I have a wallet but haven’t brought it with me in years. The only time I do is when I need to drive (which is maybe once a month) because it contains my drivers license.

All my payments are done using my Apple Watch.

The Netherlands

Birth cert, immunization records, high school and college diplomas. Name change docs. The list is endless.

The list reads like it only applies to backwards/undeveloped countries. Birth certificates aren’t a thing here, immunization records are in my digital patient file, I must have a paper diploma somewhere, although I have no idea where it is and I never had a need for it. The last time I had to prove I have a BSc. I just downloaded the signed PDF from the education service website. Any name changes would just be recorded in the government’s basic administration. Even things like the deed to my house is registered with the government and no one would ever ask me for the physical piece of paper, even when selling it.

Bigger TVs was always the point of higher resolutions. SD content looked perfectly fine on the small CRT screens we had at the time. HD made bigger screens possible, same goes for 4k.

My last CRT was a 28” beast which was considered huge at the time. Then I got a 50” HDTV which was considered huge at the time. Now I’ve got a 77” 4k TV which is considered huge at this time.

Plasma TV’s are beasts. They also get hot and use a lot of power. They look great though.

I have a 77” OLED and while it’s large it’s also very flat and sits flush to the wall. Really doesn’t take up much space at all. The thing that takes up more space than the actual screen are the 12 speakers you need for the surround sound system that goes with it.

I don’t even watch 1080p content if I can help it. 4k dolby vision and atmos please.

Note that watching that kind of content on a tiny analog CRT is a much better experience than watching it on a modern display with discrete pixels.

I’ve been in solitary confinement for going on seven years. I doubt you’d enjoy it as much as you think. We’re social creatures.

I don’t doubt it. While most people were going crazy during the corona lockdown it was probably the most peaceful and happy period in my life. As an autistic person social interactions aren’t exactly enjoyable.

mean, I left Facebook in 2014 and have never been on Instagram or TikTok.

I’ve never been on any social media, but we’re not exactly average people. For a lot of people it’s hugely important to their social lives. Giving up Facebook for them means being excluded from social events. They will no longer see event announcements from their social groups.

You and I may not care about these things, but to a lot of people these are hugely important.

And it’s not my fault they can’t see that.

It’s your fault for not being able to even consider that other people are different from you and have different needs.

You could put me on an uninhabited island for 10 years and I’d be perfectly happy. My brother by contrast will get depressed after 2 days without social contact.

Ah, but there is. Privacy.

Tell that to the masses who post their entire private lives on bookface and tictac. The overwhelming majority of people don’t give a fuck. Especially if it means having to give up all their favorite apps.

I don’t know why you think you have the moral high ground here

What makes you assume I think that?

there are people who don’t like being part of a surveillance economy, and as paid-off lawmakers aren’t going to do jack shit

Of course there are. The question was why mobile OSes that offer that don’t take off. And the answer is simply that very few people care enough for it to be a viable market. Very few people care enough to be willing to get excluded from iMessage or Facebook groups just to take a principled stance on privacy.

If you want these to take or you have to offer way more than some abstract promise of better privacy. Think of what you’re asking people to give up. To get them to switch you need a massive incentive.

People care about having an OS not controlled by Big Tech.

Sure. Ask the average person if they want to give up their Facebook or TikTok apps so they can have a ‘free’ OS. You’re absolutely delusional if you think that any significant number of consumers will choose that.

The massively different userlands, mutable root partition by default, root by default, etc.

And there’s your answer: that’s shit no one cares about other than a few super nerds on Lemmy.

What is the difference between Android and any of the other Linux based mobile OSes?

“Why aren’t Linux based mobile OSes more popular if we ignore the fact that the most popular mobile OS by far is Linux based”.

Gee, I wonder why.

They aren’t popular because there already is a very popular linux based mobile OS: Android. What would be the point of another one? Why would anyone want to use a new OS with zero app support and no advantage to using it?

If you want to overcome the obstacle of being a new platform with no support then you have to provide a significant advantage to make it worth the pain, and there simply isn’t one.

Why did people switch to iOS and Android phones when companies like Nokia had the market cornered? Because they offer a massive improvement in UX over the established players. What advantage do those OSes you mentioned have?

Well, there you have your answer.

GNU/Linux makes for a shitty mobile OS.

Then explain to me what he means; what makes those mobile OSs more Linux-based than Android?

Android is Linux based and arguably the most popular mobile OS.

Of course. VHS is unwatchable on a modern TV. It wasn’t great back in the day on old CRT televisions to begin with. VHS is half the resolution of SDTV. Add to that the quality loss due to age and you basically have a pile of worthless plastic.

I just ordered a few of these craft kits for my neice’s 7th birthday.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.

Really enjoying it.