Well it tends to come up for me because I'm the tech person around the house and at work, so phone and other device / software recommendations tend to come my way. I don't really care what phone you use, I ain't that much of a prick.
CaptainAlchemy
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To be fair, unlike previous years iphone releases I've seen more skepticism than normal. I fully expected diehard apple users to be resenting the removal of the lightning connector due to excess charging cables. And while those comments exist, it is a very small minority of people. However with that said I don't fully understand the mindset of buying a phone that has limited or obsolete hardware / software. (ergo headphone jack, ergo missing software feature, ergo USB 2.0 from 23 years ago)
Once again, I'm still trying to figure out how apple users can defend this. Yes, Google maps had this feature, but everytime I talk to apple users I'm always told they got their phone because "it just works!". But then I learn that features I consider basic at best are completely missing. If my iphone should "just work" I expect the features I want to exist without another app installation. Things on iphone only seem to work if you don't know anything better.
I hate to say this, but this is a blessing in full view. If people want the "freedom" to not take a vaccine because "risks, 5G mind control, whatever" then let's let them. Life is full of risks and they need a wakeup call.
I feel like Google has two departments internally, a security research and implementation team and a Google ads team. One of them betters security for all android users and another gets bad press for making bad decisions with YouTube, chrome, or other Google services. I'd love to know how the culture is at Google. It's not like security conflicts with Google data collection practices but I still find out interesting to think about nonetheless
Samsung in terms of security, privacy and hardware is a total mess. I would avoid Samsung products at all costs.
Honestly briar would be my pick in an ideal world, you don't need an internet connection, just Bluetooth. Sure it has short range but its the starting point for decentralized messaging
Printers print very small dots on the sheet of paper you print so it canbe identified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
You love to see it, I genuinely smiled, probably not the normal reaction for most people but it makes me happy to see people use signal.
This makes me wanna get my Sony DSLR and start taking photography lessons again, this is awesome!
By far windows, windows lacks or doesn't fully utilize features like full verified boot, sandboxing which means even if a program installs itself it still has to ask for permission for mic, camera, etc. Adding on to the issues even the programs themselves can be unsafe. Running a program that uses a memory safe programming language is pretty rare and a lot of vulnerabilities come from memory allocation and buffer overflow bugs. Android attempts to mitigate these issues by sandboxing every app, all phones ship with verified boot and full disk encryption, and usually have a memory allocator of sorts. And if you run a degoogled ROM you'll mitigate the privacy issues by not having Google play services installed.
If you need some way to monitor these devices as an admin there are apps on android that allow this functionality, iOS has similar admin features.
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I think part of the "it just works" definition is the default apps should work without missing features, however you're not wrong, alternatives do exist.
Edit: spelling