This is a patently absurd comparision

I don’t even like Apple, but when you talk about their mobile ecosystem (mainly looking at phones/watches) here, Android is laughably behind at this point.

• Apple devices last stupid long.
• First one here counts for both batteries and vendor support. This is for the worst reason, the walled garden, but it works. There have been a few times I realized my magsafe charger was unplugged… for three days in a row. But my battery was rolled into about 5% at the end of the third day and dozens of hours of SoT.
• The 2021 OS release supported 2015 phones. Current OS is to 2017 phones. Point out any major Android vendor still supporting their 2017 phones until at least mid 2024.
• I was a devout Android worshipper. I twrp’d, greenified, rooted, removed any social media apps, etc and everything else. And then I realized I hated having to do that to make it with a device that would have over 50% battery by lunch.
• I grew up. I went from loving to tweak with my phone all the time, to just wanting it to reliably work.
• One of my most important pieces of tech is my watch. I use it for payments, travel, access, and everything else. And the Apple watch versus ANY OTHER ANDROID offering is the reason I will never use Android again. Shit just works. Mindlessly. And never has downtime.

I use linux on my desktop and laptop, but iPhone is the only phone that matters.

Yes

This is REALLY not the case everywhere.

Toss in like 3 streaming services, which is pretty typical coverage for what most people want to watch, you are at cable costs.

And I dunno if you’ve been in an Uber lately in a larger city in the US, but literally in the last year we’ve gone from people driving nice clean modern cars, to people driving late 90s/early 00s hoopties that are dirty, stained, and don’t have AC, smell like whatever thing was in there before, etc.

feels like a bit of a strawman.

arguing that you can’t use the client without the license for the server… on the same machine, is silly. There’s tons of utility with the client even if you don’t have the server license locally, especially if you ever use the Remote Desktop Client remotely.

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This is an interesting take considering vendors regularly do sell addons related to sms, blocking, etc

As someone that fits this bill perfectly, and considered tossing my hat in the ring, I kind of agree with this person.

While I may not agree with the phrasing and hostility, the point still stand that they are effectively looking for Senior Level + DevOps.

And 5 hours a week will turn into 30+ as the person or persons takes over ownership of the required pieces.

My main holdup is just having enough time personally.

I notice you didn’t actually respond, just pulled out some classic logical fallacy.

I’m not absolving the armorer here.

You don’t like the cars vs guns analogy, fine. I was just making it relatable to righties.

If you put something in my hands that is capable of killing a person, I’m going to be 100% sure of how not to kill a person with this thing.

Maybe it’s a firework. The armorer has told me that when I light it, I have exactly 5 seconds to ditch it so I don’t hurt anybody. The armorer is fully culpable here when the firework goes off in 1 second and blows off my hand. I am culpable when I take said firework, and throw it into the unsuspecting crowd. We are both culpable when the firework goes off early AND is tossed into the unsuspecting crowd.

… okay, but at what point do you take some personal responsibility??? Blindly saying “it was the armor’s job description” is fantastically silly.

Dealership sells me the car in working and safe condition, I take said car and drive it into a crowd of people. Dealer is guilty?

I’m not absolving the armorer at all. She has a PILE of cupability here. But to absolve the actor of all responsibility and fault is ridiciulously misguided.

Because you are being obtuse on purpose.

Are you saying that when someone puts a deadly weapon in your hands, you are instantly absolved of all responsibility for it because it’s someone else’s responsibility? Oh, they didn’t TELL me the knife was sharp.

That’s deliberately and painfully obtuse.

Calling it some right-wing conspiracy is probably where the downvotes are coming from.

1. Some serious shit was actually occurring
2. Alec Baldwin was a huge arrogant asshole about it at first, trying to cover his ass as a producer regarding #1
3. Trump, as Trump does, makes a pretty singular inflammatory comment about it, which points all his brainwashed minions at Baldwin.

So mostly I think the point is that there is room for both on this.

I don’t know how fair it is to use Cisco as an example for a GUI.

How does less of a subscriber base lead to way more expensive price? Unless the dev is greedy and wanting to suck the souls of all the early adopters.

I wouldn’t be surprised. She’s had a number of wellness checks called on her

Ultimately if they aren’t completely “yes people”, then they are long gone.

If you are required to give them information that they can use to figure out who you are, it’s not anonymous.

So if you are on normal post-paid cell phones, where you have given them your real info, or use a credit to pay for it with your name on it, etc. that means you aren’t anonymous.

So when super secret drug lord is caught, they can figure you were talking to this drug lord and charge you, because they have his end of the communications and can verify with your cell provider who YOU are.

Privacy just means they don’t know what you are saying. They may know you are communicating with drug lord but not what you are saying.

You can have neither, one or the other, or both

If you are required to give them information that they can use to figure out who you are, it’s not anonymous.

So if you are on normal post-paid cell phones, where you have given them your real info, or use a credit to pay for it with your name on it, etc. that means you aren’t anonymous.

So when super secret drug lord is caught, they can figure you were talking to this drug lord and charge you, because they have his end of the communications and can verify with your cell provider who YOU are.

Privacy just means they don’t know what you are saying. They may know you are communicating with drug lord but not what you are saying.

You can have neither, one or the other, or both

The line will come far far FAR before that

As far as paywalls go, that’s one of the nicest ones. One click and I was able to fully read the article without signing up or anything.

I mean, their “proof” is that Socialist is in the name. From there on out, they apparently missed everything that happened post-1934