Hell, I wouldn’t want to drive there. Ya know, the purpose it was built for.

Well, for example, Android phones need to be rooted for full system access, for example. That’s a series of hoops to jump through. Same goes for installing a malicious .apk. A windows user just needs to click through a AUC prompt and the lovely has keys to the city. That’s before we touch the wonder that is admin PowerShell.

I suppose the ratio of how much knowledge the average person knows about tech to “dangerous” behavior naturally taught by the OS is higher, I suspect, on Windows.

I agree, but I’m just spitballing why others could potentially see Meta joining the verse as a positive.

Number 9 is my favorite.

I wonder if there’s a middle ground most would like. Where I live our suburbs have a train pass by them so we can ride to the city after a bike ride or short car trip. It seems ideal, actually.

It amazed me how I had a blind spot for the elderly and disabled (saw a few blind), who might find our car-centric transport either prohibitively expensive or exclusionary.

I think it’s the impulse to have the Frediverse grow, but it’s a bit of a Trojan horse innit?

Deal breaker, not at all. Though, back when I had an iPhone I knew immediately I’d have to have another “Which of the five messaging apps will I need to preen through” conversations, since iPhone users in the US fall back on iMessage mostly.

Now, on the flip-side, what was extremely annoying about using the fruit device was assumptions others made about me in techie circles. Some of which appeared within these responses. That I was tech illiterate, vain, or a fan-boy of some sort. It simply did what I needed while carrying wonderful resale value and support times.

You can ‘sideload’ apps, but your phone needs to check in with a computer every ten days.

Launchers are no where to be seen. I’d imagine if you jailbreak it you could.

Custom roms: nah that ain’t happening on an iPhone. Which is a shame, it’s the best hardware in the space, and iPadOS, for example, is currently holding back the tablets.

Piracy: You can run transmission as a cli on an iPad.

I’m on a Pixel right now and it’s pretty much the same experience. I nearly missed a time-sensitive job offer had I not been using my iPad a few moments before going to bed. My phone didn’t serve the notification nearly all day despite being given permission to do so!

Precisely. I’ll likely block all traffic from Meta’s instance, but that would cause a ton of users to migrate.

Yeah, maybe there could be blurb during the sign up section when selecting an instance? That being said, I didn’t know what I was doing when I first signed up for Lemmy and chose Lemmy.world without knowing choosing the largest one didn’t matter.

It’s weird seeing text the poster wrote under links. I like it.