Given what they choose to ship with their phones in some regions, id say that Samsung absolutely doesn't care about the security of their customers of they can get away with it.

I think the classic example is copyright and hacking offences, of which there are many many examples. Legal in a person's home country, very illegal in the US (unless you are a big corporation, of course).

I am not exaggerating when i say i completely stopped using google for searches that google might take offence to. Serial numbers, business phone numbers, and of course books and papers all ho through real search engines. Currently, those are yandex as my main goto with brave as a backup.

I couldn't care less what google does because i don't use it.

Its a foot in the door. If you dont slam the door shut quickly, you'll find yourself thrown out of your house and locked out (remember what android's safety net was when it got introduced and look at ehat it has become now)

Any kind of restriction, no matter how trevally exploitable will become legally and technically insurmountable if given time to metastasize.

I really want to buy a pebble. Can you please reconsider offering the watch via retailers when it becomes financially viable?

My anecdote: I've been using rootless podman on Ubuntu in production environments in multiple organizations (both startup and enterprise) for years without encountering a single issue related to podman itself.

I'm sure what you wrote here is true but i cant fathom how. Maybe its a rh specific issue? (Like how ubuntu breaks rootless bwrap by default)

That's how I've always done it. Why would anyone do it any other way? Genuine question.

Some devices don't have browsers, some are locked-down and only support one app store, or sideloading via adb, sometimes the UX is better (SideQuest for the Meta Quest).

The large majority of Android devices have a browser by default.

This is how its done in many non western societies: if you allege something, you better have the receipts to back it up or face similar consequences.

This is what i settled on as well. I maintain a side project that is completely legal and above board but i refuse to go through the nonsense i was forced to go through the last time i had to integrate with a credit card payment gateway (another side project that went belly up).

If someone wants to buy something from me badly enough, they'll figure out how to get some bitcoin.

I don't have the time and energy to deal with their arbitrary bullshit anymore.

Exactly. Same boat here, fully legal normal business. My main issue is literally having customers from middle east. I've had bank accounts frozen, PayPal reverting my business account to personal without notice, fees, crazy amount of fees everywhere ... So much pain for no benefit compared to crypto.

Had you posted this comment in the early 90s about linux instead of local models, it would have made about the same amount of sense but aged just as poorly as this comment will.

I'll remain here happily using 2.something tokens / second model.

But local aka desktop Linux is still an awful experience for most people. I use Arch btw

I'd rather use Arch over a genuine VT100 than touch Windows 11, so the analogy remains valid - at least you have a choice at all, even if you are in a niche of a niche.