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  • stoy@lemmy.ziptoPrivacy@lemmy.mlWhy don’t you like Apple?
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    23 days ago

    iPhone user here, that is…

    …quite accurate actually.

    I have used Android and even tried to switch to Android a few years ago, but whenever I use Android, I can’t shake the feeling that uncle Google watches whatever I do, I don’t get the same feeling when I use iOS.

    Weather either feeling is accurate I can’t say, but I hesitate to trust an ad compny’s OS over a computer company’s OS.

    Again, that is just a feeling, I make no claim wither way which is factually better.


  • The nuclear football is not a computer.

    It contains the codes and procedures to order a strike, but it is not a computer.

    According to sources from within the white house, in the 1980s it contained four items:

    • A black book of retaliatory options
    • A book listing classified site locations
    • A manilla folder with eight or ten pages staples together giving a discription of the procedures for the Emergency Alert System
    • A card with authentication codes

    There is a small antenna protruding near the handle of the briefcase, which some believe means that there is communications equipment inside the case as well.

    I mean, yeah, the computer looks really cool!