Lka1988 @ lka1988 @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Yeah, I stopped using it a while ago. Need to get my data off and then it's getting deleted,

Imagine being a Facebook user since it's inception and realizing how little they actually care about privacy

Hi, it's me, I'm that person 😑😑😑

Fair enough.

What

they have been siphoning features off each other for so long

Mostly Apple doing that (they just invented the Pixel's "call screen" feature yesterday), but you're not wrong.

the differences are only splitting hairs imo.

Not really. Outside of "black glass slab with big cameras", they differ quite a bit.

What differences do you actually want to know? I'm genuinely happy to explain and show side-by-sides if needed.

Aren't the pixel line the ones that have the bad batteries?

Where did you hear that? Only one Pixel model has had a legit battery issue (4a I think).

Yeah, no, that's not the issue. Most people use 3rd party cables. Hell, I use my laptop charger on my phone all the time.

Tell me you've never used an iPhone without telling me.

I own and use both every day. Not even the UX is the same. They are not even close.

I'm aware, but the person I responded to specifically mentioned F-Droid, which is Android-only.

All tech companies threw money at Taco Don, or at least pandered to him/his admin.

I have both. One for work. Use both everyday.

Same here, personal Pixel + work-issued iPhone. I use Linux ^btw and Android for the most part, but my wife has used almost exclusively Apple devices since college; in addition to her iPhone 16PM, she also has a Macbook (A1706 lol) and an 27" Retina iMac (last Intel model).

Safe to say I'm very familiar with Apple's ecosystem and user interfaces.

Which brings me to my point: every time I come into these threads, I can always tell who's only ever used one and not the other. They aren't the same, they both have bugs, and both suck up your data in stock form.

fanboy

See, that was your first problem. This isn't team sports.

But I can’t personally look past Sundar Pichai being directly at Trump’s inauguration in the front row

Did you not see Tim Cook in the same section?

If you really want to increase your privacy, you're gonna need to use a Pixel device loaded with a custom ROM such as Graphene OS or Calyx OS. Or none at all.

Convenience wins out 99% of the time. Why carry a pen/paper when one can use the same device they already carry around? Hell, I don't even use pen/paper anymore because my phone handles all that for me.

That said, I did set up some infrastructure at home that I use to store as much of my private data as possible.

Not everyone uses Android devices.

Edit: do you people not understand context? The person I replied to specifically mentioned F-Droid, which is ANDROID ONLY.

Linus is fairly vocal over what is and is not allowed into the Linux Kernel. Pretty sure he has the final say on every commit.

This is one instance where I'm ok with the occasional beating. It's a computer. It doesn't have feelings. It never will. It's not sentient.

I'm aware. Just making a tongue-in-cheek jab.

Can't wait for the release of CUPS 26...

🙄🙄

Just to look at macOS version history,

Yeah, I remember when Mac OS X came out. It was a pretty significant improvement from Mac OS 9 (I grew up on System 7/Mac OS 8, dicked around a bit with 9). Unfortunately, they beat that horse until it lost all meaning, and then dragged the corpse until there was nothing left. It was ridiculous 10 years in (looking at you, Microsoft), and was borderline meme status when they finally dropped the OSX branding altogether.

How would you prefer they handle it?

They were doing fine once they dropped "10". Major version updates have a major version number. It was fixed. Done. Why fix what isn't broken? Just because the version numbers of your various operating systems don't match, doesn't mean it's "broken". They're different operating systems. Versioning has lost all meaning at this point. Shit, even Windows 11 still uses NT kernel 10. And before NT Kernel 10? It was 6.3.

What the fuck even is proper versioning anymore.

I'm just ranting into the void now.