I sure do

What is your stance on being able to give encryption keys to a third party without the other participants of a chat consenting, let alone knowing about it?

If someone in my contacts used bridges, effectively breaking e2ee, I’d want to know about it.

Ideally, people should not be allowed to do that without informing their contacts, at the very least.

You can just add lists to uBlock to your hearts content, though?

That’s true, but unless you’re 100% sure that you’ll only ever run a workload that fits those specs, I think you’d rather like having the extra memory.

The M3 is powerful enough that even 32GB can be a constraint for what you’d be able to run on it

Apple fans have a very different definition of the word convenience than I do, then.

It’s so annoying. They have the whole design industry by their balls with their great displays and perfect colour management in MacOS.

Putting more RAM in those models, or just cutting the lower-end models out entirely would do them no harm at all.

They could just sell appropriately specced computers and make absolute bank like they do anyway, but nooo, that would be too nice of them.

We’ll see how it plays out. Have the lawmakers even thought about if and how services have to inform users between one another about their respective TOS?

Like, I wouldn’t want to connect to another service before being presented with their terms and privacy policy. Only then should I be able to make a (now informed) decision on whether I want to do it or not.

I guess it all boils down to why you use a certain service. I use Signal to avoid having my messages handled by a service that belongs to Meta. Texting with a WhatsApp user would defeat the whole point for me.

Smaller services like Signal wouldn’t be forced to do it though, since they don’t pass the threshold to be considered a gatekeeper.

So we’ll have a situation where WhatsApp is forced to open up, but barely any of the private services will actually make use of it.

I can also see WhatsApp users being even less motivated to switch to better alternatives if everything was interoperable, so we go right back to its huge userbase being a problem anyway.

Idk, I honestly don’t see this law changing much in the messaging space. Though I will never disagree with consumers having more options.

That is exactly what Apple would say, isn’t it

Pairing a chip this capable with just 8GB of shared memory is also just a waste of good silicon. Which makes the price all the more insulting to me.

Like, this is the equivalent of Usain Bolt losing one of his legs

The thing is… I still wouldn’t want to send private messages to a WhatsApp user, because that would mean those messages are also handled by a service I specifically meant to avoid by switching to Signal.

But then again, Signal spoke out against it anyway, precisely for that reason.

If that doesn’t convince your friends, nothing will.

Even if they didn’t sell any data, that doesn’t mean they don’t collect a bunch.

You can tell me all you want, but personal data being so incredibly valuable paired with the fact that Apple was the first trillion dollar company…

Their overpriced hardware doesn’t play the only role here.

What about saying that their entire business model is exploiting stockholm syndrome?

Is it far fetched to say that they fight against Meta and Google because they want to be the only ones who have your data?

I don’t care who wins anything, both have their pros and cons. I prefer PC because I can tailor everything to be exactly like I want it to be.

And you know what, rising gpu prices have taught me to be more sustainable and consume less.

That being said, the 6700XT has been looking mighty fine for a while now

Graphics cards most of all have become insultingly expensive, yes.

Do consoles still need an active subscription to play online? That’s where they make their money, the hardware has always been sold at a loss.

So is he the monster and the other players run around as the declaration of independence?

He does it about as well as I’d expect a muskrat to do it, to be fair