The US or the ICC?

Nobody was coming to take the disc away from you after the online store shut down

See I keep reading this, especially here on Lemmy but since owning one, I’ve had more frequent updates than I think any phone I’ve previously owned, and definitely more than family who go with bigger brands.

I don’t know why they have this reputation, perhaps it was true in the past

That’s my point.

Regularly going to ATMs / banks is demonstrably less convenient for both consumers and businesses and safeguarding the cash presents a security risk, especially for small businesses.

But the alternative of digital payments comes at a huge cost to privacy.

Ok mate, I disagree but accept I’m not gonna convince you

It is more secure.

It’s much easier to steal cash than to force someone to unlock a device and make a payment, so yes it is more secure.

I didn’t say 100% unbeatable.

Security Privacy. They are distinct concepts.

For example, tokenised and biometrically authenticated transactions are more secure and more convenient than cash payments which are comparatively riskier, easier to forge, easier to steal etc.

However, this allows banks and payment providers to keep tabs on your transaction data, which cash does not.

Convenience and privacy are usually at opposite ends, security can come at either end depending on the medium.

Tbf it’s only been ten years since the mid 2010s so a bit early to know if they’ll keep going longer term

Sure but that alternative doesn’t work for anyone who already doesn’t own an Apple device. Also those two and a half billion devices you mentioned can’t run alt browsers due to Apple policy so you’re basically just picking another company to hand complete control to.

you can use contactless payment with Curve Pay

Banking app probably depends on the app

I’ve noticed Mullvad advertising a lot in London on billboards, tube station platforms and sides of buses. Not saying it’s a bad thing just that I noticed it, they must have really ramped up spending on marketing.

Probably in response to UK’s Online Safety Act

The Ninth

https://youtu.be/04njgbmEFD4?t=15

Whether you like it or not, some people want AI features and Firefox isn’t in a position to snub their users. At least they give you a choice of enabling/disabling that functionality

Excuse me, this is the internet. Nuance isn’t allowed here

I wouldn’t really call this a “report” when there aren’t any metrics in the reasoning other than price.

Even in their own article, it mentions how support and updates vary by manufacturer so it’s kind of meaningless to compare iPhone to the whole Android ecosystem. You’d need to choose one or more manufacturer in order to make an apples to apples comparison.

You are completely right.

I do also get why the run these commands is a thing, because it’s usually faster and also is distro / desktop environment agnostic.

Why would someone want to write separate guides for Gnome, KDE, Cinnamon etc. when one or two commands will suffice? But on the flip side, my family and friends will see a scary looking command and immediately be put off.

I feel it’s getting a lot better since more apps are just in the browser or electron apps, there’s way way less to actually configure for most end users. The type of people put off by commands generally won’t go digging through the settings anyway.

I do wish there were a proper GUI for configuring GRUB though. Any that I’ve ever found seemed to fall out of date very quickly.

BBC shows ads on some foreign services, but not in the UK

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Only solution is to write your own