This right here. Companies like Google effectively have infinite money and it’s not a big deal for them to pay off the (usually miniscule) fines that they get hit with.

Kagi is highly intriguing but their prices put me off every time. $15CAD per month for a search engine is a hard pill to swallow. That’s a higher cost than basically any other digital subscription that I pay or have paid at any point.

Holy shit that must’ve been absolutely horrifying.

That depends. These days, much of the time when people call something a “phobia” they really just mean “mildly dislike”.

Phobias are irrational and excessive fear responses to various things. They are often very extreme and can be life-disrupting for the people that have them, depending on what the phobia is. A phobia for an everyday occurrence can really screw up someone’s life and require extensive help to overcome it so they can improve their quality of life.

I’m sure Chrome users will find another excuse to not switch just like the last few dozen times Google screwed them over.

Who could have ever foreseen this result when we outsourced all of our manufacturing and skilled labour to China???

It’s almost like chasing thoughtless, short-term profit gains is a horrible idea.

Why do I get the feeling that at some point in the future we are going to have a world war against the fascist US and Israel.

Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Apple has their faults but they historically have supported their devices for significantly longer than most Android phone manufacturers. Like I said in my last message, some of the Android phones I had only ever received one OS update and it was usually for an outdated version anyway.

There are multiple reasons I moved from Android to iPhone but this was by far the biggest factor that motivated me to switch. I’ve never had a Samsung device but I’ve had years upon years of numerous other Android phones and the update support for all of them has been atrocious. I got used to receiving 1 single OS update if I was lucky and maybe a few years of security updates and that was it. The few updates they did get were usually at least a year behind the Android update cycle if not more, and then they really fell behind once support stopped.

Since then I’ve had several iPhones that I’ve owned and then sold second hand and they’ve all had constant OS and security updates the entire time. I don’t have strong feelings towards iPhones one way or another, but I can say for certain that it has never felt like my device has been abandoned.

Extremely. Their foreign interference campaigns are doing substantial damage to western democracy. They are an extremely hostile fascist nation.

Looks like I’m moving over to something else now.

Genocidal, fascist fucks.

Chrome users will do literally anything except pick an alternative browser.

Slop coding.

Alec from Technology Connections brought up a good point in recent video about EVs. He mentioned how Tesla owners are a special kind of EV driver and don’t actually care about EV technology or green(er) vehicles; they only care about their Tesla. I’d imagine this is part of that mindset. Tesla can do no wrong in their eyes, even if it goes against their normal morals and beliefs.

This. Hosting US forces is now a liability to the host country.

By quite a lot too. The kori bustard is the heaviest known flying animal at around 18kg or 40lbs.

Reminds me of Americans obsessing over “Canadian bacon” and showing me pictures of slabs of ultra processed meat that I’ve never seen before in my life. Closest we’ve got is back bacon and that’s leagues above the crap they call “Canadian” bacon.

Rules stop mattering when companies have the wealth of multiple entire nations combined.