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Even domestically, Americans hate this crap. No one likes the TSA. No one thinks they do a goddamned thing. It's a massive invasion of privacy and a huge waste of money. And then we have this "Real ID" thing looming over us just to get on an airplane (again, for a domestic flight only).

You'd think we could unite against such a simple common enemy but apparently no one has the time. I guess politicians are worried about a sudden glut of unemployed TSA workers who's only job skills are identifying the water bottle I forgot in my bag.

There's no true Scotsman. China is both and neither. The US is both and neither. You need to talk about specific policies as one or the other.

Err, what? Look at pot "legalization". It's still technically illegal but states don't care. You'll see billboards about it down the highway. Previously we had a patchwork of which states had gay marriage, even when DOMA was on the books. Then there's the whole "sanctuary city" thing where support isn't given to Federal officers.

The Federal government might be stronger than the founders intended but it's not that strong compared to other countries. It's a miracle we all drive on the same side of the road.

In Carson v. Makin, our lovely SCOTUS ruled that Maine should be forced to fund religious schools.

Hooooooold on, let me be crystal clear: I'm never buying an iPhone.

The point was that if the EU is going to go on an anti-bundling campaign, there's a long line ahead of MS Teams of more egregious behavior.

Last I checked, opening links in iOS with alternate browsers is very app-specific and requires a hack using a different protocol. E.g. Chrome registers itself as a handler for the "httpChrome" protocol and the app needs to do Open("httpChrome://lemmy.ml"). It's far worse than anything Microsoft did with IE back when they got sued.

When can I get an iPhone without iMessage being preinstalled? Microsoft is, if anything, late to the party on this kind of anti-user BS.

I recoil from Apple products like a vampire does sunlight. But AirTags are awful tempting. How well do they work, really? Especially with a Pixel phone.

I don't think you get that UWB fine grained locating? If I was trying to find my keys in a large grassy field, is that feasible?

Google Voice is not available in my country. Plus, it’s Google.

Also, Google Voice takes my top pick for the next round of Google product executions. It receives no updates: no RCS, no fake iMessage support (parsing the Liked "prev message" stuff), and it's buggy as shit.

I'd gladly even pay for GVoice if it meant it got a renovation and it was going to outlast Google's attention span. Telephony is something I just don't want to self-host because there's no way telecom companies will make it easy.

I'm not an expert on EU antitrust but these things seem like they naturally go together. After all, Outlook comes with Office, right? Is that not a communication and collaboration tool?

You're making a generalized argument to support terrorism.

I agree and you're forgetting old people. A lot of them have straight up told me, "I'll be dead when the worst hits, so why should I care?" People need more cynicism for human behavior; it's not entirely cartels and conspiracies.