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Android has plenty of its own problems, but not so much in this category. Android users can set default browser, email, SMS app, etc., where iOS does not allow this. Any navigation…

It can get data from the internet, I think the point is that it "lives" on-device and hence can be interacted with offline, unlike Siri/Alexa/Cortana which live entirely on the com…

And that's why I'm no longer an iOS user.

The reason that my devices belong to me.

HTML apps are never even close to working as well as a native app, they're generally a shitty compromise. If $COMPANY makes an app that would be crippled by Apple's policies, they …

Okay, I used to be an iOS user, I'm not rich, and blowing $99 per year to sign apps is a lot of money for something that should be free. What if I'm just a normal techie who wants …

I'm left handed, I use my left index finger to manipulate the trackpoint, and my left thumb for any of the three mouse buttons. Clicking the middle button is a middle click, and ho…

Samsung, LG, and others can make phones with both headphone jacks and water resistance, but that's obviously not the real reason that Apple removed it. (The iPad Pro is huge, not w…

Ideapads are generally pretty garbage, aren't they? In my limited experience they range from terrible to middling.

I can use it without moving my hands away from home-row position, I can drag-n-drop much more easily than a trackpad, middle-clicking and right-clicking are both more consistent, a…

If you're going to keep a Windows box around at all, it sounds like LTSB would probably work better than vanilla W10.

Yeah, I'd be happy with a board that's identical to the RPi3 but with eMMC rather than SD. Not only is SD less than reliable, it's slow .

I have to thank Google for that, it was probably the quickest way to drive more competition in the maps space.

I've been on Debian for two years and I've never not had horizontal scrolling.

You don't strictly need a cloud storage service to keep multiple devices synchronized with Keepass, there are also options such as Syncthing or rsync.

Seems like trying to do anything serious on an iPad is a story of one workaround after another. Why would it be worth the hassle?

Two other reasons I can think of why Macs cost more, including used: 1. The MacOS premium. It's impractical to run MacOS on anything else. 2. Status symbol. Anecdotally, I see a lo…

It's a container using the same non-upstream kernel and proprietary drivers from the Android OS.

It's on the device. I assume there must be some overhead, but devices like the S9 are several times more powerful than the RasPi, which can already handle software pretty decently.…

I live in that part of the midwest and we have about a dozen varieties of apples at the grocery store, prices are pretty decent too.

This is just typical "people are saying" weasel words. The GPL and similar licenses still definitely have a role to play in the current state of software.

The SSPL is what Ballmer thought the GPL was.

This is why "Open Source" is terrible terminology for Free/Libre software.

Tangentially related, but it seems pretty creepy how all LaserJet printers purposely print uniquely identifiable information on every sheet. I expect more and more things are going…

As is often brought up on the internet, it's the distinction between basic freedom and freedom from consequences. When you buy a CD, you have the basic freedom to put it in any CD …