Right?

I want bezels. And my notification bar and nav bar.

Hell, I want capacitive buttons around the perimeter, that I can assign actions to. Or just let me use a portion of the screen edge for buttons. I miss my blackberry and treo for this kind of customization - those permitted physical button custom actions.

Stop this immersive crap.

I’ve been hearing Linux is the Future for… Well almost since Linux existed.

And you can always go Lineage/DivestOS/Graphene after that and it’ll run faster than new.

Have you seen the size of most US states?

All of England could fit in Alabama (they’re practically the same size). And it’s in the lower half of state sizes.

Great Britain would fit in, I don’t know, Missouri?

It takes sixteen western OECD countries to equal the land mass of the US.

They are for security, as part of a combination of things, including fire alarms and surveillance systems.

Imagine allowing just anyone to walk into your building.

I’ve worked on/with these systems, it’s no small task to deliver what’s contractually required with insurance companies and regulations. I’ve seen many times they’ve done their job - from preventing an employee’s irate ex from entering building, to catching a car fire in the parking lot and notifying both the fire department and employees so they could move their cars, preventing the loss of hundreds of cars.

Of course an access control system could be (trivially) queried to see when people arrived/left. Most companies don’t bother because there are far more effective/useful ways to address attendance issues.

Seems like TikTok has some issues if they’re willing to do this. My guess is a significant number of managers aren’t enforcing the attendance requirements because they don’t deem them necessary. And who would know better than them?

Weird situation, for sure. Be interesting to see how it plays out.

These kinds of crimes should come with a fine that’s 10x what they profited. Then even they manage to hide some of the profit, it’s still gonna hurt.

“The you won’t kind providing me with your full birth name, ss#, address, mother’s maiden name, bank account number, pin, computer login, phone login” etc, etc.

Suddenly they’ll be worried about privacy.

Sounds like an opportunity to educate your kids, and by proxy, others.

Kid’s bubble-shaming is no different than any other stupid shit kids have always done.

Don’t feed into it.

And if you really want to have some fun, host something like the iMessage-Matrix bridge mentioned above, or other messaging apps. When your kid shows up as a blue bubble, but friends notice he’s on Android, they’ll be confused…another learning opportunity.

I first heard this joke about 45 years ago. I suspect it’s much older than that.

Sad but true.

As one of those IT people (who was taught on punched cards), I’d had some hope that by the 21st century only GenX and Boomers would have this issue.

That young adults don’t know this stuff is very frustrating.

Most people cant explain how a toaster works - it may as well be magic to them.