Correct.

That’s true about the search bar. I do actually use that to find and open apps though, so I hadn’t considered it fluff. I don’t use Google to search the web though. I forgot about the news feed because I don’t have it. I uninstalled the news app and a bunch of other crap I don’t need. Idk what At A Glance feature you’re talking about. I don’t think I have that. Overall you are right. There’s some initial fluff that I forgot about because I removed it years ago.

There’s that, but it was really glitchy too. Siri only worked half the time. The subtitles would start and then stop after a couple sentences and need to be restarted constantly. There were a never ending stream of glitches. Text selection is still awful. It’s just not a good phone compared to the competition. I will say that it looked and felt nice though. The build quality of the actual hardware seemed good.

That was my suspicion too, but I didn’t want to come right out and say it without more information

Because then they don’t have an excuse to move all your data to Apple servers and scan it for later use.

And if there’s a class action lawsuit then it’ll be $95 million settlement spread out over 1.46 billion customers (this just happened over Siri spying).

What if I don’t want Apple looking at my photos in any way, shape or form?’

Then you don’t buy an iPhone. Didn’t they say a year or two ago that they’re going to scan every single picture using on-board processing to look for images and videos that could be child porn and anything suspicious would be flagged and sent to human review?

That’s still spending $1000 on a phone, even more if you pay interest.

The stock android pixel UI has gotten so full shit I have to use a launcher.

What? I use a stock Pixel Pro and there’s no fluff. It’s very vanilla, but does everything I need it to do without fuss. I was using Nova Launcher Pro, but they sold it to an advertising company a while ago, so I went back to the stock launcher.

I tried the new iPhone 16 Pro. They should be ashamed of what they’ve created. If that’s their flagship phone, then I can’t even imagine how glitchy their base models are. It felt like a Fisher Price OS compared to Android. I returned it after two weeks. My several year old Pixel Pro can do more stuff more reliably than Apple’s brand new flagship device.

Don’t they mean Tim Apple?

That’s Apple though. “We know what you want better than you do” is almost a company mantra.

To what end? They claim they can’t read the data, nor the output, nor where it originated from. So… what’s the point? If their claims are true then what is the point of all that data transfer, processing, and the massive engineering efforts they’ve put into it? If it’s just so they can tag a location, then they could have just used geo location on the device without sharing anything. If it’s to be able to search for " Eiffel Tower" and see pictures you have of it, well, haven’t they already been able to do this before this feature with on-board AI processing that doesn’t require the data to be shipped to Apple? Something seems off to me, but maybe because I’m not clear on the purpose.

Why would anyone leave any chat history if this is the case?

They started going through chats on traffic stops

What in the actual fuck?

My house has many seats though. If it were the seats, my house would go faster than my car.

Huh, it was actually very simple. Why was it so confusing in the original context?

Houses also have doors. You know what houses don’t have? Brakes. So it must be the brakes that make the cars go

And you have to pee

Prime example of why SUV’s aren’t a replacement for trucks, and full-bed trucks aren’t a replacement for flatbed trucks.

I just turned updates off for my Windows install. My use is like yours, where I only need it every year or two, and I’m not going online with it.

What?

I definitely understand her suffering.

No. We roast fresh veggies and add salt and pepper today. Everyone steamed plain frozen vegetables with freezer burn back then.

Your parents probably roasted vegetables (which is delicious) rather than steaming everything (which is pretty gross). If you had baby boomer parents then everything was steamed, and no salt, pepper, or other flavorings were ever used. There’s also a pretty good chance that it came out of a frozen bag, or a can. It’s amazing that an entire generation of parents didn’t know anything about cooking flavorful food. I mean, I’m sure some of them knew how, but not a single one that I knew.

Did you ask them why they’re blatantly violating the constitution?

Yeah, “someone” stole all the balls out of all the mice at my highschool computer lab.

It baffles me how people can go around with their hands all grimy and dirty. Why do so many people have such poor hygiene?

Just get the kids drunk and have them bet on soccer games. I’ve seen plenty of adults on YouTube punch their TV after a sports bet loss.

Horses can’t just go galloping around everywhere. It’s hard on them, hard on their hooves if they’re carrying a rider, and they require distance to get up to that speed. They have limited endurance, and if they eat right after a hard gallop, then they get bloat and die a painful death. Trust me, a bicycle is faster, and easier, and all around better unless you’re commuting around the hills and backcountry.

I seriously doubt they’re not capturing the information just because you told them not to. They’re just going to treat it differently. But have no delusions that they’re respecting your wishes as you think they should.

I have never seen an opt-out work as it should. Operating systems just re-enable everything through system updates. Apps do it through app updates. A lot of updates seem like they’re for nothing other than getting you to agree to a new more intrusive ToS. For websites, spam lists, and that sort of shit, they just create a new mailer program and opt you into that. Sure, they’re not sending you the one you opted out of, but there are 500 more on the back burner. Some of the worst offenders will have dozens or even hundreds of different lists and force you to opt out of each one individually. Then of course there are the spammers who just don’t even capture the opt out. Or put the opt out behind a login that you don’t even have. Or serve the opt out page through an ad-click network which is blocked by your filter list, firewall, ad blocker, or DNS. There are a hundred ways they circumvent the laws and legislators are doing nothing to stop them.

An eBike would be faster, and way easier to maintain and store. They don’t require insurance.

You ruined the punchline.

It shouldn’t be though. Nothing a company gleans from your use of a product should be available for purchase by any third party. This should have been legislated two decades ago.

Agreeing to location services for the purpose of performing the apps intended use, is not the same as agreeing that the government can track your location on a whim. Where the fuck are the constitutional lawyers who fight this kind of egregious constitutional violation?

More likely they’ll close all those bands so that corpos can use them for profit.

It won’t be gone, it’ll be used to ensure the most powerful companies in the country never, ever, have any legitimate competition, and can do whatever the fuck they want. They’ll write whatever laws these companies want. They’ll make it illegal to try to start a new telecom.

A working lightbulb.

Yes