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I don’t understand why society accepted that the hardware maker gets to decide what software you run.

That’d be like your car deciding which roads you can take, or your blender deciding you’re not allowed to use strawberries in your smoothie.

Are you nuts? Why the fuck would your phone decide which apps you can run?

I’ve generally found gnome users just use it

lol

People love complaining about some random obscure feature only they and 4 others use being “”“hidden”“” in Dolphin which usually just means it’s not a default button taking up half the UI, but can be added in ten seconds by using the toolbar customization features.

Okular is the best PDF software for Windows, beating Adobe’s own solution.

I’m not. It’s cute you believe you understand the legal context better than I do though. But that’s still not an answer, I don’t give a shit if you believe that’s how it works or not.

Sure… and you’re telling me that because?

Wouldn’t really matter in a federated network like this. Mods banned you from a community? Make a new one. Account banned? Move to another instance.

There’s zero reason to feel attached to online accounts like these, which is the only thing you can lose on Lemmy.

Don’t let Nestlé know you have water

Don’t worry, I wrote a program that can find the answer for you. It’s been running for a while though…

Maybe somebody could come up with a program to determine if my program will halt or continue forever?

I use a dedicated MP3 player and a large FLAC library.

I use MusicBee, running on Wine, to listen and synchronize automatically.

I don’t believe in subscriptions, and therefore won’t pay for one: no music streaming, no Netflix, no Game Pass, no Adobe.

You could do something with the device, now you can’t.

That’s illegal here.

Today: I can sideload a non verified apk.

After the update: I grab the same apk and I can’t sideload it.

Just DuckDuckGo it dude

Just Bing it dude

Just SearxNG it dude

Just Blorg it dude

Just BazoongaDoonga it dude

Just

Buy more so that their economics and capabilities can be improved so they can sell better for cheaper.

So you do that and I buy when the price makes sense, thanks. Sorry, not paying a 60% premium for three year old hardware so “in the future it can become cheaper for others”

Reddit, and by extension Lemmy, have this infatuated vision of how private companies are actually great for customers because whenever somebody asks about Steam the explanation given is that if this were a publicly traded company it would be horrendous but because it’s private everything is perfect and there are rainbows inside their offices.

The truth is EA will be just as aggressively profit driven as it already is, the new owners will try to reduce costs just like always, and IPs that sell more will continue to be prioritized just like before.

My biggest issue with the alternative phones is I’m not paying a massively inflated price for bad hardware just because it’s using free software, sorry. Same goes for Framework laptops. I will tolerate paying a premium, but everything about the device must match the price tag.

but the developer will need to verify their identity with google.

If I purchase a device today, it’s got the ability to install apps that are not verified. This is a feature. If now it’s restricted, it violates our code.

I recall reading a news article about AI damaging people’s ability to comprehend a simple conversation… I didn’t think it was true, but I can see now that yes, you people do exist out there huh.

You don’t know me

Good thing I’m reflecting on your comments about AI, not your favorite ice cream flavor.

Again, you’ve generot a weirdly black and white view about a movie that was written to have a complex moral landscape and ambiguous characters. I think you missed out on a great deal of the movie’s meaning and intent.

Good thing I’m not talking about the morality around the movie, just one specific character and their views on the merits of artificially generated experiences.

Ah, irony.

Maybe copy and paste the thread on the AI you love so much and it could explain the concept to you.

Who’s “you people”?

You.

Also, did you watch the Matrix? The villains were not clear cut. There were machines who were sympathetic to humanity and humans who were traitors

I was specifically making allusion to Cypher’s steak scene, but I should’ve suspected you wouldn’t understand how that was meant to be interpreted given you agree with the villain. Sorry for not being clear enough.

In which case I guess I see why you’d think my criterion of “is the writing good?” Is irrelevant.

Says the guy who just commented how you just consume the content and never makes a hint of effort to understand the purpose behind the writing, whilst defending AI scripts.