I don't think one can really compare an iphone + iOS to an "Android" phone. Iphone is a specific matching of hardware and software in one neat package. Android on the other hand is a baseline OS that most phone manufacturers modify a great deal. To me it makes more sense then to compare an iphone to your Samsung with OneUI, or a Xiaomi with MiUi, or a pixel with googles pixel os. There is almost as much difference (on the user side) between those android-based devices as there is between any of them and an iphone. It doesn't really make sense to me as a comparison.
Regarding your qualm about animations, I recently had to use an iphone for a few minutes and I was appalled at how slow the animations are. It felt like it took nearly a whole second to switch tabs on safari or open the settings drawer. On my pixel with graphene os, I have changed the animation speed to be much faster, and it takes maybe a quarter of a second to do those same actions. Ofc I didn't time anything but the iOS animations felt like slow motion compared to my phone. I don't know much about iOS, but I assume it isn't possible to change those animation speeds.
My belief on this is that it is related to the scale of effect we have on the environment we're in. A beaver can be considered a keystone species in it's habitat because it can build a dam and have an outsize effect on other species in it's habitat by changing water movement. Humans are extreme keystone species. Our actions alter ecosystems on a global scale. No other species has such an impact. Therefore I don't think it is fair that we have such an impact on all of the other species on the planet. A beavers dam only affects the forest it is in.
The internet is a bunch of networked computers, when it came about it was designed to not be private. It was built to connect lots of different small networks together. You can make yourself fully private by disconnecting yourself from the internat and only using your lan, but then you aren't on the internet anymore. You can hide in plain sight using encryption now though
There is no such thing as a neutral side in war. It is useful to look at stories from both sides to build a fuller picture of what is really happening.
I've had a lot of success with an old second hand pair of reeboks. They are heavy and feel well made. I got them for £20 and show no signs of wear after medium use for about 9 months. My partners new reeboks got a whole in the sole after about 1 year. Second hand walking boots/trail shoes might also be a good idea. I think new shoes on the whole are just not made well, like most modern things, it seems to be about producing cheaply as possible so you have to keep buying new ones.
I agree that this is very bad on google’s part of course, however I don’t think the schools should just lie down and take it. As others have said, installing their own OS should be the way to go. It doesn’t need to be 1 person manually installing the OS on each laptop, there are Infrastructure automation tool like Ansible that can, once set up, manage installation and configuration of an arbitrary number of devices. All the device needs to do is launch a web browser from what I understand, and pretty much every linux distro should be able to do that. If they choose one with a friendly DE, then it makes it easier to use for the kids. The devices will most likely run much better on an OS without bloatware too.
Respect for using it until it falls apart. I think a repairable laptop is a noble ideal, but I wonder if framework ones are actually that much more repairable than a regular laptop that you can open up. I'm not that familiar with their stuff so maybe you know more. Ie. With a standard laptop you can open, you can take out and replace the ram, storage, battery, keyboard, etc. Depending on how integrated the Mobo is, you might be able to replace the ports separately too.
Can you replace the CPU/GPU on the framework?
Do you need the new laptop? Do you need the faster mobile chip? Imo 5 year old chips work fine. I'm hosting loads of services off an old i3. Works perfectly fine. I have a laptop from 2014, works fine, when you run good software on it.
I did neglect to mention I meant external harm. But I wonder does surrounding them with guns and nukes make their state more likely to demilitarize? I feel like it does not.
I think the first line may have been in jest, regardless, the rest of the points are valid I believe. They are exclaiming in horror at the attitide conveyed by the article, that showing off with these subs and terrorizing NK with them is good and we should be proud of it. I also see this as pretty barbaric behaviour. That sub has enough nukes on it to probably turn to glass every population centre in NK. Isn't that terrifying?
NK poses no real harm, they are desperately trying to catch up with their military, probably because they are surrounded by American weapons. The only thing that NK has been taught by the international community is that you have to have nukes and be a bully to be successful. Following the example of the US.
I'm not sure whether or not that poster is from Russia has much to do with what they wrote, and for the record, I found it perfectly legible.
In a capitalist system, billions are made by exploiting people. Therefore bad stuff done is directly proportional to wealth accumulated.