Ottomateeverything @ Ottomateeverything @lemmy.world

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Yeah, "becoming" is a strange choice of wording.... Word has been bloated and overkill for 2 decades at this point.

Libre Office is still bulky for anything I want on my PC. If I'm going to do any serious writing, I'm using Google Docs for backups and such. If I'm doing quick txt edits I'm using Sublime or Notepad. I use wordpad for stuff in the middle so I will definitely miss it and not sure how to solve this problem.

That said, I'm not fucking installing Win 11 so guess this isn't a problem till 12.

Trump hasn't been convicted of insurrection.

I keep seeing this one... Am I missing something, or didn't Colorado convict him of insurrection as part of their case? I thought that was the whole point.

But maybe I'm just trying to rationalize a group of people not acting rationally.

Meh. Airplay is like CarPlay. Modern TVs support both Android and iOS casting. Just like most modern cars support both Android Auto and CarPlay.

The key is, most. Not all. And there are still two standards. It is taking more development time and complexity to support this, and therefore, not all car manufacturers nor all TV manufacturers are doing this. It's still a problem, you're just arguing semantics of whether it's the consumers problem or the middle-man's problem who will end up thrusting the cost upon the consumer anyway.

Either way, it's extra dev time, complexity, room for things to go wrong, things to think about, different interfaces on different devices, etc. This just doesn't need to exist and provides no benefit to the end consumer.

There are apps you can get for devices that allow you to AirPlay to them as well if they don’t already support it. I got one to AirPlay to my Xbox for example.

Of course there are. There have been for years. But again, see above. This is just more complexity and shit for you to deal with. And another app for someone to manage. And another thing to go wrong. And something else that needs to be updated when Apple devices to change something.

It's not beneficial to you. At all. It's another stumbling block. You can argue about it's size, but it literally gives zero benefit to the consumer and has no need to exist.

It is, but it's still an extra device that covers one of the options. It'd be obviously better if one device just supported a shared protocol either phone could use.

The thing is, there are versions of all of these (Cast, any number of messaging clients) that have broader compatibility already. They just tend to be locked out of Apple's ecosystem and Apple has its own versions that lock everyone else out of there's.

These systems would be so much more friendly for the consumer if everyone just worked together but this insistence on keeping these things siloed just makes it worse for literally everyone.

Wanna share your video on the TV at my house? Oh you have an iPhone? Oh, Yeah your gallery can't Cast. I want to share a video at yours? Oh, you have an Apple TV so I can't Cast to it and Airplay doesn't exist in my gallery or OS.

This only hurts consumers. And the only people it's helping is the manufacturers selling you Google TV/AppleTV via suckers that buy both.

And if the store stays open, they have to buy more. So it was a free sale from their perspective, it's actually beneficial.

There's no one single answer to this. Some have been mentioned in other comments, but it's a combination of a few different things:

• Control: They have much more control over your experience as a native app than a web app.
• Ad revenue: It's significantly harder to block ads coming through the built in web views, and/or they can just build them in natively which is even harder.
• Integration: it's easier to do IAPs or subscriptions through native controls, which means less resistance, which means people are more likely to end up doing it.
• Data: it's easier to hoover up user data via native APIs than through the browser. There's way more accessible, especially if you can ask for a bunch of permissions and people don't notice/care. This makes any user tracking they do way more effective and any data they sell way more valuable.
• Notifications: Recently browsers have started adding support for this but it's not as effective. Push notifications are a huge boon to user engagement and this is a huge money maker. Having native notifications is a huge sell in this equation.
• Persistence: If you have your app on a user's phone, it ends up in the list of apps, meaning they pass by it very frequently. It's basically free advertising and living in their head without them even noticing. This is especially true on iOS where basically all of your apps are in your face all of the time.
• Performance: Native apps run way better and can look way better than web sites. If you just use web views this is mostly moot but still may make a small difference.

I'm sure I'm forgetting a few but you get the idea.

Websites are basically just inferior versions of native apps, and even if you use a hybrid/web view approach, you get many of the benefits and have the option to "upgrade" to a real native app later.

That being said, I fucking hate this shit. I don't agree that companies should do this, but it hands down does make financial sense. In a society entirely driven by capital and profit, it makes sense, but from a consumer perspective, it fucking sucks. I don't want to have to install the Facebook app to see some small businesses "web site" that's really just a Facebook page. I don't want to install reddits shitty native app to read more than 2 comments off a post about a solution to my problem.

It's legitimately consumer hostile, but company profits are more important than people in our society.

Wasn't the Twitter buyout for a significant portion of his wealth that he like, claimed he didn't even have?

All those people say things like "well they're risking their wealth!" he seems to be a pretty good example of someone who "risked a lot of their wealth", objectively fucked up and should have lost at least most of it, and has come out essentially unscathed.

If you can collosally fuck up a whole company, and your wealth doesn't even move, what are you even risking? At all?

