March 2023 they sold 20M Quests. Half as many as PS5. That counts as “taken off” in my book.

Google does indeed use Google Play Services to gate-keep the Ecosystem while keeping Android technically FOSS. Still better than Apple in this case, but hey… would you rather be hanged or beheaded?

My guess is that this tactical tornado here didn’t know the difference between a span and a div

Very amusing. I still know barely anything about him, but I’m thoroughly convinced.

I would guess they implement the check against the response, not the query.

3 Minute Reviews were good, but reviews are relatively easy to shovel out. Their essays were so bad, I started to actively avoid them.

The Anatomy of Sekiro comes to mind in particular. Competently structured but devoid of any meaningful observations.

It feels like these guys where working to meet a quota.

One week in NL and I’m wondering what we’re even doing over here.

So Apple is obviously an evil, profit seeking company that exploits users and developers, maintains a monopoly and actively hurts efforts towards openness.

But bro, what else am I gonna use? Do you think Google is any better.

And, as you already noticed, most open source alternatives suuuck. (Man, I’m gonna regret saying this on an FOSS community) With some research you’ll get a usable desktop OS for some use-cases, but phones such as Fairphone and Purism are another story entirely. Don’t even think about watches or tablets. I love the Purism Firefox demo, where they enthusiastically say: “With Settings unusable in Portrait, it’s time to switch to landscape mode”.

The “you think … yet you buy …” argument is pointless, because it ignores the realities of monopolies and globalism. I’m sure his T-Shirt that day wasn’t made from ethically sourced cotton or whatever.