Windows Mobile was already commercially available in phones when the iPhone came out. Android was well on its way.

Both changed in response to the iPhone, but I think evolution would have led to a similar place without it. Trends like the loss of physical keyboards were driven by improvements to capacitive touchscreens.

His board repair videos were outstanding. I don’t especially enjoy his rants. He’s usually right, but I don’t really care to listen to how mad he is about it. I can get mad on my own.

Facebook was a mostly-harmless multimedia blog site before smartphones. Both its addiction algorithm and being in everyone’s pocket contribute to its current harms, but both would have happened even if Apple hadn’t made a phone.

Smartphones resembling what we have now would have come out of a likely Windows/Android rivalry. They might even still have headphone jacks.

I’m not going to tell you what to do. I am going to point out the red flags you cited and ask what you would say to a friend who was considering dating someone who behaves like this.

he kept talking about… that i should’ve ditched my bf for him

In other words, he did not respect your relationship when you were in one.

badmouthed not only his gf of a few years

He handles struggles in a relationship by badmouthing his partner to others,

he left her bc she showed signs of schizophrenia

and uses an armchair diagnosis as an excuse to get out of a relationship instead of just saying it’s not working for him anymore like an adult.

he kept guilttripping me when i said i didn’t want to be his gf

He doesn’t care about your preferences, and tries to manipulate you when they don’t match his.

Any time I’m required to use an app for something that could be a website, I leave the app a one star review.

Contributing to that Kinderficker changes my opinion of Publix.

The basic way an airplane works actually is simple and intuitive: it meets the air at an angle and deflects it downward. The equal and opposite reaction to accelerating that mass of air is an upward force on the wing.

There is, of course a whole lot of finesse on top of that with differences in wing design having huge impacts on the performance and handling of aircraft due to various aerodynamic phenomena which are anything but simple or intuitive. A thin, flat wing will fly though, and balsa wood toy airplanes usually use exactly that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_(force)#Simplified_physical_explanations_of_lift_on_an_airfoil

If I remember right, he would have been eligible for a life sentence for the original charges.

I knew someone who raped both his daughters.

He was prosecuted and took a plea deal, probably offered to spare them a trial. I think he did about ten years in prison, which I would argue is less punishment than he deserved.

Preferring websites to apps when possible makes this approach more effective. If you use apps with ads in them, they will likely get sensitive information as described in the article.

System wide ad blocking helps more. Private DNS is the easiest way; Mullvad provides a free option.

Message history is a valid point. Signal just announced they’re fixing it.

Safety number change notifications are probably necessary to maintain Signal’s high level of security. The above device linking improvements should make them less frequent, though I’ll concede some might consider that a worse UX than an insecure chat with no such notifications.

I keep seeing this claim, but I may be too much of a computer nerd to notice when using them both. What does Telegram do better and how?

This is exactly the sort of deal making through bullying Trump is known for. He’s crazy, not stupid.

I’m sad PGP didn’t become a popular way to log into websites. A challenge-response protocol could have even been built into web browsers. Big tech is reinventing that idea as Passkey, but with a very big tech flavor.

I missed that part. Thanks for the correction.

Looking at the court’s opinion (PDF), it appears this case did not raise that issue. I think it’s unlikely it would be considered a bill of attainder because what it does is technically not punishment, but that’s a question for people who know more about law than I do.

Very likely, but I’d be surprised if they couldn’t achieve 80% of that on the web. Targeted surveillance, as they’ve been caught doing to critics before would not work as well.

This is correct, but the law doesn’t do that. It mentions TikTok in the title, but the text describes what is banned in terms of user count and control by a foreign adversary. It would apply to a future product made by a Russian company, for example.

No, but I imagine they can still run profitable ads, and probably more effectively than most websites.

I’m really surprised they’re not pushing the web version, which can operate in a way not covered by this ban.

Most of them[1] know a whole lot more about constitutional law than the average lemming.

When things are working correctly, the Supreme Court’s role is usually not very concerned with the facts of the case; its role is to resolve questions of law. Congress considered the facts including some classified briefings, decided that American app stores should be forbidden from distributing TikTok to American users, and made a law. The court was asked whether Congress has the authority to make laws like that, and the court decided that it does.

[1] Maybe not Clarence Thomas