Ulrich

I’m shocked!

Yeah you’re missing all the VPN ads.

Ugh. Tired of hearing people say this. No, VPN alone won’t make you anonymous online. But they are a mandatory part of an online anonymity toolkit.

Motorola is Lenovo. Lenovo is Motorola. You’re being needlessly pedantic.

Motorola does not have a mobile phone business

What do you call these?

I mean it seems like a no-brainer for OEMs. You can just turn over all your software development to a 3rd party, for free.

Pretty much the entire industry is siding with Anthropic though.

afaik servers are in USA

You mean one of the few countries not currently trying to dismantle encryption?

I agree, metadata collection and the obligatory matrix.org server are the biggest problems for privacy, but I don’t think you made that clear in your comment.

What, are you talking about? “Information feed”? Where? By whom?

Remember when they arrested the creator of Telegram and forced him to hand over chat logs? Yeah, nothing to see here 🙈

Because of the implication…

lower, higher, whatever, it’s manipulation of pointless numbers.

Once again, no they didn’t. Literally just look it up. You have the knowledge of the world at your fingertips.

The term “sideload” was coined in the late 1990s by online storage service i-drive as an alternative means of transferring and storing computer files virtually instead of physically

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideloading

Had I said “downloading” it wouldn’t have made much sense, would it?

No it’s not. Someone just made that up.

Most roosters wouldn’t normally seek the paws of the fox to be hugged by, what an astonishing news!

Whoosh. The point is “the roosters” don’t seek anything at all. It could be 50 lbs. of delicious cow shit, but if you don’t put it down in front of them, they’re not going to go looking for it.

Please read my comments in their entirety before replying.

Jesus Tittyfucking Christ, yes it is. I’m not typing out “installing software from outside the Google Play Store” every time, so you can go away.

Usually yes, but it doesn’t have to be.

Just because if it were opt-in, people wouldn’t have chosen to activate it

Because people overwhelmingly do not change any defaults whatsoever, regardless of what they like or want.

If you put a button in the settings that did nothing but automatically generate a $5 bill, no one would click that either.

This is a great example of why mAh is a stupid metric. Double the voltage and you have the same capacity but through the power of marketing you can mislead people into thinking the battery life is increased.

The proper metric is Wh.