They shouldn’t scan anyone. It will always be abused.

We already have all this stuff, stop larping as a 1337 h4x0r and go fix some bugs in your preferred xmpp client or one of those Firefox forks

If not larp then why cringe shaped?

This isn’t enshittification in the traditional sense, they haven’t captured the market enough for that. They’re just panicking because they’re burning cash way too fast.

It was easy to know how much the slop machine costs to run if you bothered to put even a tiny effort into finding out.

so if everyone in the world used kde, “only” the usa would be on x11

you’re right, they shouldn’t support imperial measurements

Well, now you know one who doesn’t and hasn’t for years

control for their hardware and sofware yes. They do it all in house.

what else is there but hardware and software?

between Google and Apple, you genuinely believe iOS tracks and retains more data than Google

they both collect as much data as they possibly can, yeah

Android phones preinstall meta apps as well as google apps.

iOS does not. iOS has apple apps preinstalled. Hell they don’t even come with youtube anymore.

That’s OEMs, not Google. AOSP doesn’t come with anything installed.

Google is also pushing to block ‘sideloading’ while apple is opening it up.

Google is requiring registration with ID to publish on the app store. Apple always had that. The EU is forcing them to allow other app stores. Google will also have to do that.

google is putting gemini ON devices with android 17 that can read your screens and do any task on your phone without your physical interaction, beyond voice.

Apple tried to do this and just failed miserably to make it work, as tech improves they will do it again

There is no avenue you can show or explain to me that would paint iOS near google’s anti trust data collection.

Ok, if you aren’t interested in facts I guess we’re done here…

The control on iOS is much stricter, and it always has been, but I suppose at least they sold it as such from the start and didn’t slowly trickle it in while pretending to be supporting open source. The spyware is also the same. They probably share it with a few fewer people I guess, that’s about the best you could possibly say for it.

It’s hilarious to me that their criticisms of each other are both basically accurate

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Sure, that’s what I’ll do. But the cool thing about open software is people can do whatever they want with it.

Linux is open source, it’s always optional. On the other hand, if it becomes necessary in order to access popular web content, some users will demand it.

None, lol. RHEL maybe.

Oh cool, AI will actually be the end of the world, not because it’s actually sentient but because some meathead who can’t tell the difference pushes the button. That’s fucking great.

Nx? The same Nx which was hacked in a devastating way through their vibe-coded CI workflow? You’d think they’d be a bit more cautious after that.

So what you’re saying is directly contradictory to your previous comment, in fact it doesn’t produce good code even when you tell it to.

Ohhh, that’s what I was missing, just tell it to write good code, of course.

Yeah and that’s totally fair enough, but people who like using a command line and know the tools well rarely if ever have to type out long paths or commands. Tab completion and history suggestion (especially in a modern shell like fish or zsh) is a joy to use, and doesn’t just do file paths but command options and arguments. Man pages are very overwhelming at first, but if you’re practiced at scanning them, then it’s a lot more convenient to get the info right where you are than to navigate to another window. But the learning curve is steep and I get why someone wouldn’t want to bother.