Sir Arthur V Quackington @ ocassionallyaduck @lemmy.world

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Please consider offering a one-time purchase option for certain version milestones, maybe hosted on patreon or something if you need.

I don't mind paying to support development, I do mind subscriptions unfortunately.

Money is the ultimate shield.

Fucking crazy how much you can just openly flip the bird to the law when you have enough lawyers.

This sign is a cancer and is such an unforced dick move to all the neighbors of that building.

The AOSP dialer is based on an older version. Google removed it going forward.

Agreed, but then why not make an api for your "open operating system" so users of Samsung/One Plus /Sony/etc could see the dialer with their call screening /assistants if they so choose?

Instead of just removing the dialer entirely. https://www.androidauthority.com/google-kill-android-aosp-dialer-messages-app-3334980/

This title and framing is absolute horseshit.

Abolish Amazon prime tomorrow. Break the company into tiny pieces, raise the cost of streaming platforms and cut the CEO pay by 1000% (they will still make millions).

That's what consumers want. You can see viewers just giving money to talents on twitch and YouTube. People want to reward good content. Hollywood and these large corporations have just become extremely good at separating the workers from the value of labor, and taking the overwhelming lion's share for investors.

Google owns the platform. You're not really comparing like to like.

It's like saying since Google can modify some files in Windows that Microsoft doesn't control the platform.

Sony upstreams many of its changes, but you're right that Samsung does not. This is both because of differentiation, but also because often the changes are in defiance of the "official" Google spec in android and merging is refused.

One plus for example offers further customization on gesture input that is missing in Android 13, allowing corner bottom swipes, hiding the little nav line, etc. But this cannot merge.

Google has decided a "solution", to hell with if your features are better. I would love to see these features in android mainline. But Google won't allow it. Sony made a theme system years ago, but Android wouldn't fully merge it, and took another 5 or so years to make something.

Google keeps locking tons of Android features away behind their own privatized software stack.

Better for Google, but they are cutting their nose to spite their face here, as Android as a whole suffers for it.

Stuff like call screening in the android dialer would be possible on any brand of device. But no, pixel only.

The pixels have the very best android experience. It comes close to iPhone. But pixels aren't the whole market. Overall Google is trying to claw back control of the entire platform and I hate it.

Honestly the only surefire answer is to lie and forge some paperwork, hire a contractor to rent a backhoe and ruin the asphalt, and then when the city stops you notify them of a sinkhole beneath.

They'll dig and find whatever is there to find.

Yse as many cutouts as you can, but you're already fairly exposed if this is true by your FIL's actions. So have an alibi while all this is happening.

Lack of good integrated support in Windows and Mac, as well as no native way to convert from webp means it is good when it is good, but infuriating when it is bad. If you just need something to work, you don't want to fight with converting image formats, you just want to move on.

I supported the idea of webp, still do, but it's 100% less widely supported on legacy software, and the OS does nothing to interpret for those software packages.

Somewhat. Webstandards are voted upon, and I believe Mozilla is part of those organizations.

However Google could always choose to ignore web standards and do what they want. And due to their massive market dominance this would effectively enforce this overnight for over half of the internet.

The reason they may not, is the EU would take them to court over that. The US no longer believes in stopping companies from ruining shit though.

So it was patched literally 2 days ago.

You think everyone updates their kernel off source that quickly? This vulnerability is absolutely still out in the wild.

"Listen, if we didn't think about it, it's clearly not important."

• Google

Why are users on Linux stating the opposite then?

The birth certificate is certifying the birth of a child, not their lineage of their parents. You are indeed attempting to use the document for something outside its scope.

You are frankly being disingenuous if you imply that the way law treats a birth certificate is as a genealogical record. That is simply not true, and so long as it is not true, arguments that that should be the criteria of being listed on the document are fallicious.

There is no concept of karma, or karma whoring here. And no reward system or reason to farm karma to pretend to be a RealLiveHumanPerson with feelings.

not yet anyways.

The Polestar by Volvo is absolutely going to convince someone to never touch an EV again. Not because of the charging, that was fine. But oh my god the interior design and the UX of their infotainment is among the worst I have ever had to tolerate. I wanted to drive the car into the ocean.

Oh good, the official trailer.

I was upset with the non-official trailer Marvel out out before that told me the whole plot of the movie. Glad I have this one to correct that.

Seriously I hate the "teaser" trailers. Just call it trailer 1 you jackasses.

It's not a goal, just a happy accident they found along they way!

I'm a lifelong windows power user, and above average even in my industry for knowledge on technical expertise.

Nothing I know translates to Linux. Not the file structures, the commands, the permissions, the file systems.

You truly have to commit to learning an entirely parallel form of computing environment to become comfortable in Linux. And being frank, it is the most customizable and unique user experience out there, but it is also infinitely less user friendly. And for every time a 2 line terminal command fixes a problem and saves time compared with windows, there are dozens of instances where time is wasted for hours learning that command, its exact syntax and usage, and if it is the one you need for your circumstance.

Another user here recently said that it was when they were going through and compiling their own drivers to make their Webcam work and having to follow guides to make system specific tweaks that they just quit and went back to Windows for ease of use.

Linux is the OS of power users. Not even power users like me, but extreme power users who either have the time or training to learn that parallel system. All of which is easy if this is your job, but in many ways you are learning a second language of sorts.

Tiktok.

You said product, and I mean this legitimately. Not because of meme hate or hating on what is trendy, but because it is and has been a tool of the CCP. This isn't really in question, and it was one of the first large platforms to entirely erase the idea of a timeline and fully devote itself only to a algorithm feed. One that bytedance has put their finger on the scales of many times.

The effect this has is hard to quantify, but the postmortem on it is going to be incredible as we unpack exactly how much this influenced the trends and politics among zoomers, and to what extent.