Are you using the group policy editor?

Why would I leave windows if Linux isn’t offering anything better?

Because Linux offers an ad-free experience, whereas Windows offers a free ads experience.

Eh, it’s the same on the Android side of the fence. There are big and small features that Google has been comically slow to crib from iOS.

I’ve definitely said “fucking finally” to things like overflow scrolling animations,

Those things like overflow scrolling, keyboard peak, etc… were only held back because Apple would patent it prevent it from being put into Android and would file frivolous lawsuits against other phone manufacturers to try and get them not to use them, even when some android variants already had it built in before apple patented it in the first place. (I still facepalm at apple trying to sue others over a rounded rectangle shaped phone)

And those patents lawsuits only stopped because other phone companies called bullshit and started threatening apple with their own patents.

and the “wild” idea that users should get 5+ of major OS releases.

TL;DR on this point: not much of an issue anymore.

This isn’t an android/iOS thing, it’s a manufacturer thing. If a chip isn’t supported by it’s manufacturer, then no software on it can be supported. Different manufacturers had different support windows, but Qualcomm became notorious for making chips, then only supporting them for 2 years so they could sell a new “supported” one (and watch the money roll in). Once they saw other the larger players getting pissed off and poking around with the idea of making their own chips, Qualcomm quickly decided that they could support their chips for longer. Now they have to since both Google and Samsung have made public promises for 5-7 year support cycles. Of course, that hasn’t stopped other phones from already reaching 7 years of official support before. (A notable example being Fairphone 2 who used a Qualcomm chip while they were still in their shitty behaviour phase and managed to support it for 7 years, 2 years Qualcomm support then 5 years of their own support despite Qualcomm.)

Also, when Google was pissed at Qualcomm they decided to start modularising their OS and pulling chunks out of it out of needing direct hardware support. This means that even if chip support were to stop, it would only affect the background / lowest-level-invisible-to-the-user parts of the OS, and all the user visible parts of the OS could be updated independently (starting with Project Treble, and going all out with Project Mainline). This basically means that entire chunks of the OS can be updated the same way an app can be, early 2010 Qualcomm companies be damned.

This also has the weird thing of android not really being a “version” per se, one phone might have different components of Android 10/11/12/13/14/etc… running at the same time. The components themselves have their own versions.

I’m not sure what the downsides are here…

I have yet to be given an example of something a “general” intelligence would be able to do that an LLM can’t do.

Presenting…

Something a general intelligence can do that an LLM can’t do:

Play chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvTs_nbc8Eg

Why can’t it play it? Because LLM’s don’t have memory, so they can’t work with logic. They are the same as the little “next word predictor” in your phone’s keyboard. It just says what it thinks is the most probable next word based on previous words, it’s not actually thinking or understanding anything. So instead, we get moves that don’t make sense or are completely invalid.

My long bet: The EU will force Google Search + Ads, to separate from Youtube within a decade.

Did you purge and update your filters?

Note: I’m not talking about turning filters off then back on, I’m talking about updating the version of each filter itself.

“the means” in this case would be authoritarian repression.

“The means” always has to be something bad for the “ends” to try and justify reaching for “the means”.

I’m curious why people would downvote a request for port forwarding?

I had no popus using uBlock Origin on Firefox

Also, you can buy Tic Tacs from any newsagent or gas station.

I’m confused and didn’t understand this point.

Both of the screenshots used in the article show the street names.

Every street is shown on the zoomed in screenshot, and every major street is shown on the zoomed out screenshot.

I wonder if they’re lying about this. Maybe the fans are super loud or something and they didn’t want the reporter to know.

That’s far too conspiratorial for me. Loud fans in an engineering sample aren’t a reason to break a fan.

A fast fan blade on a laptop would snap easily if it was handled, which is exactly what would be happening on both a laptop where assembling and disassembling it is a feature and a laptop being actively tested.

If it was a blade that broke, that wouldn’t stop the fan from working, so it was probably the servo, power, or bearings which is exactly what you’d expect to find broken in an engineering sample. Why? Because engineering samples almost always have issues in them. That’s the whole point of the samples, to find out what the issues are so they can be fixed before mass manufacture.

I can’t see your comment about heavy dev and testing.

I’m curious about what exactly is chewing up that much RAM. Do you have a ridiculous amount of containers running? Or a big ram disk or something?

What are you doing that makes having 64gb ram useful?

E2E:

As far as I understand, Google wants to treat RCS similar to how it treats web:

1. Have a standard
2. experiment with some extensions
3. learn what works and what doesn’t
4. build what works into the standard
5. repeat

In that case, e2e encryption is coming to RCS.

I know Samsung is also experimenting with e2e encryption too.

Other:

iMessage itself also has more features than RCS. Built in e2ee would be a big one, and aome other more vain ones.

What other notable features (besides e2e which is discussed above) does iMessage have?

[…] Signal or even WhatsApp would still be superior.

(Besides e2e,) What features to Signal and/or WhatsApp provide?

You’re both right and wrong.

Right:

1. Google does have a management problem that incentivizes creating new messenger apps instead of supporting existing services, this has nothing to do with RCS though.
2. Google is trolling Apple.

Wrong:

1. RCS is not a downgrade to Apple’s proprietary protocol (unless you consider sending a laser show screen overlay animation as a specific feature, and not an easter egg)
2. Everyone inside only Apple or only RCS has the same features (message reactions, high quality media, x is typing, seen timestamps, etc…)
3. RCS is open, Apple’s protocols are proprietary. No one but Apple can access their own proprietary protocols. Apple could support RCS if they wanted to. Apple is entirely responsible for the friction between their own protocol and RCS.

Prediction:

Apple will continue trying to control their own bubble to force people to purchase iPhones as long as possible. They will attempt to stall any EU regulations on standardized messaging with deceptive rebuttable that will take politicians time to realise that they hold no real weight. Eventually those arguments will be pulled apart and Apple will be forced to include a future RCS version as a supported fallback. (just like how the EU is forcing apple to allow third-party app stores, and USB-C connections)

I’m on Android, I can see both direct message reactions, ... when people are typing, and see when people have seen my message.

This is all a part of the text message standard that every modern phone follows.

Apple are the only major company that don’t follow the RCS standard.

It wasn’t the profits or ads that got in the way.

It was the security that got in the way. (remember the whole TPM module thing?)

Iterating the version number was just a convenient excuse to throw more ads, and tracking in.