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akilou , 2 months ago to Technology in Apple Removes WhatsApp, Threads, Telegram, and Signal from China App Store, says it complied with orders from the Chinese government

What a stupid thing. What is this preventing? Like if Apple is trying to prevent you from side loading a malicious app, it's cool if it's only malicious for a week?

akilou , 2 months ago to Technology in Apple Removes WhatsApp, Threads, Telegram, and Signal from China App Store, says it complied with orders from the Chinese government

You can't even sideload on ios can you? So if Apple removes it from the app store you're shit outta luck?

Fuck apple. But it stuff like this that makes me have no sympathy for people who buy iphones.

Edit: also fuck China. Just being thorough

akilou , 2 months ago to Technology in Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM

Yeah, it's a Yoga

akilou , 2 months ago to Technology in Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM

I thought I did! Until I got the smallest one out and it just spun on top of the screw

akilou , 2 months ago to Technology in Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM

I had a extra stick of RAM available the other day so I went to open my wife's Lenovo to see if it'd take it and the damn thing is screwed shut with the smallest torx screws I've ever seen, smaller than what I have. I was so annoyed

akilou , 2 months ago to Technology in Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web(?)

I've used it every day for years and I haven't noticed a difference

akilou , 2 months ago to Technology in Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web(?)

Why not use DDG?

akilou , 3 months ago to 196 in Egg Rule

You don't have to be a farmer to have chickens. Get chickens

akilou , 3 months ago to 196 in Egg Rule

The distinction here is not "suburb and non-suburb", it's "car-dependent suburb and non-car-dependent suburb" the large large majority are the former.

https://youtu.be/MWsGBRdK2N0?si=L7Jz-SvZS_xkahyG

akilou , 3 months ago to 196 in 5 Moves to Rulemate

That's exactly how I like my anal beads

akilou , 3 months ago to Fuck Cars in Has anyone calculated the administrative costs associated with traffic safety research?

This is one of those things where the answer is "it depends". Like what counts as traffic safety research and what doesn't. I'm sure depending on how you choose the end result is wildly different.

akilou , 3 months ago to Comic Strips in XXX

Yes, and how are we choosing to construct this one? That's the whole conversation

akilou , 3 months ago to Comic Strips in XXX

Right, well they couldn't have. Just like it wasn't called World War One until the second one happened. But after rock as a genre was founded, the classic version of it should always be just that. So are you saying that that A) Led Zeppelin is no longer classic rock or B) Led Zeppelin and Pearl Jam are the same genre?

akilou , 3 months ago to Comic Strips in XXX

I thought Classic Rock was a defined genre including Led Zeplin, The Who, The Doors, etc. Not just "popular rock from 30 years ago"

akilou , 3 months ago to Privacy in I'm deGoogling. What's my new Podcast app?

I use pocket casts and I tried switching to antenna pod because of a thread like this one and came right back to pocket casts. The deal breaker for me was no skip forward 30 seconds (e.g. ads) from the lock screen.