Exactly this. Amazing engineers can still be run by brain dead management. Turns out being a manager gets you more decision making power though.

TL;DR: Employees say his actions led to a lot of direction changing that forced management to scramble, and the lower workers had to bear the brunt of this. They also complained that OW2 needed more work or would be review bombed on Steam and his leadership refused. Shareholders are still happy to fellate him though because he made them a lot of money.

So, no actual news here.

Sure, dependence on Qualcomm isn't great.... But I find having a phone with no functional signal to be worse. And if you want to argue "then buy a Samsung" etc, then you're just replacing a CPU dependence with a manufacturer dependence. I find that to be even worse.

I totally feel this and really wish Google would just drop this tensor bullshit. I absolutely despise Samsungs software, but much to my chagrin, they were basically the only ones creating a decent foldable. The second the Pixel Fold dropped, I jumped ship, but holy moly the Tensor is fucking this device sideways. I get more signal problems than I should, and my wife's pixel 6 is having the same shit.

I was fine on Pixel 4 and don't remember having much issue, but holy moly is this one noticeable. I hope they either fix it or switch, but I hear the Tensor 3 isn't much better.

If you were an invester or board member, you wouldn't care about the patent infringement - Apple has historically done this and you wouldn't invest in the first place if you weren't okay with it. This one's just getting more eyeballs and actual repurcussions but they've paid off and bought out multiple companies over stuff like this.

Idk, lots of people lease... So I guess they would

Okay but are you just using toilet paper to dry afterwards?

Some have built in dyers. Even with it, sometimes it feels a small dab helps some more, but it's not really necessary. Also, that water should be clean at that point... Do you perfectly dry your ass with a towel after showering? Etc

And does just water actually get it all?

Usually. You can also run them more than once. Some have "pressure" settings. Some move back and forth. And you can always check with paper, and see if you need to change something or run another cycle.

You've still got to get in there a bit right?

I've never had to. Occasionally run a second cycle, but no.

Yeah, that's still true as well. But it feels like one step ahead. Before it was in a totally different field. It's gotten that much worse.

Google Assistant is definitely getting worse and worse all the time. When the Google Homes first released they were actually pretty useful and handy. I was willing to pick a few up and they served a good purpose. They ran CIRCLES around Alexa and all those.

Now many years later, the devices don't hear questions correctly, have to ask them four different times, they can't even pick up my wife's prompt words anymore, don't even give reasonable answers when they do get the question right... It's made hundreds of dollars worth of devices infuriating and useless.

I bought a product that worked. It no longer works because it's been "updated".

Would Androids be "useless" without google apps?

Fire tablets already proved this. They don't use Google apps, they have their own app store and their own push. And they sold tons of them. All of this can be done and Android isn't "useless" without it. It's just harder.

I love Android, but I am unsure how beneficial these big tech giants are becoming.

The problem becomes that you kind of don't have a choice. Sure someone else can stand up their own OS/push/store, but unfortunately their monopoly of sorts ends up useful in these cases because it means literally everyone develops against it. You can get your own store working, but it's only as popular as the number of developers who choose to support it. If you fragment the stores, you make them less useful, so by nature they kinda need to be a monopoly.

I just wish it ended up differently such that the behemoth store was owned by someone different than the manufacturer themselves.

just keep shipping manually faster CPUs once a year, just like they have been for the past 15.

Yeah, exactly. My disagreement is... So fucking what?

I'm much happier with a company that is satisfied with its market, does what it does well, and leaves it at that. I'm not a believer of "more money for the money gods, ever increasing profits, let's fuck over some more consumers and further line the shareholders pockets".

By moving into other markets, they'd be competing with people who know those spaces well and probably better than they do. If they push someone else out, that's more specialties lost.

I'm generally against this monopolistic machine mindset everyone has these days. I'm much happier with a content company continuing to do what it does, instead of taking up market space trying to do something else that someone else does.

Not that Intel is a perfect example here, but I'm much happier that their GPUs have generally flopped, they haven't made it in mobile, and they aren't trying to be another ARM manufacturer. That's not their thing. So I can continue to go to them for a reliable desktop CPU and they can continue being a force in that market instead of trying to wear 17 different hats and losing their way.

Bought my first AMD computer this year, an and 6800 Ryzen 7 with an on proc 680m gpu that is equivalent of ~ Nvidia 2050 discrete card. Game over for Intel.

While the rest of your post is logical, this is insane cope. No one is buying integrated graphics for gaming. 2050s are a joke in terms of power - you're talking about a 2 year old budget mobile gpu.... If anything this is basically a "I need to do some photoshop but don't want a dedicated gpu on my laptop" type card. Intel has never given a fuck about mobile graphics. Their offerings have always been "serviceable, but get a real gpu if you want one". Laptops are arguably better with ARM so there's competition there....

Intel is still selling their bread and butter and still has a huge stranglehold on their core market. Claiming "game over" because of an off case of an offshoot of one of their secondary markets is hugely overreacting.