Sure, but that’s a different issue, not covered under ‘imagine using Android’, I’d say. Also, as you said, used sales exist. One could argue that those also make a new Pixel more desirable, but that’s out of scope for me personally.

Few things one could ever do are perfect. I also think ‘rewarding’ Apple for recent decision, or at all, isn’t sensible or deserved. I also think that one or a few hardware sales probably aren’t going to have a significant effect on a corporation that size.

There are few tech products you can buy with a clean consciousness if you look at production and recycling practices as a whole. I still think buying a pixel, in whatever way, and putting Graphene on it, in this current moment, lands you with the best compromise between privacy, security, and freedom from ads and surveillance. But that’s subjective.

Android is still free enough for Graphene and other custom roms to be based on it. Which I feel is still a better option than iOS.

I have a windows VM for Adobe products, etc. Works fine for my usecase. If you need full GPU Acceleration (e.g. for Premiere), it gets a bit more complicated, but is doable still, as long as you have an iGPU or second GPU.

cloudflarestatus.com, seems to be hosted on AWS. Probably just got hammered because there was suddenly a lot of people caring about CFs status.

Yeah. What it probably won’t have will be the hoch res camera array for look-through the Vision Pro has, but as long as you’re more interested in it as a productivity tool rather than something that reproduces all the Vision Pro “sparkle”, I definitely see potential.

The vessel was built by Oceanco, a firm that’s done such a good job that Newell just decided to up and buy it outright in August

A yacht - and a yacht builder.

I’m pretty sure this is mostly supposed to be a gaming headset, with non-gaming applications being more of a bonus. The vision pro on the other hand seems more marketed as a anything-but-gaming headset.

Custom Roms like Graphene, Calyx are the answer. And there are quite a few finance apps that do work, look it up for the ones you actually need before switching.

Compared to the Pixel / Pixel Pro, the Performance difference is pretty much nil because they’re all on the same SoC.

Not really a drop-in replacement for video meetings. For that, Jitsi would be more sensible.

Hey, that was made at my former uni. And now I’m wondering whether other unis adopted it. It always seemed like a neat solution.

I do get it, and I could have phrased it differently. My point mostly is, it is often painted as an insurmountable problem for adoption, and while that might be true for a lot of users, there’s also a large number of user for who it isn’t.

Also, for me personally, I’d rather switch banks than use a phone with a stock rom, but I know most people don’t view things that way.

I know several banks who’s apps don’t need Google Attestation. I would also not use a bank that forces an app as the main point of contact as my main one. A lot of banks around here offer a tan-device as an alternative. There’s also a lot of transport associations that offer nationally valid chip-cards.

I do see why it’s a problem, but I also don’t think that one should let such services dictate their choice of mobile device. I do know that I come from a privileged position, living in a country where I have options.

I honestly don’t get why everyone is so hung up on banking apps. I run Graphene, and my bank’s app actually does work, but I wouldn’t really have a problem if it didn’t. They have a website that is pretty usable, and I don’t need an app to use my payment cards.

That’s kinda true of almost any place. Still, I get not wanting to go to Vegas, it sucks.

I still find them preferable. Less “sponsored” stuff, etc. More tags, etc. for search.

Nice, might go back to it then.

It makes them less worthwhile. But we can definitely agree that jellyfin’s security issues are also bad, and should be fixed.

On the one hand, maybe. On the other hand, the point here was more that the centralised design of Plex that necessitates an online account which might hold some private data makes such issues much worse, not that jellyfin’s issued should not be fixed.

Maybe? Like, I’d very much prefer they fix them, even though they do not impact my use case.