The issue isn’t that. It’s that devs may juat abandon projects if they’re too naughty for Google cos the custom ROM crowd is so tiny.
Right so think torrent clients, idk, Pornhub app, that sort of thing. Yeah, it doesn’t affect your phone. But it absolutely will affect what software is available at all should Google clamp down on this.
hear hear!
Thank goodness.
For this reason, we must still take a stand against this stuff.
I don’t totally agree but you’re definitely onto something there. I will absolutely never be simpathetic to that vision, but you’re right that Apple knows their audience.
Honestly I’d be truly thrilled if they were merely forced to open up iMessage. I’d be a huge quality of life improvent for people who don’t want to daily drive an iPhone but have to keep in contact with Americans.
And for those living in the US with Androids.
I dislike it. But no. Don’t be authorjtarian like China. Bann it on phones of those with security clearances, but that’s all.
Nextcloud notes. They’ll sync as text filed between your devices. You can use markdown, and they have a mobile app.
You forgot teenage girls and (apparently) dumb women on Tinder, but yes.
Believe it or not Vodafone will charge you for air and sea usage quite a lot. So be careful if you use them.
Same to you, bud
Interesting. I’ll check it out. I didn’t know that.
(BTW from my understanding of the law sites cannot block functionality if you decline cookies. But it is rarely enforced)
Right. That’s a very different business model. I don’t necessarily have an opinion about whether it would be better or worse. It is easier to look at our current problems and say it would be better. But, eh, I can block most trackers and be a leach off of websites that stay up by selling other people’s data. shrug
And yet we live in a world where consent spam is actually harder to deal with than tracking, if you’re smart.
Obviously. But that is very difficult on mobile.
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I really only use for “oh damn, I known there’s a great one-liner to do that in Python” sort of thing. It’s usually right and of it isn’t it’ll be immediacy obvious and you can move on with your day. For anything more complex the gas lighting and subtle errors make it unusable.
What sort of irks me is what a mixed bag EU regulation is. Some is good (GDPR), not denying that. Some is annoying (you’re going to be accepting cookies 100 times a day until you’re dead thanks to them), and Whatsapp runs on all devices, so while interoperability nice, even as a free-software, Linux person I don’t really care.
However, if you have to deal with friends or family in the US and you don’t have an iPhone though, god help you. They don’t care about this.
I guess my complaint is that EU regulation may seem legally elegant, but I think it is sometimes quite blind to the real situation on the ground.
It looks good on the books but we still, say, don’t have a standard ARM boot process for smartphones that would help users not be dependent on whatever shitty ROM the OEM wants them to have. That would be life changing, but it will never even be talked about.
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What am I not seeing? How does this improve datamining capabilities?