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Yes, an IoT device would certainly be a huge headache if it was on a proprietary protocol, I’d avoid that if at all possible. Thankfully, they haven’t made something absolutely indispensable yet.

Where I live, cashless payments via NFC. But I have the option of using a plastic card too.

It’s really just banking, I can still use the browser for most other things.

Would DBeaver suffice?

Real programmers test in production.

Java isn’t as verbose as Appkit/UIKit, I think. Take a look: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/nstextselectiondatasource https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nstextinputclient

I think software developers deserve to be paid for their work. What an odd title.

Can we do this for everything that collects data without user consent?

The C in Cmake maybe stands for cat. It would make sense.

buzzwords

Oh, shit. Step on it! Quick!

On the build of Windows 11 I’m using PrintScr has been replaced with the snipping style screenshot tool (used to be Shift+Win+S) instead of the fullscreen screenshot like before.

These are all strategies that have already been adopted in China, they will block it like everything else.

Why not use the English word for an entity that resides in the USA: American?

The picture says “No Smartphones Allowed.” Doesn’t seem entirely right…

Could it be the new taskbar? It’s the worst part of W11, I don’t understand why they had to replace the old one.

De-googling inherently causes functionality loss on Android because Google provides a lot of basic services via things like the Google Services Framework. It might be best for you to buy something cheap (secondhand Pixel?), install LineageOS, and then see how you like that before committing to something costly like an Xperia, especially since you’re coming from iOS.

Premium phones make little sense, based on what I’ve seen everyone puts them in cases anyway. “Premium materials” are slippery and “premium thinness” results in insufficient battery capacity so accessories like phone rings get put on them, and people carry around external battery packs.

Why not just make a grippy, practical phone that I can use as a tool, with removable batteries, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and expandable memory?

It really does not. I use an external device connected via Bluetooth to achieve this on GrapheneOS, and others use home automation.

Edit: that thread isn’t what I’m referring to. There was a larger one, perhaps on their github, with a link to a blogpost about why charge limiting “isn’t necessary” being cited as the justification for why the rom doesn’t have the feature. Either way, it’s frustrating to read and best ignored.

It’s likely because the developers are highly opinionated, and this is true even for topics they don’t know very much about. See the entire discussion about implementing battery charge limiting in GrapheneOS. This makes for a lot of friction for people who would like to see more focus on usability in GrapheneOS as opposed to it being purely focused on security.

I stopped reading threads on their forums because the developers are so abrasive even though I still use the rom, because I don’t mind the loss of usability compared to other roms. I can completely understand why there is a lot of negative sentiment around it though.