generalpotato

generalpotato , 2 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in So which is it?

It’s just salad, salad bowls, salad wraps and salad more.

generalpotato , 2 months ago to Technology in Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants

Provided to him on a silver fucking platter… I mean, it’s astonishing how incompetent he is/was/or is becoming. Holy shit.

generalpotato , 2 months ago to Memes in Would you?

Also Goated

generalpotato , 2 months ago to Memes in Would you?

3 words…

Master of Puppets

generalpotato , 3 months ago to Technology in ‘Even stronger’ than imagined: DOJ’s sweeping Apple lawsuit draws expert praise

True. I’m fine with the likes of Lemmy/Reddit users not getting it, but in this case, we have a DOJ that thinks this is somehow for them to solve. Law making via litigation is just lazy and moronic imo.

generalpotato , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Technology in ‘Even stronger’ than imagined: DOJ’s sweeping Apple lawsuit draws expert praise

SMS works. iMessage works. Both work in tandem on a device and there’s a distinction which is which, therefore you get full access to and from when communicating with a device. I’m shocked that there’s this lunacy around conflating the two or expecting two different standards to work because people want to.

I want to have flying cars and breathe underwater without any equipment next, guess lets file a lawsuit forcing sub makers and car makers to go make that happen.

generalpotato , 3 months ago to Technology in ‘Even stronger’ than imagined: DOJ’s sweeping Apple lawsuit draws expert praise

Why? iMessage is a proprietary platform that Apple invested billions into. Expecting them to have API inter-op is idiotic. It’s not like you can’t text people outside of iMessage. There’s SMS, and people are free to use it. Expecting a “bridge” between two standards for the sake of having a bridge tells me people do not know how any of this works and are just parroting the same stupid arguments put forth by people that, again, do not understand how a technology is planned for, developed and maintained.

If there’s such an appetite, ask the fucking government to set a standard and ask every smartphone operating in the country to comply. It’s really that simple.

generalpotato , 3 months ago to Technology in US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones

Hahahaha that’s awesome! All the while scary to see the snakeoil-ism in tech.

generalpotato , 3 months ago to Technology in US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones

Oh, I’m in the heart of a place well known for exorbitant property values, and there’s been plenty of talk of “fixing housing”. Literally everybody runs on the platform of lowering property values, so I’m sure the letting your congressional staffer know has been done to death.

In addition to that, countless articles, op-eds, research has been published in the last 4 years alone and the point I’m making is, that this DOJ move seems more political theater than anything, which is surprising coming from folks that are supposedly about consumer rights and protections.

We need actual problems to be solved, not grand gestures and showboating of supposed take downs of “monopolies” when the laws around monopolistic practices are about as ancient as the presidential candidates trying to win points with their voter base.

generalpotato , 3 months ago to Technology in US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones

Right. Real Estate is a shit show and has been a shit show for decades with corporations buying out SFH homes and properties, driving up prices and making them unaffordable for the average American. If I was stack list of problems to tackle impacting Americans, that would be pretty high up the list instead of a tech company.

Of course, you can and should do both, but considering time and money are finite resources, it’s very on the nose to pick this fight instead of the one that impacts Americans the most.

I don’t think monopolies should exist, but also, we should be looking at regulations and law making instead of law suits.

generalpotato , 3 months ago to Technology in US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones

This. Smells like me too (the expression, not the movement) as opposed to a well thought out plan as to how they’ll tackle the monopoly.

generalpotato , 4 months ago to Technology in The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation

Should… should we sic EU on them?

generalpotato , 4 months ago to Privacy in I am genuinely horrified to see how much data google collected from me

Yes. You can select what to delete and what to retain if I recall correctly. It’s grouped by “activities”, by app if you will.

generalpotato , 4 months ago to Privacy in I am genuinely horrified to see how much data google collected from me

Ideally you should, but a lot people use Android or want to use Google services. An as example, if you use Google Maps, then you have to opt in to giving Google location access and Google will collect your data. In that case, the least you can do is limit the amount of time Google keeps your data and change from the default setting which I think is forever.

generalpotato , 4 months ago to Privacy in I am genuinely horrified to see how much data google collected from me

Google has a data privacy setting that lets you delete your data history at some intervals. The lowest is 3 months last I checked. Make sure to use it.