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twovests OP wrote (edited )

Reply to iPhone SE 2020 review 3: A list of bad things by twovests

Extended list:

  1. Who thought it was a good idea to have lowercase l and uppercase I look exactly the same

  2. Calculator app is very weak, and there are no good free calculators. Please fund my $2000 kickstarter to build an iOS calculator.

ugh

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by voxpoplar in iPhone SE 2020 review 3: A list of bad things by twovests

Nonono your phone is better. If I wasn't some horrible privacy nut, I'd be using an Android through and through, and would never have even considered an iPhone.

I'm at the place of, "I'd use GrapheneOS but I also occasionally rely on apps like Lyft because I have no car and don't live in a city, so I'd rather use Apple than rely on Google Play Services."

I hope we can have a future where compromise is not necessary. I really am considering carrying two phones (one with GrapheneOS) because even that would be more convenient than staying on iOS.

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twovests OP wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in iphone se 2020, day 1 review from someone who has used android exclusively for the past six years by twovests

I guess by "worse" I mean devs are making things heavier when they don't need to be. Heavy websites bogged down by autplaying videos and telemetries and high resolution photos and a bunch of weird CSS things that don't play well with native controls!

I like Postmill, it works very well and would probably work well in the Nintendo DSi browser because it doesn't have a lot of that bad cluttery bloatey stuffe

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in iphone se 2020, day 1 review from someone who has used android exclusively for the past six years by twovests

I feel you, even though I never used such a phone. I'm sad the idea of a "docking station" didn't take off with these phones. Samsung has their DeX, but it's not the familiar Windows.

We do 99% of the same things we did in 2010, except more of it is on someone elses server! If software didn't keep getting worse, our phones would be powerful enough as desktop computers, let alone as thin clients! Just hook it up to a display, mouse, and keyboard!! Wah!!!

As much as I dislike it, Apple has a lot of influence and I really hope they implement a feature like that.

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by ellynu in iphone se 2020, day 1 review from someone who has used android exclusively for the past six years by twovests

iMessage itself isn't bad, but it's this rather nasty and insidious thing. People feel pressured to get iPhones for iMessage, so they can join group chats with their friends who also have it, leaving out those who don't. This is inherently tied with class, given how expensive iPhones are. I don't want to help cut these social lines just so Apple can line their pockets.

If they made it an open standard (like they said they would) then I'd be all for it.

Also my understanding is the default keyboard will keep come up for passwords and other forms. I'd rather get used to this keyboard and get fast in it than deal with an inconsistent UI.

Also maybe! I might end up selling or returning this so I'm keeping them for now just in case

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twovests wrote

Reply to comment by Dogmantra in Beware the Google Password Manager by voxpoplar

This is definitely a fair question. It's not entirely verifiable by onesself, and there's a lot weird security things to consider.

I also use 1Password. In terms of trusting someones server, that's actually a big reason they use end-to-end encryption. It means the server holds encrypted data, but not the means to un-encrypt. So, if 1Password's servers were compromised and the encrypted password vaults were downloaded, it'd still be extremely difficult and expensive to extract someones passwords from it. (They have a blogpost on this.) There'd be easier ways to get that information from someone. Relevant XKCD.

In terms of trusting code, it's rather difficult. There are open-source components that people may look at, but it's possible to sneak things in to code in a litany of ways. (Most popular: Ken Thompson's "compiler hack", 1984).

I don't know if I'm more tech savvy than you, but I can't verify any of this on my own. I do have some cryptography experience and I can vouch that 1Password's methods seem 1. Good, and 2. Rad as fuck. But my faith is in the vocal, extremely-critical, and never-satisfied tech community that is always prepared to rip to shreds any security company that fails.

Anyways, all this rambling aside, passwords are outdated but we still need them, and password managers are the only real option around the flaws of passwords. MFA / 2FA is also very very good, so even if your passwords are lost, they'll need to do more to get into your accounts. I use 2FA, so I could list my passwords here and still feel safe.

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twovests wrote

Reply to comment by devtesla in Beware the Google Password Manager by voxpoplar

Yeah, Google is kind of like this unknowable extremely complex eldtritch being that you can't comprehend all at once, has tentacles in all manner of affairs, and is kinda fucked up.

1Password (and other managers!) has a single, solitary focus. I'd expect if it's compromised, it's less of a mistake on their end and more of a new piece of security research. (Or, on a personal level, malware.)

I think security keys are a really good thing and I hope we can all settle on USB C soon so they can be ubiquitous. Physical keys for electronic doors are really easy for almost anybody to understand, even people with no technology knowledge.

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