They say it’s to stop people from stealing iPhones to sell for parts.

What they don’t say is that the only reason there is a market for that is that they aren’t willing to sell the parts directly at an affordable price…

I said in my comment that Europeans made it worse. I was just saying that those places were never peaceful to begin with.

The thing is averages don’t mean shit when you’re talking about individual people, because individual experiences always deviate from the average, especially if you talk about average wealth where a few millionaires and billionaires skew the data for a lot of poor people.

But sure, let’s follow your logic. Black people on average are poorer and have worse jobs, so we need to discriminate in their favour.

Well, statistically there is also a lot of evidence that black people on average commit more crimes than white people.

So should I be scared of a black person I cross on the street? Following your logic, yes. Following mine, no.

Ah yes, selective discrimination based on race and gender is anti-racist and anti-sexist. So glad we advanced as a society enough for this to make sense in some people’s heads…

We live in a time where there are black people that experienced extreme wealth in their lives and white people that know nothing other than extreme poverty (this one has always existed), and to take nothing of that into consideration other than just the skin color is idiotic.

But hey, thank you for admitting that it isn’t actually about improving productivity and output at companies, but just to tick percentage boxes so that your virtue signaling intake is filled for the day.

Didn’t say it was.

But here specifically I’m refering to optimization, as in changes the manufacturer did to either streamline the production and make it more efficient (cheaper) or to differentiate from similar products to make it more appealing.

Surely you chose your devices on some sort of criterea and other people would come to a different choice.

This I believe can only happen under capitalism.

Wait wait, do you think the rest of the world was in perfect harmony until the white man came?

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA

Where the fuck do you think African slaves came from? Most europeans didn’t enslave them, they just bought them in the well established african slave markets after other africans and arabs enslaved them first.

In North America, do you think the indians only started scalping when the europeans appeared, or that it was a common practice in tribes that were at constant war with each other?

In South Africa a lot of the land europeans got was payment from tribes for help fighting other tribes.

Did europeans cause extra suffering in the places they colonized? Definitly.

Were those places peaceful before that? Fuck off.

You are using an open source platform, developed without a profit incentive, running on one of the most impactful publicly-funded infrastructure developments of our lifetimes, which is also powered by near countless free-and-open-source tech stacks.

I can almost guarantee every single physical thing you used to type that was the product of capitalism based optimization.

What a fucking brain dead take.

How is wanting to treat individuals like… ACTUAL FUCKING INDIVIDUALS and not generic groups based on their appearance nazi-like behaviour?

If anything, it’s the opposite of what a nazi would do.

The diversity that creates that is diversity of thought and life experiences.

To me, the idea that you can just fill boxes with people from x race or x gender on the base that that characteristic is what determines what I mentioned above, is one of the most racist and sexist things someone can do.

They can do whatever they want, they only do it because Google allows it.

By that logic, Brave is also completely against Google because they block their ads and go against them.

Your last point is laughable.

Yes Brave cannot make commits to Chromium, but it makes changes to their own repos (well, obviously) and can also accept/reject changes Google makes to Chromium.

In my opinion, Firefox is more of a slave to Google than Brave will ever be because they rely entirely on Google giving them money for the default search engine.

Is Brave’s revenue model scammy? Maybe. But at least they aren’t Google little bitch.

The browser as is right now is open source and has way better defaults for privacy than Firefox (currently it seems it is the best browser in this aspect after librewolf. see: https://privacytests.org ).

It’s a question of do we spend taxes on blacks and the poor, or do we spend it on cluster bombs for Ukraine.

I want someone to enlighten me on this, because my impression was that the democrats were the ones on board with bombing for Ukraine and republicans wanted to cut that spending (publicly, cause both parties love that war spending for their buddies to make money from).

I think have settled into what they know.

I think that iMessage is only prevelant in North America. Here in Europe (Portugal, at least), everyone uses Whatsapp.

In my personal experience, everyone who has an account with Signal also has with Matrix. The main issue for me is who has an account at all.

Got it. Perhaps he’s used to it due to pubs in the macbooks.

I mean, he probably cleaned it out with alchool and the ultrasonic first.

So what you’re saying is… you like the next Hitler mentor and want to see Jews and Black people burn?

/s

I use it for linux. Recently there was a bug where if you had a chat opened, it would pin one core to 100% usage. It also lacks feature parity with the mobile client (ex: gif search and send).

The thing it’s missing the most is better multi device support and an updated desktop client.

For me, I think Matrix is more complete (specially since it backs-up your chats and media encrypted). The only thing it’s lacking (at least Element specific) is encrypted chat search support on mobile.