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by Xeamek 3y ago
>Google would probably do the same, but in this case they don't have to - because it is their OS. It is trivial to skip the google account if you want but it actually has its place in android. No, it's not. AOSP is free and ope
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by Xeamek 3y ago
You can think of the extra options as unnecessary, but oneui objectively gives you more fine grain controll over styling your phone
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by Xeamek 3y ago
Just like google does with their apps, right? Oh wait...
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by Xeamek 3y ago
>Everything tries to connect to you ludicrous samsung account So, exactly as with google trying to sign into google's account? >the best selling point their apps have is that they try to masquerade them as standard android apps a
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by Xeamek 3y ago
That "OS should be coherent" argument would work if android itself was providing all those options. But it's not. Go to AOSP source and the "phone app" you'll find there is deprecated, ugly crap that no one eve
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by Xeamek 3y ago
what's above mid performance in android world then?
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by Xeamek 3y ago
>Perhaps their good ones are limited to specific models? I mean, that's kinda a given when samsung has offers ranging from the verry budget to the verry top (not to mention gimmicky ones like the folds)
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by Xeamek 3y ago
All the arguments about using javascript aside, I really enjoy this website's look&feel
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by Xeamek 3y ago
Except those adds are often provided by Google itself. So penalizing them would be self harm for google revenues
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by Xeamek 3y ago
Yes, if you demonstrate that entire class of bugs are ommited simply by the language inherently having some feature (like types) then it's a decent argument that this language is safer, or even completely safe [from the specific type o
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by Xeamek 3y ago
Well duh, that's what the OG article is about, why the author of this one would need to repeat himself
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by Xeamek 3y ago
>People don't seem to know that old saying about not putting all your eggs in one basket anymore. Probably because by the time this saying was forged, there wasn't this big push from chickens to integrate as many features as po
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by Xeamek 3y ago
But that can by bypassed super easily. Sure, you might not get adds of type "vote X" anymore. But then I will just sponsor a "documentary" about all the ways that Y screwed the country over. Or even more directly, why X
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by Xeamek 3y ago
No, not really. As far as "it would be nice" for politics to be free market of ideas, having to deal with scale is simply an inherent part of the world we live in. Like What system would You propose where campaigning funds don&#x2
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by Xeamek 3y ago
How is this bad faith?
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by Xeamek 3y ago
I guess marketing industry is billion dollar money sink then. "Just get-good at making products, duh"
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by Xeamek 3y ago
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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by Xeamek 3y ago
What's boring is your aproach. Even if that part of the desired outcome is true (it's not though, as it rarely takes into consideration long term benefits and focuses purely on "instant gratification"), people who go to
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by Xeamek 3y ago
Do you consider even automatic crash reports as a spyware? (Asssuming they are properly anonymized)
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by Xeamek 3y ago
>12. Null pointer deref. In java you'll get an exception, while in C you might dissapear your cat. Those 2 are quite incomparable when talking about "dangerous-ness" of a mistake
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by Xeamek 3y ago
Like apple did, when they unlocked that infamous IPhone... Oh wait Sure, the data that they collect is mostly avaible to agencies like FBA. But the argument is about using microphone, and despite Android being fairly open platform, where yo
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by Xeamek 3y ago
"It's so obvious" What exactly is obvious?
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by Xeamek 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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by Xeamek 3y ago
But nobody is saying that. Having hiring quotas is far from throwing entire system out the window.
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by Xeamek 3y ago
partially, but even then the point still stands, altough then we adjust the pros and cons of staying at your workplace. But still, that's no way near comperable to working class who, if they loose their current job, won't have ju
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by Xeamek 3y ago
Nah, that's bs. Sure, if you are unskilled worker that's struggling from paycheck to paycheck, then you might not be able to easily change work. But in our line of work, and ESPECIALLY if you are good enough to work at something l
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by Xeamek 3y ago
Or maybe, just maybe, 'good practices' simply changed over the span of literally 20 years? Naah, it must simply be those 'perfection vs practicality' dichotomy again. ...Not to mention that your point is the definition o
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by Xeamek 3y ago
...something something do not editorialize titles something something...
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by Xeamek 3y ago
looking on the bright side, at least we'll get an interesting post-mortem to read in a day or two.
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by Xeamek 3y ago
Is Linux not open source because it doesn't ship with client apps by default? There are tons of things to criticize google for, but the fact that they won't maintain a client app that's so barebone it's practically unusa

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