Notices by R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: (rl_dane@fosstodon.org)

@praxeology

I kinda liked how notifications worked in classic iOS: A little window would pop up in front of everything, and you could acknowledge or dismiss it, and then it was gone forever.

They really were interruptions, and you didn't tend to enable them for too many apps.

Now the notification center is just another horrid inbox to go through. XD

@sam @sean @praxeology

Even Apple is an ad company.

I've been off of iOS for four years now, and I was utterly shocked to see ads in the iOS App Store on a family member's phone a year or two ago.

Pretty shameless!

@Mastokarl @sam @sean @praxeology

Apple's business model is not hardware anymore. It hasn't been in some time.

Precisely what it IS is rather difficult to nail down, though. It's not strictly hardware, It's not software, it's kind of an ecosystem, and it's kind of a cult.

@Mastokarl @sam @sean @praxeology

Oh, I do get it. Hardware is the gross majority of their revenue. I don't even have to check ChatGPT's work on that one, even though I don't generally trust it to be factually accurate any more than I could lob a 747 across a football field.

But (and this is a tenuous argument to make, so bear with me)... just because their income is from hardware doesn't necessarily make them a hardware company.

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@Mastokarl @sam @sean @praxeology

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PEOPLE BUY iPHONES SO THAT THEY CAN FACETIME THEIR MOM.
People buy iPhones so they can have freaking blue-bubble status in chats.
People buy iPhones not because they are good, but because they are iPhones.

That is simply not a hardware company. It's a luxury brand. It's a corporate cult. It's... something else, man. :/

@Mastokarl @sam @sean @praxeology

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The only reason I would buy an iPhone would be... because the hardware is great? Heck no. The hardware is trivial to replace/repoduce. Samsung makes far better hardware, IMHO, and I've never had a Samsung phone. It's the interplay between hardware, software, ecosystem, luxury brand status, and vendor lock-in.

People don't buy iPhones because they're great phones. They're GOOD, but pretty grossly overpriced phones.

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@Mastokarl @sam @sean @praxeology

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Their business model isn't straight-up hardware. Delta, the faucet company? THAT is hardware. Intel? Hardware. AMD? Hardware. NVIDIA? Hardware.

#Apple though? Yes, they make their money FROM hardware... but they do not make their money BECAUSE of hardware. They make their money because of vendor lock-in, reputation, and their vaunted ecosystem.

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@clacke @praxeology @Mastokarl @sean @sam

I guess? I don't think they care so much about restricting the usage of iOS to specific hardware (like an old fashioned hardware copy protection dongle) as they do restricting what *you* do with the hardware and software so that you're beholden to their "ecosystem."

admiral_ackbar_its_a_trap.mp4

To offset more negative emotions in my recent toots, I have to say that @kde @neochat (https://apps.kde.org/neochat/) has become a really excellent #Matrix client. It didn't have E2EE support the last time I tried it, but it works perfectly now, surpassing #Nheko, my previous favorite.

I do like #FluffyChat as well, but the UI scaling just doesn't look quite right on my monitor. Oh, and of course, give me real menubars and scrollbars, brah. XD

🎼 Last Christmas, you gave me #GitHub #Copilot, 🎶
🎼 The very next day, I deleted my account, you AI-boosting nerfherders... 🎶

#DeleteGitHub

@kevie

I'm getting a 404, Kevie.

@libreleah

Thanks! 👍🏼

@libreleah

Dang, I remember when Libreboot didn't support anything past a Core 2 Duo.

So nice!!! <3

P.S., Does flashrom work within #OpenBSD for updating #LibreBoot, or do I need to use a linux boot usb? This is for my X200. Thanks :D

My favorite feature of #Windows 11?

an ssh client installed by default.

So I can escape this benighted place. XD

New #blog post: What We Lost Along the Way

https://rldane.space/what-we-lost-along-the-way.html

Finally got out of my Thanksgiving rut! The muse is with me again! XD

1053 words

cc: my #chorus: @amin @joel @joelchrono @dm @sotolf @ivan @thedoctor @pixx @mirabilos @twizzay@thisis.mylegendary.quest @twizzay@behold.mylegendary.quest @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk

#rlDaneWriting #WritingMonth #RetroComputing #DigitalEthics #SoftwareFreedom #DigitalAgency

@SolusSpider @archer72 @thelovebug @kevie @Lochyboy

WOO HOO!

Looking forward to listening!!

@SolusSpider @archer72 @thelovebug @kevie @Lochyboy

You did good, Peter!

I might try my hand at podcasting as well!

I just realized that many #KDE apps are also built for Android.

I added the official KDE repo to #Droidify, and now I'm installing #Tokodon on my phone.

Wild!!!

P.S., ok, so Tokodon won't be replacing #Tusky on my phone any time soon (it's buggy), but I'm just happy that I got to try it. :D

I'm so done with this debate.
Join it. Don't join it. Just stop trying to convince me.

#Fediverse4Life #VCNoThankYou

#LossyPNG

@craftyguy

What's wrong with apt?