The problem is the fact that as a new medium and as an hard medium to create content for...the price is too high of a barrier and Apple didn't really ship it with any worthwhile content or purpose that can justify the purchase.
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Don't buy based on promises but on what you buy NOW
Because i don't approve of what is doing but i won't stop using windows in the near future because...why should i?
What are the alternatives?
Macs qre too costly and i already have 2 windows pc
Hackintosh? Too unstable.
Linux? Too unstable and shit isn't compatible, i don't want to Google every single thing that doesn't work. I'm an advenced enough user to use non standard stuff but not advanced enough to fix whatever will break
Android apps can request very powerful permissions, but those permissions are specific, explicit and revocable. There's a fundamental trade-off between power and risk, but I think the Android security model handles that trade-off quite well.
My #1 issue is that I'd love to grant an app powerful permissions if I can ensure it doesn't have internet access. But default Android doesn't expose the network permission (which exists and is accessible in ROMs like LineageOS)
Of course if this was exposed then people would start blocking the Google data vaccum - and that's bad for business
They're not problems. It's a customizable device to this extent, and you have preferences, so just change the settings. The alternative is that you cannot do anything about it.
Does this comment mean to say that you can change anything or that you can't? IIRC there are quite a few things locked down on an iPhone that require you to jailbreak it if you want to customize it, but I haven't been in the iPhone space for a long time now so please forgive my naivety.
Glad to know they didn't remove the customizable button then :) I plan on squeezing as much life out of my Note 10 as I can but I know its number will come soon enough.
Two other data points: I had the note 9, and the button wasn't customizable (you could disable the app and tweak some other things to keep the button from doing anything, but you couldn't remap it, that was new in the note 10.) And having upgraded to the S24 ultra... there's no button any more, just power + volume. (As shipped, the power button does some bixby nonsense, but it's a couple of clicks to make it do power again, and camera on double-click, like it did on all of the previous models.)
Not only a lot of communities are hidden because of Discord (at least with Reddit they were more discoverable), the worst part is the fact that they are unsearchable or behind a paywall.
Like the "join my discord if you pay at least 3$/mo!" is pretty innocent but you are gatekeeping a community that before was pubblic.
If we are talking about something like a content creator focused about an hobby or pc problems you can see how Google will become even more useless.
Reddit was the least bad choice between it and Discord but has failed the "i want to be a social network".
Even the idea of payment to access a community is just absurd. If I'm an integral part of a tight-knit community I can see myself participating in common expenses, but I would never pay for access. At that point you're just a consumer buying a service.
>Even the idea of payment to access a community is just absurd.
Is it?
If we put aside the common notion that "everything on the internet is and should be free-as-in-beer and fuck you if you disagree", is it really that absurd?
Communities more often than not prefer setting up some kind of filtering to weed out certain people, and a paywall is one of those filters.
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Don't buy based on promises but on what you buy NOW
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