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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before.⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Please tell me this is made up. I still can’t get past the hygiene problems of nose piercings when you have a cold, to even imagine how awful this would be

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before.⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they were curious?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This may be relevant

  • keytos.io/…/how-much-does-a-yubikey-cost.html
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It works for anything⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the pitcher I use to refill my humidifier! Does the meme represent the dichotomy between humidifier in winter and lemonade in summer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Worst case scenario, call support to put a credit card on file with your account. This is what I did when I ran into problems with the app (turns out I was too eager trying to use it before they were done setting me up).

  When you use a supercharger, at least as a Tesla, there is a handshake where your car identifies what account to use, then it just works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bad example. Tesla chargers don’t use an app, they assume you have an account set up with a credit card on file. Most people do that through the app but I don’t think you have to. Once it’s set up, it just works with no further interaction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I don’t have any details. I enabled it long ago and really don’t think about it except when it breaks a web site. Then it’s well integrated to temporarily turn it off

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As an American, yes I want to hear what other people say. The only reason it’s even valid to say “why does country x ….” is to included whether and how it’s different than “country not equal x”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And then “just say no” to apps for websites

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For iPhone, The internet is much better:

  • in reader mode
  • with AdBlock
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Supposedly that’s a significant impediment to malware - requiring an active credit card and non-trivial fee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually people speak of this as an advantage but I also think it is a disadvantage, one of the reasons for wider usage of iPhones ……

  • there are crappy android phones
  • historically android was crappy (even if it is much better now)
  • most android phones are loaded with bloatware.
  • most android phones are poorly supported or for only a short period
  • privacy and security can be a challenge for regular users
  • inconsistent usability

  Meanwhile, iPhones

  • are always “good”, even the lower end
  • historically held leads in usability, features, even if not true anymore
  • no bloatware from vendors
  • full support for 6 years
  • claim privacy and security by default
  • good usability
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Different bubbles are a visual indicator whether the messages are encrypted.

  Apple is a good faith participant in that they support a fallback to the texting standard supported by every mobile vendor.

  It’s not bad faith on my part when you brought up WhatsApp. Sure they don’t have blue but bubbles, but that’s because they don’t support an open standard at all, they don’t have an inclusive mode at all, they only support their own users on their own proprietary protocol.

  Most importantly I don’t see how it’s Apple’s responsibility to push mobile vendors to modernize. Blame them if vendors were modernizing and they pushed back

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, my old company sure made a ridiculous profit selling them. You may be looking at the cost per fob hardware, but not including the management cost. They are much more expensive than an authentication app, plus authentication apps are mostly managed by someone else, and you don’t have distribution overhead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus the even simpler: apps are like browser “toolbars” because they’re just a veneer to collect more data, add more tracking, appear to be useful without actually benefitting the user over a simple web page

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Presumably they’re expensive and someone needs to manage them.

  My company’s approach is “we’ll pay your phone bill if you use an Authenticator app on your phone.” Cheaper for them, plus they don’t need to buy company phones or fobs, and who’s going to complain about their phone bill getting paid?

  A previous company tried similar but required putting your phone under enterprise management. A lot of us disagreed with that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  SMS is default texting for all phones of all types all providers in the US. Its main advantage is ubiquity and it is the only ubiquitous text protocol. SMS was always owned by cell providers.

  While I also am disappointed that ubiquitous text protocol owned by cell providers never progressed, can’t blame Apple for that. They could have used their influence to push harder but bottom line is the change needed to be at cell providers. They may also have seen that even Google with all its influence wasn’t able to make it happen (without taking it proprietary, owning it, centralizing it).

  But let me ask this: what other texting provider includes a fallback to incorporate texters outside their network? At all? Does WhatsApp include users of iMessage? SMS? RCS?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I do always wonder if this is part of it. I want my phone to just work, but I have more appropriate tools for playing with stuff. My servers are Linux, my laptop is windows, and my work is Mac - appropriate tools for my uses. My kids can spend all day tweaking their gaming computers, but want their phones to just work also

  While I’m atypical in how many different computers I have, are we just more used to multiple devices in the us?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure this is part of it. All my phones before iPhone sucked. All but one person I know with Android, their phones suck(the downside of cheap phones being available). While I didn’t try every model, and I’m sure they’ve gotten better, why would I abandon something that has worked well, for something where my only experience is negative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely a huge problem that you never really know, but is it any less valid to take their word for it than to just assume the worst. Taken at face value, Apple is much better at privacy and is a clear winner. Taken at face value, Googles basic operating model itself is exploiting my privacy, why would I accept that?

