shortly before his writing style was brought into the political mainstream in the 2016 presidential election.
Omg lmao
What in the god damn
"Nova" means "awesome" or "amazing" kinda
Apple's made privacy a fairly large part of their value offering recently.
The problem is that that's mostly marketing smoke and mirrors. They define privacy as not giving your data to third parties (who aren't subcontracted with them), not actually refusing to collect in-depth data or link it to your personal identity. There have been a number of pieces of evidence released recently that show that they actually collect as much if not more data about you then Google does, and tend to ignore your privacy settings.
The amount of effort required to root a phone hard enough to where apps couldn't stalk me wasn't helping.
Depending on your phone, you could use GrapheneOS (which is super easy to set up compared to rooting and basically the best security and privacy you can get in any smartphone) or CalyxOS. Both easier (and more effective) than rooting, and certainly better than Apple.
I get equivalent notifications from my Android phone on my watch, and I'm almost positive the PineTime is compatible with iOS too, so tentatively yes?
Yup, it's basically an eternal truth at this point lol
I don't think so, no, it's pretty sparse on the health tracking side of things.
The battery truly does last for an impressive amount of time, even actively connected to gadgetbridge on my phone. I get a bit more than a week out of it typically. I can't really say how good the sub counting is I think it's just based on an accelerometer but it doesn't seem any worse than what I had in my Fitbit
Sealed means the back plate is glued on whereas the development version lets you remove the back plate with screws. I got the sealed version because it's more water resistant and I've been nasty habit of annihilating my electronics with water but honestly I'd recommend getting the dev version if you want
Agreed, that'd be nova
You should watch this video about how much invasive user data MacOS collects and sends (in plaintext) to Apple's servers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMc5zgALLiY
And this one, about App Store tracking and them ignoring privacy settings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=016QGxOsjQY
And read this NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/19/opinion/apple-iphone-privacy.html
That's for iMessage. And you can get identical functionality from Signal on any Android phone with a secure element (like a Pixel). They don't encrypt iCloud backups, and regularly turn that info in to the government. And, ironically, those iCloud backups include messages, which aren't stored on their servers encrypted! According to the NYT: "Apple also has access to text messages that it says are otherwise encrypted when they are backed up in iCloud, a workaround that’s apparently necessary to aid law enforcement."
Not remotely. That would be GrapheneOS on a Pixel or CalyxOS on another Android phone. Apple is good in comparison to other stock vendors, sure. But it isn't the best option. Also, maybe read their privacy policy sometime: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww. It's enlightening stuff. They collect a lot, and use it for whatever they want as long as it doesn't leave Apple (or the businesses its partnered with).
Maybe not: "Apple is also building out its own online advertising business, portions of which a French privacy watchdog said may run afoul of European laws. The agency said that Apple doesn’t appear to require users’ consent for tracking, as it now does from other app makers, meaning it could benefit from the targeted advertising that its do-not-track feature is meant to hinder." (From the NYT article)
After all, why would a megacorporation turn down the opportunity to milk more profit out of their very captive (have you ever tried to get an Apple person to leave their walled garden?) income source? Remember, this is /c/cyberpunk lol