The problem is though an OS is only as good as its apps, unless it has some killer feature that can make up for the lack of it. Linux worked because Wine and Proton made the huge back catalogue of windows games work on it, but that’s a different use case from a mobile phone. Bank apps I particular are a bit pain point with how they keep using Google’s features to only work on non modified official android versions. I’m sure you could get browsers and such to work otherwise, and some banks you might be able to use via a browser, but that’s already a big hurdle to get over and sell to people as worth doing for all the other benefits.

Interesting, I’m not too familiar with how they work, what makes Apple’s more privacy-friendly than Google’s?

You can achieve most of that via third party apps, which is where the beauty of android comes. Instead of being forced to use Google if you want the best integration or be treated as a second class citizen if you try to use a third party service, most android features can have app defaults to set, so you can use bitwarden or proton if those work better for you (and imo that makes it more versatile, not less). In terms of integrating and syncing notifications with your desktop either KDE Connect, Microsoft’s companion app or Google’s companion app should work, though it’s not going to be automatic or as in depth as Apple’s. I’m not gonna touch the smooth and easy argument as that’s something you get used to over time really with these. I find iOS super clunky to use, you find android super clunky, it’s about which one you got used to first.

How is the notification system better for privacy on iOS? On android you have notification groups to toggle and you can set which notifications show up on the lock screen and how much of them is visible there. The notification system is to me arguably the best designed thing on android and one of the worst on iOS

Never heard of stremio, sounds like it plays the role of a media server, in which case it doesn’t have to be streamio? Plex or Jellyfin could work too

The point of the setup is you only need to do it once, you don’t set up everything every time you want to download something…

Go with a self build + unraid. NGL a Ryzen 5500 build is so cheap and much more powerful than these overpriced boxes, and unraid is pretty good. If I didn’t buy a ds415+ a couple of years ago I’d swap over.

Then Microsoft makes windows free and monetizes the shit out of services in the OS.

I think I’d prefer if there was a minimum updates guarantee that OS sellers would have to disclose, but even then I’m more in favour of other companies being able to pick up the work by making sure devices have their bootloader unlockable after they don’t get any more updates for X amount of time, rather than add burden to OS makers, because forcing people to support a project for Y amount of years would really harm indie developers releasing Linux distros and the like

Presumably that will work like test flight does where you can only install the app through an invite system

To what end? Are you putting together a tier list? They should all be equally admonished to the highest order, that’s the point.

This is just a way to capture negative feedback in a way that leaves you feeling like you did something while impacting none of their business which they can then ignore and throw away with no issues. Make noise on social media, not feedback forms. Make them hurt.

It’d be up to Google to do so, and they probably will just as an example of them totally not being a monopoly “look we even allowed a competing store”.

You can import your liked songs fyi but yeah I didn’t see anything about playlists or liked artists

What issues are you having with the mobile app?

It’s mostly the discovery aspect, it’s easy to find new and emerging artists through these services, and they make playing that music very convenient. YouTube does have some of it with YouTube music but I’ve not found the algorithm to be as good as Spotify or Tidal

Looks like it’s fixed now

I honestly haven’t had any such issues, any specific limitations you’ve encountered that you can reference?

What does being able to fill a captcha have to do with consciousness? “Wow the ai being good at this pattern matching task surely is proof of it being humanlike because humans are also good at pattern matching!” Is such a stretch, dude.

The issues are layered but the core aspect is that everyone can get scammed and banks have protections for getting your money stolen while crypto doesn’t.

But the more visible issue is just how the unregulated aspect of it being used to scam people predominantly has marred the topic for so many people to the point where people just want to stay away from it all. If anything I think it ends up being a good example for how people need regulation and we can’t just have anarchy because people will take advantage of other people.

To add a metaphor, sure it’s not the gun that does the killing it’s the human, but regulating how the gun gets used does help with gun deaths a lot.