spckls
@spckls@lemmy.world
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
Newpipe doesn’t have a version for iOS, the newpipe team decided it won’t support the os because it heavily relies on android api. Not to mention that you probably couldn’t easily install it even if it exists. Youtube without ads is available via safari though.
Nothing wrong with differences. I just wanted to point out that many of the things i thought i would be missing, i’m not, either because there is an alternative or because it’s in the os by default.
To answer your last question, an example, i paid more money to get less enjoyment from one of the computers i use in the “home lab”. I could’ve spun up yet another VM for some services, for free, but i decided to purchase a dedicated machine. It had to be small tho, so the only real option i had was the Intel NUC.
It costs triple of the DIY version, not to mention infinitely more than a “free” VM, but it was the right choice. CPU is soldered, you have to buy M.2 storage because no sata ports, and it takes SO-DIMM. I “could” buy a cheap AMD CPU and motherboard and reuse multiple sticks of RAM and SSDs laying around in the lab, but the power consumption and form factor were more important for the use case.
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
Slowly but surely i’m getting on the same boat. If i lost my phone tomorrow and couldn’t afford a new one, i would much rather get a second-hand iphone from a year or three ago than a cheap android
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
I guess you should look into nextcloud and/or synology drive, because they do exactly that.
You can use it as a “cloud”, where the files you are using are downloaded locally and then updated if you made changes, or you can just sync everything.
For me, i have some folders i need always available, internet or no internet, and some that i don’t care about as much. And that’s how it’s configured, it syncs the stuff i need, it leaves the stuff i don’t.
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
I guess what i wanted to ask by creating the post is exactly what you are saying.
Why would you want to jailbreak a phone or sideload apps? Maybe you don’t have to? I was blown away by the amount of apps and features baked into the iOS and macOS, i had no idea that was the case.
And you can’t even know if you don’t try. Look at the amount of people saying, for example, you can’t have adblock on safari (you can), or that there are no automations on ios (there are).
I’m not trying to preach or to convert anyone, i’m just saying that i’ve been living under a rock and didn’t know about any features the ios/macos offer.
Also, apple products work just fine, sometimes better, with non-apple hardware and software.
Bluetooth devices especially.
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
I tried. Don’t get me wrong, but if a couple of people can make a better software than a huge company then why am i giving the company my money in the first place. Unfortunately, i don’t have much free time anymore, not as much i would like, and certainly a lot less than i used to have 5-10 years ago.
I would love if the guys who make custom roms could make a phone, but sadly, that probably won’t happen. And i hate that all the phones are locked in. I wish a phone could be like a pc, where you can install whatever OS you like.
Hardware manufacturers make that impossible. The company that makes snapdragon is responsible for all the drivers and compatibility. Samsung certainly won’t open up their chips and drivers as well. Apple is the same.
Until we get something like a linux phone, everyone will fight tooth and nail for their slice of pie.
Hell, look at linux drivers on the x64/86 (nvidia).
Look at microsoft ditching 99% of CPUs on win11 launch.
Look at apple with their “macOS is for macs only”.
Software manufacturers are to blame as well. Why no office on linux but they support macos? Why no adobe products on linux? Why not games on linux? (I know it’s better now but still, very few big players) Banking software? Windows only. Manufacturing software? Almost all windows only.
OS choice has to be on the person using the computer, not some company.
It’s time for standardized computing.
I understand that you can’t write all the software that has been written again, but you can at least make the new software compatible.
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
I had a pleasure of replacing a CPU on an Acer laptop. It refused to work. I have it on video, 3 or 5 minutes after boot (can’t remember, but it was consistent) it would shut down.
Later, i found out that even though you can replace the CPU in that laptop, Intel has made it so that if that unit wasn’t configured with that CPU when you bought it, it would simply shut down after X minutes.
Can’t recall the name for that “feature” unfortunately.
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
I think there’s a good reason behind the sales numbers, to be honest.
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
No need to wonder! Better to cut them off and sleep calmly if you ask me.
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
That’s exactly how i feel, apart from the premium androids, because even though i paid the premium price, it never felt as a good phone. Fast, maybe, well built, not really, and the apps are the same no matter what you paid so it kind of feels like you got ripped off.
I’m salty as hell because deep down i really want android phones to be great.
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
I gave up with trying to have serious conversations about not-serious topics with people in my life, it isn’t worth the time. I would much rather enjoy a meal or a drink and talk about something that actually requires some critical thinking than to just have piss contest on whose phone is better or whose car is faster, if you know what i mean.
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
I guess if that particular app doesn’t work then it doesn’t. But i have zero issues with syncing the Bitwarden vault, or Synology drive, Nextcloud, or Synology Photos. Maybe the issue is with Syncthing.
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
I prefer my own intelligence even if flawed. I think that’s the beauty of it. Nothing against AI, but i don’t like the idea of running thoughts through an AI for a post on the internet, feels weird.
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
Yeah it looks like i need new friends, but that gets kinda hard when you’re older
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
I’m using nextcloud and synology drive (both available from the internet) with SMB fall-back through wireguard in case i need access to other folders on the server.
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
I don’t know about the support part, i was on call with support for the first few days about basic functionality regarding the phone and the laptop and they were very polite and helpful.
Also, there’s a easily accessible user manual for every device and every function on their website, something that can’t be said for a lot of other brands.
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
Yeah, i get that, sorry.
I wanted to write a quick post about this but then got carried away.
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
I agree with the chilling, i think most people are on some death rampage to money and that makes them angry and irrational
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
Isn’t it a company’s whole point of existence in this economy to gain profit?
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
I think all major brands are going in that direction. I work in electronics repair (not consumer electronics) and it used to be “a thing” to have schematics available for a device you are repairing. Not anymore, and for a long time.
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
Not true, sorry. Using self hosted cloud and it works perfectly.
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
I find the keyboard much better than gboard. I don’t use autocorrect tho.
Stock apps are one of the things that kept me. I didn’t have to search the play store for an app, it was already there. I use imap for mail, and the mail app is the best app i ever used on any mobile device. Paid apps included.
There is adblock for safari
Background sync works a lot better for me than on Android. I never have to worry about syncing photos or files, while on Android it would stop and i wouldn’t notice for weeks that my photos disn’t sync.
Apps are more expensive, but better as well. There are apps that are the same as on Android but pricier on iOS, i agree there.
I don’t use a filesystem on any computer, or should i say built-in storage. Everything is connected to my home server and that part works as intended.
For that part, the Apple website has an actual user documentation for iOS and MacOS and it’s good. Not the best, but far better than anything available for Android.
You have to actually give it a try. It isn’t like android. It requiers some adaptation. That said, i understand if someone found their OS of choice and doesn’t consider anything else, i just never was in that postition with Android.
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
Have you tried WiFiMan?
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
Is it really? Air costs as much as a HP Envy
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
Whole point of the post is to get opinios from other people. There is no story, just my general observations about the software/hardware
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
Noted. Pushed twice on edit. Took some skill to find the return button tho.
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
Couldn’t find it on Memmy, but Voyager has it so now i fixed it a bit.
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
Seems like i can’t find the eddit button anywhere
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
I am really into tech but the phone is the only part that i really don’t want to fiddle with.
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
Ok i will add them sorry :|
- Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately? 1 year ago:
Can you elaborate what does self respect have to do with my post?