-preserving browser that works with virtually any webpage.