Stupid? Absolutely. And it's not just iPhones - they are part of the bigger picture. Somehow having "premium" things is huge part of your status in the US, especially among teens. And, despite the fact iPhone is owned by just about everyone in America, it's still somehow seen as a thing compared to which Android phones are broke man's choice.
Result? 87-88% of American teens have iPhones (1, 2), with 90% planning to make it their next choice.
It's an extremely toxic consumer culture driving people into debt - and even if you aren't part of it, you'll be forced into it, otherwise your child will have issues.
Also, Apple will fight tooth and nail to distinguish users, because having access to iMessage - and now right-colored bubbles - is a big part of why Americans go Apple to begin with. It's a local unofficial communication standard.
Omegle really did have very poor moderation and is responsible for immense amount of child abuse. While I'm in two minds about the decision, it had at least some ground.
I think a defederated instance could be made containing all of that. Lemmy makes it extremely easy to switch accounts between instances, so those in need of Reddit on Lemmy can use another profile without spamming all of Lemmy.
Falkon seems to be based on the modified Chromium. Do you know if it gets affected by the changes in upstream Chromium, particularly Manifest updates and such?
I'd say there's enough stuff that can be turned into fire starter should you have time to dry it (and under a good cover with relatively strong winds and relatively low humidity for the area it will take several days to dry thin starters and months to dry firewood, so tarp won't help you that much in the short run). Generally, if you're in the wild in winter in northwestern Russia without already stored dry firewood or other fuel, your chances of survival are fairly questionable to begin with.
Yes, there aren't many caves in there and terrain is very hard. Constructing a cover is not a trivial task. Normally in this environment survivalists resort to self-made tents or dig into the ground (latter being less popular in the winter, for obvious reasons), but both are fairly useless in a zombie apocalypse for the reasons you've already outlined. Mountain and treetop constructions will suffer severely from strong cold winds.
Realistically though, you cannot survive the wilderness of northwestern Russia (and a lot of wilderness for that matter) with just 4 objects. You'll strike a way better chance by finding a remote village. Yes, you might have to ward off zombies, but, as you mentioned, environment will be less of an issue, and environment here is certainly deadly.
That already qualifies you as tech-savvy, lol. Going so deep as to know what Lemmy is is quite an accomplishment in itself. You don't have to be an IT specialist, you should just know the most general details on what computer is and how it works instead of "magic box that runs YouTube" with latter being synonymous to "video".
I reckon when Chrome fully switches to Manifest V3, most users won't bother looking for alternatives - for them it'll just be the end of an adblocking era. Then maaaaybe some of them will learn to switch. But very far from everyone.
Frankly, with the prevalence of adblocks everywhere, even on your grandma's computer, this way YouTube can actually significantly increase the ad revenue.
LibreWolf still sends out quite a lot - even on startup, it makes dozens of connections.
My goal is to try and push the limits on how little a browser can send out when unasked for. Qutebrowser quite literally makes one connection to check updates...and that's it.
I've heard of the issue before.
Stupid? Absolutely. And it's not just iPhones - they are part of the bigger picture. Somehow having "premium" things is huge part of your status in the US, especially among teens. And, despite the fact iPhone is owned by just about everyone in America, it's still somehow seen as a thing compared to which Android phones are broke man's choice.
Result? 87-88% of American teens have iPhones (1, 2), with 90% planning to make it their next choice.
It's an extremely toxic consumer culture driving people into debt - and even if you aren't part of it, you'll be forced into it, otherwise your child will have issues.
Also, Apple will fight tooth and nail to distinguish users, because having access to iMessage - and now right-colored bubbles - is a big part of why Americans go Apple to begin with. It's a local unofficial communication standard.