This is a patently absurd comparision

I don’t even like Apple, but when you talk about their mobile ecosystem (mainly looking at phones/watches) here, Android is laughably behind at this point.

• Apple devices last stupid long.
• First one here counts for both batteries and vendor support. This is for the worst reason, the walled garden, but it works. There have been a few times I realized my magsafe charger was unplugged… for three days in a row. But my battery was rolled into about 5% at the end of the third day and dozens of hours of SoT.
• The 2021 OS release supported 2015 phones. Current OS is to 2017 phones. Point out any major Android vendor still supporting their 2017 phones until at least mid 2024.
• I was a devout Android worshipper. I twrp’d, greenified, rooted, removed any social media apps, etc and everything else. And then I realized I hated having to do that to make it with a device that would have over 50% battery by lunch.
• I grew up. I went from loving to tweak with my phone all the time, to just wanting it to reliably work.
• One of my most important pieces of tech is my watch. I use it for payments, travel, access, and everything else. And the Apple watch versus ANY OTHER ANDROID offering is the reason I will never use Android again. Shit just works. Mindlessly. And never has downtime.

I use linux on my desktop and laptop, but iPhone is the only phone that matters.

Yes

This is REALLY not the case everywhere.

Toss in like 3 streaming services, which is pretty typical coverage for what most people want to watch, you are at cable costs.

And I dunno if you’ve been in an Uber lately in a larger city in the US, but literally in the last year we’ve gone from people driving nice clean modern cars, to people driving late 90s/early 00s hoopties that are dirty, stained, and don’t have AC, smell like whatever thing was in there before, etc.

feels like a bit of a strawman.

arguing that you can’t use the client without the license for the server… on the same machine, is silly. There’s tons of utility with the client even if you don’t have the server license locally, especially if you ever use the Remote Desktop Client remotely.

Ultimately if they aren’t completely “yes people”, then they are long gone.

If you are required to give them information that they can use to figure out who you are, it’s not anonymous.

So if you are on normal post-paid cell phones, where you have given them your real info, or use a credit to pay for it with your name on it, etc. that means you aren’t anonymous.

So when super secret drug lord is caught, they can figure you were talking to this drug lord and charge you, because they have his end of the communications and can verify with your cell provider who YOU are.

Privacy just means they don’t know what you are saying. They may know you are communicating with drug lord but not what you are saying.

You can have neither, one or the other, or both

If you are required to give them information that they can use to figure out who you are, it’s not anonymous.

So if you are on normal post-paid cell phones, where you have given them your real info, or use a credit to pay for it with your name on it, etc. that means you aren’t anonymous.

So when super secret drug lord is caught, they can figure you were talking to this drug lord and charge you, because they have his end of the communications and can verify with your cell provider who YOU are.

Privacy just means they don’t know what you are saying. They may know you are communicating with drug lord but not what you are saying.

You can have neither, one or the other, or both

The line will come far far FAR before that

As far as paywalls go, that’s one of the nicest ones. One click and I was able to fully read the article without signing up or anything.

Sure. But you can install a plug-in if you aren’t tech savvy. You can also run something with ad blocking turned on by default.

Ad-blocking on the browser level is enough for most people to never see an ad again.

Who actually sees ads? Between NextDNS or PiHole and ublock origin, I haven’t seen an ad in years.

While I wholly support this bit of righteous outage… most of the comments here are going to be about the grid and the Republicans.

He’s below his height of wealth, but he’s still #1 and has 250 billion

While I’m the same and agree, I’m certainly loving the drama and downfall of that toolbag.

Just like anywhere else, it’s know your audience.

People like to pretend they are hyper privacy/anti-Google focused, but then give over their entire life and capture what they had for dinner on FB and instagram

To each their own.

Every couple of years I try firefox, and it doesn’t take me long to be disappointed. Usually just some random incoherent firefox incompatibility with a major feature like logging in on a site or something.

Not since the last time they got caught with their hand in the cookie jar,

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology

So if my information is out of date, whoops. But they are still scumbags, particularly with that CEO

The problem isn’t the ads, it’s the quantity. And they turn themselves into OS level alerts, that you train yourself to ignore

HUGE lie. Firefox is so freaking slow compared to basically anything else.

Firefox. The slowest browser, the least compatible browser, the most annoying when it comes to bugs and issues (Firefox snap anyone?)

I just cannot disagree more. You seriously have to gaslight yourself into liking it.