icmpecho

@icmpecho@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 16th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I finally setup my computer and started playing Life is Strange. I didn’t expect to enjoy it like an art piece, but it has that feel to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This queue for the new swasticar⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and killing others in them while watching YouTube.

  also, as a bonus, the video was transphobic and the creator is a fucking bigot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is smarter than a genius⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t speak for everyone but I find facts and history important when discussing the behavior of any person or organization’s behavior,

  Steve Jobs did make Apple very successful - but at the same time, Apple still did bad things and those things are a part of what he did, for better or worse, and refusing to critique them is also not advisable.

  because they allow third party stores and less lock-in does not mean their product is better

  each person can choose the product that suits their needs

  less lock-in is better for user choice and user experience, as defined by the meaning of lock-in. If a user is massively inconvenienced by a service or device when they attempt to move away from it or if something else fits their needs better, that stifles user choice because the switching costs are too high.

  your original comment mentioned that users want their devices to “just work” - do you think Apple’s more aggressive lock-in is conducive to devices “just working” when the user wishes to switch to Android or PC as opposed to iOS or Mac?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is smarter than a genius⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  okay so you are right about people wanting their tech to work, but it really is categorically untrue that Apple is the only way to achieve that, or that they achieve that consistently at all.

  Take for example the Google Pixel: price competitor to the iPhone, has parity with iOS on software updates, features, and functionality. I got my mom the Pixel 6 4 years ago, and she has never had an issue using that phone. in fact she uses it so heavily you’d think she’s a power user, despite having used a flip phone until 2018. it certainly can break, but I can buy Pixel genuine parts on iFixit and replace my battery or a friend’s.

  Windows is actually ass, I’m not defending it - but it does “just work” for many non-technical folks, as bad as it may be.

  and let’s talk about MacOS and Mac computers in general. Have you tried doing something as basic as snapping a window on stock MacOS, or worse, had one fail in some way and needed to have it repaired?

  Soldered SSDs that you can’t remove are not user friendly and don’t “just work” when 20 years of photos just went up in smoke because you needed a board-level repair expert to de-solder and read the NAND chips only to discover that they’re dead, not to mention having to buy a new machine every few years as the chips continue wearing out, and are serialized and paired to the device so you cannot replace them.

  **Obviously, ** the customer won’t understand all that. But they will understand that they lost their photos and spent thousands of dollars that they could have saved, not because the repair tech wasn’t skilled at their job, but because hostile Apple design lost them 20 years of photos and forced them to get a new computer.

  not to mention Apple’s literal crime against privacy in the UK. Also, those SSDs I mentioned? FileVault backs their encryption keys up to iCloud by default, meaning if your key goes to iCloud in the UK, the police and anyone who gets access to iCloud can decrypt and read the full contents of your machine by booting it into recovery mode and decrypting the volume with said key, because Apple bent over for regulators instead of just disabling iCloud for their users entirely and blaming regulators, or just leaving ADP as is.

  I’m not sure what you’re defending Apple for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨me too.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they’re always so fucking chill and unbothered when the world is burning, smug af

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's talk...wait... No! Not like that!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  hell yeah, that’s what i like to see. also, same, if you need help when we’re in the camps, hit me up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's talk...wait... No! Not like that!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  anecdotally: given the number of people I’ve met who were both neurodivergent and absolutely adore trains, this seems incredibly likely.

  not to mention many of those same people are just the type to have 200TB of music and a whole radio station in their backpack.