Unless you are an advertiser with a multi-million ad spend you are nothing to google.

Even then, they’ll lie to you about your ad analytics to get more money out of you than they should.

I think the worst part is not that they added it, but that they removed regular S3.

They’re doing it as part of reducing their carbon footprint. There’s so much carbon produced during manufacturing that they need devices to continue being used for about ten years after the original sale, otherwise the company will never be carbon neutral.

Bull fucking shit.

Apple goes out of their way to stop repairs. They ask the companies that supply their microcomponents to create a new version of them, just different enough for the original not to work, then make them sign a contract to only sell to them. By doing this, third party component level repair shops can’t just buy the components from the supplier and have to have a stock of donors boards in order to repair anything.

When you go to the Apple store because something in your board failed, they charge you the price of a new device to repair it and then advise you to just buy a new one. Even if you decide to do the repair because it’s more eco-friendly even thought it costs the same, you will lose all your data, because they just replace the entire thing instead of the milimeter capacitor or microchip that is broken.

Apple’s newer models, that are supported for self repair, are designed to be easy to repair. That’s why they’re the only ones that are supported.

Apple devices are still a pain in the ass to open and use non-standard screws with tons of different sizes, making sure that if you mix a longer and a shorter screw, you will probably break something.

Is this machine by any chance a recent laptop?

Newer laptops with Intel cpu (not sure about AMD) don’t have a real sleep mode anymore. Instead, they have a mode where, besides the ram, the cpu and the network device are also kept alive for communication.

In theory, this means that when you wake up your device all of your apps and stuff will already be updated with the latest information from the web with little battery loss. In practice, it just overheats your laptop while in your backpack and kills the battery.

The ping you see while it is “sleeping” might be from this.

They only introduced this recently because of the always increasing backlash against their practices.

And thing is, they only sells parts for a small subset of devices from the last decade. If you have one of the latest devices (from iPhone 12), great. If not, get fucked.

Yup, people have been suggesting this for a while, but that goes against the interests of Apple.

Also, it’s still confusing to me how they just allow for someone who sees you put your pin and steals your iPhone to be able to hijack your iCloud account.

They say it’s to stop people from stealing iPhones to sell for parts.

What they don’t say is that the only reason there is a market for that is that they aren’t willing to sell the parts directly at an affordable price…

I need someone from the UK to help me here.

Did you not have any type of voter identification before this?

I said in my comment that Europeans made it worse. I was just saying that those places were never peaceful to begin with.

Didn’t say it was.

But here specifically I’m refering to optimization, as in changes the manufacturer did to either streamline the production and make it more efficient (cheaper) or to differentiate from similar products to make it more appealing.

Surely you chose your devices on some sort of criterea and other people would come to a different choice.

This I believe can only happen under capitalism.

Wait wait, do you think the rest of the world was in perfect harmony until the white man came?

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA

Where the fuck do you think African slaves came from? Most europeans didn’t enslave them, they just bought them in the well established african slave markets after other africans and arabs enslaved them first.

In North America, do you think the indians only started scalping when the europeans appeared, or that it was a common practice in tribes that were at constant war with each other?

In South Africa a lot of the land europeans got was payment from tribes for help fighting other tribes.

Did europeans cause extra suffering in the places they colonized? Definitly.

Were those places peaceful before that? Fuck off.

You are using an open source platform, developed without a profit incentive, running on one of the most impactful publicly-funded infrastructure developments of our lifetimes, which is also powered by near countless free-and-open-source tech stacks.

I can almost guarantee every single physical thing you used to type that was the product of capitalism based optimization.

I just think it’s stupid people are always crying that Chromium forks are “controlled by Google” when they can do whatever they want with the fork.

I’m not saying that Firefox is bad because they take Google’s money.

I just think that if you consider that, they are more dependent on Google than Brave is.

And since one of the main complaints of people is that they want to turn away from Google stuff, that should be taken into consideration.

The complicit part is the most bullshit thing I have ever heard.

They said unequivocally that they won’t support it, just like they didn’t support Manifest V3.

Just because Brave forks of Chromium, that doesn’t mean they have to accept every change Google does and they can also do their own changes (ex: not supporting Manifest V3).

At least they are financially independent from Google, which you can’t say about Firefox.

As for the people I don’t know Salvador Allende nor Jacobo Arbenz, but Fidel and Che were two bloodthirsty armsmen that just picked up whatever ideology fitted at the time. There is a reason why since then until now people try to escape from Cuba into the US. Also, I believe the US only really took an interest in them when they accepted the Soviet nukes.

As for Martin Luther King Jr, he was definitly persecuted, but was it because he was a communist? I’m not sure of that.

Do you really want to use the Korean war as an example of the US oppressing communists? Really? You literaly just have to compare how both sides ended up.

Sure, go one and tell us who were the illuminated people touched by the grace of God that were just too powerful to wander around the Earth in the view of the CIA.

If it wasn’t for those pesky americans, the World would be the perfect kumbaya by now.

Ah yes, it wasn’t the expropriation and execution/imprisonment of competent farmers and the general failures of central planning, it’s all about them trade embargos.

So it was because of capitalism that the communist revolution killed millions of people around the world.

Uh, the more you know…

They can do whatever they want, they only do it because Google allows it.

By that logic, Brave is also completely against Google because they block their ads and go against them.