Hannes

I always assumed incognito was just disabling history and cookies.

Very interesting read

Yeah Battery capacity getting low is one of the main reasons why most people replace their phones

Once you are able to just switch to a fresh battery again and clean up some of the apps running on your phone it’s as good as new in most cases and people wouldn’t buy new phones as often.

Can’t have people not buying new things regularly…

I wonder how a strictly linear thread structure is possible to transpose into a branching structure like lemmy

I don’t know how it is in the us but here in Germany many (single-brand-)dealers are also licensed mechanics (for that brand) - and since EVs are taking much less repairing than traditional cars they are basically shooting themselves in the foot by selling them

The main upgrade they need is the processor because the companies making those are not supporting newer Android-Versions and at some point that becomes a security-issue.

Problem is that replacing the processor to a newer generation usually means the whole mainboard is obsolete, too and then is very quickly doesn’t become easy to upgrade anymore

just switching between different types of cameras, screens etc. wouldn’t be as big of a problem but that’s also not part of the main-problem either

Solving security issues with the fingerprint scanner by not supporting it in the first place?

Do payouts for creators increase if people that watch them have premium? If not you are not buying it for the good content but for the service infrastructure

yeah - they put out statements that they will do everything they can to keep adblockers alive and even implemented a browser-level blocklist for the worst case - but let’s see how that will work once Google starts turning the screws on Chromium tighter

Vivaldi Mobile

Need to update my blocklists though

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My kind of humour when one of the main reasons for switching to Firefox right now is the adblock

The problem is breaking up the network effect from messaging apps.

Noone is uninstalling WhatsApp since there’s always that one guy you need to keep in contact with that refuses to change.

Having aggregators like this is helping break up this

If only there was a law forcing messaging services to open an API for free choice of 3rd party apps…

The backups aren’t unless you specifically set it up which I guess most people don’t

Except if it’s in Chinese interest to skew the public opinion in a certain direction (like in this case the Anti-American and anti-imperialist-spins on the war against Hamas)

I’m sure the fact that that happened at the same time as Microsoft pushing their Game-Pass and their own Store is just by chance…

don’t kid yourself and think that they did that just for the benefit of the users and not to be able to get games and users away from Microsoft if that’s necessary…

That’s exactly why I don’t understand people defending Steam just because right now they are only using their monopoly against the developers but not against the users. One day that will change and move will have seen it coming.

Same with Google abusing YouTube creators for years but only now when they start pushing against adblock people look for alternatives.

Too many people are just lazy and complicit

Most people tbf

Luckily I didn’t do mine at all since it was obvious from the start that eventually stuff like this would happen once enough people gave their DNA away like that…

The whole period before about behaving responsibility and using masks showed you all you needed to know about how responsible and interested in the general wellbeing most people were so it only made sense to not leave it up to chance with that.

And it’s not like anyone was forced - only other people were secured from coming in contact with irresponsible and self-centred people that couldn’t care less about them