Why is nobody mentioning that by installing it and authenticating, there is sweet fuck all you can do to stop them tracking your movements and downloading your whole address book so they can see who you Associate with?

Taking the phone isn’t the problem if they are already in it.

Or… Keep the card in the car?

The new model now that it’s out of preview is performing significantly less “thinking”

That’s how they made that ET game back in the day

I’m still waiting on porn to pull the rug and take away my good times

Yeah fuck randos. They smell.

Late stage enshitification

I was running an it services business at the time, so got to see a broad number of machines and peoples complaints.

I think the massive jump in ram required was a huge problem, it went from most people having 128mb to 256mb, to a minimum of 512, but a reality of 2gb required.

Plus the indexer was relentless and just smashed HDDs.

Drivers were a problem too but people understood they would need to be have upgrades for their fancy new system.

Then xp to vista happened and it looked pretty but was unusable. Then 7 came out and it solved all the BS and was a relief. Then 8 came out and it looked pretty but was unusable. Nobody is quite sure what happened with 9 but 10 was ok I guess, better than 8. Then I started using Linux because I was sick of the bullshit.

Breathe thicker

My preferred podcast app (stitcher) shit down in August and I was about to move to google podcasts.

I am an idiot.

This post and the one before you have most relevant usernames I have come across on social media

Honestly if I was in the market for an achoo or a fuckhphone, I would totally buy a fuckphone

I feel like you have Apple, Samsung, Pixel as the big 3 (in the western world)

Then it’s Xiaomi, OPPO (and it’s subbrands), Motorola and maybe Nokia which are all just “cheaper alternatives” or as I think people think of them “android”

Then you have your niche phones like fairphone etc.

I see more tv ads for pixels than I do for galaxy phones.

That was back when 3d TV’s were still a thing, though, so not crazy

As an app developer some people just get hard for an app and don’t know why they would want one.

It’s rarely some big plan just an ego thing

Slap Jeff with a glove

Yeah, that was my thought as well - I can’t believe it’s so high

Everyone’s always blaming the rats