I can afford to pay the protection racket, I just choose not to.

I guess there’s no reason not to post to other sites as well?

Pahahaha

Good.

One codebase across all OSes and OS versions, no dependency issues, easy to push updates.

I’d prefer a native app myself, though.

Most likely one of the commercial ones that offer support and contractual guarantees of security patches, uptime, service, helpdesk support, etc.

So likely Ubuntu, SUSE, or RHEL.

Any of which would be a very welcome change and a benefit to the Linux community compared to using Windows.

I know this phrase gets trouted out a lot (possibly to the point of being fatiguing to hear), especially when it comes to MS, but this is a textbook case of their Embrace, Extend, Extinguish mantra.

Have an open standard (Embrace)… add a bunch of non-open components (Extend)… to fuck over compatibility with competitors and prevent them from gaining market share (Extinguish).

If you want to be a photographer, get a camera.

🤦‍♀️

Even professional photographers don’t have their cameras on them at all times, nor are they as convenient for just whipping out and taking a picture within 1.5s.

Plus, cameras are expensive and they’re another thing to carry around (idk about you but I don’t have infinite pocket space) and they’re another thing to keep charged, whereas you have a phone with you at pretty much all times anyway, because they’re effectively required for modern society.

You may as well be saying you don’t understand why phones can play music when you can get an MP3 player, that you don’t understand why they play videos because TVs exist, that you don’t understand why they have web browsers and plenty of apps, because PCs exist.

I stick to my guns and I’m on the internet and computers to learn to educate myself, not to dick around with stupid shit.

He said, on this Lemmy thread.

And we have to be weary of open source

Ah yes, that nefarious Open Source software. Tell me more about the evils of FOSS, Mr Balmer.

I don’t actually like this redesign tbh, but come on, people do care about design and UX.

Nobody said we need pretty UX design, it’s just nice to have, and that’s fine. Not everything needs to be furthering the development of XYZ. Beauty is fine, aesthetics is fine, art is fine.

But yeah, I don’t have an Apple device and likely never will, so this specific instance doesn’t matter to me.

You sound extremely America-brained.

None of that happens here.

If anything I think no ball games signs makes it more likely for kids to play.

Parental intervention and companies not purposely using addictive mechanics in their apps to prey on children is the only thing that will resolve this.

IPhones are way buggier than they used to be.

What is this Tankie bullshit?

We aren’t the aggressors forcing Europe, Canada, Japan, and Australia to ramp up defence. Russia and China are, as well as the US signalling how unreliable and ally they are.

Russia threatens to nuke this country on a weekly basis, carried out nuclear assassinations on our soil, and brainless tankies like this one is blaming us for it?

“Since 2023” is a hell of a timeframe. The bulk of that time is before the war, and there’s no word of any being sent after.

Not that there are any anymore. Weapons sales to Israel were stopped and Israel was condemned, which led to the Israeli government kicking off and calling the UK antisemitic. Love to see it.

Those are the outlets that hate Starmer LMAO

I hate all of those shitty outlets.

You’re pushing insane conspiracy theories. Maybe spend a little less time on TikTok and Tankie blogs

For example, coming into effect in 12 days, on the 20th of June, for smartphones and tablets:

• Durability: Devices should be resistant to accidental drops and protected against dust and water.

• Battery longevity: Batteries must endure at least 800 full charge and discharge cycles while retaining at least 80% of their original capacity.

• Repairability: Manufacturers must make critical spare parts available within 5 to 10 working days, and continue offering them for 7 years after the product is no longer sold in the EU.

• Software support: Devices must receive operating system upgrades for at least 5 years from the end-of-sale date.

• Repair access: Professional repairers must have non-discriminatory access to any required software or firmware.

They will also have to include a sticker on packaging that has standardised information on it concerning energy efficiency, battery life, repeated drop test results, battery endurance in charging cycles, repairability score, and water/dust protection rating:

Source

Probably very low. They aren’t even close to meeting the entry criteria.

Jesus Christ. You are deep down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole. What’s next, 5G controls our brains? Chemtrails? Jewish space lasers?

In the beginning he wasn’t, but then we was. And I live in the here and now, not in 2017.

While Starmer didn’t personally “overthrow” Corbyn

Nobody overthrew Corbyn. Corbyn stepped down after Johnson comprehensively beat him.

Craig Murray asserts that Starmer has always been a state asset/agent and was moved into a position where he would be able to take comtrol

Jesus. What a wild conspiracy theory. Starmer is a secret agent put in place to make Labour more centrist. 007 Starmer.

In reality, of course, he was an MP who stood for Labour leader and won the party election.

of a Labour Party that was moving Left and becoming a mass, popular party.

They had a crushing defeat. They weren’t popular.

Starmer illegally sends weapons to Israel

Starmer does not send weapons to Israel.

overthrows Corbyn

Starmer didn’t “overthrow” Corbyn. He won a leadership election after Corbyn voluntarily stepped down following a crushing General Election defeat.

Netanyahu calls him Hamas for saying starving kids is bad

I’m sorry, are you upset that Kier is against humanity rights violations?

while sending the weapons to starve those kids

Again, no he isn’t. Please stop lying.

he must be a good centrist guy.

I mean, he is pretty centrist. I dunno what kind of goggles you must be wearing that makes you think he’s not.

Starmer like American Democrats has adopted every Republican talking point and does nothing but shift to the right

Except he hasn’t. Anybody who looks at Labour and thinks they’re the same as the Tories or Reform are crazy. Bloody hell, there’s been three nationalisations in the past handful of months, for example. Not exactly very right wing, is it? Nor is stuff like VAT on private schools.

If you can’t see how the race riots are Starmers fault you should watch some Owen Jones videoss

Starmer has nothing to do with the race riots, only a Muppet would believe nonsensical conspiracy theories like that.

Owen Jones is a clown who hasn’t stopped crying since Corbyn quit. He should move on and so should you. He isn’t coming back.

Incredible how Kier is a pro-Israel or pro-Hamas shill depending on who you talk to.

In either case, there’s one thing both of these groups of people agree on: anything bad that happens in the UK (or apparently the middle east) is Starmer’s fault.

I genuinely don’t see how you could think the race riots were due to Starmer. Where does this conspiracy even come from?

Some psychopath attacked some girls and the far right pushed misinformation online, which was further amplified by the likes of Musk and social media algorithms.