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miridius ,

Paywall

miridius ,

Great, now do Amazon

miridius ,

Can you tell me more?

miridius ,

So what you’re saying is, if you want advanced phone features sooner buy an Android, if you want to be subjected to dodgy business practices sooner buy an Apple

miridius ,

Better? The Apple hardware is always significantly worse than competition in the same price class. Most of the price of an iPhone goes to their excessive marketing and record profits, so they have to cut costs on hardware

miridius ,

And yet still no back button, the most basic feature that iPhones sorely lack :(

miridius ,

What are the performance targets? And does the value of the package depend on share price?

Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 | The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices (www.theverge.com)

The long-awaited day is here: Apple has announced that its Messages app will support RCS in iOS 18. The move comes after years of taunting, cajoling, and finally, some regulatory scrutiny from the EU....

miridius ,

Then why not use the same app?

miridius ,

Glad I got to see this comment before the Lemmy hivemind downvoted you to oblivion for posting data that contradicts their world view!

miridius ,

My superpower is that I can plug in USB A the right way up on the first try pretty much every time

Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage (www.ghacks.net)

Microsoft’s announcement: “We are introducing a new Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage. The Game Pass recommendation card on Settings Homepage will be shown to you if you actively play games on your PC. As a reminder – the Settings homepage will be shown only on the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11...

miridius ,

For a community that loves Linux so much, Lemmy seems really obsessed with everything Microsoft does

miridius ,

Tbh you can actually quite easily buy a computer with Linux pre installed (ironically they cost more than the ones that come with windows though). I wouldn’t recommend it though, regardless of tech literacy. The problem is that Linux is like 70% easy and great, 20% frustratingly glitchy and unfinished, and 10% getting stuck on completely impossible problems that you will lose weeks of your life to before eventually concluding that no solution actually exists. Nothing ever quite just works, there’s always some caveat or minor issue and you end up chasing rabbit holes instead of actually using your computer to do what you wanted to do

miridius ,

The Chinese ones are cheap because they’re being subsidised by the Chinese govt to be sold that cheaply overseas as a deliberate economic attack tho

miridius ,

So you mean, the Olympics?

miridius ,

Oh it’s absolutely done at a government level by the US as well, they’re just a bit more subtle about it than Russia and China

miridius ,

Ok firstly, suspending someone for weed is insane because that’s not a performance enhancing drug, if anything it’s performance degrading.

Secondly ask yourself why are they catching someone for weed but don’t catch all the obvious steroid use that literally every professional athlete does? It’s because they’ve intentionally made it possible to cheat their system and get away with steroid use, and the trainers and officials are the ones helping the athletes.

Watch the doco Icarus, the first half before it goes off the rails is all about how doping is an open secret and all athletes in all countries do it and their trainers help them

miridius ,

Germany

miridius ,

Hah I had the opposite reaction, I’ll surprised how many people there are in this comment section arguing that God is real. I didn’t know religious people knew how to use the internet tbh

miridius ,

Ability to use the internet well means you have a lot of information at your disposal and can educate yourself out of believing in fairy tales

miridius ,

Because it perfectly embodies one thing the Lemmy hivemind hates the most about how large, for-profit corporations tend to behave

miridius ,

Just because one side of a conflict is evil doesn’t automatically make the other side good. Evil can fight evil, and when it does we should condemn both sides. Hamas have literally said that their goal is to genocide the Israelis, if you think that’s ok then that’s terribly hypocritical of you. The only reason Israel is succeeding in that goal and Hamas are not is because USA is tipping the scales with their arms shipments etc

miridius ,

The Hamas Can’t you see both sides are using identical arguments? Israel has also repeatedly said that their intention is to destroy Hamas, not the Palestinian people, but their actions show that that is utter bullshit of course (they even used suitcases full of cash to keep Hamas in power).

