It’s pretty rare that you actively cant, but it makes sense a lot of businesses wouldn’t bother to try and assist you with doing that. But some definitely don’t want you to, and I get that that’s sad. Always makes space for a competitor though!

Isn’t there a similar issue with pianos?

Yes, and besides that no matter what you do you just can't get these virtuosos to tune their pianos on the spot ;)

So you've got to tune your guitar to sound good with them and probably not just matching your open strings to their corresponding notes.

While your electronic tuner flashes an ugly warning or the strobe tuner won't stand still :(

Very cool!

Agreed, it’s Unix like, homebrew is great, it’s like GP forgot about windows

There’s a huge amount of wishful thinking in this that people will care, and the Lenovo thing is just false.

I'm going to say this again. You aren't giving people credit where it's due. Those who live in democracies don't hold that privilege by not caring about anything. It's something that they constantly fight for.

The only specialty that we possess over others is a deeper knowledge about technology and the politics behind it. But it DOESN'T have to be exclusive to us. We're not the only ones fed up with this amount of BS from the gilded class. People do listen and act if we're willing to inform them. Even if everyone doesn't respond, there will still be enough to make a difference. Just dismissing their will like this is uncharitable at best.

Preaching to the choir mate. I’m just being realistic.

I'm talking about the ordinary people, not to the choir here. You're being cynical and defeatist, not realistic.

People won't care until they do.

After two years of talking up mastodon/pixelfed and most folks ignoring me, I've gotten 2 pings from family members about signing up and migrating off of twitter/instagram. It's only a matter of time and how quickly the rug gets pulled out from under folks I think.

It’ll get bigger for a bit for sure, but it’ll never be mainstream until they change some fundamental things about how they operate.

and network effects.

Maybe their closer contacts disappeared…

The “point” is very far in the past though. My 2016 ipad still working great for anything online.

Good for you? You’re just talking about vibes. Vibes are a baseless thing to go on.

This is a wantrepreneur forum not a peer published scientific journal, my opinions about vibes matter as much as private companies PR campaigns

Sure they do buddy.

Very specific complaint that has nothing to do with the amount of ram you have, that’s a software choice in iOS. Kinda a tangent for a top comment.

I had a China phone with amazing specs but it KEPT KILLING EVERYTHING.

Hardware is pretty useless if the software that drives it is useless. I don't know it probably works better in China all I know is that I went back to good old Samsung.

It's a pervasive Chinese phone problem. I've used many and they all have "Battery saving" features on by default, which means killing background apps after a while apparently. Battery life is great, but newly installed apps sometimes don't work as they should.

The market demands must be different there. I've disabled "battery optimisation" for all the apps I need to stay open (and some apps even prompt me to disable it!), and I don't have any issues in daily use.

That kind of aggressive process termination will be becoming less common since Android introduced freezer [1] optimization to put a background process to a completely unscheduled state.

[1] https://source.android.com/docs/core/perf/cached-apps-freeze...

Chinese apps are less optimized than western

if you run out of smartphone battery you are in much bigger trouble in China than in west since it's necessary to function almost everywhere, which is why they have rental powerbanks stand literally in every restaurant and every small grocery shop, you are never further than like 5 minutes walk from one in urban area

btw you can always put app to protected/not optimized list which usually solve problems with most of the western apps on Chinese phones (essential Chinese apps like WeChat are on the list by default)

> some apps even prompt me to disable it!

That's social engineering to get themselves more background network activity. I wouldn't trust such an app.

well health tracker which stops tracking when it's battery optimized isn't very useful, is it?

I have had many chinese phones (Huawie, Oppo, Xiaomi) over the years and the things they choose to kill in the background is odd. Web browsers and almoat any kind of banking app will be killed in minutes if not seconds. VLC... Depends on the day could be minutes or days. No idea why that one.

Hard to tell if it something I am doing or not. I will say with all these phones and everything google turned off I typically get 3-4 days per charge but that really depends on what your usage is.

It's because of a lack of centralized push message service. Here we have google cloud messaging to handle notifications for all apps. They don't have google in china, so each app establishes it's own connection to it's servers and that kills the battery. If you buy the global version of those phones it's often better.

You know how easy it’s become to find security vulnerabilities already with LLM support? Cyber terrorism is getting more dangerous, you can’t deny that.

I can deny that. The ability to find more vulnerabilities won't affect the majority of cybercrime. LLMs have been around for a while now and there hasn't been a noticeable significant impact yet.

And "more cybercrime" is a far, far cry from the sky-is-falling doomerism I was responding to.