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Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” (bsky.app)
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[–] 678 points 1 year ago (57 children)

And this is why having 3rd party app stores is important. It’s why it matters that Google is killing side loading, if two fucking companies get to decide what you can do on your phone, we’re in a bad spot technology wise

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  • [–] 422 points 1 year ago (35 children)

    We're in a bad spot technology wise

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  • [–] 69 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    No doubt. I’ve gotten to the point where I have like 6 apps on my phone and it’s in lockdown mode on iOS. And I’d be on grapheneOS if I wasn’t required to use iOS for work.

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Can you have your job pay for an iPhone while you have a different personal phone? I’m a big fan of keeping a work device that’s separate from a personal device.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    I probably could, but I’m also a recovering drug addict and my partner is pretty hesitant about a second device as it’s another way to hide things. However I’m the head of the MDM team so I’m not really nervous about what the company can see

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    I thought you were head of the MDMA team for a second and thought that could be rough as a recovering drug addict

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Definitely got the experience required for the job

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Oddly I’ve only tried MDMA a few times and it never really worked. There’s some anecdotal evidence that it doesn’t work for those with bipolar which I do have, that might be the one drug I could be in charge of with no temptation actually

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    MDMA doesn't work for me, nor does cocaine. What does that say about me? I don't care to be honest... but the pro is, I will never get addicted to either of those, which is nice, I suppose. Anyway, what were we taking about?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Hey, just in case you haven't heard this before - maybe book an ADD/ADHD test if some of the indicators resonate with you.

    I have a diagnosed friend who also said the same thing about stimulants not having the expected effect. It's apparently common for drugs like cocaine and MDMA in people with ADHD.

    https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/cocaine-and-adhd

    https://theforgerecovery.com/mdma-and-adhd-understanding-the-effects-on-neurodivergent-individuals/

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Thanks, very nice of you to send me these links. The thing is for me, I refuse to see my ADHD tendencies (never officially diagnosed, but pretty sure) as any kind of illness or shortcoming at all. It's just the way I am. Fortunately I have the luck to live a life where it doesn't affect me negatively, so I don't see a reason to question it.

    The links talk about cocaine having a calming affect instead of a stimulating one. That's funny, because I'm not even sure if it has an effect at all, I'm to dense to really notice any effect. To each his own.

    By the way, i just came home from a nights out and I'm on amphetamine, which definitely has an effect I notice. It cures my anxiety and lets me feel at ease. I'd never write these posts without it. Drugs are strange...

    I wish you the best my friend!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    That's a perfectly healthy & grounded view, my friend. :) Apologies if I came across as pushy or like something that "should" be done. It's awesome that it doesn't impact your daily life!

    Drugs are certainly an adventure and hit everyone differently. Sometimes the adventure is life changing, be it bad or good.

    Wishing you the best too! Hope it's been, and continues to be, an awesome night. Thanks for the wholesome exchange <3

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    We rapidly need to switch to Linux Mobile. PostmarketOS and Mobian are the two most promising projects, and I would highly recommend anyone reading this to donate to them if you have the means.

    Both projects directly use your donations to hire developers to build and polish the critical essentials to get this alternative viable as a daily driver.

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    And the open source movement is such a blind spot to the 'left' as well, even though technology freedom is critical if you want to be able to organise any type of resistance in the digital space.

    Lemmy users largely get it, obviously, but centre left people will happily let themselves get locked into the Apple/Google walled gardens even though you're just giving that company a ridiculous amount of power over you.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Right? The collective dismissal of Mastodon from leftist influencers when the Muskening happened was eye opening.

    Like, there's a collaborative, volunteer-based platform right over there. You want mutual aid? Open-source is as mutual-aid as it gets.

    But it's nerd shit.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Yeah it's unhinged, FOSS is as communism in practice as it gets right now and the left just ignores it, dismissing it as "tech bad" because they can only think in AnPrim brainrot terms most of the time and judge only by aesthetics and make sweeping generalisations about social media that lack any and all imagination.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Because they are controlled opposition.

