I don’t understand this ruling. They all seem like minor things. And this has been true for years:

The ability for manufacturers to provide an alternative app store alongside the Play Store on new devices

Samsung has always had a separate app store install on their phones. And Xiaomi has one I’m pretty sure. Amazon definitely does.

How is it not a good thing for developers to be able to charge customers outside of the app store? I get that it may be better for security for Google to be taking care of it, but it seems financially better for developers not to have 30% of their income taken.

IDK, if someone can explain why this stuff is actually new or bad, I’d love to hear it.

“Please enter your age:”

Me, 15 years old: “Yes, I was born in 1973.”

I’ve gotta be honest, it feels like it takes several more steps to do anything on iOS than on Android. Finding anything is a chore, it’s slow in favor of long animations, and settings are so far out of the way or non-existent, that it’s so difficult to troubleshoot issues.

Personally, I don’t think iOS is any easier than Android, it’s just that Apple strips away everything that your grandparents don’t need, but that regular users could really benefit from.

That just connects back to Play Store. It’s essentially just a front-end for it.

F-droid is actually unconnected to Google. They both have their place, but it’s best to clarify that.

I don’t appreciate the idea that it’s somehow worse that women and children are the ones dying, as if men are expendable. It’s one of the grossest forms of sexism.

Now, if they had said “X% of those killed are children,” I’d have fully supported that. Adults are definitely more expendable than children. Children deserve full protection by everyone.

But men’s lives matter in these situations too. We’re not meaningless.

I’m of the same opinion. I’m tired of every app trying to take all my attention and do everything to the point where they do nothing well.

I want a video app, a music app, and a podcast app. I left YouTube Music for Tidal because I got tired of YT Music trying to push too many bloated features.

It’s way past time for both.

Don’t put your age. It can lead to unintentional (or intentional) age discrimination and it’s better for your experience to be the focus.

Age isn’t a factor in hiring, so there’s no need to put it on there. It could only be a detriment to the applicant.

This isn’t just AI. AI doesn’t care about jokes or memes or “professionalism.” This was either a review by an actual human that didn’t realize people are born on April 20th or an AI told to reject resumes with that date in it.

Either way, it’s a really dumb person that set this rule.

“Default browser theme” is about as helpful as “the one with salt” when asking about a recipe.

I’ve been using ublock for so long and thought I had EasyList enabled. Just got that working

“I get knocked down! But I get up again! And you’re never gonna keep me down!”

Does anyone know a good extension for blocking these? Email signups are just as annoying as ads, especially when it’s not even a paywall, just a newsletter that nobody wants.

Ravioli or tortellini.

Grab them in the premade packages dried or “fresh.”

Boil them, drain them, dump the sauce in.

I’ll never get tired of pasta.

What’s the low down on this? I just bought a Eufy system thinking it was great because all the video storage is local.

Can we drop the Adobe executives into the ocean and make them pay for a subscription to a dinghy?

The best way to keep China in check is to keep them dependent on the global economy. As long as they are, they’ll do their best not to fuck that up.

But they see what’s going on in the US and know that it’s in their best interest to become independent of us. They’re gearing up for war because they want Taiwan. And then if they take Taiwan, the world is fucked because then China basically owns semiconductor production.

this man has EVOLVED beyond the intelligence of past species. He is not just educated, evolution has gained him superior intelligence!

Yes, exactly. This is exactly what’s happened. Humans are far more intelligent than any other species on earth.

They might look the same as every religious human but they are actually a different species!

You’ve missed the entire point of the post. Religion is a symptom of not being intelligent enough as a species to get past simple answers to hard questions. Atheists aren’t more enlightened like you’re implying, just that atheism is the next step in human intelligence that not everyone has made or will make for a thousand years. As a whole, humans are still an incredibly young species.

Somehow, Microsoft has returned.

If my daughter were to need any medical procedure, I’d take on as much debt as necessary. I don’t give a fuck, I’m getting her fixed no matter what.