Encrypt-Keeper

Ok

I guess not then lol. I’m sure you’ll get em next time.

I think you’re a bit lost friend lol. Did you have some kind of point you wanted to make or?

The U.S. is doing one of those things, not both, to Russia. The other Russia is doing to itself.

I don’t think we’re currently doing both of those things to Russia.

No they’d just blame the liberals and maintain 100% loyalty lol.

Probably better this economic violence than I dunno, the physical violence Russia has exerted on the Ukrainian populace?

That’s definitely part of it, but I think a bigger contributor is iMessage. iPhones have a dominant market share in the US and iMessage has been the gold standard for a long time and it doesn’t even use the SMS system.

Lmao

Waiting until they are a teenager is far too late to form the appropriate habits around self limiting screen time.

Given that smartphones didn’t even exist until I was a teenager, going to go ahead and call bullshit on that.

this is clearly a parenting issue

Sure is. Too many parents handing their developing children smartphones long before they should. Luckily OP hasn’t made that mistake.

And nobody needs articles to tell them the corporations and algorithms are evil. Some of us are old enough to have lived through the advent of them.

I mean you say that as a joke but cigars you don’t usually inhale into your lungs. Like you’re still at risk of mouth cancer, but if you switched from Cigarettes to cigars, you wouldn’t suffer the myriad of negative health effects that comes with being a cigarette smoker which would objectively be a huge improvement.

I’m pretty sure the goal behind the no phone rule is not that utilizing a phone is inherently bad, but that you’re trying to avoid building the habits and behavior that comes with having a smart phone on you, like doom scrolling, constant social media access, constant distraction etc. And in that case, the kid having some limited access to other kids phones (If they even do. Who among any of us just lets someone else use our phone unrestricted) isn’t going to undermine that effort.

To those what? Those are the American companies behind the services, the actual list of services and products those companies provide would take awhile to list out. Then each one of those products or services is going to have 1-3 alternatives at least. If you want some alternatives you’re going to have to narrow down your question, because like the guy you originally replied to said, there are a LOT of them. If you want a teaser, you’re making these comments on an alternative to one of the products of these companies right now.

• GitHub - https://codeberg.org/
• Internet Archive - https://archivebox.io/
• Wikipedia - https://www.britannica.com/ or just literally any site created using https://mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

Other than three of the largest tech companies in the world that encompass services from social media to maps to email?

Well there’s X, Amazon, Reddit, Microsoft, Oracle, Broadcom, Salesforce, Intuit, Cisco, Palo Alto, Ubiquiti, and CloudFlare. There’s a total of 15 examples, not counting subsidiaries of these companies, nor breaking them down by product like YouTube, Gmail, Twitch, Maps, Azure, AWS, VMWare, etc.

I read scifi books and enjoy reading about the lore of the tech industry.

If it’s any consolation, we’re kinda heading into the futuristic dystopian tech hellscape portrayed by so much sci fi. So that’s fun.

The idea is that Google and Apple on Android and iOS have purposefully gimped PWA functionality in order to maintain the popularity of their app stores. Which I get, because web apps are much more useful and functional on full computers. So it’s not really the fault of the PWAs that PWAs suck. But unfortunately, they do suck.

The existing Wi-Fi infrastructure was “overtaxed” so they just threw up satellite instead of , I don’t know, improving the Wi-Fi infrastructure? There’s perfectly fine WiFi at sprawling work and college campuses, and stadiums that seat tens of thousands of people. What a joke.

PWAs are god awful on IOS.

Just put the image over a larger white backdrop before you feed it to the AI