I bought a tablet and I feel like the money has been wasted. I use it maybe once a month.

This aligns with statcounter data here: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-200901-202505

Windows market share on desktop has been slowly but steadily declining. From 95+% in 2009, to almost 70% today. In the same time period Linux went up from 0.6% to 4%, which is not bad.

the debloater is a good resource for what system apps do, and whether or not they are actually needed.

I recommend the universal android debloater: https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation

It has good recommendations.

The best part is the dude who gets off the bus in the middle of the road.

I read that article and had a good laugh about it. It is nonsensical. It does raise good points occasionally, but that is drowned by nonsense.

Don’t blame AI for human failings. This is on humans, not machines.

ummm no. I don’t want Meta to access my chats.

Signal devs accuse f-droid for not being secure, but do not offer any convincing arguments to back it up. Just saying it doesn’t make it so.

F-Droid works. I have 20+ apps installed on my phone from F-Droid. I am not going to go back to installing apks from website or Google Play just so that I can use Signal.

No, but an app like Signal claiming to care about privacy should at least make an effort to be on the largest open source appstore. The fact they don’t, despite very loud complaints from the community, makes me question their commitment to privacy and security.

This might be true, but at the end of the day I don’t care. I just want things to work out of the box.

I don’t trust an app that tells me to download from Google Play. Sorry, not going to happen. Signal has too many red flags.

Every accusation Americans make is also an admission of guilt.

I own BYD and it is a great car. Very pleased with it.

Just above you said “You’re even better off using WhatsApp”.

I will use Signal if Signal devs get over their hate of F-Droid.

Does that change the fact that Tel Aviv and Haifa got hammered?

Israel could not stop Iran from hitting Israeli cities. Israel’s air defence was shown to be ineffective.

I just download mp3 files from youtube using yt-dlp (laptop) or newpipe (android)

I see videos in Tiktok of Tel Aviv and Haifa going boom boom that say otherwise.

Lets teach that uneducated moron Vance the Streisand effect.

nothing you say will make me use a closed source app like whatsapp.