Two reasons for me, but they’re mainly because of the MagSafe:

1. In the car, I just plop my phone onto the charger, and it holds it and charges it.
2. At home, I also use iOS 17 Beta, so I can use the StandBy.

Of course it has its drawbacks, but this assumes that I need to use my phone all the time (no), I can’t spare even 5 minutes to not charge, or that I need to top up from 10% to 100% in 5 minutes for some reason, which I don’t. If I do, then sure, I use the cable. Through the past year, I needed to charge my phone through the cable maybe twice.

…this is literally something an intern could write in a single afternoon.

I guess I am a cross between “Normie” and “Conservative”. I use macOS and Fedora daily, I watch MKBHD but also watch FOSS YouTubers. I use WhatsApp, but only because, in Netherlands, it’s impossible to live without it. I don’t use any Chromium, and I use Firefox, but I also use Safari.

Fuck getting labeled.

Thanks for the feature idea! I’ll add “Block Instance” function to my app.

No problem. Sorry for sounding a bit emotional, I had a rough few days 😅

The issue was me setting “undetermined” as my preferred language. Turns out, you must press “X” in the web ui right next to the preferred language option.

In the essence, preferred language may have “undetermined” and “null” (both displayed in the front-end as “Undetermined”) as a valid entry, while neither being the exact same value in back-end, but being the same for the front-end.

Yeah, that guy is a prick.

That was me. Sorry, was waiting for my brother’s results in the hospital, and I tried to occupy my mind with anything that’s not his health right now. I only slept for 3 hours in the past 32 hours 😅

I’ll try to spell “renaissance” good next time.

It seems easy, but the moment you ask the user to “choose their instance” - you already push away a lot of untechnical people. What is an instance? How do I know which one is good? Will I be able to talk to people on other instances (look at Lemmy, some instances are blocked by other instances)? Why do I even have to choose an instance?

From an UX standpoint, that’s a disaster. Stuff like Lemmy or Mastodon will remain forever a niche, because of that.

EDIT: Typo

Okay, try explaining it to my 51 years old father. Or someone who really isn’t into tech in general.

Federated stuff will work for you and I - technically knowledgeable people. But we are a tiny fraction of population. The success of WhatsApp lays in its super simplicity.

Oh I think there is hundreds reasons to shit on Apple, but this ain’t one of them.

Great! If you’re technical and not have iOS. That’s already 50% of British market not using it.

Besides, it won’t help you if that’s a government mandate, and Google will be forced to take it down for the UK market from the store. Not a lot of people are installing apps from outside the Play Store.

Everyone commeting here saying “good, we will switch to X” is absolutely stupid. This law means no iMessage, no Signal, no WhatsApp, no Telegram, no secure encrypted messaging for anyone.

What’s the show?

Yeah, but I rarely if ever leave those constraints, so it does not matter to me at all. Day to day, I use macOS anyway, and Mint only comes on my desktop PC.

Kites… wow.

Mint. Easy to setup, fast to run, and very reliable.

Facebook makes a product that squeezes every last drop from your privacy? Nooooooo waaaay!