CosmicTurtle0

My primary phone belongs to my work. I get a stipend every two years that essentially allows me to buy any supported phone I want.

The conditions are that it's managed by them via MDM and all my work stuff is on the work profile side.

It is a choice I make since it allows me to not carry two phones. I did that for the first two years at my company and it was annoying.

I was today years old when I learned that you can run a custom WM on a Mac.

That's like....the equivalent of a coca cola soda machine dispensing Pepsi.

And in terms of down votes, I don't really care too much. It evens out overtime.

As much as I want to use F-Droid, my work blocks all third party app stores so it's either have access to my work stuff on one phone (via profiles) or dual wield two phones.

I lack the patience to dual wield again. It's very annoying.

That made me true but let's not ignore the huge profit motive for Kodak to keep people on film. That was their money maker.

They had an incentive to keep that technology out of the consumer market.

With my experience and technical background, I've learned I'm way underpaid, even among my peers in my company.

$215k annual would be what I consider fair.

Government workers deserve good wages as well.

I support a 75% salary increase in your current role.

You realize that if newspapers offered a federated service (pay once, you get them all), they'd make money hand over fist?

But noooo...each newspaper wants you to pay.

I'd pay upwards of $20 a month if that guaranteed me access to the major newspapers (NYT, WaPo, LA Times, etc.) and my local one with one subscription.

He very much could get away with it now. None of the candidates, as far as I'm aware, have a public key published and none of them have any way of verifying that the tweet is from the account holder.

Sure a tweet from Kamala saying, "I believe we should execute all illegals" might be an easy one.

But think of this more subtle tweet: "The United States believes in the sovereignty of all recognized nations."

We need our politicians to stop using Twitter for official communications.

The fact that we have so much of our politics in a private company is dangerous.

Musk has the power AND ability to post tweets as if they were from any of the candidates.

Not as a sock puppet. But as them directly.

This is a dangerous ability.

People just seem to be more paranoid about downloading stuff not already installed on their devices.

I see this as a natural byproduct of Google, Apple, et al. "Walled Garden"

They want you to consume only from them and only what they approve of. Granted Apple is far more on the latter side than Google but even Google fought tooth and nail to keep Epic from having their own store.

I don't interact much with people who are younger than me but I feel like the age of tinkering might not be as strong with them as it was for me. PCs were the predominant form factor and you could literally take it apart and put it back together with just a screwdriver. You can't do that with laptops or phones at least not without a lot of other specialized tools. This isn't their fault either since device manufacturers have really tried to make it difficult to do anything that they don't control.

Hell chrome is the best example of this. Google, whose business is selling your personal data for ads, is preventing the use of ad blockers. Firefox is mostly developed by Mozilla with a small handful of volunteers. It's already showing signs of enshittification. We don't have a viable third option.

It will only be a matter of time before these tech companies start having brain drains due to their own greed.

I'm a simple man. I see Practical Engineering, I up vote.

It was the most perfect call. There has never been a call perfecter. He called me. That's right. Apple called and said and he said, "Sir, the EU, the NATO, they keep killing us. They are killing us in the market. With the regulations."

These regulations that lying Joe passed with Obama. That's right. He said, "Sir, you have to do something."

I told him I'll be able to once I'm elected. This is really crooked, what these democracies are doing. Kamala, you know, hasn't taken the cognitive. No, she hasn't. What is she now? Indian? Some of those Indians are very smart you know. They have billions of them over in Indiana.