That is super weird since cookie banners are the result of an EU law. If they implement a restricted privacy feature the whole EU would have made more sense.

Hopefully that is only for tests, would be sad if they start fragmenting the browser based on your location. Their market share is already low and this is a turnoff for sure.

The launcher forces the at a glance widget on the homescreen first 2 rows. That wouldn‘t be a problem in itself, but this version of at a glance is super broken and only works 3/10 times as intended. You can the put the original widget underneath it and test it and the original version will work 10/10 Times.

Not working means weather or events are not shown and there is no shortcut to them if you click there if if they are shown you alway go to your calendar. Also the days are written in short in that version so Thu. instead of Thursday in the original widget.

The majority of people in several states seem to think this is the way to go. Otherwise this degenerates wouldn‘t be able to win elections.

Recently got a 7a for work. Personally using iOS.

• The phone has some rly nice features like transcribing recorder.
• Some other nice features are hidden in the system settings as widgets for some bizarre reason.
• The camera is quite good even in zoom
• The camera does not take color accurate pictures at all they are heavily modified to look very vivid
• Face unlock works surprisingly good in good light for android phones but only if you don‘t care about security
• the fingerprint sensor is the biggest fail and makes using this phone a chore. That thing is so unreliable, I don‘t know if I ever had an Android phone with a worse fingerprint sensor. 5 / 10 recognitions is a good day. The phone seems to have a „warm up“ phase where if the phone was used it works better but if you haven’t Used it and use fingerprint for something … that is going to be a problem.
• setting up the phone takes forever. The onboarding process is like one of these video games where the tutorial takes forever because they tell you cool things like jumping is a on Button A in a western controller layout. The same as it has been for the past 20 years…

Just drop Windows an go Debian with KVM for your windows AV stuff works like a charm. Debian is a boring OS where stuff just works.

The problem is that is a very complex problem and even privacy minded people often get it completely wrong. They use this massive blockers and think they don‘t give away any data. In fact most of them block advertisements and trackers but in return they created a very unique fingerprint which makes it easy to track them and get the same data as if the would have seen the advertisements. Not giving away any data and making sure the fingerprint is not unique is a very rocky road with a ton of roadblocks for the use of modern conveniences. The average user shares all data that meta is collecting anyway, most likely already with meta. They have at least 3 apps that completely track them, they have a personalized advertisement id and so on. So why would they care? That is like worrying about getting wet while taking a swim.

For every other person, they have friends that use these services and so share your contact information with e.g. Meta. They work somewhere in an office and most user accounts are name based. There aren‘t usually a ton of anti tracking tools in big corps so Meta knows what you do for a living…

Riding the privacy wave is the wrong argument, because most people can not escape the tracking if they want to keep „a normal life“.

You have to advertise you are better then the competition! Nobody cares about who takes less data, but most people want to be part of the „next big thing“, the cool thing or just the same experience but without advertisement. That resonates with people. Customization is often also a good entry point.

Microsoft started notifying people about this month ago. TBH the outlook client is still god awful so most people will only use it in an work environment where edge is the default browser anyway. Also it can be changed to other browsers. The how is mentioned in the FAQ.

I rly don‘t see it that way. The main reason they went for ActivityPub was to fuck Twitter. They just want to bind users long term to Threads and the combination WordPress, thumbler and meta is a very strong argument. I don‘t think they care so much about the data of the small userbase. The care about potential ways to monetise NSFW content without alarming the advertisers. And they care about AP because that can make them even bigger then they are now.