Touching on the burnout section of the article, it's not quite as cool as the PSP but I've been playing a lot on my Switch 2 as a form of digital detox as well. I put limits on all the addictive apps on my phone, and downright uninstalled most of them, so when I'm itching for dopamine my phone can't give me it's nice to turn to a game console. The switch 2 also doesn't have notifications or egregious game updates. Currently playing through factorio and having a blast just kinda ... ignoring the state of the world.
Same! Them using markdown means I've been able to make an Obsidian-like app for Wear OS, with a phone app to sync your vault to the watch. Wouldn't have been possible if they weren't using markdown. Hoping to launch it on the Google Play store in a month or so :)
I've been using Linux and MacOS my entire life, with brief stints on windows when my job has required it. Every time I have to use Windows I'm gobsmacked at some of the design choices, bugs, lag, and anti-patterns.
You're absolutely right that it's mostly the same, you mostly use the same apps, you still use a mouse to interact with them, there's still a file system, etc. But when the experience is mostly the same it just makes the parts where they differ so much more frustrating in my experience.
Unfortunately my experiences trying to use Windows as a daily driver have been much like yours with Linux, I find myself messing around with stupid bullshit in a never ending cascade of settings menus, each more janky than the last, just trying to do simple things. It's unfortunate Windows has become so janky as I remember it working quite well back in the xp days.
All this is to say, I think at this point Linux is often as good as Windows (it does depend on the distro, tons of bad ones out there), but familiarity is king. I've spent decades using all three operating systems, and have mainlined Linux since 2023, so that's just what I'm most familiar with now.
I've lost track of what we were originally talking about, but yeah. They're all good enough just use whatever you're comfortable with and don't overthink it I guess 🤷
That's fair enough. If you lead with this I wouldn't have commented. I agree his recent videos have been more sensationalist, I just thought this one was pretty good, especially for the non-technical crowd.
I agree his videos are usually mediocre, but as a cyber security professional I actually think this one did a good job of simplifying and explaining computer security fundamentals at a level that most can understand.
You and I have a ton of extra context that the average person does not, so that Wikipedia article might suffice, but the video covers far more than that Wikipedia article.
They clearly did more research than just reading that article, and they went to the trouble of reproducing some of the steps in the exploit to demonstrate the danger it posed. This isn't just a brainless regurgitation of the Wikipedia article as you're implying.
Yeah I think it went pretty well. Would like to have a job at some point in the future as I recently bought a house only to be made redundant 4 months later.
Chris is a pretty switched on and likeable guy. His take is absolutely right, but I think you also have to tackle the people buying multiple properties as investments. Property just can't be the safest and most profitable investment in Australia. Negative gearing has to go first, but I wouldn't mind seeing further steps after that to incentivise the property moguls to sell up (or at least slow their buying).
Yeah GrapheneOS is open source bro. Probably doesn't have full compatibility with your phone if I had to guess. That's really not a like-for-like comparison to iOS.
Really depends which spin of Android you have. I have a Nothing Phone 2 and the OS is arguably more polished than on my SO's iPhone 14, which frequently has bugs, lag, and crashes. You can't really generalise about Android when there are so many versions of it.
That being said I'll probably be looking into Linux phones in the next few years because I'm tired of corporations trying to control my devices.
Linux is not that hard. These days it's easier than Windows in some ways.