The lack of flavor is because you’ve never had good tofu. It’s like someone from China complaining that bread is flavorless because they’ve only even had Wonder bread (or a similar bland, white bread)

Tofu is not a normal part of the American diet, so there is little market pressure for high quality tofu. Unless you’re explicitly seeking out high quality tofu, and know what to look for, you’ll only ever end up eating very low quality tofu. I’ve never even seen anything other than bottom of the barrel tofu outside a specialty store in the US

Reminds me of how, relatively, bad burgers and hot dogs are in Japan. Or tacos. Dear lord the tacos in Japan are so bad (unless you know where to go)

any time you go to Chinese, take out, or Thai food, wherever, in order the tofu, it’s been cubed and deep fried

That is the American way. You absolutely will not find the majority of tofu deep fried in China

Cheap tofu is mostly flavorless. Good tofu is not

Before living in Japan, I’d have shared your views here. Turns out I was just eating low quality tofu, in a culture that has little experience cooking tofu

I feel like it’s more direct than that. They want more OneDrive subscriptions. Cloud storage is absurdly profitable

OneNote stopped working for me because of some OneDrive connectivity issue. It wouldn’t give me the option to just save locally

Rather than fight with it, I just stopped using it. There are other note taking programs

It’s no a privacy issue to me, it’s usability. My harddrive is always there and connected. The internet and OneDrive are not. More than anything else, availability is the #1 thing I need with basic office applications

Good news, this video is not very optimistic

Either Kurzgesagt changed the title, or it’s A/B testing with multiple titles. When I watched the video yesterday, it had the same title as OP used

All of that is true for Wisconsin and North Dakota too. I’m guessing NM is just a deadly combination of all the drunk drivers, plus being warm enough to walk year round (in ND and WI, pedestrians are only getting mowed down in the summer. Too cold to walk the rest of the year)

I’m guessing weather is the strongest correlation. States with year round warm weather have higher rates. After that it looks like cities with more urban populations have lower numbers

Because Israel doesn’t want Hamas to accept the peace deal. They’re trying to goad Hamas into calling it off, so they can claim it’s Hamas’ fault the peace deal didn’t hold up

The odds of that are very near zero. They’re including things like brand names and logos as ads. The Lemmy logo itself would be considered an ad

They’re not getting numbers in the thousands by only including intrusive ads

What is being counted as an ad for these things? Is branding slapped on a product an ad? If a car with a company logo drives by my window, is that an ad?

I’m in a similar ad boat to you in that I actively removed most ads from my life. I work remotely and often go a full day without going to a commercial venue. I still see a lot of things that could be classed as ads

As a random example, I just looked at my key chain. My car key has a Ford logo. The key chain was a freebie from a now long-defunct car dealership with their logo. I have a light on it sold by Battery Junction and manufactured by Titanium, with both logos prominently displayed. One of my keys was cut by a local locksmith with their name engraved on it. This could be considered as exposing me to 5 separate ads just on my key chain

To get a figure in the thousands, they probably have a very inclusive definition of an ad. I’m sure we’re exposed to more ads than we realize

Disclaimer: The app is closed source, so all we can go off is the developer’s word, although the fact the government removed it is a strong indicator they don’t have access to data from the app

The developer stated they do not even retain any identifying data, so the only data the government could get is public anyway. Through Apple they’d be able to see who downloaded it, and likely when it was used. Your defense would be easy enough though: “I just wanted to make sure the libs weren’t harassing our fascist patriotic ICE agents near me”

Both iPhones and Android phones can be configured to your desired security level. Both are used by various government agencies around the world for their most important secrets. Neither are secure out of the box. You have to harden them to your desired level of security

Arguing whether Android or iOS is more secure is a bit like arguing whether an SUV or pickup is safer. It doesn’t matter which you pick when basic security steps are magnitudes more important: Wearing a safety belt, having a functioning air bag, driving a safe speed, not driving drunk, etc.

