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So it is about languages instead of “where you live”. Can’t Harvard researchers get the title right?

Or are they assuming that languages are only associated with where people live?

I thought it was common knowledge by now.

Bloat taking up disk space doesn’t really matter. Bloat taking up RAM/CPU can affect performance on the other hand.

Can’t you use lemm.ee and block tankie instances?

feddit.de is still federated with lemmy.ml which is a tankie instance.

What about viewing Tweets without an X account?

What about maintaining a Tesla without a Tesla account?

Why won’t they implement this on phones too?

I am out of the loop. What does BSD stand for other than the OS?

I had the HTC One X which was literally hot. I couldn’t use it for a few minutes without it burning my hands.

Not cool.

“The Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo has been sentenced in the USA to pay USD 3.5 m as a fine for installing malware and adware (Superfish) on its laptops without informing its customers. By doing so, Lenovo committed the offence of computer break-in, as it wilfully undermined the security of its computers for users and made them vulnerable to cyber attacks.”

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-8-2017-005922_EN.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roslynlayton/2022/12/28/as-china-tech-crackdown-continues-dont-overlook-the-danger-of-lenovo/?sh=5d27e6f25d72

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45756685

You are probably going to say “but those are Lenovo laptops, not Motorola phones”.

Lenovo owns Motorola. If you want to trust the company feel free to do so.

I am never going to buy a phone from a company with strong ties with the CCP, and a history of installing spyware on its products.

Because Android multitasking is inefficient with memory use.

My Palm Pilot had 512 kB of RAM and it could multi-task properly. When I re-open an app on Palm, I could always get back to EXACTLY where it was left off. Palm OS saves the app state before swapping it out of the RAM.

Android apps have to completely restart from fresh after being closed. It multi-tasks by keeping apps running in memory. But you are never going to have enough RAM for the apps if you use a variety of apps.

Samsung’s RAM Plus does something similar, but the apps are not designed to be efficient for virtual memory.

Not OP but I really dislike the way Firefox handles multiple tabs. When there are too many tabs, Chrome would shrink the tabs to icon size, but Firefox insists on keep a weird minimum tab size and make you scroll the tabs awkwardly.

I stopped using Firefox for a long time because of that, until I discovered Sidebery (vertical tabs).

Disappointed with Wired writing totally wrong title. Meta didn’t prove anything. It was a claim, not a proof.

As a naive Google fan at that time, I bought the 2012 model when it came out. Google should have recalled the model and provide full refund/exchange.

The Nexus 7’s data storage became extremely slow after a while. The device became completely unusable.

A short while after the Nexus 7, many mobile phones screen got bigger, so the 7-inch screen size became sort of obsolete.

Good to see Google not neglecting Photos. I hope they won’t enshittificate it.

I still miss Picasa.

Samsung S23+ Because I don’t want any Chinese brand.

Stadia asked for user feedback via multiple surveys. Users asked for more AAA games.

Google shut Stadia down.

Now what is Google going to do with YouTube?

Yeah I want to play as a cat but Stray is too little content for its full price.