Gary’s Economics is an incredible channel

Report it as spam: https://lemmy.ml/post/13850772

The UX of Librewolf sucks ass though. Want to change this setting? Well you can’t, too bad.

Went to Walgreens for toothpaste and Tylenol. Somehow left with like a 40$ receipt. Never again, thanks. I’d rather use Amazon

You’re right, at what cost…?

1. Game consoles don’t have a duopoly
2. You gotta start somewhere

Honestly I just wanted an excuse to share the post more on Lemmy

It is not satire, it’s a real article from the Washington Post

Honestly if you didn’t reply, I wouldn’t have checked the post to see it got downvoted. Wtf is the point of this community if people are just gonna downvote headlines they don’t like

Welcome to the Internet

Probably the DE more than the distro, for me Bluetooth has “just worked” under KDE

You mean the same Spez who took credit from his dead friend for Reddit’s success? That Spez?

No one outside of China has their data stored there, though.

1. There’s no way to tell if Apple transfers your data there
2. Apple does not clarify how they decide when to transfer your data there
3. You are putting a lot of faith into a system that shows no transparency

https://support.apple.com/en-us/111754

It’s already gone because it’s not disclosed when or why it is moved to servers where the Chinese govt can decrypt it, but I guess it depends on who you’re worried about having your data

No 👏 they 👏 do 👏 not.

Get Apple’s dick out of your ass.

They literally have a history of moving data to government servers and handing over encryption keys: https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/how-apple-gave-chinese-government.html?m=1

Ignoring the fact they already did this in China? And by the way, you have no way of knowing when your data was uploaded to the Chinese servers

https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/ICloud

Different jurisdiction

Google is not interested in a larger screen size so that more ads that otherwise wouldn’t have been scrolled to can count as an impression. Given 95% of apps are scroll based anyways, you would get what - a couple percent more impressions on ads the user wouldn’t have scrolled past before closing their phone?

No, this is not the main reason, especially when you consider every major phone brand on the market is going this way.

It’s obviously a case of “consumers see big and click buy” (see: cars) and “big phone means more battery life and better specs we can market”.

I don’t think phone makers are that close to ad companies.

It’s most likely the same thing as a truck- people say they don’t want this insecurity driven monstrosity, but test after test, people buy the bigger one.

Edit: I mis-wrote that, my implication was that the people deciding the phone size spec are going to be doing it off hard data like what customers like to buy and what extra hardware they can fit in. I know Google owns Pixel, but the data point surrounding more ad impressions is extremely weak compared to literally any other data point regarding consumer choices

Doesn’t China emit like half the amount of carbon per capita compared to the US?