[-] RosalynKirk@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Can I not search for both?

[-] RosalynKirk@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Again, there is no trade-off. If you want to just plug your phone in and be tethered to a wall, you can still do that.

[-] RosalynKirk@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, it absolutely is, because the US government does not require companies by law to hand over any and all information they collect to them.

[-] RosalynKirk@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

You can run https://owntracks.org/ but you need a server to run it on.

[-] RosalynKirk@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

That's incredibly naive.

[-] RosalynKirk@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

It abso-fucking-lutely is.

[-] RosalynKirk@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

Does this really need an explanation?

  1. Non-replaceable batteries provide zero benefits.

  2. Swappable batteries allow you to just carry extras instead of being tethered to a charger. I used to literally never plug my phone in. Just swap batteries one or twice a day.

  3. It's the first component to die in most phones, and people can't be bothered or don't realize you can have them replaced, so they just throw them in the garbage. That's why they started doing it in the first place.

[-] RosalynKirk@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

No, for the same reason I haven't been interested in a long time; no promises for software updates. My Zenphone 6 got 1 update.

[-] RosalynKirk@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What's to stop Revolt from becoming the next Discord?

Edit: I just logged into my account to see that Revolt had removed a "server" for breaking foreign (unjust) laws. That seems to go against everything the fediverse stands for.

[-] RosalynKirk@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

That's not true. What they said was that the users who voted make up a tiny portion of the overall userbase.

However, you can't force them all to vote. You can only ask and accept the answer of the active ones that choose to participate.

Reddit must be exhausted playing these ethics games. Just admit that they want to kill 3rd party apps and they're not going to tolerate malicious compliance with the rules.

[-] RosalynKirk@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

When tens-of-thousands-strong communities are voting overwhelmingly in favor of these "malicious" actions maybe we should look at what they are responding to.

Yes I mentioned what they were responding to in the comment you replied to.

[-] RosalynKirk@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit is totally justified in this. The users are actively and maliciously trying to hurt Reddit. However, this is in response to many many completely unjustifiable actions from Reddit. Mostly the lies.

If they had just come out and said "we're killing the API in 6-12 months", as others before them have done, they would have seen much less pushback, but they had to lie over and over again about "not killing 3rd party apps" and "working with developers".

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