  I also tend to be skeptical about corporate actions matching their promises, given all the evidence of recent history, but it doesn’t change the fact that you’re judging them on your skepticism, your worst fears, with no evidence. You can’t know they’re doing the right thing but you also dint know they’re doing the wrong thing. I’ll stick with evidence, and Apple has a long history of privacy-based choices, I’ll start with their promises, but yes we need to hold them to it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I still find this hard to believe. It’s just a visual indicator whether the conversation is encrypted or not, but who would actually judge partners with this.

  When I checked with my kids, since we know teenagers can be very shallow bullies, they said there is some light teasing but it was really started by online crap like this. Not even teenagers care. I mean, they don’t usually use iMessages anyway, so many probably never noticed. “Blue texts” is a fake issue. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was started as a prank, or by Google, and no one cared until it was all over the internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  when you cant even have an app without a corporation’s approval

  Apple has successfully positioned themselves as “the good guy”.

  • Apple broke the monopoly of phone provider locks, and still prohibits phone provider bloatware.

  • Apple seems like the only provider with any care for privacy, and many of their policies are privacy focussed

  • Apple puts more effort than most software providers into usability

  • you might think Apples constraints on the App Store blocks legitimate opensource and personal projects, but it mostly blocks commercial exploitation. It blocks behaviors that abuse customers or their privacy, that will give users a bad experience. I’ve read the requirement for a fee with a real credit card is actually the most effective strategy against malware

  • every major app is available in the App Store

  • its just a phone. My phone needs to just work, unlike my computer which needs to do whatever I want it to.

  So maybe the root cause is lack of consumer protection in the US, but my experience with iPhone is much better than with Android phones. I’m not blind to corporate shenanigans but I do feel better protected in the Apple ecosystem. I do have freedom to choose almost any legitimate app, and I’m not particularly interested n futzing around with my phone anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s all part of my reasoning, at least for myself.

  I used to spend a lot for an excellent tv and sound system for the immersive experience. However over time I tend to choose options for convenience. The sound system stopped being used and no longer exists. I use the TV itself less and less.

  This is the same pattern as for music. Over time I found connected speakers in every room more compelling than my good sound system, and stopped spending money on it.

  I could argue a similar pattern for cable, for a landline, for CDs, for computer desks, for many things I’ve left behind.

  Some of these similar patterns left behind are a trend, not just me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, narrow minded because I asked for other viewpoints? Narrow minded because I wondered if it there’s a trend or if it’s just me? Maybe you should revisit your definitions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While there are usually options to opt out, past behavior has shown that manufacturers can’t be trusted. It starts with opting you in by default, and trying to trap you into one sided terms of service that you can’t even see until you’ve “agreed” by opening the box. However most manufacturers have been caught ignoring these options in the past, so we have no reason to trust they won’t again. Especially here in the US where what little consumer protection we used to have is being shut down

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing keeping me from taking down my bedroom tv, is that I’d have to patch the holes (and it’s old enough I wouldn’t offer it to anyone)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For sure, maybe one of the reasons we almost never use the big screen is I haven’t hooked up broadcast TV yet, but one of the reasons I haven’t bothered is live sports is increasingly paywalled. It was all too easy to say I’m not that interested in watching the Patriots every Sunday, when there are more barriers to watching or enjoying (and the Bellicheck/Brady era is over: I’m not sure I can name a single player anymore)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just had similar I gave to my kid. OLED was a huge upgrade. My new TV is much higher contrast, much smoother, more detailed, especially in high activity scenes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not worried about me using the smart bullshit. I’m worried about it using me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does anyone still use a tv? What do you use it for?

  As we’ve built up a plethora of small screens in the house, we almost never use the big screen anymore. I wonder if this is going the way of landlines, and cable - a huge expense that is no longer relevant.

  With all the choices of media and activities, it’s not like we have a family activity of sitting to watch whatever dreck, on the broadcasters schedule. We’ll still probably be in the same room relaxing at the same time, but the kids will be gaming, the wife will be cackling at Instagram, and I’ll probably be doomscrolling. We all have screens that are more suited than the big screen, and the big screen would just interfere with someone else’s enjoyment

  I suppose we did watch the Super Bowl together, but that may be it for the last few years. Is a big tv worthwhile for one event? Even when I’m home alone and want to watch something, I have a better suited small screen (heck, that bedroom tv hasn’t been turned on in years)