I have a gmail account, but I have logged out of it on my phone and don't plan to log back it. It's an Android phone, but you don't need to have a google account active to use one. I have a $30/year fastmail account, where I can know what I am paying for.
Tip: if you want to log out of Google on your andoid phone, save your phone contacts to a vcard file on your sd card first, because you lose your google synced contacts when you log out. Then you can import your contacts to your non-google contact list and continue to use your slightly more free phone.
So, they've bought up the whole town, as you show. How altruistic of them. They get massive amount of control and domination in the process. Nobody ever gives that much away for 'free.'
What is a 'fandroid'? The rest of us just want hardware that is more open. I don't log into Google at all on my present phone any longer. I download apps I want from alternative sources, and have had little difficulty.
Google and Apple can pound sand in my world. Which, I know, is just my world, no more. But more and more of us are logging out these days.
Apple had one implementation. Then they started spending a lot of their money trying to prevent other implementations. A lot of us didn't like that. Thank goodness Microsoft/Hewlett-Packard managed to beak their back in the look-and-feel lawsuit. But Apple did a lot of damage in the meantime, running the competitors to Windows on x86 out of business. In a way, Apple created the Wintel monopoly.
It's just crapflooders. They don't care about anything. People argue for and against various issues and topics, but all they care about is smearing feces everywhere they can get away with it. They're clever, ya know.
There are still nutters today who gather at the periphery of abandoned strip mall parking lots with their restored Edsels to compare with their fellow enthisiasts.
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It's more the Bird/Lime model. Uber doesn't dump hardware they own out on public sidewalks.
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
-Roach Motel California.
From the title, I thought maybe this was about the Amoeba Operating System . No such luch, alas.
The space junk will be blocking on-trivial launches, though.
All so Facebook users can share their baby pictures and cat videos. And so Amazon can spam their mail order catalogs.
Hay, you're the one introducing scat to the thread.
No sir! A true expert bootstraps by cutting the appropriate diodes out of the diode array with a wire cutter! You only have to do it once!
Anybody who the situation is explained to, or who runs butt up against restrictions, will opt for open hardware. Not just zealots.
Yes, evil. But think about evil dude with a jammer in his pocket on a crowded commuter train full of Iphone users with their ear podlets.
On the legacy scale, Oracle is the punk ass salescritter of relational databases.
"Nerds store their data on punched paper tape, made of paper, which we don't entirely understand."
Go ahead and tell me everything you know about trees.
"Google scanning user's address books"?
Log out of your google account on your phone. Ponder the now completely blank contacts list on your phone. Think about who OWNS your address book.
I have a gmail account, but I have logged out of it on my phone and don't plan to log back it. It's an Android phone, but you don't need to have a google account active to use one. I have a $30/year fastmail account, where I can know what I am paying for.
Tip: if you want to log out of Google on your andoid phone, save your phone contacts to a vcard file on your sd card first, because you lose your google synced contacts when you log out. Then you can import your contacts to your non-google contact list and continue to use your slightly more free phone.
What Microsoft should do is build adblocking into Edge at the deepest levels. To block all of Google's advertising content.
So buy a fastmail account. It's only $30 per year, and they're really good.
So, they've bought up the whole town, as you show. How altruistic of them. They get massive amount of control and domination in the process. Nobody ever gives that much away for 'free.'
Apple almost immediately sued Microsoft when Windows 2 came out.
I am sitting in the seat behind you.
Area man constantly mentioning he doesn't own a television.
What is a 'fandroid'? The rest of us just want hardware that is more open. I don't log into Google at all on my present phone any longer. I download apps I want from alternative sources, and have had little difficulty.
Google and Apple can pound sand in my world. Which, I know, is just my world, no more. But more and more of us are logging out these days.
Apple had one implementation. Then they started spending a lot of their money trying to prevent other implementations. A lot of us didn't like that. Thank goodness Microsoft/Hewlett-Packard managed to beak their back in the look-and-feel lawsuit. But Apple did a lot of damage in the meantime, running the competitors to Windows on x86 out of business. In a way, Apple created the Wintel monopoly.
Po'Ratso stars in one on how to bone a chicken.
It's just crapflooders. They don't care about anything. People argue for and against various issues and topics, but all they care about is smearing feces everywhere they can get away with it. They're clever, ya know.
It's called a "smart inch" and can't be expressed on Slashdot without glitching.
There are still nutters today who gather at the periphery of abandoned strip mall parking lots with their restored Edsels to compare with their fellow enthisiasts.
Translation: suitable for the lower end of the market.