These two program ecosystems (and AAA video games with anticheat) are the biggest things that hold a lot of people like me back from using Linux exclusively.
Woah I think you're right. Sure some apps might work without a touchscreen but that kinda defeats the point?
Unless this feature is just to help on board new apps to macs that were previously only for ios but don't require a touch screen, but that seems like it would be rather niche?
I bet they're actually pivoting towards a product that's "ipad pro + desktop apps" and then they'll try to phase out their "computers" that currently feel like an after thought.
As a potential counter point - pandemics are generally rare. And are hard to test at airports for until it's too late.
Also you can't test for every disease, especially new ones. The best you could do is a several week quarantine on all incoming travelers I would think?
This has been mentioned many times about [insert large news website here] about how they're article talks about why tracking is bad yet the article is on a website with paywalls, anti-ad blockers, tracking etc.
The reason is the same: the people who write the articles are different from those who choose the poor tracking decisions.
Let's assume that Signal is fully encrypted and there's no feasible way to read the messages.
The problem is that the phone is likely used for other things too, and you don't want [insert important app here] to leak information that could've been protected with a VPN. Also things like dns logs and the IP connection will still be revealed without a VPN so an attacker will be able to know that you're using Signal, when you're using it, potentially with DPI they might get to know when you send/receive a message. Collect this information across a wide enough network and compare the times, you may be able to tell who is messaging who and when.
With a VPN there's no risk of other apps leaking data, it hides your dns queries, and the end connection. This means it will be difficult you're using Signal specifically at all, and should make DPI at least more difficult.
> But they probably don't fully trust their vpn
The VPN isn't necessarily be in charge of keeping the messages themselves secure, but for preventing other data leaks. The messaging application is responsible for that part, and they had to use something like Signal, because (theoretically) signal cannot read their messages. Slack/MS Teams/Facebook messanger/etc still have access to your messages regardless of any VPN.
A VPN is completely different from the messaging applications.
A VPN will protect data leakage from other applications, and potentially help out a little against DPI and dns logs.
> So why use these apps?
Because (theoretically) Signal/Wickr cannot read your messages. Meanwhile facebook has access to all Facebook Messenger conversations, even if you used a VPN.
I tried to develop with it (We use primarily python and typescript) but intellij is just so darn good. It's kinda clunkly for one-off files and text editing though, which is why I prefer sublime for a lot of that stuff.
> Pdf support should also be removed from all browsers.
Why? Instead of opening a PDF like any other webpage, or image, or video, etc. Which is instant and doesn't require any mental focus shifting, I should instead download the PDF, and use a PDF viewer instead?
For something so ubiquitous it seems kind of silly. Browsers are for browsing and consuming content, if a specific type of content has widespread usage, I see no reason not to include it.
Don't get me wrong, it would just be Apple throwing excuses here.
In general you never know with people :P. We also bought tablets/phones. Guy came in with his kids, kid tries to sell us a kindle fire that's in great condition that he "found in the woods" - right the woods? Do you mean somebodies backpack?
I worked in computer/ phone repair - given the context keys falling off should definitely be under warranty. However lacking that context (let's assume there aren't widespread keyboard issues for that model) keys falling off could be the result of "rough handling" - we can't tell if a frustrated user was pounding at their keys or not, etc
But yeah given the known widespread keyboard issues for the Macbooks...
If they added a button that was essentially just zeit now it would be revolutionary. Especially if they had a generous free tier. Imagine one click hosting for blogs, etc. Now THAT would certainly hook people in
The arguments are generally over how private entities with relatively control of communications are regulated, not that the entities are private.
You can only pull the "They're a private entity - just choose not to do business with them" card until they're large enough to the point were you don't have an option (free market forces stop working), at which point regulators generally step in.
Depending on how you define it, I don't think Huawei is technically "state-owned", but because "communism" technically all business are owned by the PRC?