Yea, this. It'll also be more reliable, be harder to subvert, have no hallucinations and so on. And could run on a potato, not need a 16-32GB GPU and even then be like "oh and it's only a small 12B model".

YES. This happened to syncthing (which IMHO is THE thing for such things...). They got denied to storage in February 2014 https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fsyncthing%2Fs... and eventually in October they gave up developing the Android app at all. There's now syncthing-fork (it was actually since earlier) as a personal project (as opposed to the official one which I presume was under Syncthing Foundation's umbrella, even if mostly a one-man show) and funny enough that had no Play Store shenanigans as far as I know. Sure, going forward anyone in the know should be installing from F-Droid, you never know with Google.

Yea, this. Plus they need to spell out what we're looking at, mostly everything nowadays wants some wifi connection and an app, and will most likely leak at a minimum everything you are doing with the device, plus what it can see around, your wifi password and so on. Also it'll have autoupdate ota capabilities enabled by default, so it can literally do anything they might want it to do at some point including to attack other machine, bound only by its hardware capabilities.

It's not a "setting" it's an unwanted "feature" at most, that silently partly zeroes out your files if you don't give this "all files" access to your app. It's nuts IMHO.

And they are? Samsung is selling for sure many more than Google. Oh, but they still run Android. So is the FairPhone you wanted.

First "all files access" refers just to the files you can anyway see in your file manager, which isn't a lot. You aren't getting any access to OS files or other Apps data, unless they save it in the shared storage.

Second, this access is needed in order to get uncensored files too, yes, for your security Google is generally censoring (as in binary changing) the files presented to the apps otherwise: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FDataH...

Yea, but the funny thing is how they're doubling down on this ARM nonsense. Basically everything they have now is just some weird stuff that doesn't run any of the older Windows drivers (think printers, etc.), SOME of the popular software got ported (like most browsers, well Google Drive took more than 5 years, etc.) and some runs under emulation but it's completely unclear where they want to go with this. Also, even if generally ARM is good with Linux (think Raspberry Pi) this is awful, as in not usable in any practical form yet (some day, maybe). The only Intel devices they have are now relegated to the "business" line and starting at $2000 or so (for a light laptop equivalent to a $850 now MacBook Air).

... given that they run the 0.8% Windows ARM, which is called Windows but it's in fact a totally different niche OS.

This is a different move: they introduced now the 1 inch smaller but WAY, WAY worse devices in many ways for about the same price as the base price of the much better devices. If they leave the base "good" devices in the price list it makes anyone considering the new ones stupid.

It doesn't matter what they did with it EXCEPT BURNING (which I see now you're backing down from, and agree it didn't happen, and it's correct because it would be ridiculous) somebody had to produce that thing for them. Or failing that if let's say the landlord had a house gathering dust and nobody lifted a finger except to say "take the house, give me the money" now the landlord is having 1200 Euros (or whatever the amount was) every month to buy a MacBook or a phone or tires or gas or whatever.

Where do they say that everyone receiving the money just went ahead cashed out and burned it? I'm sure I didn't miss that part.

Except it doesn't increase the work everyone else has to do because they didn't work any less than they did before.

So a bunch of people can go and say buy a nice MacBook, or an expensive phone, or goes through an expensive sets of tires at the race track, whatever, EVERY MONTH, all with helicopter money. Nobody is working more (or having less from what they worked) in order to accommodate that?

Yea, there's something fishy about the story. One would think the passenger suspected the phone is in the checked luggage, but if that's SO dangerous that a plane shouldn't be operated normally to destination with it onboard they should just scan for it and not let it pass, I'm sure a phone lights up in the scanning machine better than really mostly anything on that size, most likely even than a b_o_m_b.

... at first sight, as I was imagining saying something like "even Qualcomm is against Microsoft on this one and is making their outrage public".

There are people insisting in having stuff in PDF, even if available in much better formats, for example Wikipedia pages. There's even a GitHub project to do that in bulk, for many thousands of these.

The iMac?! Starting from $1299, that is for 256GBs flash and 16GB RAM (not expandable I bet)! No way.