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My extreme prejucide is he is indeed obsessed with his health. Human health sometimes is not about the bad things we get? but how well do we handle those curve balls.
About this part, I'm not sure I understand.
"deMicrosoft" was, and is a thing. See "windows 7 umattended edition" or "windows 10 reclaim scripts". Same with android and custom roms.
Corporate greed bloats up perfectly fine operating systems for as long as I can remember, and de-bloating them has and is still a thing.
Stock android is not so bad (2023); android has to cater to a broader ecosystem of vendors and hardware, hence the heterogenity and the overall not streamlined experience that comes with it, that much is certainly true.
I'm reallt happy with it.
In the past the app has gone the lengths of make us try to use their own assistant (!).
Why the fuck would I ever want to use a voice assistant from my garage door provider? Seems like a desperate attempt to enter a market that doesn't even make sense for them as they currently are.
Majora's mask or twilight princess comes to mind (while not even having the latter in my favorite games list)
Spain's central gov's been found to actively spy trhough malware politically opposing parties[1], so hearing they are against e2e encryption just sounds about right.
> You need a Google account to log in
This is absolutely blatany lock in, let's not sugarcoat or pretend it is not at least.
Google search is such a shitfest right now, you have to scroll a full page in a 100% 4k screen to get to actual results, it's absolutely disgusting.
I don't care if they search is unoptimal or downright bad. The ad situation is so much worse IMO.
It's a blog post, he definitely can say what he thinks, orthogonal to unprofessionality.
It's up to the reader to understand that's his view of reality and without any hard proof we should take his view as a data point, and potentially an erroneous one. Nothing more.
Last we need is people writing accusatory white papers to explain themselves over an opinion they had on a personal blog post.
The case had already escalated to the EU.
I'm happy to say I find coding extremely fun. I like everything in it, even the most irritating bugs ( some of these will turn into stories down the line, we all remember THAT bug).
It was just surprised by the description. I never even considered there could be people in the computer engineering businees who'd legitimately could not like coding.
On the professional world, where money and titles are put on the head of people, things hardly ever go that way, I believe for many reasons but mainly due to competitivity.
Regardless, really happy to hear your experience and story. I'd love to be at an actual team as you put it.
For every single search, I have to consistently scroll one page down to skip ads and product matches ala "google shopping" belt. It's just insane.
To my eyes and experience over 10 years interacting with people, I have seen nothing of the sort, for which I believe this kind of culture must be very conditioned to the right (or wrong?) mix of individuals that by far do not make justice to the average SV engineer.
Is that really true though?
Scrolling through the permission list on teams, there's a whole bunch I don't usually expect on most apps, ie. "Route calls through the system" (id imagine this is the one needed to implement voip service on top of android).
And it gets even worse for apps that can create corporate profiles so they can be administratively controlled remotely by the corp. That's next level of permission bs one has to give up to.
Such crazyness, like why?
I don't think you are taking into account the outcome when one persistently fails (or cannot) cover its human needs.
Give me an excruciatingly painful, slow-killing terminal illness, and tell me how do you not see suicide as a rational option.
I think there are quite other social networks that tried to retain the "universal identity" idea while completely and entirely missing this point.
> surrender at first attempt
The irony