ratelimitsteve

It won't though. Because someone made money, and money is the only legal, moral or ethical force in our society today.

They don't get any indication that there was data there to be deleted, and you don't just factory reset but flash w an image of a clean phone that's been used. It has apps, it has accounts, it looks to the untrained eye (because that's who's looking at it) like a phone that was used normally by someone who has done nothing wrong.

*writes zero on a whiteboard labelled "days since the IDF initially denied involvement in the murder of a child, claimed the blood libel, then quietly admitted to doing exactly what they were accused of years later"

dark -> dark

light -> light

os preference -> os preference

into

dark -> impossible to know with just this info

light -> impossible to know with just this info

os preference -> impossible to set via the app

if you absolutely have to account for the third case, then you need an explicit option for it and should be able to tell the user what their current os preference is. all the information i need to make a decision should be present in the interface, and the underlying code should do what the fuck i tell it to, not what it thinks i meant.

they say if you do something you love you'll never work a day in your life

For those about to ask the obvious question, the company that built the plant that charged half a billion dollars in exchange for not much of anything at all donates between $3 and $5 million per year, more or less evenly split across parties but slightly favoring republicans.