sir_reginald @ sir_reginald @lemmy.world

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it feels better

that's based on nothing. technically, it's inferior in every way.

I'd say that forcing Apple to make it easy to install other operative systems in their hardware would be a good start. And yes, making firmware available for those.

If Apple were to be splitted, I'd separate the whole iPhone branch from the rest of the company.

The app store? There's only one Xbox store on the Xbox, one Nintendo shop on the switch or Wii. It wouldn't make sense to require supporting competition on your hardware. Did N64 games work on the Sega Genesis?

those had enough competitors and weren't the richest companies in the world. Although if it was my decision, I'd force them to open the hardware up too and allow third party software not approved by the manufacturer.

People are paying for the hardware, they should own it and not be imposed artificial limitations.

If this guy is this lazy

I try to keep my fingers in my keyboard as much as possible and having to take out my phone is just a waste of time. I do not need 2fa. Let me do my own security.

Maybe requiring 2fa for passwords shorter than 60 characters would be a good solution. Most people would use 2fa but people with strong passwords can live without it.

they should at least give an option to be able to skip that. like the user manually enabling a special permission for a single app that before enabling it you see multiple scary warning screens, confirming that you know what you're doing.

it's my fucking phone, just let me update my software without having to go through manually clicking on update 30 times.

the problem is firmware. the community has been porting postmarketos to android phones for years, there are a ton of phones where PmOS will boot but most things like camera, phone service or bluetooth won't work because they are missing the firmware necessary.

I'm all for security, but god I hate forced 2fa. I'm a power user with a password manager that generates 64 characters long random passwords, different for each site. I don't want to be bothered to take my phone every time I want to login.

and let's not forget that it was stolen, so it's probably being sold right now anyway.

you aren't making any sense. people did fanarts and memes of the joker movie like crazy, they were all over the internet. there are tons and tons of fan arts of copyrighted material.

they fall under fair use and no one losses money because fan arts can't be used for commercial purposes, that would fall outside fair use and copyright holders will sue, of course.

how is that different from the AI generating an image containing copyrighted material? if someone started generating images of the joker and then selling them, yeah, sue the fuck out of them. but generating it without any commercial purpose is not illegal at all.

following that logic, you don't allow your family to be near a desktop computer, do you? all those third party programs not approved by your OS distributor surely are scary.

It's not like installing third party apps in Android is something someone can do by mistake. You have to specifically enable it in the options and allow it for the app that acted as a source.

Most users never do this and use the Play Store just fine, which is neither more secure or insecure than the Apple Store.

you're still asking for a character from a video game, which implies copyrighted material. write the same thing in google and take a look at the images. you get what you ask for.

you can't, obviously, use any image of Mario for anything outside fair use, no matter if AI generated or you got it from the internet.

it's funny how you think that Apple isn't recollecting your data. It seems like their marketing is effective.

fairly old Samsung tablets to use at work, and they’re absolute shit

Can't argue with that, Samsung is absolute shit. Never used a tablet tho, so I can't comment on that.

The nicest part of Android is that it's open source and therefore the community makes Android builds that aren't plagued with spyware or any corporate bullshit.

Messing with megacrops is a feature

I completely agree. I do not care if they are foreign or not, tho

it's probably some sort of Snapchat automatic alert detecting the words bomb or Taliban.

nah, they are just slightly less corrupt. And they like to mess with American megacorps too.

those CPUs just happen to have a huge marketing budget behind and a very loyal fanbase. They aren't anything revolutionary. Sure, more battery life. In terms of daily usage, the difference with a high end AMD or Intel CPU is unnoticeable other than having a shiny apple on the back of your laptop.

Safari will still have more than 90% of the market share in iOS. Most Apple users don't care or are fully unaware of this.

I mean, I'm sure they sell Android phones in the UK. Why do you buy Apple products if you are aware of their monopolistic practices that have to be battled with legislation?

but if they have all that disabled, they probably have their ads disabled too, which means they are not making Brave any money. So they don't care.

If we had a working alternative to Android as a whole, we would surely use it. But Linux on mobile works only in few devices and not flawlessly at all. But for the Chromium monopoly we have an actual alternative that works.

the beauty of no DRM is that if a game runs fine on wine (and I'm sure most games in GOG will) then you can just install them.