Exactly what I was thinking!

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From a media perspective, I am inclined to agree; however, like the article said, the experiences of these devices are getting worse for seemingly no reason. Personally, I’m inclined to believe NVIDIA may not make another device like the shield because of the focus on AI and chips. I’d imagine these devices make little profit compared to all the money being made with the current focus on AI.

I don’t really like the lock downed experience of Apple’s ecosystem, but the software updates make these devices, particular the Apple TV, better every year.

When it comes to streaming devices, nothing beats Apple TV in my opinion.

Outside the Apple TV app itself, the OS has very little ads. The only thing I dislike about it is the lack of Kodi + Google Drive plug in, but Infuse Pro works.

I’d rather directly use Bing and utilize the ‘Give with Bing’ feature to donate to a non-profit of choice; when I did use Bing, I did it for LGBT and LGBT Youth.

Asked how likely big companies would be to abuse their data, Americans were most wary of TikTok (59 percent), followed by: Meta (56 percent), X/Twitter (49 percent), OpenAI (48 percent), Google (44 percent), Apple (41 percent), Amazon (40 percent), Microsoft (38 percent), Comscore (32 percent), and Adobe (31 percent).

I’m surprised people trust Microsoft and Amazon more than Apple; Amazon needs all the data they can get on you to build “better” profiles on what to sell you, ties your Alexa requests to feed advertising (you can opt out) and Microsoft, especially with Edge (post advertising and services team takeover) has been trying to send everything to Microsoft to feed both ads and their AI. FFS, even Outlook warns you now that they’ll share your data with >800 “partners”.

Apple is no saint, far from it, but people trust a conglomerate over it?

!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

/r/Piracy is just a bunch of memes, and this community actively talks about piracy, it’s ethical philosophy and taking control over your media. There are people who pirate everything regardless of circumstances, but for the most part, I’d argue its people who have been burnt by companies whom they trusted.

I always saw this as just a way to compete with Google.

Bad comparison. There is no such thing as the ‘Apple Pay app’. Everything is done through the Wallet app, Apple Pay uses the wallet app.

Can there be an option to view deleted/removed comments? (this setting a user could configure in settings)

I can understand why mods want to remove comments, but being able to see the text that was removed could be very useful. At the moment, the only way to do this would be having each post uploaded to internet archive, and hope many other lemmy users do the same thing.

Don’t forget to check your Amazon Alexa privacy settings to disable personalized ads, and for using your Alexa data for ads. Likewise, you can have it to where while Amazon keeps a log of what is said, it won’t save voice recordings.

Nice! On iOS/iPadOS, I use “StopTheMadness Pro” to set up redirects, and it makes watching YouTube, TikTok, etc. videos that family sends to me so much more bearable!

Same, but with Microsoft’s Image Creator. At least for me, I like using it to create pixel art for my own personal GitHub repos.

More power to you man!

Firefox Relay and email relaying/forwarding services are so useful, not just from a privacy point of view, but also being in control of accounts simply by turning off forwarding for a specific email, or just deleting the forwarding email all together. I use iCloud’s Hide My Email.

The process of trying to separate from Google is tough for sure. I believe Louis Rossmann said “it like quitting heroin cold turkey; you can’t, it’s something you have to lean yourself off of slowly”. In my case, Google Photos, Docs and Voice are the most difficult to switch from, but in the case of Google Photos and Docs, I have multiple backups in the event something happens to my account.

Was it HP by chance? I wouldn’t blame you.

I definitely feel the enshittification of such platforms will/has led to some great software, updates, and alternative front ends. It sucks seeing platforms decay, however, I love seeing the fightback from users who aren’t going to tolerate bullshit from any company.

Aye, congratulations on the new/upgraded PC!

In the event that you cancel music steaming services and instead opt for purchased/local music, I’ve read that Plex Amp is a great app that feels similar to steaming in terms of recommendations and randomization of songs. 😁