Because people don’t want to pay for shit content. Let’s take pirating out of the equation. If I read a book I borrowed and I really like it, I would buy. If the content was trash then I wouldn’t. Same goes if I watch a movie, listen to an album, or eat a microwavable burrito at a friend’s or family member’s house.

If you look at the history of releases of iPhone and Android Google apps, features usually come out on the iPhone first.

A couple of theories range from programming on iOS is easier to the iOS team is simply better.

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Thank you for your input. I think I’m gonna give another try.

Note for other readers, Traditional T9 is a keyboard available on F-Droid.

I tried Thumb-Key. Learning curve was really high. I instead went with Unexpected Keyboard, also no predictive text. I really enjoy using Unexpected Keyboard and I don’t have to through a bunch of sub keyboards to look for a symbol. I rarely go to a different sub keyboard.

Do you type faster with Thumb-Key than a normal keyboard like GBoard? In your opinion, is it worth learning?

Not one? Not one letter?

Aircrack-ng still works as a packet sniffer and a wifi detector but breaking WPA is way more difficult than breaking WEP. No one basically uses WEP anymore.

According to GSM Arena there have been 67 Android phones released (or rumored to be released) with a removable battery and a headphone jack with a IPx7 to a IPx9 rating.

67 Android Phones

In total there are 93 Phones of any OS that fit that criteria.

The last Android phone that meet these specs is the Samsung Galaxy XCover7, released in January 23, 2024. Current price is the US Amazon store is $399.99.. Weird that I never heard of this phone before…

I know what the problem is.

February’s Google job cuts now layer on HR and Cloud divisions, with Cloud layoffs echoing last year’s 10% workforce reduction.

The HR Digest: Google cloud layoffs and HR cuts, what’s the 2025 memo hiding?, Feb 28, 2025)

That is my guess too. Israel is preparing for Iran propaganda. Israel and Russia are the top internet propaganda countries.

Imagine if Midjourney wins and the only thing you need to legally pirate anything is to self host a LLM.

I have no data to back this up but I think most Lemmy Android users don’t use custom ROMs or root their phones.

They supported Intel Macs for 4 years now. I wish it was a little longer. This will probably shutdown Hackintosh and OpenCore Legacy Patcher updates.

I never heard of these. Thank you for the info.

Everyone in America should freeze their credit with all three major credit reporting agencies.

Do it for your children also, even if they never used their credit for anything.

Breaches are part of life now.

From this date, manufacturers will have to provide operating system and security updates for every smartphone or tablet for five years after the end of sales.

OS updates too? That’s interesting.

I would’ve been fine with 2 years of security updates after 3 years of OS updates. OS updates do include security features but security updates are more important to the average consumer. Most people won’t know what version of Android they are on. Most people wouldn’t know if their 7 year old iPhone is no longer receiving updates.

Thank you. Appreciate it. Good way to get multiple things done at the same time.

What is the benefit of running qBittorrent in Docker? Container proxy?

Speaking at an event promoting his new book, Clegg said the creative community should have the right to opt out of having their work used to train AI models.

No, it should be the opposite. The creative community should have to opt in. AI can run off the uploaded pieces. Everything else is theft.

But he claimed it wasn’t feasible to ask for consent before ingesting their work first.

What the fuck…?! Send a fucking email. If you don’t get an answer, then it’s a “No”. Learn to take no for an answer.

This is great. The more manufacturers follow or compete for this standard, the better it is for the consumer and the environment.