miss_brainfart @ miss_brainfart @lemmy.ml

Hi, I'm Miss Brainfart.

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Apple fans have a very different definition of the word convenience than I do, then.

It's so annoying. They have the whole design industry by their balls with their great displays and perfect colour management in MacOS.

Putting more RAM in those models, or just cutting the lower-end models out entirely would do them no harm at all.

Whoever did the layout of this page knew exactly what they were doing, and I highly respect them for it

I guess that's an exta benefit of having to raise protein intake on a calorie deficit. High quality protein is very satiating.

Your info won't be used for ads means exactly that, nothing more, nothing less.

They will still collect this info, they will continue building a profile of you, and they will continue selling this data.

Spyware? When did that happen?

I think it's enabled by default, but you can also just disable it for specific apps.

But if you leave it enabled and permissions get revoked after a while, you'll get a notification telling you about it. I think that's fair.

There's always going to be a debate on whether something like this should be opt-in or opt-out, but for the purpose of privacy and data security, it makes sense to be on by default, I reckon.

Actively teasing someone is way more fun than ignoring them, anyway

They could just sell appropriately specced computers and make absolute bank like they do anyway, but nooo, that would be too nice of them.

We'll see how it plays out. Have the lawmakers even thought about if and how services have to inform users between one another about their respective TOS?

Like, I wouldn't want to connect to another service before being presented with their terms and privacy policy. Only then should I be able to make a (now informed) decision on whether I want to do it or not.

I guess it all boils down to why you use a certain service. I use Signal to avoid having my messages handled by a service that belongs to Meta. Texting with a WhatsApp user would defeat the whole point for me.

Wow, you seem like a lovely person.

I don't use it myself, I've see it on a friends' phone, so good question. Was a while ago though, a few months, maybe?

Smaller services like Signal wouldn't be forced to do it though, since they don't pass the threshold to be considered a gatekeeper.

So we'll have a situation where WhatsApp is forced to open up, but barely any of the private services will actually make use of it.

I can also see WhatsApp users being even less motivated to switch to better alternatives if everything was interoperable, so we go right back to its huge userbase being a problem anyway.

Idk, I honestly don't see this law changing much in the messaging space. Though I will never disagree with consumers having more options.

That's a fair assumption to make, true.
Idk, I'm just someone who says things exactly the way I think 'em. I don't intend for a deeper meaning to be interpreted, but people are going to do that, because that's just how people are. So again, fair.

That is exactly what Apple would say, isn't it

I didn't say that harvesting blood is the one thing endangering them, did I. Just that it would be a shame to see them go

Pairing a chip this capable with just 8GB of shared memory is also just a waste of good silicon. Which makes the price all the more insulting to me.

Like, this is the equivalent of Usain Bolt losing one of his legs

Either they haven't rolled this out in your country yet, or you haven't updated the app in a while.

Should work pretty well even, since they use the same encryption protocol.

Won't happen though. Signal is very much against interoperability, and they're not big enough to be considered a gatekeeper that will be forced by law.

Fun fact I learned not long ago:
Even iMessage technically wouldn't count as a gatekeeper, since it is in fact below the usercount threshold the EU defined.

Would using root to remove an app remove everything? Because if not, why not simply use adb to uninstall an app like YouTube, for example?

The thing is... I still wouldn't want to send private messages to a WhatsApp user, because that would mean those messages are also handled by a service I specifically meant to avoid by switching to Signal.

But then again, Signal spoke out against it anyway, precisely for that reason.