Users telling developers to fuck themselves is a irony lost in these threads. How many open source projects do you maintain?

and people wonder why everything is entirely moving to subscriptions.

You are able to choose because they let you. You don’t think they know that? They own their own browser for god sakes. They could turn every adblock ineffective and not care for mouth breathers like you claiming victory by using applications and adblock lists someone else make, who would shit themselves if they stopped being maintained for a few days.

Don’t make yourself feel like you beat the Big Tech. It’s anything but…

Enjoy yourself feeling like a h4x0r though.

But that’s because the M1 and M2 Mac sold like hot cakes and we’re at a quiet stop in the product timeline.

So you agree that it’s mainly Apple stans buy in whenever a new Mac drops, and hasn’t been able to really influence non Apple stans.

That’s what the poster above you said. Apple stans buy in because they’re a cult, so of course their sales will increase once a new mac drops.

sold like hot cakes

The same was true for every other manufacturers during covid as everyone was bound to work from home and needed a laptop, but nobody seems to mention that

apple should have had this fixed long before

not if it was intentional. I mean apple bends over for authoritarian governments around the world. This could easily be used as a state surveillance apparatus and casually “fixed” when discovered down the road as a “bug”.

USA was built on ulterior motives so there’s nothing new. WMDs, genocide and false propaganda are all on the table. It just depends if the country allies with US interests. Saudi Arabia? free to use slaves, anyone else? they’re going to feel what freedom feels like. War crimes? You ain’t seen nothing yet, my boy…

People will believe everything on the internet. 🙄

With India, it’s more likely they failed to pay the Police their dues.

brain cells too low for the point to land. abort, abort, abort!

Yes that’s definitely worse than exploiting slave labour in China for 2 decades, amirite?

This is definitely puts a black eye on the service for me

Right, forget about all the sweatshops and suicide nets and slave labour. this one is crossing the line.

“but but but everyone does it…”

no shit, Apple normalized it.

Which ratings do think we should use that is not manipulated these days? Apple’s own rating? IMDB? Any others?

For someone going after state actors like China, they could drop them overnight, or trickle it to go under the radar.

ratings… geez, next you’re gonna say we should trust ecommerce ratings for online purchases.

P2P calls are inherently more privacy friendly, dumbass. look it up. Guess what protocol Briar uses?

Eating that shit up without an ounce of knowledge on the subject.

“Thank you for your service”… don’t worry about the optics.

amirite?

For a populace that’s dumb enough to elect a con man as a president, eat horse dewormers, you don’t really have to make it any more complicated when you want to frame someone. Most of them don’t even have reading comprehension of a 6 grader.

“look there, aliens”

“yeehaw, alien hunting time”

“look there, WMD”

“Sign me up, war crime time”

Rest of them

“Thank you for your service”

Search and ads are their bread and butter, Android is there to get you personalized ads. They’re not going to give them up as defaults.

They even mess up split screen when you choose a different launcher. that’s just a dark pattern to make you use google more

Google Search, Adsense/Analytics, Android and Chrome should be broken up.

It’s feeding the same evil

Someone who barges in a discussion getting triggered when someone said something bad about his beloved company, says he’s not. lmao

I see the exact opposite, and you being triggered when no one even mentioned anything you’re so offended about, proves the point.

It’s totally not your insecurity talking, at all… but do go on…

Are they going to bundle chrome as a system update like apple bundles safari, just so they can say they have longer update cycle?

do you trust that guy because he calls himself a scientist or because he has fancy graphs, maybe his accent? hmm… must be the lab dress shown for 5 seconds in the intro.

I saw both of his videos where he compares pixel watch and apple watch against polar h10 chest strap as a reference device, but somehow the reference device is ranked lower than apple device in his pixel watch ratings? How does that happen?

how does a reference device wind up being less accurate against the device you are testing against? I couldn’t find him testing them against an actual medical equipment.

Him comparing Apple watch against Polar H10: https://i.ibb.co/MnSJXR1/image.png

His ranking when testing Google pixel watch where polar h10 is less accurate?: https://i.ibb.co/Xt9hS4J/image.png

Google is shit at hardware and nobody wants a subscription for a watch but maybe, just maybe, this guy seems like a apple fanboy?

The guy doesn’t reveal his data or the code he uses to plot the graphs, just 100s and 100s of affiliate links. How the hell people consider this scientific and why the fuck is it so popular?

I’m no scientist but I don’t know. educate me