https://mobile.twitter.com/MobyDickatSea/status/1357533676477837315
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Not sure where this goes - remember a ref to this guy, Greg Kelly of NewsMax, but where alludes me so here will have to do.
https://twitter.com/gregkellyusa/status/1357342686403911681
I havenāt been to a MacDonalds (sic) for ages but the McFish sounds great.
Almost 2 years ago, I switched from a long history of Android phones to an iPhone. I was reluctant because I was used to the Android system and liked the ability to customize. I switched, though, because my wife and other people in my family had iPhones and iPads, so it made texting with them much easier.
Iāve got to say, the past 2 years have been pretty great. The iPhone (XR) has never given me a problem. The battery is still great, and it never crashes. By this point (almost 2 years in) with an Android phone, Iād be counting the days until I would upgrade. Either the battery would be crap or the apps would fail or something else would drive me crazy. But now I literally never think about upgrading. A+ experience, would buy again.
Hm. I have an android for work, and I just upgraded to an iphone 12 from an 8s for personal use. Definitely like the ios more.
The 8s gave me about 2 and a half years before the battery stopped working. About two years in, I got portrait mode completely locked no matter what I did. the battery life was never, ever great. The side button to turn off the volume got permanently stuck in silent. Itās by far the worst iphone Iāve owned. I really liked the 5.
The problem I have with the 12 is the elimination of the home button/fingerprint scan. The motions to go to home screen or switch applications are incredibly annoying and unintuitive. I still cant really close apps without trying several times.
Facial recognition only works if youāre not wearing a mask, which is annoying.
The camera is very good though. Overall I still prefer my iphone over the android, but I can use either one now. Iām a lot clunkier on the droid.
Speaking of clunky, the 12 is heavy. Like holy crap it feels like a brick.
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Yes, facial recognition was awesome until COVID hit, at which point it became infuriating.
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The fingerprint feels more āsecureā to me. But I guess with the fingerprint, you could be asleep and someone could use your finger to unlock, at which point they could drain your account using venmo or get into your banking apps.
I donāt fully trust the facial recognition yet I guess. But it is very cool. It seems like it wonāt work if your eyes are closed too.
Itās probably just that Iām easy to please, but Iām very happy with my phone. It hasnāt caused any problems. I think Iāve had it for about 2 years. It cost like $150.
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iPhone since 2 here. I miss my old Nokia 3210/3310 and would go back to one in a flash if I didnāt need maps, emails and some news and sports updates. The rest of the internet is crap on a phone screen imo but then I can live happily without FuckBook and Twatter.
Oh man those to little bricks were amazingly easy to hold and operate, best phones ever.
I have a Huawei phone & tablet ftw for Ā£100 & Ā£350 respectively, both have fingerprint technology and work NP even when my fingers caked in greenthumb.
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Just upgraded from the X to the 12 Pro, and this is my only complaint with it. The heaviest phone Iāve ever owned by far.
I have an S7 and I think Iām finally wearing down to the constant complaints from friends and family that Iām the only person with an Android. Sigh.
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Iām in the same spot but I will never switch to Apple. Donāt give in to the pressure
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Yeah I think Iāll enjoy the moment where I tell them all I got a new phone and the chats donāt turn green or whatever the fuck happens when all Apple users get in a chat and jerk each other off.
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Apple users should be treated as the insufferable minority they have always been.
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He was the guy who condemned the coup in Myanmar until he realized his viewers supported it.
I donāt like apple and am certainly not a fanboi. I was using a macbook for development for a long time, and then they gave me a windows workstation at my current job and at first I thought I wasnt gonna like it.
Itās so much better though. I can spin up a fully functional linux environment, which is so much better than whatever weird unix-ish shell mac has, with its horrible package manager (brew) and frankly bizarre ways of doing things, especially permissions. Windows has an amazing snipping tool which is annoying to try to do the same thing on a mac.
For instance in Linux I am used to moving an executable to /usr/bin or somewhere and it just works. Nuh uh, those paths are completely locked out to you on mac now even as a root user. You actually have to disable some super gnarly security setting at boot to be able to access those paths, and if you try to do the same things that make sense in Linux, youāll probably break the computer a little bit.
Itās also insanely overpriced.
That all said, iphones are very good.
android is great if you need a birth control device since it screams out āmy genes are inferior and mating with me would be a horrible reproductive strategyā
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lol wut
You shouldnāt be putting arbitrary stuff in /usr/bin
thatās what /usr/local/bin is for, and it works just fine on macs
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iPhones are great for people who want to proclaim: āThorstein Veblen wrote a book about me!ā
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