at least they allow you to use other app stores or even download them directly from the app developer.
The bigger one is that the base system is still open source. That ensures a baseline of freedom. Google services are so intertwined that it’s hardly possible to really live without but it is. Imagine a de-appled iPhone.
My friends have YouTube/twitch. They’re extremely popular, in the 100k+ range. They all quit their job
That’s surprising to me. Are 100k+ really enough to make a living?
I’m not a native speaker but always took it as short form for “go fuck yourself”, not “I will fuck you”.
Apparently, it’s just 30 failed approaches of the same tool.
originally meant to threaten violent sexual penetration
Rougher times back then.
Well, sure, all we both have is annecdata.
The notion to defend even the stupidest design decisions (mouse charging port on bottom) or attacking users who point those out or even just ask questions (saw multiple of those when I was looking for answers about my iPhone then, when I gave it a chance) is very common in English-speaking social media and forums (or at least those that I frequent).
I’ve personally never seen anyone defending Samsung or Huawei in that matter. That may be different in their home countries of course but I don’t speak those languages.
To say that DadeMurphy is representative of most Apple fans is certainly an exaggeration.
That’s true. My experience is only about vocal Apple defenders not the silent fans or critical users which are probably the vast majority.
I haven’t seen this for any other corp though.
No Windows user cheers for Microsoft when they publish record revenue figures. They know, they paid for it.
No Android user defends phone makers if the new model has nothing new but costs 10-20% more.
But there isn’t a thread or article about Apple without some commenters defending them. Regardless of the shit they pull.
That’s what actual Apple fanbois sound like though. I believe it’s a specific case of Stockholm Syndrome.
The original Prince of Persia, you mean?
Sorry I missed that. I don’t think you’ll ever be happy using Windows on a touch device though. Too much relies on the traditional UX pattern, especially third-party applications.
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If by “better for touch” you mean a phone app: no, Thunderbird is for your computer. In Android I can recommend FairEmail.
Yeah, based on a legal request - that’s how it should be. Our problems are not police listening in on criminals but unwarranted mass-surveillance.
I’ve been using Thunderbird since forever. It’s not perfect but I like it better than bloated and laggy Outlook.
Even in your example, you set everything up.
No shit. Have you installed Windows 10/11 recently? Do you seriously believe a 85 year-old will get this done on their own?
I share your overall opinion though: Linux is not “the best for most people”. That would be phones nowadays. Many people don’t even have computers anymore (I don’t get how they organize their finances or write documents but I guess I’m just old).
My mother used Linux Mint as her last OS just fine. She struggled more with her phone than Linux. Just using browser, mail client and writing the occasional letter you’re pretty much OS-agnostic.
However, while that does work, sometimes updates break something (regardless of distribution). Windows mixes shit up which makes the elderly not finding something again but Linux updates may result in the DE not starting for some reason. I moved to Linux 100% myself but I still won’t ever recommend it to anyone who isn’t fine with tinkering or has access to family tech support.
a lot of that comes down to low level features like GCD and ARC.
Ah, almost but this shows you’re just bullshitting (knowingly or not). Those are programming features and neither serves resource efficiency but security and preventing other errors. Important things, but managing memory manually in C will be faster and less resource-intensive than any smart-pointer variant. Doing so flawlessly is hard though.
How do they break the law? The opt-in forces them to ask you first and that’s what the annoying banners do. Sites that don’t care about tracking also don’t show these pop-ups.
Sorry, I cannot decipher that. If you mean, this doesn’t prevent phone makers to lock down their bootloaders: sure. But I just need to find one that doesn’t and by an open source Android there will always be an image to flash. At least it’s infinitely better than Apple’s walled garden.