sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

@purism what is the case made out of? why did you opt to not use usb-c PD?

@doenietzomoeilijk
afaik macOS has never allowed for installed apps to hijack web urls, only on ios

@morygonzalez@mstdn.io i did, thank you! i'll be posting it today, i've just been crazy busy the last 36h. i appreciate it so much!

on macOS, clicking an https://apple.news/* link opens in the spyware News app, bypassing your default browser selection.

it's a bummer that the best phone hardware now has an os and services model geared toward the ultimate normie. all of the app store recs look like a casino: bright and colorful and shouty and massmarket.

i wonder if apple traffic bypasses vpns on mobile too. we'll know soon when my replacement travel router gets here.

@snow i will mute you now, nothing personal. please email me if you have something non-shitposty to say.

@kumicota shhhh

apple watch does not require an opt in before storing fitness (steps and standing log, active minutes) or heart rate history data.

@snow i'm not torturing myself in any way. if you don't like my updates, please don't follow me. i'm not posting for advice.

@kumicota if you're going to complain about the way the media uses words, maybe you should pick on the shitty things they do, rather than the considerate and well-intentioned things they do.

how do i disable the synchronization between the chrome browser login state and the browser cookie jar login state? i'd like to stay signed in to one account for chrome bookmarks/extension sync, and use another different account in the browser itself.

@kumicota you can't force terms. people use language voluntarily.

the apple watch prompts you to raise your wrist to activate siri automatically even when you have opted out of siri. (it doesn't enable siri, it just tries to tell you to use a feature you already disabled during setup.)

apple really, really wants you to send them packets.

fun fact: you cannot use apple pay at all without an icloud account, even if you don’t want sync or anything - you have to enable icloud just to do NFC payments.

@garritfra no, it demonstrates that you are prone to addiction.

IPhone13,4

@nawi @ultem @snow you can use bitcoin to buy app store credit in any region

@snow corporations, like nations, do not exist. also i don't really hate anyone, but i do think some of the people who are making product decisions inside of apple are making our society worse by making privacy and anonymity impossible in certain circumstances.