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> they started forcing things to need to be in Applications Since when? Agree with your other points overall.

If you're gonna use Claude for writing in some capacity, this is definitely the way to do it. Thanks for not letting it write for you.

> Many of those points reveal lack of knowledge about Windows administration capabilities. Do those capabilities require a more expensive edition of Windows?

In what ways does LineageOS trail behind AOSP in terms of security? I looked at the comparison chart you linked elsewhere and the privacy/security sections only seem to list advant…

They do provide installation commands for every platform that aren't vulnerable to homograph attacks due to GitHub not allowing Unicode characters in user/repo names :)

But as the title of the post says, browsers already solved this problem. https://www.xudongz.com/blog/2017/idn-phishing/ It does make running commands from an untrusted website a l…

A simpler solution: examine the URL displayed in the browser window before copying terminal commands from the page. E.g. "starts with github.com" -> "trusted GitHub UI indicates th…

The linked article seems to imply that this remains a good design choice even today: > The use of this rule can be seen for example in MacOS, which always places the menu bar on th…

Wow, this is great. Would you mind if I reached out over email?

True, it's far from ideal, and not entirely without Apple's approval. You need an Apple ID, to accept Apple's EULA (which probably forbids such activities), to accept the risk of y…

Mega cool! We should all be taking full advantage of the amazing capabilities of the pocket supercomputers we all carry around with us at all times (even if the companies who make …

Most laptops run Linux, but few provide official support for it. The Gen 12 and 11 did, and you could get Linux pre-installed. But there's no "Linux" option on the Gen 13 store pag…

The latest model X1 Carbon (Gen 13) doesn't appear to officially support Linux at this time, unfortunately.

Extra context I forgot to provide: > RCS may require access to certain SIM card information, which only pre-installed apps can do > because they don't want to implement RCS themsel…

> many developers are waiting for Google to add RCS to the same API that SMS/MMS already exposes because they don't want to implement RCS themselves. Is that a planned feature? It'…

Thanks for the suggestion. Feel free to contribute this change yourself if you want: https://github.com/DownrightNifty/dihsy/blob/main/dihsy.md I'll probably end up adding it mysel…

Some good points overall, and I think I agree in a lot of ways, actually. > (or have the capability to jailbreak their iPhone and know what they’re getting themselves into) It is a…

> Delta seems to be allowed (at least partially) because of the DMA and the EU. Yeah, that's an important point. Delta on the App Store is most likely a direct result of the Digita…

That is listed under "unofficial sideloading methods". A more accurate title would've been "Does iOS support sideloading yet?" but I wanted to keep the domain name as short as poss…

The DMA allows Apple to take "strictly necessary and proportionate" measures to ensure that alternative apps do not "endanger the integrity of the hardware or operating system". IM…

> Since DMA came into effect almost two years ago, can anyone comment on its effectiveness? I'm so glad you asked, because I wrote an entire website about it: https://doesioshavesi…