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Did you read the last part of the comment?

I agree completely. Like I said, it's a problem that Apple has manufactured. But I blame Apple for making third party message clients into second class citizens, I don't blame the users

I don't actually agree, it's less about the color of the chat bubble obviously, and more about the experience. iMessage is front and center, baked in, allows for full quality images and videos, typing indicators, reactions, replies, red receipts. You don't get any of that with SMS. This is still absolutely an Apple problem through and through, preventing other chat apps from feeling native. That being said it does explain why people care so much about iMessage

I'm lucky - I'm in a Midwest town as well (between 1500 to 3000 people) in the US. A couple of years ago, fiber got installed. I'm getting about 900Mbps down and 99 up, no data cap, for $84/month. Before that I also had Mediacom, and the data cap was infuriating. So glad I could switch!

I would argue that's actually a good thing for the average user. Computers and other personal electronics have become so reliable that you rarely have to delve into those tools as an average user. You can actually see the trend of simplification and everything but Windows - Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android are all immutable operating systems where user data and applications live separately from a read-only operating system partition. This is obviously not the case for all Linux distros but the point still stands.

Working in IT, I'm glad to see that despite the move to immutability in the Linux world, I actually have access to more tools than I did on base Ubuntu. blendOS and NixOS allowing you to spin up an operating system of your choice in a container, pull down whatever programs you want, all without cluttering your system? It really is the best of both worlds. Plus I still need a rock solid system, Knowing that I will always be able to apply an update without anything breaking is a huge win for all users. Back to the original point, technology has become so reliable and easy to use that you feasibly can just open your browser every morning and leave it at that. No hassling with clearing cache or anything, it just works.

Set up NextCloud, sync your photos to your own NextCloud server, and you're good to go. The crazy thing is it's becoming trivial for even a non-technical user to set everything up. Tail scale means there is no reason to put forward if you are just using it for personal use, and you literally just have to log into tail scale with your Google account on the server and your phone. You can run next cloud in a virtual machine with virtualBox, and that's literally it. You don't have to deal with updating, being stuck in PHP or dependency hell, none of that. Seriously, we are at such a crazy time in history where you can set up your own cloud infrastructure with an hour of work for even an non-technical user, and stop paying for iCloud photos or Google photos storage each month. It saves you money and improves your privacy

Yes, I'm an Nvidia user on Ubuntu (soon to switch to something else I think). The issue is the drivers on Wayland suck. Routine screen tearing with dual monitors (even if the second one is disabled in GNOME Settings). It also gives me issues with hardware acceleration for OBS captures. Had I been planning ahead I would've gone with AMD, but I got the 3070 for a great price during the shortages so ¯(ツ)_/¯

Edit: to be clear, it's fine and usable with one monitor, but still annoying. Switching to X11 gives me a whole different set of issues that just isn't worth the tradeoffs. I still play games with no fuss with one monitor, it just sucks that I have framerate issues running OBS at 1080p30 capture with a 3070

Nope, I'm running it now! You unlock the bootloader, flash the ROM, then lock it back up. As long as you don't mind the lack of Android Auto, it is basically a completely flawless experience and I have loved almost every moment of it. Especially if you host your own services like nextcloud and jellyfin, everything works seamlessly!

I mean the free market did, people decided they just didn't care. You may have been sarcastic, but people have indeed decided it didn't matter to them. That's the "regulation" in this case

Same here, especially with picture in picture for video playback. It just gets in the way and I hate it

Do tell, I'm curious to learn more. Does it really matter if it knows how many pages you've printed? It's not going to magically tell you you can't print anymore when you can see that there's still ink in there

True, we've gotta be the ones to push friends and family to fight that

Thankfully that guy stepped down (or is stepping down)

This reminds me of watching the movie about Professor John Nash in health class. For the next 3 days all any of us could talk about was "what if I'm making you up?"

(For those who don't know, it's a movie about him and his experiences with schizophrenia)

I agree. If you want super fast storage, totally fine! Just don't remove the option to expand later.

Get a pixel and install GrapheneOS. Using a pixel and Linux machines, you can use KDE Connect to get basically every integration you get with iOS and macOS. Admittedly not everything is quite so seamless like Apple's products, but it's quite nice. Plus, no Google snooping on your stuff (unless you choose to install Google services, which you can do with one tap)

But there are private and open source alternatives to these things. Home Assistant is the way to go for home automation, same with Apple's HomeKit (all local communication via your network only)

Goldberg Steam Emulator helps a bit (not sure if it's only for ARM Linux devices though). Hit replicates the functionality that scheme client provides, so even if steam itself should disappear you still have that. That doesn't really help with third-party DRM, but it's at least something that could help in such an event

I have everything set up to do this as well, but on my Pixel running GrapheneOS I would suddenly lose all network access until I turned TailScale off and back on on my phone. That's the one thing preventing me from switching over (also certs, since some next cloud applications don't play nicely with the default cert)

It should be worth noting the tail scale uses wireguard on the back end