And if you grant access to your own apps, but deny them to your competitors, that is totally a monopoly abuse

Take a longer text (like 70 pages or so) and try to delete the first 30 pages.

Yes - I was surprised recently how useless the text selection and editing features on Android are. I had to edit a bigger document (like 70 pages) where I had to move some paragraphs, delete some and so on. No problem on a desktop even on a smaller screen, but Android was surprisingly unusable

Mobile Apps really are really lacking in terms of usability. There really is a use case for a real laptop experience

Yes, I do. It’s great because you can take it everywhere and it also gives you the flexibility to sketch, write, design your own layout or glue in other things. That is something that no software is able to do without hassle.

But: My handwriting is totally unreadable, I never found a OCR software that works on it and it really sucks to search in handwritten notes

Reddit still isn’t able to fight back against those simple repost bots that copy old posts with the same title. That should be easy to detect.

It’s a really horrible way of doing business. Fitbit had its own niche, kind of great products, name recognition, global distribution and more. Then Google came, bought them and now we’re left with one Pixel watch, everything else on life support and a destroyed company.

Try going to https://www.lemmy.world/

That famous Bansky quote is older than Lemmy and is posted all over the Internet. There are cities around that ban all advertisements. There are movements for a ban on ads in public spaces in many cities all around the world. That really has nothing to do with Lemmy

Let’s be honest: I, as a customer, want to make informed buying decisions. I want to buy food that is tasty and maybe is healthy, but not based on some image that some marketing guys want to push. I want to choose the car which is best (and cheapest) for my purposes, and don’t want to be hearded into buying something else. I want to choose the best insurance for me and not be mislead by some emotional ad showing me a happy family.

And I really do not want to be manipulated in an emotional vulnerable moment so that I buy something. That’s shady as fuck

A decentralized service like Mastodon will have the same issues when governments are knocking on the door. The turkish government totally can force all those small turkish instance admins to defederate instances who are not reacting to legal threats. And all those small admins don’t have the resources to fight a lengthy legal battle against their own government

Yeah - the article is really interesting

It totally makes sense - the dirt has to go somewhere and a cheap bag which you can take out and throw away sounds better than a tiny compartement that you have to shake out spreading the dirt everywhere

Even better:

Even better, if you’re doing the wash and left your phone in the other room, Samsung’s added touchscreens to its washers and dryers, including the new Bespoke AI Laundry Vented Combo washer / dryer ($3,099). This lets you answer a call directly on the built-in 7-inch LCD screen.

You can take calls with your clothes dryer!

Ubuntu & Linux Mint have a Live-USB-Setup. So you can install it on a USB stick, boot from that and then linux is running on your computer. Use it to check if your hardware works and check out the system. If you like it, you can install it from there afterward

Yeah, but on the other hand it is really annoying for us linux folks. Those games can run on linux as most games do with Proton. Some gaming companies are actively fighting against linux users and are even banning them. And then in every discussion about linux someone is showing up and shouting “I can’t use linux, my games don’t work, linux sucks”.

There is an international court that is responsible for prosecuting individuals for crimes like genocide oder crimes agains humanity. It’s sensible to collect all evidence and put Zuckerberg & Co on trial to see how deep their involvement goes

English is not the author’s native language. So maybe give him some slack?

The problem is that many companies can’t do that as they can’t give you their custom server code. The only solution here would be to change design from the beginning so that devices can work without servers and are also so secure that they don’t need security updates

There is a difference between me reading a book and learning from it and one of the biggest companies in the world pirating millions of books for their business. And it really gets bad when normal users are getting sued for tenthousands of dollars when they download a book or a MP3 and Meta is getting defended for doing the same thing, but in a much larger scale.

Yes, we know that copyright is broken. But if it is broken, it has to be broken for all