Honestly, the fact that apple used usb-c on it’s “pro” iPads but not the regular iPad is all the proof we need that even apple thinks usb-c is better

Yes, but thats because your instance doesn’t start federating with another instance until someone subscribes to a community from the other instance, your instance just won’t have any posts to display

There will always be some form of algorithm that decides which posts go to the top of your feed, but lemmy gives you lots of options to control how you want it to work, and none of them are curated by anyone specifically. There’ll never be no algorithm though, you’ll always need to pick something

Unfortunately, iMessage’s proprietary format is far more common than RCS in the US, it works better than RCS, and apple makes a lot of money using it to keep people tied to their ecosystem, so it’s unlikely anything is going to change without government action

Oof, that’s relatable. I can’t explain how many dating app conversations go stale like that.

<1hr after I get a text: pretend I didn’t see the notification because I can’t deal with it right now

1-5 hrs after: read it, and stress constantly about what to say

2 days after: realize I didn’t respond, get stressed because it’s now long enough to be awkward, and I have to change what I say

1 week after: realize it’s really too late now, the conversation sits for eternity

Regulators don’t even necessarily come up with the standards themselves, they just need to enforce that companies need to make their services interoperable. Actually creating the standard should probably be up to a collaboration of apple, google, and other relevant parties, but regulators should just enforce that it needs to happen

The problem is that most americans don’t use SMS as their main messaging system, they use iMessage, which is an IM app so long as it’s between iPhone’s. So when android users complain about apple not using RCS, what they’re really complaining about is that they can’t use the IM app that everyone else settled on.

Like, imaging living in the UK, but you have a phone that couldn’t use WhatsApp at all. I’m sure that people would be telling you to download whatsApp instead of messaging them on SMS, but you literally couldn’t without buying a new phone

Picture quality is a constant arms race and both sides have been better than the other at some point. It also varies from phone to phone, my fold3 takes much better pictures than my sisters iPhone SE2, but is comparible with my dad’s 13 max. The main reason that people think iPhones take better pictures though is because when you text a picture from an android to an iPhone it ends up horribly compressed, because apple doesn’t support RCS, but a picture sent from iphone to iphone or android to android will look a lot better

I feel like if regulators are going to intervene, we should be expecting something better than RCS though. Most of RCS’s problems have happened because there was nobody with enough pull to get anyone to agree to anything more extensive, so we ended up with a slightly upgraded MMS. iMessage is a lot more than just upgraded MMS, it has payment options, polls, games, interactive applets, and anything else that someone wants to make a plug in to add on to it. And the gap goes beyond messaging, Apple also has proprietary standards for airdrop, video calls, ultrawideband, location tracking (although that’s getting slightly better), and basically any other way that two devices can communicate with each other.

I don’t want regulators to force apple to adopt RCS, I want a cohesive standard for all of the ways that apple has broken device communications, and RCS doesn’t even start to cover that. The only things that do really cover everything is IM apps like facebook messenger or whatsapp, so what we really need is for phones messaging apps to become IP based IM apps. Maybe even something where each IM app can federate with all of the others

And those people can continue to do it for nothing, but there’s no requirement that she should need to. It’s her choice if she want to do it for nothing or not, and it’s everyone else’s choice whether they want to support her with their money

tbh from what I’ve seen of her, I’m not sure that she has the temperament for a corporate job. Like, despite having the technical skills, she would probably be wholly unable to function in a typical white collar environment.

I went to my primary care doctor about it, and I matched every attention/stress criteria on their sheet, but I dodn’t have anger issues so they said I didn’t have ADHD. Yet every time I see a post like this it matches exactly. It’s weird to say I think I have ADHD when a doctor has told me I don’t have it… But I still think I have it, it just matches too well.

So I guess welcome to the undiagnosed gang, good to have you

I’ve quit reddit 100%. I was a little bit addicted, so I used the blackout as a way to quit cold turkey. Lemmy kind of scratches the itch, enough that I don’t go back to Reddit, but I don’t spend as much time here as I did there. I’m counting that as a good thing

Fundamentally the risk to the community is similar, all it takes is for an instance administrator to decide to nuke the community and there’ll be nothing we can do about it. But unlike on Reddit, there’s no single administrator that can nuke every piracy community. There will always be a piracy community somewhere on Lemmy, even if it isn’t this one

This. And a lot of people (myself included) are willing to pay more for the convenience and immediacy of digital. Sure, there’s always going to be people that consider themselves collectors that will keep physical going, but I think a lot of those people would be surprised at how small of a minority they are among the general populace that just wants to play a game