Some Americans.

Stupidity knows no boundaries.

This guy is as dumb as they come

Mozilla needs to fix their poor image before trying email.

Frankly, after the last few years I don’t trust them with a browser, let alone email.

Not happening. I already pay for an email service that has been privacy centric from the start, and has none of the bad news Mozilla does.

Mozilla has flat out lied to us about changes in Firefox with “No, you just misunderstood what we’re doing” . Why should anyone trust them with email?

Pound sand Mozilla.

Lol, Play is an exploit.

After 30 years in IT, I’ve seen 100x more systems taken down by updates than by exploits.

Actually, I’ve never had a system taken down by an exploit, 100% of outages have been caused by borked updates or changes.

I’ve had friends who’s clients have been taken hostage by exploits, and 100% of those have been because of poor security practices and phishing - neither of which is preventable by updates.

Here’s a question, if almost no-one sideloads or uses FDroid, where do people get the millions of malicious apps from? Play Store.

So where’s the problem again? Oh, yea, Play Store.

Why does Play need Play Protect if practically all apps come from Play Store?

Nah, then stuff breaks.

That’s only about 30 years too late.

Are they going to stop making shitty food, too?

I’d rather have bezels - they make holding a phone easier.

So, they’re smaller, right? Or is that not how measurements work?

This whole argument is nonsense, and doesn’t change the pint that 6.3 is not “compact”.

That we can find any phone smaller given the market today, means it isn’t compact.

The Samsung S4 Mini was compact compared to the S4, by design.

Plenty.

And that’s an irrelevant strawman and goalpost move all rolled into one anyway. I’m currently running a Pixel 5,which is noticeably smaller.

6.3 is not compact.

Android isn’t Linux, Android is a Java implementation using a Linux kernel (IIRC) - the Linux part isn’t even “complete” - when you root you find there are tools you need to add to get typical Linux capability (busybox, init-d, etc). .

So you’re not going to install an Android APK on Linux or anything else, unless it emulates Android.

The language used doesn’t mean much - lots of stuff for Windows was written using C languages, and those would never run on Linux or Unix.

I guess we’re making up our own definitions these days… 6.3 is now compact?

If I understand you correctly, the developmental changes occurring between releases (every little step change/test) won’t be visible to us, just the final results in the form of the release code? (All corrections/clarifications accepted, hell, requested). We’d still be able to compile, but we wouldn’t necessarily have code for those small, incremental changes.

Their claim that they dropped sms support because engineering costs causes me to question them.

There are free sms apps. Android handles SMS, an app just reads/writes the SMS database via an API.

Phone numbers are heavily tied to a person.

What signal had going for it is encryption, but that major flaw of tied to phone number makes me doubt everything else they say.

The phone number link means forward security isn’t possible. If ever the encryption is hacked, all your messages could be forfeit by anyone who’s simply kept the encrypted data.

Anyone related to anyone with 23andme gets a clone!

About every 3 days or it gets wonky.

Newly setup too, about 2 months ago, Android 13

And peoe want that sweet, sweet, “convenience”.

I want proper use of swap/cache by default, not something I have to root to get.

Why is my browser reloading pages because I switched apps, on a 6gb phone?

I could prevent this on a 2gb phone in 2017 with root by configuring it properly.

Unfortunately most people (even technical people) don’t think that hard, or can’t be bothered.

I said this as early as 2010, and my technical peers (I’m in IT) called me paranoid.

EVERY vendor does this, I can’t imagine why you’d think otherwise.

I can go to a vendor I bought one piece of hardware from 20 years ago, and just give them my name, phone number, anything, and they can find my orders.

My local community theater has a record of me buying tickets from them, one time, 15 years ago.

No, you don’t have to register to use a warranty. There’s federal consumer regs in the US that doesn’t allow this.

You don’t have to register - a warranty exists regardless of registration.

If course you’ll have to give your name and address to use the warranty.