Yes. That Apple can do these things because their soc is their market deferential. It’s not an over all market direction.

Yeah. I used to have a $20 shareware product back when kagi was a payment processor. Apple introduced $1 pricing as a dick waving contest and fucked the entire indy developer community.

This is a really basic business concept; business 101 stuff. They definitely didn’t make it up, they’re just using it.

It works against the general population, if this particular one doesn’t, don’t get too busy strutting, there is almost certainly something else that does work on you.

Buy shit because you need/want it, not because it’s a deal.

I made that note when gta 5 killed off the storyline expansions.

I was never interested in world of war craft with cars.

I have never owned a windows machine.

And I doubt most people can honestly claim their primary computing device is something other than their smart phone.

It’s the part where you have to resort to asserting that it works because people are stupid, that is hilarious. It’s so wonderfully reductionist.

Microsoft fanbois cannot be reasoned with; only drained for cash.

I love this Apple hater threads. You people are so unhinged about this stuff. It’s great!

good enough to get frustrated with the code the Ai gives me sometimes and do it myself.

Good work. That’s a solid junior level understanding of code.

Can confirm. Been using Wyze cameras for several years.

I’m not using this particular firmware but I bought them specifically because I could flash them.

Despite the firmware giving control of outbound traffic, I suggest blocking them at the network level.

Mine run on an sd card and if someone removes the sd card and reboots it or the card gets corrupted, it would fall back to factory settings.

I have quite a few of these and they are using very, very cheap sd cards and while none have failed, they most certainly will eventually.

Though it looks like that could change eventually with a Linux phone.

Nope. There is firmware on cellular modems that is controlled by the chip vendor.

Carriers work with chip companies to make sure devices work on their network but they don’t even get the source, just early release blobs for the network engineers head of the device’s release.

This code is literally the most widely used closed source code. It is more locked down than the firmware on any other device you own. It often illegal to reverse engineer.

More reading

I’m sure one day there will be open source code for this but it’s going to come long after a Linux phone and until we can be anonymize with the tower, there is no privacy.

The problem is people who use these then unknowingly propagate these unusable websites.

It’s gotten so ridiculous that often a bad website is blamed on the user for not having a properly customized webrowser. This is despite not everyone is able to set up these blocking tools.

Teslas burned to the ground

All user error. Musk said so. Trust.

Everyone knows lithium is a mood stabilizer, same for batteries.

Tape backup is still a thing.

emulate it perfectly

This is a far stronger claim than any of the developers for these emulators claim.

Yeah. That’s too small.

Not enough space for an proper antenna and the battery requirements wouldn’t work plus the thermals the thing would kick off would burn your ear.

The transmission power requirements between Bluetooth and cellular is measured in magnitudes, 3-4 times the power.

The cellular modem and antenna could be fit into the charging case of earbuds but the battery life would still be terrible since most of the case is taken up by the space needed for the ear buds.

Android is not GNU, full stop. It’s not about “enough”. GNU isn’t something one can do partially.

Android is uses some GNU tools but so does Mac OS. Neither are consider GNU.

Even Windows has GNU tools but no one would say it’s not GNU enough.

Toothpaste makes an excellent fuel additive. I suggest it to all customers who come through my small engine repair business. They love me for it.

Mega corps do that all the time. They have shell corporations for the exact purpose of obfuscating their future intentions.

Fingerprint readers require touching a specific spot with a specific digit.

Face recognition only requires the user be looking at the device.

The bigger argument is fingerprint readers can be more secure.

I personally would prefer a device that does both simultaneously for secure requests like accessing credentials.