Short answer: no

Long answer: only the most important things should even have such low-level access to the system. A fucking game is not in that category. Nooooooo

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I choose what my iPhone fetches. Android and windows get third party apps I didn’t ask for with their updates. Apple doesn’t let accusers or vendors add bloat to their updates.

Samsung announced they will be putting ads on the lockscreens of new phones, using the front camera to stream the video into AI to gauge your reaction to the ad and influence which ads you see on the lockscreen.

Android has always been inferior from practical standpoint but had cool features first and some which never even came to iPhone. Many of those features have been depreciated or aren’t compatible with all Android phones now though. Their hardware was all over the place and some of it was just plain bad, but it was definetly more interesting. There’s a great variety in hardware in Android that Apple just doesn’t have and isn’t interested in chasing. I actually like the folding phones by Samsung but their bloated BS I can’t remove and shady security practices that require root or address, which creates its own security concerns, are unacceptable to me.

Your apps are loaded with them more than iOS apps are. Your App Store has far more scams than apples. Significant feature and security upgrades are withheld on most Android phones to encourage the purchase of another one, though to be fair that’s not true across every model anymore.

Hell, look at what Samsung is doing with their fucking lockscreens. Android could have been great. It should have been great. But it’s totally enshittified now.

IPv4 does not protect your from online tracking and logging. Not at all.

SSDs can get firmware updates like anything else.

Honestly one of the reasons i prefer iPhone to Android is I can use it without being marketed heavily to. Android always has tons of ads just everywhere.

I was at my sisters house yesterday and needed to leave a little note on their computer for next time they use it. They had windows 11. I opened up notepad and a fucking ad showed up for grammerly IN NOTEPAD! It was obnoxious and overlaid on top of the app like some shitty early 2000’s malware.

Windows allows this kind of “functionality” now and people still use it. Just embarrassing.

AdGuard on Mac for safari, unlock origin for anything other than chrome.

Get a picture of yourself taking a shower. Print that onto the shower curtain.

KDE really is what windows promised to become back in the XP days and just never did.

It’s Texas. They will repeal it when it inconveniences the rich.

This is the end goal for conservatives banning LGBTQI stuff. They want to other us, take away our visibility, and while we are vulnerable, pick us off one by one. This shit here is exactly what they want and they are getting it.

You can like Linux without committing to it 100% of the time. It’s an operating system, not your wife.

Manjaro is sort of speedrunning things. It is not a responsibly managed project. You CAN get shit done with manjaro the same way you can drive to work by just flooring the accelerator the entire way. It’s a bad idea but technically it can work.

Opposite problem. Some wireless cards have unstable low power modes that get turned on anyway.

wireless cards have their own power management settings that typically arent shown in the GUI and in linux the defaults for some of them are so aggressive they cause problems. Intels are notorious for this but some older broadcom cards had this problem too.

Stupid people are incredibly profitable.

Unfortunately I dont have specific instructions on how to tame an angry fedora. It’s not my main so I dont have that memorized, but I do know Ubuntu likes to include some quality of life tweaks out of box that other distros like fedora can omit, including power management settings that can help tame stubborn wireless cards like these.

I’m amazed we are so powerful. I can’t wait until I get my turn at the climate change machine.