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True. I like the analogy. The sad thing is that this is purely a software limitation. The hardware would be capable of so much more, it is more powerful than desktop computers of j…

reading the sibling comments... the current state of smartphone software is absolutely disgusting. Great were the days of the PC, where you could just install any OS, could make an…

This. I really like the idea of a pocket supercomputer like modern smartphone hardware. But I despise the software ecosystems that apple and google have built for them, with consta…

and you have finanically supported services that offer shitty usability

'simple' in that the solution is obvious. If this obvious solution is unrealistic for you, then you have made yourself too dependent on google, or are just unwilling to solve the p…

this is a simple problem. Google is doing weird stuff, not replying to your questions - clearly not something you want to have a relationship with. So move away from google, cancel…

for me, one of the best games is Andor's Trail. Magnificent map making, funny dialogue, tons of content. It is not finished yet, but has been a lot of fun to play for years.

Even when chrome was new, it was known that it included heavy tracking by google. I briefly checked out iron back in the day, a chromium version without google tracking. But I real…

This, exactly this! Spending money on DRM is supporting DRM, even when stripping it afterwards. Not too long ago I heard about some fantasy series that I really wanted to read. It …

google has one of the worst spam filters. It can be done much better, and google could do it much better. But I suppose they are just big enough now. Can't reach your contacts that…

funny how they are at 7 already. Maybe they can finally release versions 5 and 6 without DRM? I would pay for them, as I had a lot of fun with 1-4. But I never considered going to …

Your gaming setup sounds similar to mine, but more sophisticated. I also have an offline win7 gaming PC. Unfortunately many games still require windows, but for some it is possible…

That website is so bad, it misses all the important stuff. Any laptop from the last few years is easily fast enough for almost all developers. You don't need to tell developers tha…

why would you submit a link with tracking parameter?

exactly. I care about privacy, and I do see that page often. Sometimes it helps to send a non-empty useragent string, or to enable javascript. Most of the time I just close the tab…

> No spyware on my primary phone. May I ask how you achieved this? I would be interested in that setup, maybe I could then get over the hump and start using signal (though I don't …

Of course I did not accept the TOS change. I never accepted any TOS from facebook, nor whatsapp. Centralized communication systems are obviously worse than decentralized ones for e…

yes, signal requiring a phone number is the problem, and the only reason why I am not using it. In the last 10 years I have lived in 4 different countries, each time switching phon…

Somehow I can never take somebody seriously who says "this is the best". How can you know it is the best book? Have you literally read all of them and can thus compare them? If not…

Gmail's spam filter is one of the worst. About once a month some gmail user tells me that he found my mail in the spam folder. Of course it is easy to keep down spam when you don't…