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[ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score
  • It’s as much a “harm they put in place themselves” as website cookies are - these are technical artifacts that were maliciously used. It is just not arguing in good faith to claim they made it for tracking purposes - it’s like basic software development practice to create some unique IDs, and it has plenty useful roles.

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    [ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score
  • Yeah, google will return something for “covid is a hoax” as well, that doesn’t constitute a proof.

    Also, from your very own article: “Broadly speaking, it collects a lot less information than Google or Facebook and has backed up its claims that it is privacy-focused”

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    [ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score
  • Bullshit - what “research”? Apple is in no way comparable to goddamn Google and Facebook here. Their ad sector is pretty much “display my app in the AppStore search if they search for similar things” and things like that, that only uses the actual search term, and very basic stuff about the user. They can make relatively much money on that, because they artificially own the whole “Apple market”, so they don’t have any competition there. They don’t fingerprint you across the whole internet, that’s for sure.

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    [ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score
  • Apple actually already sort of have it — you can go to settings and check whether any repairs/tampering happened on your device. That is I believe a correct approach - you can always check after a repair/second hand buy whether their claims are true, yet it is maximally usable.

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    They can't keep getting away with it
  • I mean, criminals caught and put into jail by definition have less rights than someone free to walk anywhere.. though your actual point is taken.

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    Windows 11 vs Linux supported HW
  • You do realize that the whole of meaningful architecture we have builds on, and often gives way for legacy ones? XWayland is made by Wayland, because obviously not every software will port overnight or ever. That’s a positive thing.

    It’s almost like the linux community is not controlled by a dictator like Apple, where they can just say “we are using this API from next version, if you wanna work, port”. Wayland required a critical mass before it actually started flying - but it definitely flies now.

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    Swiss Federal government starts pilot test on Mastodon
  • How is it privacy friendly? Not trying to troll of anything, but people literally share all their likes/dislikes plainly with everyone, and deletes don’t have to actually be executed on other servers.

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    extension is INCOMPATIBLE with current GNOME version
  • Why would they open them faster? They do the exact same shit. It takes a long time because the OS has to load every file into memory, and especially the first time things line the whole gtk library is loaded is taking its time.

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    Every Single Freaking Time
  • Or change copy to command+c.. I’m gonna be honest, OSX is right here. And quite strangely it is very hard to customize your linux to imitate that.

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    Every Single Freaking Time
  • Or change copy to command+c.. I’m gonna be honest, OSX is right here. And quite strangely it is very hard to customize your linux to imitate that.

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    Windows 11 vs Linux supported HW
  • It comes by default on plenty of distros and people don’t even notice the change.

    In the meanwhile, nvidia doesn’t support the linux kernel itself (though it is changing slowly) that’s why it can’t support wayland.

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    extension is INCOMPATIBLE with current GNOME version
  • I mean, it is probably not a bad idea to take a look at one of the most well-loved DEs for ideas.. and Gnome did take only good things from it and my subjective opinion is that they have a proper vision taking many of the good things from OSX.

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