@gornius
@lemmy.worldThe apps still need to request OS for specific permissions before they use things like GPS, mobile data, filesystem etc.
But the point you're missing is unless you're building everything yourself, there is always a party that you have to trust. Apple likes to paint itself as trustworthy when it comes to your data, but all the anti-consumer shenanigans they do when it comes to hardware clearly state that the only thing they care about is money.
Remember - it's either convenience with a false sense of security or security. Never both.
Don't get swayed specifically by critics. I swear most critics in the film and video game industry have the weirdest takes ever, while they should represent an average joe. There have been many movies which have been obliterated by critics, which have been quite popular and fun, as well as many awful movies, which have been praised by critics.
I think ARM is their end goal, it's really the only option for a handheld console, as today ARM is the only way you'll get enough performance/power rate to make it both good on battery with good enough performance.
Win-win for everyone if they invest in an open source x86 to ARM project, similar like they did with Wine.
If you're a beginner:
I almost gave up programming once, I thought I was too stupid.
Then I learned Linux and figured out starting out in IDEs as a beginner is the worst thing you can do. It doesn't teach you anything, it just lets you get the job done - the thing that you should avoid while learning.
If you can't build your software with only CLI - you probably have no idea how technology you're programming in works.
If you are intermediate:
Reinventing the wheel is a great way to learn how libraries you're using actually work.
Um... what?
If you drive a car, your car needs a license plate. That plate is tied to you. If you commit a crime you're likely to get reported. Also you can be randomly stopped by police and they will check if you have a driver's license.
For firearms, as far as I'm concerned, the ammunition has some sort of serial number, which in case of committing a crime, would allow the police to track you by contacting people who sold it to you.
With printer, how then fuck is it going to change anything? Not to mention you can actually quite easily build it yourself.
The language itself is not that bad. Especially the newest releases are really great, thought out DX improvements. What stinks are its legacy parts and how it needs to be run.
My biggest pain is that for it to actually behave like it should it requires some sort of an actual web server like apache or nginx.
Also, servers written in are actually request handlers - every time a request comes, the whole app is reinitialized, because it just can't hold its state in memory. In many apps every request means reinitializing connection with database. If you want to keep some state, you have to use some caching mechanism like redis or memcached.
Also had one time when Symfony app was crashing, because someone forgot to close class braces, and everything was "working" until some part of code didn't like it and was just dying without any error.
And one time when someone put two endlines after php closing tag at the end of the file, confusing the entire php interpreter into skipping some lines of code - also without warning, and only in specific php version.
Why do you need Windows VM for developing GUI apps? Last time I used Visual Studio to make GUI app I almost gave up programming, because of how code-generation dependent it was.
For C# you have AvaloniaUI. For cpp you have countless multi-platform GUI toolkits, same for rust, Java has its own toolkits (multi-platform), and finally you can make an Electron/Tauri app.
The way for your desktop to communicate with the hardware.
It used to be X11 - A server-client architecture, which meant your desktop was effectively just a client that told the server what to do. The server was the one doing the drawing
Wayland is just a protocol, defining how programs and desktop should communicate with each other - without a middleman that was X11 server. The desktop does the actual drawing here.
The main argument to use password managers to prevent password leaks to all of your services (that you use with the same login/email). You can't trust any service to store your password securely, therefore you should use different ones everywhere.
Using a password manager gives you the convenience of using one, strong password that's being used very securely, and mitigating risk of password leaks spreading further.
If you abstract it that way, it by no means eliminates the risk of someone breaking into your database, but makes it harder and from a single entry point, instead of any service that uses your password.
Plus many of those password managers give you an option to use YubiKey for additional security.
Oh and also you won't ever need to press "forgot password" ever again due to the arbitrary requirements that your password doesn't pass, so you modify it slightly so it would.
You just need to realize that Adobe doesn't release their stuff on Linux, not because it doesn't allow them to, but Linux desktop market share is too small.
It's a chicken and egg problem. Once Adobe would release their stuff, magically there would be a massive movement to improve HDR support, color accuracy etc.
And you need to realize Microsoft achieved such a giant market share thanks to illegal monopolistic practices in 90s, that still have huge impacts today.