Phones encrypt the data by default, your password or pin is also needed to authorise the connection with a computer.

However, many people do insecure things like storing passwords etc in Notes applications, or having simple PINs that are easy to guess, don’t update their devices, or even turning off security features (if they can) because they won’t take a small amount of time to understand them.

The point is that calling the computer storage less is what’s wrong.

I can see two issues here:

It’s not really a storageless computer. It’s using EFI as storage to build the ramdisk.

What happens if you need to change things because of a change of cloud account, change of cloud API etc etc

Yes, that’s exactly the point. Combining data is something that must be considered. (And in some jurisdictions like the EU you even need to consider if it could be combined in future with other data)

Not sure I agree entirely. The actions I take are definitely data about me.

Also, in many jurisdictions data that could be combined (even in the future) with other data to identify you or something about you, is considered personal data.

For example, Device ID is AstridWipenaugh’s device and they use the app in the morning.

I think you’ve missed the point. It’s not the data they are collecting but the fact they say they don’t collect data.

But that’s pretty much the standard answer to any suggestion for improvement.

I just tried it and it’s doing the same thing for me. I’m sure it worked previously.

This story has been popping up every few months for about the last decade. Usually prompted by someone with something to promote (a dumb phone, a book about downtime, some course )

I’m not sure why you’ve been downvoted. You are completely correct. There is a trail of partially finished projects. Pixelfed itself is in beta after years and years (and competitors seizing the opportunity with more polished products) , there’s SUP, Loops and that fedi directory to name three more.

For me it’s certain settings such as System dark/light mode and Open links in default browser that turn themselves off occasionally following an update.

You’ve misunderstood. You’ll only be able to add a PWA to the Home Screen if it uses WebKit.

I think it’s only if you use a WebKit based browser ?

No it’s not and most people don’t know how to read the results anyway.

If you are on iOS and you uninstall then the cache is deleted. So it wasn’t a cache issue.

I remember that post you were told what was happening.

Why do you think it’s a cache issue?

It wouldn’t get to the full amount of storage. Full storage or cache wouldn’t make it slow as it only gets what it needs from the cache.

What exactly will having lots of empty space do for you right now ?

You don’t need to worry about it on iOS. If storage (or memory) gets low then caches will automatically be cleared.

Most operating systems work like this. There’s no point in having gigabytes of free space when it could be put to work speeding up your app.

They don’t expose the controls to the cache either. Android does but it’s in a minority.

they are still quite large in 1.32.6 and the B and I seem bigger than the icons. Sorry for being picky.

You’ll need to explain what has happened. The screenshot doesn’t seem to show much.