For most of us who aren't American, this format is funny.

More people died per day from COVID than this attack. More people have died from gun violence since this attack. America has a ton of problems, stop holding onto this attack so tightly for some reason.

When it was released? Steam ran like shit for me until probably 2017. It's finally a usable piece of software.

I also prefer steam because steam comes with a lot of benefits. If steam was still just a launcher and nothing more, I think most people would take issue with it today. That's just not the case, though.

Easy way to manage games, huge sales, support forums, easy way to manage friends, steam workshop, support for pretty much every controller, fast download servers

And one thing that people probably don't realize, is that steam will work with developers to implement patches. Many times when I play old games I'll go to PC gaming wiki and see that I need a few patches and mods to make the game work, but the wiki will say that those patches and mods were implemented into the steam release. It's really nice.

They say they take privacy seriously, but are selling their user’s data to Google

Only idiots think Apple is privacy friendly lol.

I don't link to news sites, but if you look up Apple Let Contractors Listen To Private Voice Recordings you'll see that in 2019 they were sending voice clips to contractors.

Apple has everyone fooled. They act like they are so privacy focused because they do processing locally on your device instead of in the cloud, which means nothing. Google also has been moving a vast majority of things to local processing on their Pixel devices for years now. Is Google now privacy focused?

Well I doubt they care because they are also acting in a different movie kissing someone else.

I'm sure the divorce rate is high because they are limited to a small dating pool. The average person, you and I, are not severely limited to other famous people, and divorce rate for normal people like us is extremely high as well.

Discord sucks, but I've actually had a 100% successful help rate on it vs Reddit or Lemmy.

Typically Discord servers have specific tech support rooms, and you'll get help pretty quickly. Only once I have had to ask my question a second time, because it was missed the first time.

Meanwhile Reddit threads just get downvoted, buried, and you're never helped. Even when I try to search for threads that other people have posted, 90% of threads are just blank.

Lemmy is the worst. Doesn't matter what you need, they'll just call you stupid and tell you to use Linux and FOSS alternative, ignoring the fact you NEED to use what you're asking help with.

Except companies can run their own. In Google messages it tells you who runs your server. Most carriers ran their own, but when they realised there was no benefit (e2ee) and having to maintain it, they started shifting to Google ran servers.

Stay here at Lemmy where humans are respected as humans

I saw a post a few days ago where one Lemmy user threatened to triangulate another user via IP, and then hurt them, because they said Linux doesn't work out of the box as well as windows in their experience.

This was on a main instance. The person didn't get in any trouble.

Reminds me of an app I downloaded the other day to help plan routes. They asked for my cars "KPL".

Like what? Who in the world says KPL? It's l/100KM.

While I'm aware that some places may use KPL, it just seems very American to go "hey, we use MPG, so they must use KPL".

You'd think after he didn't pardon the people in person that stormed the Capitol they'd smarten up. If that didn't open their eyes, nothing will.

Damn. Lemmy is hella doomed when a response to an insane thing someone else did on Lemmy is "who the fuck cares?".

Didn't realize you support people threatening others based on a comment about an operating system.

So is Epic.

Buying exclusivity rights to games so people will be forced to use your platform is the most crooked shit.

Ironic when 95% of Lemmy is full of people telling others to use Linux.

Published 9 hours ago? I have like 8 apps on my phone that have said this for a long time now. How did it take an Android blog this long to make an article?

I.too.prefer.dots.over.spaces.

The new ark fixed nothing. Except semi playable frame rates. It's great if you want to run a game at 12fps on a 4090.

I don't know, but that's not what was said. The comment I replied to said Google controlled everything, and that's false.

Just here to correct false claims.

It's not about that. It's about moving people over.

You know why RCS is picking up steam? Because it's 1 app. If the person you're talking to has RCS, you'll send messages via RCS. If they don't, it'll fall back to SMS. If RCS was a separate app from SMS, adoption would be really low.

Older people especially don't want to juggle 2 apps. If you get your dad on signal, and then his friend who uses SMS messages him, he'll be back in his SMS app and won't go back to signal, meaning the next time he messages you, or anyone else that has signal, he'll instead just send an SMS since he's already in the SMS app.

Removing SMS fallback was a surefire way to kill adoption of signal.

I prefer Beeper because I don't need multiple other chat apps installed and grabbing my data.

Yes, you have to trust Beeper.

I personally found it when I was forced to use WhatsApp with my landlord, and refuse to install any meta apps on my phone. I've since linked Telegram and Discord.

Not to mention many of those apps require permissions to work, but I can easily deny them on Beeper and Beeper doesn't care.

I love it. I just wish we were allowed to manually pick the 3 colours.