the free clients are better anyway tbh

and hashtags! you cant forget the tags!

https://vger.app it’s a web app, there is an iOS TestFlight build that fixes a few of the bugs that running in safari introduces (and it has haptics!)

voyager is basically apollo already tbh

you don’t really have to, but it’s a lot more feature rich, less heavy to run if you’re self hosting, and has a really slick ui to boot

apples stuff would be so much better if they didn’t lock it down it’s honestly insane

to answer the opposite of your question i would say it’s unethical to steal things from indie developers and creators; the same way its more wrong to steal from a local corner store than it is to steal from Walmart

american car dependency and minimum parking requirements, mostly

sites doing this probably wouldn’t be worth using anyways

what about when your bank adds this? have you tried using a safetynet enforcing app on a rooted android phone? this has bigger implications than you’re seeing

price hikes bad yes but first increase since they started, and it’s only $1? that’s not bad

i read this as “pass stuff around by putting it in my ass” and just didn’t question it for a solid 15 seconds

Because they would have to pay Qualcomm a royalty per phone sold, due to a lawsuit from the 90s

They shipped the galaxy S6 with exynos in the US in spite of the royalty, because the loss from the fees was outweighed by having a more reliable, efficient and cooler chip (oh how times have changed)

there is bootleg printer ink, and the OEMs hate it so they put chips and sensors to only make printers take “genuine” ink

that there’s already an established oligopoly that sells their machines at a loss

if this makes batteries smaller so be it

let’s go back to 2012 and carry a few of them at a time

Based

Which clearly is money they have considering how much publishers pour onto that fire, tbh

Probably one of the big things keeping them from open sourcing their knowledge is denuvo though, they download games with their (cracked) DRM to RE and prevent future cracking

and also, empress cracks cost $$$ C:

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Private profiles will be able to follow an interact with people on other platforms at a later date.

Like clockwork

God this is the fucking worst. Why would they ever make this decision? aside from annoying dualbooters