RonanTheGrey

Yeah was just looking at the OnePlus phones for the first time today... look pretty amazing. Definitely a price premium but if it gets the job done without a Bixby button hey.. could be a winner.

> How is this achieved in practice?

You were accountable to each other, not to an authority. Authority gets you enough to do the bare minimum to not get fired or not get caught.

Being accountable to each other feels very very different. It's tough to explain in an HN post but anyone who has felt the difference knows what I meant. You care what your peers think. You care about that authority only enough for them to leave you alone.

Never let it be said that shame isn't an effective tool.

Took me a year to print something for my mom the last time she needed it because I simply KNEW that inkjet was going to be impossible when I needed it. And, lo and behold it was.. It was a Canon Pixma G3200, one of the ones with the built-in inkwells. When I finally decided to face the frustration I knew the thing would present me with, it threw an error.

It took a fair amount of time to track down the error (a particular pattern of blinking lights) that meant "the ink cartridge is inserted incorrectly." Ok.... I thought to myself, this thing doesn't even have cartridges.

At which point I bought the Brother laser printer I currently have that has not failed me even once.

How are you finding it? I'm planning to make the leap off iPhone once my current phone is out of warranty (2 months left) and am in the market for a high quality but not obscenely priced Android phone. Google phones seem to be the least weighed down by manufacturer crapware. The 4a is the one I'm looking at.

I do plan to flash either Lineage or some other custom ROM though.

It has to do with needing, not wanting, access to a sufficiently large market to have even a remote chance of success.

Can you imagine anyone who wanted to make an app now, without publishing on either the Google Play Store or the App Store "in protest"? That's the option you're giving them. "Ask for more gruel or fail" and you're calling that a choice. Lets be honest here, indeed.

You know perfectly well what I meant and refused to touch the point.

I think it's widely recognized that Sophie's Choice is not a choice.

Guilty until proven innocent with absolutely zero data. You're doing well, keep going.

There might be a chicken-and-egg problem here -- if someone creates an account to use their headset, Facebook's problem is that it locks the accounts before you can ever attach your headset.

Allow attaching a headset to unlock the account?

Or just don't require connecting to FB at all to use it, I mean... shrug.

I was going to make a reddit-like crack about "please sir can I have some more gruel" but dang asked me to keep it clean so I'll respond a bit more high brow by mentioning that I think you don't realize how that's not actually a solution.

Ok. I want to run iSh by installing it from the developer's signed build. That's what I want to do. Can I do that?

> I’m suggesting that consumers should buy a product that that suits their needs.

It's cute you think this is why people buy things.

Also, you're completely missing the point here. Developers have no choice but to developer for Apple and that means that whatever Apple says, Apple gets. That's called bullying, at the very least, and I'm not alone in asserting that it extends into behavior that should at least be regulated.

Mind you, the only reason I think so is that their user base exceeds 1 billion users. There's a public interest in things when numbers are that big. If we were talking about some company with only a million users, the case would be much weaker.

I'd still like a good explanation why I can't do what I want with my phone.

You don't want do to that? Good, don't. Make it so that I can, if I have to tick a box somewhere hidden in Apple's labyrinthine and undiscoverable Settings app.

Of course, we already know the answer why I can't do what I want with my phone, because it isn't my phone, is it, Apple continues to think of it as theirs and they simply grudgingly rent it to you for awhile all the while treating you the user as the enemy.

My short term plan is to get an Android device, root it and install something else.

Long term plan is to keep an eye on Librem and get one when it actually ships possibly after an iteration or two. Or not, I might get one sooner if I think I have some time to try to build something for it.

Satire has historically performed much better in courts than "educational purposes" has, so you might be on to something.

100% yes it is piracy; but to remove the stigma from the word for a moment, I view this issue as an echo of something I've been thinking about recently:

Our society - civilization even - has fallen victim to the belief that there are certain kinds of control over human behavior that are possible and desirable, kinds of control that have never succeeded in human history, and attempting to lock music in a tiny little box to which very few people have the key, is one of those things that has never worked. To expect that to work now is.. so blindingly short sighted that I personally find it fantastically hilarious when it fails.

I don't necessarily think this applies to all professions or all aspects of human behavior but music itself is older than any human civilization and attempting to lock that away is going to be a fight with human nature itself.

And yes, I realize that some people believe that attempting to change that is a good thing. I'm not one of them.

On that my friend we 100% agree. Widening the window of discussion, I would view it as a 100x societal good for Twitter itself and anything that pretends to it, to disappear.

I'll be honest, I don't see your post as a reply to anything I said... so I'll just leave all this as it is.

Stop looking at right now, today, this week. Look forward. Look forward to when you are old; look forward beyond your lifetime; look forward to when this time in history has been forgotten by the cultural memory, to when the transitory arguments of today, this afternoon, or this year, have been forgotten; and ask yourself what kind of world you don't want to see, even if it means you ruefully admit it makes things harder now.

That introspection has been lost and probably, the human race won't survive this period if we don't figure it out.

The first amendment protects a natural right, a right we all have, one we are NOT supposed to trample on each other. The 1st comes out of the framers ensuring that the government respects an already-existing right - it does not create one.

That right, then, cannot be upheld if half the country believes it's ok to silence the other half.

There's a huge value disconnect here and that's the fundamental problem. What one CAN do and what one SHOULD do are very different things and I think people's pragmatism is blinding them to how this will work out for people 100 years from now.

100% agree with that.

"They were so busy asking if they could they didn't stop to question if they should."

What if the truth of a statement takes 6 months to suss out?

Wouldn't practicality dictate we err on the side of caution, meaning the statement is allowed before it's blocked?

Because the alternative situation is, something that NEEDS to get out never does only because it takes so long to prove.

Illegal content, in however the courts have agreed what 'illegal' means. Also spam, to what a reasonable person would consider spam -- and a political opinion isn't spam.

The limits you're talking about have always been enforced by governments because, ya know, the people agreed those were reasonable. We actually get a say in what our standards of speech actually are.

Not an unelected king who rules by fiat on a platform used by 10's or hundreds of millions of people.

They won't answer.

Sorry, I want to know what my public servants are saying. How we can we make sure they are serving us if their words are being hidden from us?

I wonder how you'll feel when they do this to you or someone you care about.

I don't quite understand the epistemic certainty people have that such weapons will never be turned against them, especially when history so dramatically demonstrates the opposite.

I use OneDrive. The price is right for 1TB of storage, they have tools for mac, windows, Android and iOS. I know using MS services is not everyone's cup of tea but it's something to look at anyway.

> Google apps is hard to cut off when you have school age kids though.

Tell me about it, the classroom is Google's next territory to invade and they're already making solid headway. Between Classroom, hangouts/meet and School email, I can't stay away from them.

Luckily my kids' new school doesn't use these products but the outlook for avoiding them for the next 14 years doesn't look good.

Gmail is the linchpin in their whole ecosystem. Break that, and it suddenly gets a lot easier to use various products without being stuck on Google.

100% the Trojan horse. I don't know that it started out that way... but it certainly is now.

> Next up is Google Docs. Sheets is going to be tough.

Microsoft 365 is reasonably priced and you can use the web-based versions for free.

> I use OneDrive instead of Drive (I get 1TB thanks to the Office family plan), which is ok.

I just moved everything out of G Drive and iCloud and all of it into OneDrive. Super happy. Might look at Nextcloud or Carbonite though.