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  • Yes and no. There are two reasons this half truth refuses to die.

    1. IOS does this obnoxious thing after updates where it no longer trusts its index. It changed something about how the index works so rather than update the existing data to the new slightly different format, they say fuck it and reindex the entire phones data. This background process consumes battery and can last up to a week. So people notice the battery life get worse, but they never notice it getting better after the indexing stops and goes back to only noticing changes.
    2. Apple had a big problem a while back where their phones could draw too much power from the batteries. It was fine when new, but as the battery aged, it wasn’t able to deliver stable power to the SoC under heavy loads, making the phone unstable and crashy. So apple just limited the max power the SoC could draw on phones where the otherwise perfectly functional battery could be pushed hard enough to cause problems. It’s annoying, and they could have been more clear, but the rationale was sound. Few will notice a slightly slower phone. Many will notice a phone that suddenly powers off when playing a game.

    Apple does a lot of things wrong but they also do a lot of things right. We really need to pick more rational reasons to hate on apple if we ever expect them to give a shit about our opinions.





  • Tampermonkey is a Firefox extension that can run scripts to interact with web pages. It’s great for bulk operations like mass deletes.

    Reddit is intentionally holding onto my data. The are intentionally trying to keep it even though accounts go away. Since I’m an American in a red state there’s only so much I can do about this. But Reddit’s intentionally preventing my data from being deleted. This is intended behavior by their site.





  • I miss what Reddit used to be. It was great. But in the end it was just so so so bad. Some of the subreddit were as bad as kiwifarms, and others were terrified of becoming like that so they overcorrected and it became a platform of extremes.

    Facebook is a right wing cesspool. It doesn’t matter what you set your preferences to, you are getting right wing propaganda and you are going to like it. I killed that account.

    Honestly, even running away from for profit operations might not be enough soon. We’ll all be on fucking ramble using i2p soon enough.


  • I’ve been working to delete all my stuff on a banned Reddit account before I delete it. Most of my accounts are done except for two. One I can’t get into for some reason. The other is my main and it keeps lying about or hiding my posts so I can’t get to all of them and delete them. I have tampermonkey scripts that have been running for days and there’s STILL shit that keeps reappearing after reddit pretends to delete it.

    You don’t get to keep my content AND ban me from using your platform. I’ll just keep whacking away at it until it’s dead but fuck it’s this a needlessly complicated pain in the ass.