Yeah, but you can’t circumvent this on iOS. It’s incredibly easy to spoof information on android.

The future is now, old man. Been dealing with this my entire life.

That can be done on android and other operating systems. Apple is always the SOL option when it comes to dodging this crap.

Add arrogance to that undesirable cooking pot.

Because they pay apple? I’d imagine that’s obvious. It’s more useful metrics for the developer. I would be surprised if they didn’t tier the information access about users behind closed doors.

Android’s not perfect, but at least permissions can be set per app, you can root your device, or install GrapheneOS or Lineage to bypass this crap entirely.

Welp, goodbye all non-corporate RND in almost all scientific development.

Talk about a short-sighted admin.

Quite forward thinking of the Mekanism devs, then.

It’s both amazing and hilarious that our sodium battery production is similar to modded Minecraft logic.

“Sir, we’ve already been breached once!”

“But what about second breach?”

I’m not sure if this would fall under the definition of “skill issue”, but I’ve never had any luck getting Samba to work on even a local network.

This may be the same argument at “immutable” distros, having an environment where the user cannot fuck it up will be the best way to spur adoption rates, and eventually ambitious users will use more granular methods like you described.

I probably will use this.

Nah he hates getting beach camped on Hapis.

I haven’t done enough research to say for sure, unfortunately. I know AMD is far better than Nvidia in terms of not being as entrenched in AI development (which by extension, is weaponized for generating target information), and they’re also better in terms of not being as proprietary (hiding everything behind closed doors), although that’s not directly related.

So currently? I think they’re morally better than Nvidia, yeah. But it’s not a high bar to clear, and as their market share progresses, they may fall to the same practices that Nvidia was encouraged to embrace.

The big 3 (AMD, Intel, Nvidia) in the graphics space already have a presence in the country due to manufacturing and design capabilities.

It’s a similar case with certain weapons manufacturing as well.

The most evil companies tend to send the most reliable and substantial paychecks, unfortunately.

A .zip archive :) or for that matter, a YouTube Playlist that you can just use YTDL to copy for yourself

I guess a big factor would be constant access to the internet on your mobile devices. I usually travel through internet “dead zones” (no cell coverage, wifi, or just in a building that doubles as a Faraday cage), so I find having offline music a lifeline for staving off boredom. That could be why it appeals to me more - plus the whole “they can’t take it away” side.

“Hi there, would you like to sign the petition?”

I never really had much interest in music streaming services, given the wealth of storage on modern devices, and the ease of ripping audio from almost any source in existence.

Do we need a constant internet connection to listen to music? Is it that hard to use VLC, and just buy/download what you want, and rip what you can’t?

I wonder if those using the tool are prepared for “Unforeseen Consequences”…

Eh, who am I kidding. Of course they’re not.

He’s arguing that comparing raw performance is moot in his comment, since having affordable/available supply that can undercut NVIDIA in the same role would be quite a blow to their market dominance (especially outside the US).