Fucking fascists.

FaceID information is stored locally. You have to remember that FaceID isn’t just a picture - it’s a 3D depth scan using LIDAR. If every phone transmitted that information to Apple whenever phones were unlocked it would consume an absurd amount of data and thus money.

This. The window in which water isn’t solid or a gas is very, very small.

The Iranian government is a piece of shit but they absolutely have the right to defend themselves. Military infrastructure being used to launch attacks from foreign soil is fair game. If you don’t like the idea of another nation attacking you in retaliation then maybe consider that next time you agree to host a US military facility on your land, let them use your airstrips, or otherwise supply them with arms/resources.

And, naturally, not a single mention of the opening hours of the war involving a US cruise missile being parked in a school full of nearly 200 children.

Cool, now fucking do something about it.

Ehhh, yes but also no.

8gb will struggle if you really push it, but MacOS handles RAM management well enough that most everyday tasks will work fine. But if you’re really pushing the Neo often enough then it’s probably not for you anyway. The 16gb Air would be a better pick in that case.

Love how China and Russia are cited as being the source of the tensions and there isn’t a single mention about America’s threats of war against Canada and the EU which has lead to their mass rearmament plans. Canada in particular is months away from dropping several billion on new non-American subs.

Whenever something like this happens where women speak out or something is done to benefit their safety, men just love showing up to give opinions that nobody asked for.

You could paste this article link in the most progressive-minded group you can think of and, like clockwork, a significant amount of men will be like “Ok great, but…” and drop some turd of a comment that beautifully highlights just how ignorant they are as to how unsafe women actually feel.

Hannah Gadsby did a fantastic show called Nannette which heavily goes into these topics and her own personal experiences. I can’t remember the exact quote but she said something like “If this is all surprising to you then you’re not talking with the women in your life.”

I’ve had a personal boycott against EA (and Ubisoft, Activision, etc) for over 10 years now and time and time again I get reminded how good of an idea it was.

Also helped by the fact that EA titles are like $100 now and I’d much rather burn that money for a few minutes of heat than give it to the criminals at EA.

I think it would be better to get humanity out from under the boot of tyrants before you make such judgements. We still live under the crushing oppression of kings, albeit under different names and often from the shadows.

This. Trump is just the puppet that talks funny on camera. The actual people pulling his strings are the ones behind shit like this.

There are definitely a few times he’s gone off the rails and his handlers have had to rein him in, but he’s not the one calling the shots.

Only 205? I would’ve thought we’d be in the thousands by now.

The issue I’ve had with the “Just shop somewhere else. Don’t use Amazon” is that it’s very US-specific response. Amazon has absolutely dominated the online shopping space in Canada for years because they are one of the few companies that dealt with the biggest reason why shopping online in Canada has been difficult: Shipping. $20-$40+ domestic shipping fees are normal in Canada for most other retailers which means you could be paying double the cost of your order (or more) just on shipping alone, so as soon as Amazon came in and offered free coast-to-coast shipping they had basically won the market instantly. There were teething issues, of course, and their earlier shipping contractors were horrendous but they did smooth most of that out.

Nowadays they still have very little competition that can beat them on shipping, but there are more and more options popping up. There are some Canadian online stores that offer free shipping or free if over a certain reasonable amount. The COVID pandemic really pushed a lot of local retailers to set up affordable online ordering and delivery systems for local customers, so that has also become an option. Aliexpress has also greatly improved their free shipping process to Canada and considering most of what Amazon sells is just rebranded Aliexpress stuff, it’s a great way of getting the same items for cheaper if you’re ok waiting a few extra days. So most of my online purchases these days have been a mixture of Canadian retailers and Aliexpress.

Israel will never accept a ceasefire. They will never accept peace. They will never accept anything other than complete genocide and annihilation of the Palestinian people and their homes.

To even entertain the idea that Israel would accept and respect a ceasefire is an insult to the Palestinian people.

Triple O’s (local chain) is my favourite.

McD’s for 2nd least favourite due to giving me the runs every time. Burger King for 1st least favourite for being disgusting.

As you’ve pointed out, Vivaldi is based on Chromium so you are still indirectly supporting Google’s browser monopoly.

Qwant is a decent search engine but they share certain information, including IP’s, with uptream search providers such as Microslop and Google. I do believe they have a partnership with Ecosia to develop their own joint search engine/crawler but until then they both rely on Bing and Google and have to share information as per agreement terms. As always, check privacy and ToS agreements for full details.

Search engines are kind of in shit place right now with so many being either A: American, or B: relying on Bing or Google (secret third option: both A and B). As for browsers, Firefox is also in a shit place right now but there are numerous excellent forks that strip out all of Mozilla’s stupid stuff. Waterfox, Librewolf, just to name a couple.

Sometimes I use my phone so little that I only need to charge it every 2-3 days. Nearly everything that it does my PC can do better and not try to lock me in to a dozen different monthly weekly subscriptions.

It is wild to me that Brave still maintains such a highly regarded position amongst privacy “enthusiasts” and websites. The godawful news about the browser, its company, and the CEO has been constant since the day it was first announced and it’s clear as water that the browser is not private nor even remotely ethical. Far as I am concerned, it should have faded from the public conscious back when they were injecting their crypto referrals to skim money without you knowing. Or all the times the CEO opened his mouth and revealed that he is a supreme piece of shit.

And even if it was private, just the fact that it’s yet another Chromium browser is a total non-starter for me. I am so sick and tired of the ocean of alternative browsers that directly or indirectly support Google’s browser monopoly, often while proclaiming they are a great Chrome alternative.

What the fuck

Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. Also subreddit mods will sometimes remove such posts.