Exactly what I was thinking!

“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” - George R.R. Martin

From a media perspective, I am inclined to agree; however, like the article said, the experiences of these devices are getting worse for seemingly no reason. Personally, I’m inclined to believe NVIDIA may not make another device like the shield because of the focus on AI and chips. I’d imagine these devices make little profit compared to all the money being made with the current focus on AI.

I don’t really like the lock downed experience of Apple’s ecosystem, but the software updates make these devices, particular the Apple TV, better every year.

When it comes to streaming devices, nothing beats Apple TV in my opinion.

Outside the Apple TV app itself, the OS has very little ads. The only thing I dislike about it is the lack of Kodi + Google Drive plug in, but Infuse Pro works.

I’d rather directly use Bing and utilize the ‘Give with Bing’ feature to donate to a non-profit of choice; when I did use Bing, I did it for LGBT and LGBT Youth.

Asked how likely big companies would be to abuse their data, Americans were most wary of TikTok (59 percent), followed by: Meta (56 percent), X/Twitter (49 percent), OpenAI (48 percent), Google (44 percent), Apple (41 percent), Amazon (40 percent), Microsoft (38 percent), Comscore (32 percent), and Adobe (31 percent).

I’m surprised people trust Microsoft and Amazon more than Apple; Amazon needs all the data they can get on you to build “better” profiles on what to sell you, ties your Alexa requests to feed advertising (you can opt out) and Microsoft, especially with Edge (post advertising and services team takeover) has been trying to send everything to Microsoft to feed both ads and their AI. FFS, even Outlook warns you now that they’ll share your data with >800 “partners”.

Apple is no saint, far from it, but people trust a conglomerate over it?

The irony of holding an Irish flag and fighting for Russia. Fucking twit.

Honestly, good for her; that’s fucking awesome.

Websites that aren’t updated live themselves; typically news websites and the like.

I always saw this as just a way to compete with Google.

Bad comparison. There is no such thing as the ‘Apple Pay app’. Everything is done through the Wallet app, Apple Pay uses the wallet app.

I fucking hate this country.

This is somewhat hard to understand; is Yandex Russia different from the parent company like Google and Alphabet?

That’s why I like reeder on Apple devices.

Instead of needing yet another service to subscribe to RSS feeds and have them sync + potentially pay a fee for service, Reeder allows users to subscribe locally and sync it to iCloud across all devices. It was and is a major appeal of the app compared to others in the Apple ecosystem.

If you don’t need the “advanced” features of VLC’s desktop app, the UWP app is beautiful and modern looking, while also providing that "opens ALL the formats" VLC UX.

If you subscribe to RSS feeds that sometimes due ads in the form of articles (looking at you daringfireball); services like SiftRSS let you use Regex to filter out titles that match (i.e., sponsor, sponsorship) so you only get organic content.

Ah, beat me to it!

Don’t forget to check your Amazon Alexa privacy settings to disable personalized ads, and for using your Alexa data for ads. Likewise, you can have it to where while Amazon keeps a log of what is said, it won’t save voice recordings.

It definitely is! It has helped me so much with the clusterfuck that is REGEX and figuring out what I did wrong 🙃