I agree with Kev but also, the best argument I’ve seen for defederating is quite simple: if any other instance moderated as poorly as Meta, they would instantly defederated, so why are we making an exception for them?
I was going through Pine64’s page again after I found the latest KDE announcement. With that said, I seem to see a lot of issues with firmware on the Pine, whilst the Librem is just plain out of budget for me. Was interested in how many people here run a Linux mobile as a daily driver, and how has your experience been?...
We can’t even get widespread adoption on workstations, what are the chances we’ll ever get them on mobile?
It’s all the same problems. There aren’t nearly enough people using it for developers to spend their time developing compatible versions of their software, much less ones with a mobile-friendly interface.
Maybe they’ll work with PWAs but those still suck.
Would really love to but have yet to see basic phone functionality covered in a way that isn’t a painful compromise. Stock Android is a privacy nightmare, which is why I left it.
I’ve been using GrapheneOS for about a year now and it’s a giant leap in privacy and security (much better than iOS), with very little compromise in functionality.
The only phones that cost that much are either several years old (in which case you can include used Pixels) or are riddled with bloatware and spyware and the absolute cheapest of materials that won’t last long enough to make buying it even make any financial sense.
I couldn’t possibly recommend it to anyone who is not a programmer. It doesn’t work for shit. The simplest and most basic things like just installing software is nigh-impossible for normies.
In my opinion there is a balance, where things you use commonly while driving are physical controls, and everything else is touch screen. But it seems like literally no one knows how to do this.
PS Portal is a terrible device, but also name another device in the $200 price range you can use to stream PS5 games with good ergonomics and a good display…
E: please read the last 5 words again before suggesting tablets and phones.
I’m not “being inflexible”, I’m pointing out that those are not comparable options.
I mean I could buy a Origin PC that has a PlayStation 5 built into it and strap it to my back and mount a TV to my waist as I walk around. That’s totally the same thing, right?
Yes, as you may be (not) aware, Google Play is also on PC
Not really the same thing unless Windows was trying to take a commission from Epic for games sold through the Epic app which was downloaded through the Windows Store, and basically everyone used the Windows Store (which I assume almost no one does).
Not sure exactly what you’re referring to but I don’t it has to do with Play store, but rather Play Services, and that’s on your bank, and it’s probably a good thing.
Your bank doesn’t want anyone using their apps on insecure devices. Google Play services is how they ensure your device is secure.
I really don’t understand why they bother. Do they really think they can “beat” some of the best programmers in the world that actually controls the servers their service is dependent on?
I suppose there was hope in the beginning that Apple might just let it slide but at this point it’s abundantly clear that that’s not going to happen. Their users are going to continue to experience interruptions and just give up.
Eric keeps making strawman about “not bothering because it’s hard”.
I don’t know anything about Compaq. Was their business built on reverse engineering IBMs system and impersonating IBM hardware to gain unauthorized access to their servers and services?
Apple can only change the iMessage protocol itself very slowly
They changed it in <3 days.
iMessage is a giant cash cow for them. They’ve stated as much. They will dedicate a massive amount of resources to ensure that is not lost.
Beeper users will eventually become tired after the 3rd or 4th time they can’t send/receive messages to Apple users at all anymore because they can’t deregister their phone number from iMessage and Beeper Mini is broken.
They reverse engineered IBM’s BIOS to create the first fully compatible non-IBM PC that could run MS-DOS and all IBM PC software natively
This doesn’t sound like anything that’s dependent on IBM servers or services. It also doesn’t sound like something that IBM could realistically fix easily and retroactively, which is the case here with Apple.
People are absolutely “needed”. The thing is you can make people 1000% more efficient, which means you need fewer of them. And the quality is often “good enough”. Especially when the goal is nothing but spamming your way to the top of SEO lists.
Also this whole idea that AI can’t create anything original completely missed the fact that humans can’t either. By the time you’re old enough to write, you’ve already been influenced by thousands of other people. That is unless you’re born to nomads who live out in the wilderness alone, at which point your original content is probably very boring, shallow and linear.
I suppose it’s possible but you’d need to buy and maintain several domains. Very easy to use with Proton or AnonAddy or Firefox Relay. And then any of those domains could be tied back to you.
Threads and the Fediverse | Kev Quirk (kevquirk.com)
Here’s a very different take on Threads by a Fosstodon admin.
How many of you run a Linux phone (Pine64, Librem etc) as your daily driver?
I was going through Pine64’s page again after I found the latest KDE announcement. With that said, I seem to see a lot of issues with firmware on the Pine, whilst the Librem is just plain out of budget for me. Was interested in how many people here run a Linux mobile as a daily driver, and how has your experience been?...
GM Says It's Dropping Apple CarPlay And Android Auto Because They're Unsafe (jalopnik.com)
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was asked by Verge why there is no support for the Steam Deck for Fortnite (lemmy.ml)
Steam Deck OLED now supports HDR Remote Play from PS5, unlike PlayStation Portal (www.tomshardware.com)
How many stinkers did you play this year?
How many and which bad games did you play this year?
Epic Games wins antitrust case against Google over Play app store [there's still the Alphabet's appeal ongoing] (www.reuters.com)
“Is this relevant to PC”?...
Google’s Android app store monopoly violates antitrust law, jury finds (arstechnica.com)
Android is preparing to add built-in protection against phishing (www.androidpolice.com)
Beeper Mini Is Back | iMessage for Android (blog.beeper.com)
Why does this microphone have a stereo wire? (On a headset)
Learn in simple terms how ChatGPT works and why people are still needed (robbie.antenesse.net)
It’s more important than ever to understand what ChatGPT and other AI tools like it are actually doing when they talk to us and write for us....
Spammers are starting to use email addresses with "renewal" in the address, bypassing junk filters. How do we fight this without blocking legitimate renewal emails?
For several months now I’ve started to receive an unprecedented number of emails from addresses named some variation of “renewal@”....