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by wobfan 2y ago
This is (I guess) not what OP meant. Apple obviously also gains financially from blokcing everything outside of there ecosystem, mainly because the majority of Apple users will only buy Apple hardware. Obviously, yeah, keeping the hardware
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by wobfan 2y ago
That's the problem. Apple has two arguments. It obviously only tells us about the one that sounds good.
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by wobfan 2y ago
> It'd be great if the app would only have read access to my files, not full disk permission. I'm running it right now and macOS didn't ask for any permissions at all which afaik means that it cannot access most of my pers
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by wobfan 2y ago
> The big question would be whether the current 30k limit is there for technical reasons or for marketing reasons like not wanting ad blocking to be too effective. If it is a technical limit the forkers might also have to rewrite the rul
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by wobfan 2y ago
Isn’t the push to deprecate and remove Manifest V2 in favor of V3 and therefore removing or at least significantly cutting down possibilities for users to block ads a major push from the Google side? A field in which they, conveniently, mak
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by wobfan 2y ago
I cannot ever buy any Motorola phones anymore because I legitimately fear they will not fit into my pocket anymore. This is a rant, but I am so sad. Motorolas were my go-to Android phones in times of the G4. But now, every new phone is >
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by wobfan 2y ago
That's true, I'm mostly pissed about Apple locking down the iOS browser ecosystem, which is not the case on macOS. While I think Firefox and Chrome did not have a level playing field especially the release of the M1, because Apple
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by wobfan 2y ago
I'd rather have an open platform with free choice (including the side effect of Chrome taking even more market share) instead of Apple forcing users to use their browser. I definitely dislike Chrome and you may unfortunately be right w
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by wobfan 2y ago
While everything you're saying is correct, Safari is only the biggest competitor to Chrome because Apple is going out of their way to make it hard or even impossible in the case of iOS for developers to develop well-oiled browsers for
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by wobfan 2y ago
Tbh while I have been using Kagi as search and their AI assistant a lot lately, their browser lacks massively in functionality. uBlock Origin has never been working for me, neither on macOS nor on iOS, and for me it just doesn't delive
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by wobfan 2y ago
I feel that I would be smarter if I wouldn’t use them constantly.
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by wobfan 2y ago
> Sticking one's arm out is not a "Nazi salute" in the absence of an ideological component. What? So showing someone the middle finger straight in the face without also verbally expressing it (aka. showing their ideologica
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by wobfan 2y ago
> "If you are not capable of violence, you are not peaceful. You are harmless" this is exactly the value that caused so much war and death all over the world, for decades and thousands of years. still, even in 2025, it's b
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by wobfan 2y ago
> No, it's because they blamed an undocumented system that killed two plane loads of people on pilot error... And kept hiding and sabotaging the court process against them to hide that they and their pilots knew, even before the fir
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by wobfan 2y ago
Pro tip: set your display language to English (US) and Siri to English (UK), while leaving it obviously disabled (unless you want to use Siri, wtf?) This way, Apple Intelligence can not run, because the display and Siri language need to be
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by wobfan 2y ago
I didn't know that it isn't allowed? VS Codium even endorses downloading the files from there and installing them in Codium. Is this against their TOS or something?
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by wobfan 2y ago
What are we actually talking about here? VS Code is open source, the existence of a de-microsofted alternative, that's actually just as capable (VS Codium) is just confirming this. > there is no oxygen for an open source effort to
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by wobfan 2y ago
Idiot here: How long will it approximately take until we see a real Ladybird or Servo browser in production, that is actually usable and e.g. has addons? Like, will it be 6-12 months, or more like 2-3 years?
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by wobfan 2y ago
While I consider myself of being part of a Linux-y bubble, I can definitely see people around me, who are, or where, in the same bubble, using PowerShell more and more and more. And, this is the interesting part, every single one of them ha
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by wobfan 2y ago
There's a nice video about this from Louis Rossmann [1] that talks about this in detail and tries to find some reasons for it, and he seems to suggest that the update was never about improving the battery life as in getting more usage
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by wobfan 2y ago
Sideloading sounds like a massively worse option than using F-Droid even with this flaw. Humans are way more likely in making mistakes, and you lose a lot of safeguards in between you and the APK when you sideload. Also, you don’t get updat
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by wobfan 2y ago
I went back to my family for this christmas, and argued about privacy, I think it was about free email services again, and stuff likes this. And again - I just cannot understand it - the response was: Yeah but I don't care, I have noth
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by wobfan 2y ago
> I'm not saying they're leaking the data (by agreement, or negligence), but Mozilla has mediocre credibility in recent years, and there's nothing on this page that improves that reputation. I think you read too much HN an
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by wobfan 2y ago
i just hate capitalism. couldn't you just stop a #3?
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by wobfan 2y ago
OT but anyone else finds it ironic that we had multiple articles telling us how Forbes publishes AI generated articles way outside their expertise and still we're seeing Forbes articles regularly on HN? Like, I know that apparently thi
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by wobfan 2y ago
I came back home to my parents house this christmas and my parents and my brother complained to my why the Google sponsored links don't work anymore (because I've set their DNS to an adblock DNS). I couldn't believe what they
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by wobfan 2y ago
> The thought that a person dying from Alzheimer's is not having a painful existence is radically disconnected from reality. While I understand your point I think you're talking from a perspective of the other extreme, the one
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by wobfan 2y ago
When I went through this with my grandmother, I experienced that too. Like others said, it's important to note that in the later stages it may be hard for the patients to communicate their pain, so we cannot be sure, but at least in my
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by wobfan 2y ago
If you think about the financial implications then probably yes. Software issues, safety related or not, can probably easily be fixed OTA and thus don’t even cause a fraction of the costs a (let’s call it "real") recall costs. Als
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by wobfan 2y ago
Did you read the article? No one disputes that 3G is no legacy network as of now. But it’s needed because the devices that are in widespread use are not able to do specific things on 4G/5G which includes emergency calls. And while prog

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