Likewise Hamas claim to only be against the Zionists in order to gain public support but their charter literally says “from the Jordan river to the sea, Palestine will be free of Jews”, and there are numerous reports of them raping and murdering innocent Israelis.

Long story short, the current government of Israel and Hamas are both terrible, and supporting either of them is supporting a group whose goal is genocide. The US government is obviously extra complicit in genocide due to continuing to sell Israel weapons, but if you didn’t already know that US foreign policy is pure evil then you haven’t been paying attention

miridius OP ,

They probably don’t even have personal projects

miridius OP ,

Perfectly described!

miridius ,

While that is true, it’s also true that if the algo has no data on you it just shows you what most other people want to see, which is usually boobs

miridius ,

I figured out the twist within like the first 5 minutes of my first watch (nobody spoiled it for me, but I knew that there would be a twist and was looking for one) and it made the movie pretty boring imo

miridius ,

Mate get yourself a second one, you’ll never go back

US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

miridius ,

I only recently found out about iPhones having 50% market share in the US and that’s insane to me. I think anyone who’s used both Android and iPhones a lot knows that iPhones are both a worse product and worse value for money, so in a fair market they would be the minority

miridius ,

Agree to disagree I guess! I used an iPhone X as my daily driver for 3 years and was overjoyed to get the Android UI back when I switched back. The iPhone visuals are more consistent but the UX is significantly worse imo. There are a few things that I reckon are mainly just Apple being stubborn and refusing to admit they were wrong - e.g. the lack of a back button

miridius ,

Not true in my experience, both as employee and employer

miridius ,

As a person in Europe currently using it, I am very confused by this comment

Even executives who mandate a return to office admit that it doesn’t improve productivity: tech firm — Atlassian reports on first 1,000 days of its work-from-anywhere workforce (fortune.com)

Even executives who mandate a return to office admit that it doesn’t improve productivity: tech firm — Atlassian reports on first 1,000 days of its work-from-anywhere workforce::1 in 3 bosses whose people are required to work in-person told Atlassian that it doesn’t move the needle.

miridius ,

Paywall :(

miridius ,

why

Because it’s a business, there are people out there profiting from it and so it keeps growing

miridius ,

Nice idea but how do you propose they pay for the billions of dollars it costs to train and then run said model?

miridius ,

This is why we can’t have nice things

miridius ,

Which workers rights are being infringed here exactly?

miridius ,

Even if that were happening (which isn’t what the article is saying), while it would really suck for all those people, it still doesn’t have anything to do with workers rights

miridius ,

Pretty sure there are more posts complaining about oil memes than actual oil memes

miridius ,

Yep that’s generally how housing prices work in Germany, since rent is heavily controlled and fixed interest rate loans are readily available, the value of a property adjusts depending on the current “cost” of a loan

miridius ,

I dunno what you’re doing wrong but I bought an apartment in Germany a couple years ago and that wasn’t my experience at all. I saw plenty of nice places big enough for a family of three for 250-300k. We had a little bit more than 50k in savings and were able to buy something much bigger than we need with a large garden (we spent 440k), but could easily have gotten something big enough with 50k savings. We’re in a medium/large city but just not right in the middle, more towards the outskirts. Still only 15 mins bike ride to the centre though!

miridius ,

Misleading post title: altered the original to remove the word “recent”

miridius ,

The studies are from 2018 and 2020, “new study” in the post title is a complete lie

miridius ,

Even just calling it a “new study” is already a lie

miridius ,

It’s amazing how much people will upvote something without reading it if the title confirms their biases

miridius ,

Yeah that’s never gonna happen, unless the EU forces them by law.

One of the many reasons I’m so so happy to be back with an Android phone after having to use an iPhone for work for a few years

miridius ,

Hello pot, meet kettle

miridius ,

It would be nice to spend one day on Lemmy without seeing a half dozen posts telling me to switch to Firefox nor 100 comments on every post that’s even vaguely browser-adjacent about how ever since they switched to Firefox their life has been nothing but joy and rainbows

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