• 0 Posts
  • 53 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: August 23rd, 2023

help-circle



  • … so why are eg flatpak apps less secure than Android ones?

    And Play & Apple stores are full of unchecked scam apps. They basically are solving this by securing the os more. Yet apps (even Instagram) can still take pics without your action. I assume they listed in on you too.

    The app (& SDK) argument I think has more to do with user- and dev-base. Something that Microsoft failed at in the mobile market. So basically we need a quality/seamless way of running Android apps on Linux.

    And since we can run Win games on Linux very nicely I think this wouldn’t be that much of an issue … Tho minimal industry support (eg banking apps) is still needed.


  • Yes, this.

    Google is slowly but consistently closing down the ecosystem (that should have been openv all the way through anyways).

    Just like with the search engine, the early ad-free serve-everyone-equally stage is dead. Now the monopoly is about to monetise what it can & control all the things.
    (Thighs might escalate a bit quicker since the “Googles android” is prob at it’s peak market share rn & the China alternatives are gonna steamroll even oven giants like Google and Apple to a significant extent.)


  • It’s a bit diffident when you don’t have big megacorp subsidies (Meta, Google, various local-market apps, etc) & have to buy all hardware from third parties. And perhaps not have planned obsolescence. And upsales. And ad revenue. And frown upon slave or unhappy workforce & other negative society impacts.

    Also it looks like an ok phone, low spec cameras, but still the usual dimensions, OLED, enough RAM & CPU to be usable in desktop mode, Linux.





  • Ok, yes, but the average answer was 50% (edit: 66%), so half of the people assumed less than 50%.

    I should have clarified that by ‘is data bullshit’ I meant it as the surveys work/overall effort - eg unclear questions or not making sure (actively or passively) if folk actually understood the question. It could be something stupid as a matter unclear ‘owns’ or ‘doesn’t own’, so people were answering in two ways ‘90% own’ and ‘10% don’t own’ … of witch the average is then the bs 50% bcs it’s the and metric.
    This is just one example of seemingly the simplest things going wrong in surveys & statisticians not having the data/balls to detect issues from datasets or rule the data in question out.

    Asking people questions is hard. They are people after all.








  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzExistential dread
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    43
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    "We have learned to steer humans! All it was needed was a sharp pain from a bright light directly into their eyeballs (below the eyelids), and since humans tend to avoid pain, they try to move away from the spots where we press the pain button.

    Well, except Jimmy12, he has been gooning all experiment long, so the controls need to be reversed."