    The only time something not controlled got popular was TikTok and you saw how quickly both parties went to ban it in 2024 after normal people started talking about Gaza genocide in every day conversation. The American Congress worked together to ban it even though they couldn't agree on anything else.

    It went from an Asian platform where Asian people in the West connected with each other outside the mainstream blue pill/red pill false choice and shared culture as well as history that isn't taught, to "here's the truth about Jesus" and "the world is flat debate me" after that vote. Now it's full on MAGA.

    Mastodon is harder to control because servers can pop up organically, but I guess Threads was a hedge against that threat.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I originally got introduced to sociallist idiology through Richard Stallman's speaches. I know he had some, uhh... "interesting" things to say about Epstein's victims (which I believe he has since redacted), but his speaches are absolutely still worth listening to just for the content alone.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    People will never understand intricacies like that. On the other hand, the big tech corps do. We are doomed

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Yeah. And to think, it's a fairly small amount of nuance - it's very basic and intuitive and information about it is literally everywhere. We are hopeless when it comes to far more complex and nuanced social issues we face like rehabilitation or ethnocentrism or trans athletes or the what have you.

    People seem to think socialism and any progress is like "be nice to each other" or some stupid aestheticism about "empathy".

    There's basically no way to have a conversation with them most of the time, they are so far gone and their fully formed thoughts seem more like inaccurate shorthands, it's like trying to explain astrodynamics to a dog when it's actively trying not to understand them.

    Normies are the death of us all.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, people should have listened to the people warning of privacy concerns with online services. Now that your data is valuable, companies will do anything to extract it from you.

    Stop using those products, de-Google, install Linux, use self-hosted solutions.

    It will take some effort to switch. You get to decide how much effort you’re willing to expend in order to not sacrifice all of your privacy and control of your digital lives.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Just technology wise? I think it's a little deeper than just technology unfortunately

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Oh yeah, of course, but it feels like it's never part of the conversation, even among people whose opinions I respect and are, for example, super critical of AI and talking about enshittification and other issues in the online sphere, they never seem to take the step to check out Linux, or get off Twitter or whatever.

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  • [–] 137 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    "Sideloading" is their term, invented to make it sound like something it is not. We should not use this word. The correct word is "installing".

    You don't "sideload" on Windows when you install software outside of the Microsoft Store™️. There is no real difference or distinction with software on phones, so there is no need for a special word.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I can see Microsoft moving to the same sort of thinking as well. Apple already made Mac OS users jump through hoops when you want to install something from the internet or even through a third party package manager like homebrew.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Microsoft has been trying this for years already. That eventually led to Valve incresing their efforts in the Linux gaming front and releasing the Steam Deck.

    See this

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I wonder if Valve would ever get into the Linux Phone market.

    But for the platform itself to be open, I wonder how much would have to be recreated.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Does anybody actually enjoy gaming on the phone or just do it because there nothing better to do?

    I would perhaps buy a valve phone but I wouldn't want to game on it which sounds weird.

    Unless it was like a switch and had detachable joycons.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Oh same here. I'm hopeful that valve brings us a linux phone, not a gaming phone. I've never really gotten into gaming on mobile either.

    However, if they DO make a linux phone, I'm sure it will be Steam branded and have all kinds of gaming-specific tweaks.

    But again, to me that just sounds like it will have good hardware specs. So not a problem!

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Not to defend it, but the first time I encountered the term was when BlackBerry released their Playbook tablet. It ran their bbos10 and they created an android emulator so you could run some android apps. The process of installing the apk into the emulator was called sideloading.

    I miss BlackBerry is all I really wanted to say.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Yes, and then they ban that developer and their apps. It doesn't matter you can install apps outside of the Play Store, if Google still controls which apps you are allowed to install.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If people were more aware of how to make and install mobile web apps it would be less of a problem.

    At least on the iPhone you can still add a site to your screen that can behave a lot like an app, including camera access, location services, and even gyro. And it’s just a website like most “apps” are.

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