I recommend lemmy.world to my low tech friends and lemm.ee to everyone else. Lemm.ee is great. Only reason I’m on my lemmy.world alt right now is because lemm.ee is having some server issues that are getting resolved this weekend

Not for the corporations that make money off of extorting a basic necessity from poor people! Won’t someone think of the corporations?

My argument was that you can’t claim the moral high ground based on legality alone. I understand that nuance exists in the context, but moral high ground does not come from whether or not it’s legal.

I see what you’re getting at, but I think ‘moral high ground’ might not be the phrase you’re looking for.

Laws and morals are explicitly different. That’s why juries exist, so that a law may be put against the morals of a situation and the morals may prevail if need be.

Breaking the law isn’t necessarily immoral. It’s just illegal. So it isn’t like someone breaking the law is seeking to take the moral high ground in the first place, nor does that mean that someone who only ever follows the law always has the moral high ground. Lawful-evil does exist.

Maybe that’s the point. Unity caves immediately to the big lawyers and says “Sorry guys, we tried. Looks like all you little studios will have to pay up after all. Blame Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft”

Greed comes for all companies eventually. That doesn’t mean they always fail, it just means they aren’t going to act ethically over potential profit. That can cause companies that are held afloat by a community to fail (like reddit). It has already happened to Nestlé. They crossed that line a long time ago, they just have better PR.

I bought my oneplus 10 pro for sub $500 during a sale, and it has usb3.1. It’s last year’s model. You can get a pixel 6 with usb3.1 for less than $400. A Galaxy S21 has usb3.2, less than $500.

That’s almost every major android brand for $500 or less with 3.1 or better. The cheapest you can buy an iPhone 15, the one with usb2.0, is $800. What are you on about?

Greed comes for every company eventually.

And soon, the carrier pigeon breeders will start tagging them with tracking chips…

If you don’t care about being able to participate, Geddit is an ok alternative on Android. It’s an app skin for the RSS reddit feed with minimal functionality. No login, so no commenting or voting. But it does allow a sort of front page, still has access to nsfw content, and filters the ads. And it doesn’t give reddit clicks.

That’s how some mods chose to moderate their communities.

Saying that taking those tools away from all mods is a good thing because some used them in a way you don’t agree with is like saying no one should be able to build houses anymore because you don’t care for Italian architecture.

Rejection of science, rejection of medicine

Alright buddy, let’s see your degree. Surely your distinctly right wing views have nothing to do with the bans you’re catching. It must just be because you have an extensive background in gender studies and those fools can’t handle that.

There’s no way that people don’t want you around because you’re claiming science supports a bigoted view you’re spreading, right?

That’s not true at all. There’s a distinct difference in effort between a person who left but opened the door to observe the dumpster fire and a person who goes back every day for content.

It’s the people like OP who are killing reddit. Insulting them for going back to look at the damage is backwards.

Easy to say if you have several thousand burning a hole in your pocket.

Modus operandi for apple, too. “Get one because everybody has one” is one of the biggest marketing tools they push to sell their tech.

I’m not disagreeing with you. But the trade off is price. When you pay $2.5k more for a phone/tablet/laptop/desktop/watch/tv/speaker setup than you would for all of those things individually with industry standard features, they freakin better work together seamlessly.

Well designed and beautiful are two very subjective words for a discussion about objective differences.

I think that iphones are bland and kind of ugly for their caliber of technology. My last phone was the sage-back pixel 5 and I absolutely loved the design of that thing. The thing is, looks alone don’t constitute superiority.

I’m on the same page as you. It should be noted, however, that the kind of exclusivity you find repulsive actually works as a selling point for apple. It’s like, “Buy an iPhone! All your friends have them and you want to be able to talk to them right?” Peer pressure is a hell of a drug

I’m personally so tired of defending android to iPhone users. At the end of the day, it’s personal preference. IPhone is a walled-garden, curated and closed system that has features that are more uniform and well developed across the whole brand. Android has custom options for a huge variety of things that iPhone can’t match simply due to the nature of android’s open system. Android also tends to have significantly cheaper modern options, but iPhone tends to get OS and security updates much longer.

They both have huge market shares and neither can fill the other’s niche well enough to bump the other out. It’s not a competition, it’s just preference. Is it really such a big deal to point out that teens prefer one over the other? Once the next generation comes to an age of owning phones, we might just find that they find iphones lame and old and swap back to android. That’s kind of how generations tend to work.

Get a different keyboard, bro. Changing your default keyboard has been a thing on Android for like a decade and a half. Even so, most keyboards these days have a shortcut that’s basically ‘long press the wrong prediction -> don’t predict again’

Also, the android settings menu has had a search function for a few years now. You don’t have to know where to look to find most things.