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It depends on the program. Many of them clean up, usually with a little checkbox to confirm throwing away your settings, but a lot don't. It might not be 100% of the apps, or even …

On iOS (and the same OS in other form factors), Safari is tied to your operating system. Unlike Android or Windows or even macOS, your browser cannot be updated when your device no…

Java is absolutely massive for a huge variety of applications, most of them servers and daemons. The most common user-facing Java implementations are probably Android and Minecraft…

There's a tiny little arrow in the corner to indicate that it's a shortcut. But this really confused me when I first started using macOS as well. You're just expected to know that …

Windows' CRT setup allows for binary compatibility with older versions. You can go without if you just statically compile the dependencies into your program, but many Windows devel…

Decent Windows uninstallers have a checkbox for that. Often disabled by default. It's not universal, but at least it's possible. Not having to hunt down random directories (or buyi…

The app icon approach only give the illusion of control. That may be worth something too, but whether you run a .pkg or a program, the app developer can do whatever they want with …

> Same for uninstalling. Move to Trash and poof, unistalled. That removes most of the program files, but there is no chance for the program to run any cleanup process in the mean t…

Some relatively recent emoji might not work in outdated browsers/operating systems. Generally, emoji font are regularly updated, but if you're using the stock browser (or Safari) o…

Energy efficient Linux is hard. Vendors aren't doing the hard work for anything but Android. So, most hardware won't work (for more than a few hours) using normal Linux. postmarket…

Lots of laptop vendors do. Very few integrate fingerprint scanners into any kind of secure authentication flow, though. There are decent fingerprint drivers for various brands, but…

I sort of get it. Every competitor, except maybe GOG, has come down hard in hyper-capitalist value-extraction mode quickly after pretending to do any good-will. For Valve, being a …

> All I'm saying is it's all digital on the PC side of things, and has been for ages, but we have means of maintaining access to the games we love over here, and it's one of the re…

> AND people don't use a random site on the internet for such filth Actually, they do. Small, independent image hosts are great because they don't do any sort of VPN busting or use…

It bodes well for Europeans when the Americans begin their invasion of Denmark, at the very least. Not great for a potential Russia-USA war and Taiwan wouldn't get as much support …

There are valid edge cases where you want traffic to be encrypted on the internet, but be readable by some intercepting device under your control. Parental control software has don…

I too would much prefer it if Google were to open-source their messaging app and provide a full RCS API to Android users, but that doesn't change the fact that both the protocol an…

You can't build a modern messenger equivalent on IRC. You need a new protocol. "New" is relative of course, XMPP is 27 years old. Still, XMPP lacks official support for something a…

Android has an accessible hardware attestation API already ( https://developer.android.com/privacy-and-security/security-... ). It's what powers the attestation API that GrapheneOS…

RCS is partially open. The protocol is public, as are one or two authentication features. The biggest restriction for custom RCS implementations is that carriers often require acce…

The thing is: Google is one of the few Android phone vendors that makes doing so possible at all. Samsung, Nokia, Xiaomi, Oppo, and all the others lock their bootloaders and provid…

Ironically, Google's own Pixel line is the only reliable source of phones I know of that's both unlockable and relockable with your own keys. The latter is an important feature tha…

My bank had NFC payments for years. None of the remote attestation bullshit. I think it used Google's library for doing QR code scans so it wouldn't work without Google Play, but t…

He stopped going to security briefings before, maybe he simply doesn't care to know.

I find the bridge setup rather suboptimal, but with a complete lack of a good Pidgin alternative for the modern age, it's the best system around, whether you do it with Matrix or w…