I don’t doubt that, I just forgot that lemmy is like 80% american and you guys don’t have any social security over there lmao.

LGBT

X to doubt

You can’t argue with .ml people. They just want to praise their glorious mass murderer … I mean, leaders.

Linux people tend to have very strong opinions lol. I don’t get the hate either, but I do understand why people dislike the thought of having the same library lying around multiple times. I am one of those “purists”, but that’s why I compile most things from source

It is the best one for people that don’t know a lot about linux. Many people are at a loss when they read basic errors like fatal error: <header>.h: No such file or directory or ld: cannot find -l<library>. Flatpak solves a lot of that by specifically including all of it in the installation.

So ye, for non-power users, flatpak is the best package manager. It also has only one downside, which is the increased storage requirement for apps as they have to bring all of their dependencies themselves, which is okay these days as storage isn’t that expensive anymore.

And everything is better than fucking snap if we’re honest for a second.

We only need fruits and vegetables

And a ton of supplements. Stuff like Vitamin B12, Vitamin D, Omega-3, Calcium, Zinc or Iron is not very common in plants. Some of these have plant-based sources, like beans or spinach for iron or nuts for Omega-3, but it would be pretty tough to manage. Especially iron is a problem for people that don’t like beans or spinach, which isn’t uncommon.

Vlt. ist Gewalt langsam doch eine Lösung?

Just block .ml. Life is genuinely better because you don’t have to endure the brainrot in your feed.

I wish I could block any .ml with interacting with me ngl

Potentially unpopular opinion, but I don’t think art or artstyles should be copyrighted.

Because even if they pay a lot less percentagewise, they still pay a lot. Having like 10% of something is better than having nothing.

We should still track down and close loopholes, and increase taxes on capital gains tho.

It’s not officially tested anymore tho - they’ve recently updated their supported devices section. Stuff like the fairphone, which was supported once, also are no longer in the list.

Als Selbstständiger, der viel für staatliche Einrichtungen arbeitet, bin ich da sowas von dagegen.

I can’t talk to my coworkers anymore during my free time? Oh no.

Anyways.

Valhalla combat was very fun. Raiding a place with your viking troop did feel really good.

You say that until Google realises that there is no other viable alternative and so they can do the same thing since it’s not like there is another option.

Not entirely. I’m fairly sure that, if google decides to lock down pixel devices, the graphene team would evaluate other devices that are more open. The reason they recommend pixels is because they are open, not because they are big google fans. Graphene DOES run on other devices aswell, it’s just not officially tested or supported. And there are other devices with unlockable bootloaders, most noteably older oneplus devices and fairphones.

You answer is basically a big “go fuck yourself” to everyone who bought an iphone before they knew about the things Apple did to keep users looked in

No, my answer is a big “go fuck yourself” to everyone who voluntarily decides to stick with apple devices despite knowing of their practices. Let’s be honest for just one second: Barely any consumer is so tied into an operating system that it would prevent them from switching. What do most people do with their phones? Listen to music, have a messenger, maybe check emails, browsing - that’s it. And you can do that on any other phone. The amount of people that are apple power users that use applications that only exist in the apple ecosystem is abysmal and largely irrelevant in this discussion.

Same goes for the acquiring root access on an android phone. People are not born with knowledge.

True. Neither was I. But in 2025, we have the internet and you can read up on almost anything imagineable. If I wanted to learn about astrophysics, I could find plenty of videos or resources about it. If I want to learn about japanese history during the sengoku period, there are a lot of resources about that. And if I want to learn how to unlock the bootloader of a phone and install a custom rom, not surprisingly, there are resources for that.

This “People are not born with knowledge” argument is so stupid - nobody is born with it, the problem is just that most people are too lazy to learn about their possibilites to break free from oppressing corporate conglomerates. And THAT’S something I have an issue with.

In reality, companies aren’t afraid of making anti-consumer products

Because people will still eat the shit thrown in front of them. Why bother with good products when the doofus buys it anyways?

What do they do when Google makes some restrictive bullshit change again, for example to the android API? Fork it and become incompatible with apps meant for stock android?

Well, yes, that would most likely be the result. Even now, some apps aren’t working - the commerzbank banking app, for example, didn’t work on graphene (because of play protect tho, not incompatibility). I was emailing them, asking if they planned to change it, they said “nah fam sorry no time” so I was switching to revolut. Recently, revolut made some steps into that aswell and I’m more than ready to switch again, but it seems like they didn’t pull through with their plans.

Again - rejecting somethign for moral reasons is never easy or comfortable.

When the non-hostile options are gone, or reduced to a few crappy ones, the educated consumer is fucked.

Yes, but that never happens. If there is no good option left, there will be another company filling the gap. Just look at what happened with lego - nobody was bothering creating a competition for them, they were the defacto standard if you wanted … well, lego. However, they because more expensive and worse and suddenly we have blue bricks and cobi, both much cheaper at a higher quality.

I know people on lemmy don’t want to hear it, but the free market works. It actually works extremely well. The only time when it does NOT work if there’s too much government interference so building a competition is too hard or when there is no choice on the side of the consumer, which is only really the case for crucial things like housing, food, healthcare etc.

I already wrote it somewhere, but people can’t choose to “not eat”. They can damn well choose to not buy a device from a company that is known to be anti-consumer.

a majority of them relies on you

Imagine friends and family only want to stay in touch because they “rely” on you. Bro that’s outright sad.

Yes, I agree that most people are just throwing made up nonsense at ubisoft, no doubt there.

However, the sengoku period is one of the most interesting periods of japanese history, and ubisoft could’ve EASIELY chosen an actual japanese samurai from that time, like hattori hanzo or sanado yukimura, both extremely well known throughout japanese history. Ubisoft choosing the only (recorded) black person in japan during that time just leaves a bad aftertaste in my opinion. The main character of the AC series always represented the area where he’s from - ezio for italy, connor for america, etc, you get the point.

Maybe a bodyguard could be called a samurai depending on how important and trusted he was, and Yasuke was trusted by Nobunaga

Maybe, however, personally, I don’t think so. I obviously have no solid proof, but an “outsider” earning the highest title a normal person can earn in feudal japan seems very outlandish. Public pressure would’ve probably prevented nobunaga from gifting him that title. No doubt he trusted him and received a lot of stuff, but putting him near the top of the social order … nah. I don’t think that happened. But then again, no proof.

Anti-consumer?

Inventing your own “standard” and forcing everyone to use it (lightning and webkit) and preventing consumers from having their device repaired from anyone else than a “certified technician” at 4x the markup is definitely anti-consumer.

But in many respects Apple performs better on the consumer front than, say, their primary competitor Google.

Google pixels are not OEM-locked and I can easiely install graphene or any other operating system on them. In the smartphone category, google is the only good vendor, ironically. I bought a used pixel 6 2 years ago, flashed it with graphene and it’s the best phone I ever had.

Regulatory actions are an important tool

Yes, but they’re the last resort. And it should be treated as such. If apple had like 90% of the market share, okay, we can talk about regulations, but right now, apple only has 1/3 of the market, so people can still easiely choose any android device.

It’s not like the EU is saying “we can ignore starvation and homelessness because at least we cracked down on Apple.”

I never said that. I said that these are cases where I would support drastic regulatory actions because this is no longer within the rules of supply and demand - people can’t choose to “not eat”. People can damn well choose to not buy an apple device.

Dunno about that critical mass, iOS only has 1/3 of the market in europe while android has the remaining 2/3.