Tbh the exchange is a bit testy. Even if they didn’t request it to be removed, I have a feeling it would have gone viral.

But the Streisand effect is going to show the coverup and the juicy parts. It’s just…amazing

Thank you but I don’t run a Mac. I used to back in the day. I just know how anal Apple is about people using their devices in any way that they don’t specifically want you to.

I sort of get it. When you self host mastodon or lemmy, you have to deal with the moderation that comes with it. That’s a headache unless you have a ton of free time. Judging by the age distribution, I’m guessing most of us just want things to work so we can do what we enjoy.

I’m seeing more sites now not even providing the option to click “no”. I can’t remember the company that provided this library but I feel like any hackers (ahem you assholes who are hacking the IA) want to do some good, they need to be taken down a peg.

It seems to be the same company. If I find it I’ll update this comment.

My primary phone belongs to my work. I get a stipend every two years that essentially allows me to buy any supported phone I want.

The conditions are that it’s managed by them via MDM and all my work stuff is on the work profile side.

It is a choice I make since it allows me to not carry two phones. I did that for the first two years at my company and it was annoying.

I was today years old when I learned that you can run a custom WM on a Mac.

That’s like…the equivalent of a coca cola soda machine dispensing Pepsi.

And in terms of down votes, I don’t really care too much. It evens out overtime.

As much as I want to use F-Droid, my work blocks all third party app stores so it’s either have access to my work stuff on one phone (via profiles) or dual wield two phones.

I lack the patience to dual wield again. It’s very annoying.

That made me true but let’s not ignore the huge profit motive for Kodak to keep people on film. That was their money maker.

They had an incentive to keep that technology out of the consumer market.

He very much could get away with it now. None of the candidates, as far as I’m aware, have a public key published and none of them have any way of verifying that the tweet is from the account holder.

Sure a tweet from Kamala saying, “I believe we should execute all illegals” might be an easy one.

But think of this more subtle tweet: “The United States believes in the sovereignty of all recognized nations.”

We need our politicians to stop using Twitter for official communications.

The fact that we have so much of our politics in a private company is dangerous.

Musk has the power AND ability to post tweets as if they were from any of the candidates.

Not as a sock puppet. But as them directly.

This is a dangerous ability.

People just seem to be more paranoid about downloading stuff not already installed on their devices.

I see this as a natural byproduct of Google, Apple, et al. “Walled Garden”

They want you to consume only from them and only what they approve of. Granted Apple is far more on the latter side than Google but even Google fought tooth and nail to keep Epic from having their own store.

I don’t interact much with people who are younger than me but I feel like the age of tinkering might not be as strong with them as it was for me. PCs were the predominant form factor and you could literally take it apart and put it back together with just a screwdriver. You can’t do that with laptops or phones at least not without a lot of other specialized tools. This isn’t their fault either since device manufacturers have really tried to make it difficult to do anything that they don’t control.

Hell chrome is the best example of this. Google, whose business is selling your personal data for ads, is preventing the use of ad blockers. Firefox is mostly developed by Mozilla with a small handful of volunteers. It’s already showing signs of enshittification. We don’t have a viable third option.

It will only be a matter of time before these tech companies start having brain drains due to their own greed.

I’m a simple man. I see Practical Engineering, I up vote.

It was the most perfect call. There has never been a call perfecter. He called me. That’s right. Apple called and said and he said, “Sir, the EU, the NATO, they keep killing us. They are killing us in the market. With the regulations.”

These regulations that lying Joe passed with Obama. That’s right. He said, “Sir, you have to do something.”

I told him I’ll be able to once I’m elected. This is really crooked, what these democracies are doing. Kamala, you know, hasn’t taken the cognitive. No, she hasn’t. What is she now? Indian? Some of those Indians are very smart you know. They have billions of them over in Indiana.

This conversation seems to come up every now and again and lemmy seems to split between two camps:

• students, especially low income students who can’t afford their own devices, will use devices to do things kids do (yes, this includes porn)
• schools, as part of their duty to provide a safe learning environment, have a responsibility to provide some level of filtering and content monitoring

Where that line gets drawn has to be an active conversation between schools, parents, and students. But this conversation often delves into “BuT tHiNk Of ThE cHiLdReN!”

He makes everything sound interesting.

Ftfy

I’m 100% against self checkout.

They’ve put the burden of sale on you instead of themselves. If you fail to check something out accidentally, you are liable for theft.

If they don’t have a cashier, I go to customer service and tell them to ring me up even if it’s one item.

The segment was good but you fucking with them still wastes their time so they don’t scam someone else who would be less diligent. It’s still good to waste their time. It just sucks that late stage capitalism is forcing them to do the job.

They can target the code though. They’ll inspect the code, find ways to break it, and then kill it that way.

The sooner we can get creators off of YouTube the better.

You must be a terrorist because that’s MUSLIM MATH! Those are not Christian numbers and feel it necessary to report this comment to the FBI, the Federal Biblical Investigators.

Or it’s just late stage capitalism where the product has truly gone to shit.