a_fancy_kiwi @ a_fancy_kiwi @lemmy.world

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Hardware. I do all my work on a laptop and those Apple M series processors have been amazing for performance and battery life. I’ll stick with a Mac until those Qualcomm X Elite CPUs start getting shipped in Windows laptops next year. After using this Mac for the past year, I think I prefer Windows and WSL over MacOS or Linux. This whole post only applies to laptops though; Linux on desktop and servers for life.

Plex

At the time, Windows was updating and restarting whenever it felt like it which would stop my Plex server from running until I logged back in. Windows and Macs are now just thin clients that allow me to connect to all my Linux servers.

Anti-cheat is still a major issue. Even in a VM with GPU pass-through, anti-cheat will still prevent some popular games from running.

The article has a report from at least one person claiming they can’t find the airtag even with the alerts.

There’s also videos on YouTube that show you how to remove the speaker so without the UWB chip, I could see scenarios where people genuinely can’t find them.

I’m not making the argument either way, just saying that a problem is there. Whether it’s Apple’s responsibility or not is up to the court

Fair enough

Shit. Good point. According to this blog at 1Password, Bluetooth can be used to have one device verify another for a service. So I guess if the public device has Bluetooth, it’s possible 🤷‍♂️

Not necessarily. I can’t imagine they’d want you to login to your iCloud or Google account on a public computer. It will probably work how Microsoft “Authenticator” works or how when you try logging in to iCloud or your Google account when you have 2FA turned on:

1. Type in your username and click submit on the library computer
2. The service on the computer tells you to look at your phone
3. In the background, the service sent an encrypted challenge to your iCloud account
4. All your devices receives a notification asking if that’s you trying to login
5. You pull out your phone, click yes
6. In the background, your phone decrypts the challenge and sends it back to the server
7. The server verifies its you who is trying to login and logs you in on the library computer

No sharing of keys necessary

Edit: that was just a guess and there are likely a few ways logging in can be achieved on a public computer without needing the private key on that computer. My knowledge on passkeys is surface level, I haven’t really taken the time to look deeply into them yet

but I will not pay for YouTube.

I consider letting ads play or paying for a subscription ‘paying for YouTube’. So I’m curious as to why you wouldn’t?

• We obviously both agree that creators should be paid
• I think we can agree that YouTube should be paid something. They host the content, the replication, the back ups, and they provide a single location for viewers to aggregate which helps all creators find new viewers. That is expensive to do and is valuable for creators

Is it the amount of ads they play, the amount they charge for premium, the revenue split doesn’t give enough to creators, or something else?

Point taken. I should have said something along the lines of:

probably continue to squeeze more and more revenue…

YouTube isn’t innocent in this but I think a lot of that censorship has been brought on by sociopolitical changes in the last ten years. The further extremes on each side have gotten louder and social platforms are being used to spread their ideas. YouTube is caught in the crossfire on that and instead of doing the right thing, they just censor everyone

Someone else correct me if I’m wrong but it works similar to PGP.

Background info:

• Your device generates two keys, a private key and a public key
• The public key can be given to anyone and the private key stays with you
• The public key is used to encrypt data and the private key is used to decrypt it

Usage:

1. You sign up for a service with all the normal info minus a password and click submit
2. In the background, a private key is generated and stored in iCloud Keychain, Google Passwords, or a 3rd party password manager (so all your devices can access it). A public key is also generated and given to the service
3. Now you try and login. You enter your username and click login
4. In the background, the server encrypts a challenge, token, or some piece of data and sends it to your device
5. Your device decrypts that piece of data with the private key associated with the website
6. At this point, your device either sends the decrypted data back to the server in exchange for an access token or maybe you decrypted the access token (not sure exactly how that will work. If it’s the former, the data would still be encrypted via ssl so only you and the server would see it)
7. Now you are logged in

Closing:

So, it’s supposed to be more secure because every time you login, you never type in a password that gets transferred to the server for verification. The server is sending your device data to verify so that it can then verify you. This mainly prevents phishing and the reuse of passwords but I suppose if someone hacks into your iCloud account or whatever, they have the keys to the kingdom 🤷‍♂️

To add to your comment, I don't understand the hate for YouTube. People go on their and post entire how to videos on all sorts of topics. I've learned how to code, how to use Linux, how to install flooring, how to 3D model using Fusion360, how some electronics work, how to fix my broken down car, etc. Because of the creators, YouTube has been such a valuable source of information that it's almost offensive when I hear other people complaining about having to watch ads or pay for premium. There's no paywall for the info, it's accessible to anyone with an internet connection. There's a lot of low quality clickbait on YouTube but if you avoid it, YouTube is amazing. It's the only streaming service worth paying for.

Edit: YouTube will probably slowly try and squeeze revenue out of its creators and/or users, I'm not ignorant to the fact that the number needs to go up and to the right. Eventually, it'll be too much. But in the meantime, enjoy it while it's still there and accessible.

This is definitely a personal preference thing but I think if you want to search the web, you go to the web browser. And if you want to search for a folder or file on the system, windows search should fulfill that purpose.

At the very least, it should be a toggle. The current implementation of Windows search feels like it’s only there to force people to use Edge

I could probably tolerate Windows 11 if:

• the start menu search didn’t search the web and just searched my system.
• the widget panel wasn’t just a wrapper for their shitty news aggregator that seems to only gather celebrity news
• If I have windows pro, I don’t want notifications to use Edge or see TikTok, Amazon, Candycrush, etc. in the start menu (I know they aren’t downloaded but what “pro” wants any of that shit)

• Google creates a cross platform iMessage competitor
• Only nerds know about it because Google didn’t market it
• Google gets upset that no one is using their cross platform iMessage competitor
• Google cancels their cross platform iMessage competitor
• repeat

For me, Allo was the last straw. Hangouts before it. Google Voice before it. Google talk before it.

fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again

None of my friends have a Meta Quest (or any VR headsets for that matter). On the extremely few occasions the headsets are brought up, all the conversations are the same; “it’s kind of cool but it’s made by Facebook”.

I wonder how many people would be in the market for a relatively cheaper headset like the Meta Quest if it wasn’t a Mark Zuckerberg project

Points 1 & 2 are true for all of Android as far as I’m aware. Point 3 is also probably true for all of Android past a certain version but I have no way of testing so I disclosed it affects pixels. I don’t know what you latched onto that made you so upset.

If you can’t buy an Android device with those features, for all intents and purposes, Android isn’t capable of those features. If you think OP is building an Android device with the hardware for features 1 & 2 but stopped by Lemmy to figure out if the Android OS was capable of using the hardware, you are delusional. Context is important.

Edit: I know you don’t actually think that, just making a point ^

Send links to prove me wrong 🤷‍♂️

YOU made that comparison

Yes. Because that’s what OP asked for:

I'm genuinely curious, what can iOS do that Android can't?

So some iOS devices can do things that all Android devices can't?

Yes. Op didn’t stipulate that the differences needed to be true for all of iOS

I mean I can cherry pick stuff some Android devices can do, too.

That’s not what Op asked

None of my four iOS devices can do any of what you've listed. (2 phones, 2 ipads)

I stated some features were hardware specific and if your devices don’t support Wireguard (my third point) then they are really old and likely not supported anymore or maybe work devices that are locked down. Regardless, I didn’t say anything that wasn’t true and I stated caveats where necessary; I answered OP’s question.

Another copy of the data is the only good option

3 is 2
\ 2 is 1
\ 1 is none