No sideloading and no unlocked bootloader means you can’t sideload malware or install malware-preloaded ROMs

It’s a simple configuration change to disable it and can be done with any corporate MDM system, making this a moot point. Not to mention too many people don’t understand security, so Android is taking away sideloading anyway, FoR sEcUriTY

No root also means you can’t just install malware that uses root access

The vast majority of Android phones do not come with root access. For both, you generally have to elevate access yourself

Long OS support means fewer people run around with iPhones that are 5 OS versions behind

If you’re running an out-of-date OS, clearly security is not a priority

There’s no tiny boutique iPhone manufacturers who sell phones that come pre-loaded with malware

Supply chain attacks absolutely can happen to iPhones as well. There are plenty of re-sellers

You missed the actual security benefit over iOS that Android cannot compete with: Apple controls the entire software chain from security patch to OTA update. This allows them to patch and release a fix for critical vulnerabilities far faster than any Android device possibly could. Apple does not need to get the approval of an OEM (such as Samsung), and, due to special deals, they do not need to get the approval of a carrier (like Verizon). Android devices typically need to get approvals from both before releasing updates (although Google flagship phones can bypass one, and can fast track the other)

The downside there is there are no checks on Apple. They could release a horribly vulnerable patch with no additional checks in-between

In terms of security alone, iPhones easily beat most Android phones

That’s not how security works in the modern tech landscape. No major OS is going to meet a high security standard out of the box. All of them have to be configured to the desired security level, then be added to ongoing security efforts. Every major OS can be secured to the highest security standards

The primary difference is how much effort each takes, but even then there isn’t much of a difference. You’ll find tooling and in-house expertise makes a much larger difference than the OS

The myth that some OS are inherently secure really needs to die off

Usually when people complain about DNS, they’re talking about stability issues. In this case I think he’s pointing out how centralized it is, and how a bad actor could cause significant issues

At a local level, the most common issue I know of is ISPs blocking sites at the DNS level by feeding in fake information that redirects you to one of the ISP’s blocked/parked domains. Usually implemented to prevent customers going to piracy sites. It’s not much of an issue to subvert currently, as you can simply use any public DNS provider

That being said, much of that has been consolidated into a dozen or so tech companies. In the current political climate, I could see a coordinated effort happening between those tech companies to block sites deemed non gratis. Obviously there’s still ways to subvert it, but the vast majority of user’s won’t be able to

Billionaires don’t live in their community and has no say in the local operations of their community. The purpose of a lawsuit is to 1) compensate victims, and 2) Discourage repeating the situation

Akins raped at least a dozen different children over more than a decade. That doesn’t happen without other people knowing about it, but they stayed silent. He received a rather lenient 15 year sentence. Without some additional punitive measure, it’ll just happen again. Townspeople didn’t seem to complain when he was raping children, but now they’re complaining that it’ll cost them money

At least now they’ll properly deal with sexual predators rather than ignoring the issue

It’s very tough. We’re not the only school district in Oklahoma that has faced this, and certainly none of the Ninnekah residents affected this situation

Yeah, we can tell no one affected it. That’s how dozens of victims stacked up over decades with no one doing anything about it. A predator doesn’t rape that many children without people knowing. None of those people cared until it might cost them money

I’m not a fan of the US lawsuit culture, but it seems money is the only thing Americans truly care about

Yes, but Oracle’s stock skyrocketed based on the unprofitable OpenAI promising to buy >100B worth of AI data center space from Oracle. Nvidia stock also surged on the news, since Oracle builds those data centers with Nvidia chips

Obviously OpenAI doesn’t have the money to pay Oracle themselves, so Nvidia has helpfully given them the money

So now we have an incredibly large cyclic corporate dependency of money from Nvidia -> OpenAI -> Oracle, then back to Nvidia. Definitely not a financial disaster waiting to happen

I ended up dropping them today because of that. My random domain went from $30 to $90 over the course of a couple years. Found another registrar for $35

Namecheap is 100% ripping people off on the renewals

They also use AI support now, so don’t even get the benefit of good support any more