You also need every company to develop for a third mobile platform, where two different ones are already a big ask.

Easy solution would be to run existing apps on Linux, probably would be Android.

Another solution would we move to PWAs to have apps in the browser.

Both these things already happened on desktop Linux with Windows games using Proton and most proprietary desktop apps switching to Electron.

N26 requires you to have their app installed to confirm the web logins.

I left the US in 2016 and moved to Germany.

If you have a university degree and work in an in demand field, such as IT, it is relatively easy to get a job and visa for Germany.

The hard part now is affordable housing in the big cities is almost non-existent, especially for someone moving here with no work or rental history in Germany.

The cost of living is less than in the US, so depending on your job/salary, affording the expensive housing may be less of an issue.

Overall the quality of life is much higher and the relationship to work and your life is way more balanced than in the US.

I can’t imagine going back to the US now.

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Even the non glass icons look terrible, they include some automatic blur being applied.

Yeah, but the issue is they didn’t buy a legal copy of the book. Once you own the book, you can read it as many times as you want. They didn’t legally own the books.

There‘s also the FSEvents database on the root of every disk which is a database of all the file events/operations that happened on that disk.

Supposedly you can disable it, but I haven’t got it to work. For example if you download a sensitive file, do something with it, and delete it. You can see this in the FSEvents database.

This is already a recall type feature at the file system level.

Using AI to produce software faster only helps capitalists companies extract more value out of their workers in a shorter time. This actually reduces worker worth, as their salary isn’t increased to match their increased output, the company takes more from them.

Outside of a work context there is zero incentive to use AI, as you can take all the time to learn and craft quality code.

It’s stuck on iOS 16. Once iOS 26 releases, companies will quickly pivot to iOS 17 as the minimum supported version and slowly you will find important apps no longer work on the phone.

The problem is that when we rely on capitalist companies to produce the software we rely on, they will reduce cost as much as possible. This leads to them not wanting to pay for separate teams to develop native desktop applications on Windows, macOS or Linux.

While I hate Electron apps as well, they are how Linux became much more able to run these proprietary apps society depends on. We know the capitalist companies wound’t invest in native Linux software, as the user base is too small.

Yes you are correct in that real socialism was never implemented.

Socialism is when workers control the means of production and the surplus generated from their work.

When the government controls these things, like with communism, it’s state capitalism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism

If an app that is being used to coordinate a rebellion takes off the US government can order Apple to disable its use. I hope the degoogling Android trend takes off further.

Apple already did this in Hong Kong to appease China. They took down apps that were used by protesters to coordinate, they even modified AirDrop so it couldn’t be easily used for ad hoc communication.

https://9to5mac.com/2025/03/17/apple-globally-censoring-this-iphone-communication-feature-deserves-renewed-scrutiny/

Don’t worry, Recall will record everything done on the Windows machine.

AAA games have been boring and bland for quite some time. I got a Steam Deck and mainly play indie games and older titles. I couldn’t care less about GTA 6 or new consoles. There’s such a huge catalog of games on Steam to play.

Sounds like a fucking nightmare, but a wet dream to Big Tech.

Capitalism is causing massive wealth inequality.

CEO will come out and say employees are more productive when forced to work 5 days a week. When asked to see the data, they will say trust me, I’ve seen the internal studies from a Big Tech company. Same exact playbook as work from home.

Most interesting would be a forced sell of Android. Would all of the Google spyware be stripped out of Google’s Android distribution? Would we see more official distributions of Android without any Google software?

I would say it is one sided in that the user gets the same treatment/experience from either platform even though they are consider rivals and each company would argue they are different.

I would say iOS and Android.

Originally they were pretty different in terms of functionality and appearance. Android has improved a lot in terms of the user experience and UI, but also has become more locked down and user hostile. I would say that iOS has actually gotten worse in terms of bugs/reliability, and now Apple is relying on services and ads for new revenue. The user experience has suffered.

If you want a mobile phone/OS that respects user freedoms, agency and privacy, there is no consumer option. Both are filled with spyware/data collection from both the OS vendor and third party apps.