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This is why executives should be tossed in jail instead of a company being fined.
If they break the law, sure, if they put features in their products that are perfectly legal but that you happen to dislike not so much.
Of course in most cases like this it's actually been illegal for over a century.
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I think this is because we haven’t really seen it. Though there is a subset of the right wing that’s been saying exactly this is happening, to them in the context of Facebook and Twitter. I don’t recall seeing any convincing evidence though.
AFAIK we did see how Apple banned political apps in China and Russia.
I’ve come full circle on this but I now think native applications on smartphones was a mistake. There is no technological reason why applications can’t be distributed as PWA packages similar to the days prior to the App Store. This would serve two important functions: 1. Remove most if not all distribution monopoly concerns 2. Create application standards that function nearly identically across the myriad of screen s…
I’ve come full circle on this but I now think native applications on smartphones was a mistake. There is no technological reason why applications can’t be distributed as PWA packages similar to the days prior to the App Store. This would serve two important functions: 1. Remove most if not all distribution monopoly concerns 2. Create application standards that function nearly identically across the myriad of screen s…
Steve Jobs would have agreed with you at one point. I'm not sure what changed his mind (or if he ever even really did), but he also thought that aside from the native apps that came with the iPhone, everything else should just be a web app.
I recently bought an iPhone due to peer pressure after using pixel for years. I think the ux is better on android, every common function takes more gestures on iPhone. Typing this comment reminds me of how annoying it is to edit text with an iPhone. I think there was maybe a time when iPhone ux was better but maybe not. Still I feel better from the perspective of pure vanity when I pull the iPhone out, or those blue…
The thing people love forgetting is a huge part of the iPhone success is based on the North American cellular comms industry being a trustless disaster area. The deal Apple did with AT&T opened the floodgates. Android was initially designed so that operators could customise it. The idea was apps were developed (and sold) only by operators, and everything else would be via the browser. If you had used a Nokia device i…
> Android was initially designed so that operators could customise it. The idea was apps were developed (and sold) only by operators, and everything else would be via the browser. I'm not sure where you got this information. The Android Marketplace arrived with version 1.0 of Android on the T-Mobile G1. Side loading has been available since the very beginning. What you describe more closely resembles what iPhone did,…
Just something else I was thinking about with Android. I love the Android OS but Google’s implementation is far and away the best version and while you could technically run Android with just the bare necessities and without google apps, it may as well be unusable. So, google has “technically” made it available without their services but the juice isn’t worth the squeeze to get it working how you want it.
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Good guide. But holy hell.
It's a needlessly esoteric, bad guide. The first three steps can be simplified into "Obtain an installation media.", and the fourth step of updating your BIOS has nothing to do with Windows specifically. Creating a local account is basic sense (no, not common sense; we aren't common people), and not connecting to the internet during install is recommended but not a hard requirement. Installing drivers while avoiding…
What on earth. This is stockholm syndrome in a nutshell.
Apple's product quality is without consumer equal. The quality a bright-light in a world otherwise brimming with hardware junk and a software wild west market.
The antitrust issues are obviously without basis. This is an institutional effort to degrade the product line, and the lawsuits and regulations smell of hidden agenda.
As a longtime Windows user, Windows is a privacy and security clown show. Linux is a server OS that is unusable for most casual desktop OS consumers. We're decades into the information age, and embarassingly there are only two usable desktop operating system ecosystems for the common person (Why is that, exactly?) aside from ChromeOS. And only one of the ecosystems, the one being targeted, is marginally acceptable from a consumer perspective. Given privacy, security, usability, and quality factors.
A better so called "anti-monopoly" solution would be to build competitive products. Antitrust law was conceived to open up markets in the circumstance where the market was actually actively walled off by the monopolist. It wasn't conceived, for example, to stop car manufacturers from engineering the cars to accept parts that are only made for their cars. The last time that I checked, Apple was not preventing competitive product development. Android has a massive user base. This State effort to abuse the law so that things are worse quality has to stop.
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This is all you need. https://windowsxlite.com/win11/
Ah yes, install some random (closed source?) software
Personally I use the community of version of Arch i3, not going to check the source on that, but will trust that community might keep an eye on anything nefarious.
Doesn't seem like Linux is completely immune from that either(i.e. XZ Utils).
But the build is amazingly stable and fast, and I will have to take it good faith that they didn't do anything that would harm me.
I can at least track down the author in various communities and seems to be semi-open about their identity. There is a forum thread any concerns I can bring up with the person responsible.
They are also taking donations. I would hope that exposes them to some liability and financial trail if they are found doing something illegal.
https://www.teamos.xyz/threads/windows-x-lite-optimum-11-24h...