What kinda scam do you mean. I’m using it since 2017 or so and never heard of it.

(Please don’t recommend me DuckDuckGo - I’d rather use Startpage or Qwant for personal reasons)

At least Ecosia delivers

Thanks kind Lemming :D

I’ve decided to answer your, likely rhetorical, question from your first comment and this one in one comment instead of two:

Perhaps the tankies are making you question some deeply held beliefs you have and that’s making you uncomfortable?

You’re not wrong here. Even if my views don’t differ that much in many ways from even the lemmygrad or hexbear users (at least on economical terms) there’s still some topics that I just do not share their views on (You mentioned their stand on authoritarianism) and it does make me uncomfortable because very often you either have to 100% agree with them or are instantly excluded.

In the end, I’m usually hopping on to see memes to give my brain some distraction, enjoy some good banter or laugh at some quality memes and not see yet another online civil war unfold.

And for the last I’m often just too tired to participate in after 8hrs of work

Yeah, I’m on that too, but I have yet to adapt to it

For some reason I currently want to edit Putin’s wand to be a long ass table

If it helps increasing the movement I am willing to use it

Haha, and I took the logo from Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lemmy_Logo.svg

I just love the fact that Mark Ruffalo is using Mastodon

If that finally gets me laid, not having a beard is a sacrifice I am willing to make

Haha, I had that experience with openSUSE Plasma exept that both openSUSE and Plasma are free and open source.

I mean, I kinda know these struggles from when I was sowly replacing my Micro USB stuff by USB C out of comfort. But that phase went by and now I’m happy to have a plug for almost everything… And Lightning always kept me from considering Apple products as I didn’t want to have yet another plug.

Still better than: “Can you borrow me your charging cable? Oh, you got USB-C. Well shit!”

I’ve once seen a poll on Reddit where Android was leading with ~60% against Apple with ~40% but idk how trustworthy those polls are since they rely on user input instead of concrete OS data gathering and it was ofc a subreddit poll so it just reached a small group of Redditors

I mean, there are a lot of “ifs” in that article but I don’t feel like discussing that out so I’m accepting that issue. Even if they were the inventors they were very reserved using it (apart from their new Thunderbolt ports) and in (tech) history the credit often doesn’t go to those who created a thing, but to those who made it popular.

sudo zypper in firefox

That phone would literally survive fat man & little boy combined!

You are confusing USB C to Thunderbolt (which has adopted USB C)

Yeah likely, not as if they needed to stay competitive with such a loyal fanbase

USB c is what almost everyone except for Apple has kind of agreed on anyways (except for parts the notebook market and some older tech that still uses micro usb for some reason)

It’s not like in 2004, where Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and so on each had their own plugs…

And take a look at the PC market, where USB has been a thing since 1996 (I definitely did not have to google that *cough cough) ofc the plug evolved, but the design stayed the same so that you can plug 27 year old usb peripherals into your new shiny gaming PC. And I’ve had phones with USB c since 2016/17, so that has also been around for quite a while now.

About the 3rd party apps I can say: you are always free to stay within the “walled garden”. Not just on Apple, but on Android as well.

If it wasn’t for privacy I wouldn’t need 3rd party stores at all as Google Play features almost every (legal) Android app in existence. 3rd party apps give me the opportunity to choose between a big tech store and a community open source alternative. Having store monopoly increases the risk of dictating “agreements” & levies to app devs who need to submit to get their software to the end user.