Well, those online copy’s either originate from someone sharing their backed up collection or a camera pointed at the TV.

Yeah, and last I heard (a few years ago) anything running apple M# chips is not jailbreakable.

That’s the whole point, to force iPhone to also have freedom.

Android is becoming less free every year; the more Apple gets away with, the closer Android/Google will drift towards it.

“iPhone vs Android” is the wrong battle

It’s “Us & Gov. vs Apple & Google & Gov”

The storage prices are insane. It’s over 9 thousand to get the model with 512GB RAM, and it still only has 1TB of probably non removable internal storage.

2TB is +$400 4TB is +$1000 8TB is +$2200 16TB + $4600

They’re saying 8TB is worth more than the entire base model Mac Studio at 2k.

For those prices I expect a RAID 5 or 6 system built in, god knows they have the processor for it.

Lol my dyslexic brain read it as adopt anyways.

Yeah, you gotta put that stuff in the annoying neighbor’s yard

If they really need, they could plug in an external mic.

There’s a surprising amount of sensors in our phones that 30 years ago would have been expensive dedicated equipment. If a phone is enough for the tests, great.

Yes, there are many options.

I saved a thread a while back when I was looking for a new launcher too.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/23446121

The point of this is to take what you already bought from Amazon with you when switching.

Yeah, some of us made that miskate years ago. I can transfer mp3 just fine, why can’t I transfer a book file too? Lots of people entire book libraries are being held hostage by Amazon.

DRM ripping was a pain, I used some sketch program that had only worked with a specific old version of Kindle for PC to turn all my books into ebubs.

I love my kindle, but not buying books from Amazon anymore and next ereader won’t be kindle.

Fun unrelated fact, kindle unlimited books could also be downloaded for USB transfer.

Yes MS office can do it natively in the apps now. but that does use one drive sync. It didn’t have that support at first, so you had to use web version for collab.I assume the author is going off old info. That being said, I wouldn’t be suprised if MS tries to make the local programs a web shortcut someday.

Libre working towards live collaboration is huge, it’s probably the biggest modern features keeping IT nerds from pushing to their bosses as a free replacement for Microsoft.

And that’s how we end up with young adults entering the work force that can’t

• type
• navigate the web safely
• save something to a specified directory
• transfer a file
• maintain backups
• recognize suspisous websites/news/ads
• navigate the constantly changing Microsoft UIs
• troubleshoot anything as simple as turning on the computer screen

The world is different than it was 30 years ago, if we don’t prepare them for the internet age, then they will fail.

I do agree, physical books and learning off-screen is very important. Letting kids use the open web all day is not helpful, but bring them the computer lab to teach them the productive uses of a computer.

I think it’ll be okay, Honey was actually making money from the manipulation without user knowlage.

Adblocks don’t make money and users are (should be) aware that tracking links and stuff gets removed.

That’s unfortunate.

Another thing you can do is to keep available funds on whatever card you use online low. If there’s only 1 to 2k on the card, yes it’ll suck, but it won’t be as impactfull as your life savings.

You a might also consider credit card with a small limit (1k or less) and set auto pay to “pay full balance” every month. Avoid interest like the plague, (those cards have insane interest rates over 20%), but if you’re always paying it off in full, there’s no interest to pay. If I can’t pay the credit card off in full (and I mean the full limit) when I “swipe” it, I pretend it does not exist. None of the “I get played next week, so I can pay it off then” - nope, don’t go there.

Supposedly credit cards have better fraud protection than a debit, but maybe that’s just another one of our many “Freedom” problems.

The main thing is you’re separating the random websites from the majority of your funds to limit how much can be taken. If there’s a problem, I’m dealing with Privacy.com and a couple hundred bucks and can still pay the bills. I’m not trying to convince ebayclone#71 and my bank I didn’t place an order for 10000 waffle makers before the lights shut off.

And of course, I’m just some rando on the internet, not an actual expert. Not even in same country as you, so take that for what it is.

Good to know.

Password manager, and use different randomly generated passwords.

The real danger is having the same password everywhere.

Also pay attention to where you save your payment info.

Everything I do online is through Privacy.com, with limits for each vendor. My amazon gets hacked? Most I’m out is $100, steam gets hacked, there goes $60. A subscription tries to double charge, lol no. Free trial wants to auto-bill me after 7 days, its not happening. Funneling everything through them isn’t 100%, but at least they’re not paypal, I get notified when ever even a 1 cent charge happens and I’m not leaving my bank card on a dozen random sites I’ll eventually loose track of.

I suppose. I was thinking more of 1 Chinese company just spinning up a hundred copy/paste apps.

Sounds about right, From my understanding, they singled out TikTok instead of addressing the actual problem they claim to care about.

[Edit, another comment says its any app with 1million users. So now there’s just going to be a hundred TikTok clones all under the same umbrella just different names.]

Oh boy, I can’t wait for a completely boring corporate introduction devoid of any creativity due to the last ipad’s controversy!

The other lawyer in the case, Attorney Tom made a video going over what they are sueing for and some of the misconceptions.

https://youtu.be/ItiXffyTgQg?feature=shared

People have a claim due to lost profits and potentially missed business opportunities.

Let’s Youtuber A had a sponsor affiliate and a spoken ad spot. Creator makes 2k for the sponsor read and 2% every time someone buys something via link. Honey swoops in and steals the affiliate link (regardless if the user got a coupon or not). The creator no longer getting the 2% and skews the success of the ad.

The creator’s ad performance (ad to finished transaction) is down, so sponsor lowers the commission to 1% and 1.5k for the next video. Enough people use honey and the metrics are bad enough the sponsor doesn’t renew contract with the creator.

On the consumer end, which due to arbitration clauses the lawyers aren’t actively pursuing (at this time) (see linked video).