So, what are you suggesting? Staying on Apple where all of this is already the case?

Of course we should consider the near future. And in the near future, Android devices will still keep working exactly as they are now. And the devices mentioned will have the ability to not update to a sideloading-blocked version of Android. And the devices mentioned will still have the ability to put other operating systems on them, in case stock Android is not satisfactory anymore. And in the near future, Android will not get worse than iOS, as iOS is blocking sideloading already.

Maybe, but we live in the now. Currently, Android is better for the causes OP mentioned. If someone cares about these causes, switching to something like Fairphone is a way to support these causes. Especially since Fairphone for example also works with other Linux-based operating systems in addition to Android (no matter if they are unusable because of whatever reasons right now).

Staying on Apple, where Apple is definitely closed right now and also definitely staying like that, is the antithesis to that.

Why do anything at all? Everything has some sort of drawback. Also everything is the same anyway.

If you buy a device right now, you get an immediate benefit, that lasts at least for the lifetime of the device. There is no change yet, and you’ll always be able to just not update to newer versions of Android that restrict sideloading. In case of Fairphone, that device is likely to last a long time.

There is no real risk in buying a phone right now. Only once infrastructure changes that drops previous wireless network technology (i.e. 5g), and the new wireless communication technology is not supported by your phone’s hardware anymore, is when you’ll run into problems. Or when apps require a newer version of Android, but likely you’ll be able to spoof that by rooting your phone and installing certain software.

You really don’t get having to pay for things, do you?

With the difference that code actually is easily changeable, if you need to change a wall you actually need to tear it down, get rid of the waste, likely tear everything down that was supported by it, and completely rebuild it with new materials.

If you need to change the foundations of your code, yes, it’s not always super easy, but it is actually possible and I’ve done it before without super big headaches.

It’s just not comparable.

Basically, yes

All we can really do is deal with shit as it arises, but it’s still shit

There hasn’t been anything Google on my phone for a while now, so I’ll first wait and see how they regain control over my phone :D

Is there a tldw somewhere before I watch 3.5 hours?

It’s easier and nicer. But it’s also shitty because of what you mentioned.

The thing is, that’s how it’s going to stay unless people stop using it. You can get this info you mentioned somewhere else, or simply don’t need it, as I said, yes it’s harder and less nice to live without it, but it’s not like you can’t live without live traffic data or whatever. Start using CoMaps, contribute to open street map, leave reviews on other review aggregators, etc etc

Is it really unreasonable to want a resource on how to grow plants? There’s no reason to have to repeat the same kind of information again and again and again in discussion threads. I also wouldn’t want to learn calculus by asking on discussion forums. This feels like it should be a solved problem.

It’s almost impossible to search Lemmy properly as well, even if I’d like to search for solutions to problems.

What I’d much rather know, where do you get information how to care for all kinds of plants without having to ask in Lemmy communities or whatever? There must surely be some place where someone collected all kinds of plant growing information like this, right?

Because this is not log or debug data as OP said. In any case, what do you think would happen with this data? It will be analyzed by some sort of tool because no one could manually look at this much text data. In text, this can be like 1MB of data per second. So in a normal eye tracking session, probably hundreds of MB. The problem isn’t the storage space, but the time it will take to read that in and analyze it each time, forcing you to wait for processing or use lots of memory while reading it. And anyway, in most languages, it’s actually much easier to store the number values directly (in 8 bytes not the 30something this text representation uses) than to convert them to JSON, all languages have some built-in way to do that. And even if not, sqlite is piss-easy and does everything for you, being as simple as JSON.

There is just no reason to do it like that unless you just don’t think about what you’re doing or have no clue.

Request the developers to change it. Or stop using the app.

Why are the apps involved such secrets? 🤣 Porn?

It may not be using androids URL opening functionality but directly opening the app itself, which is possible. Would be good to know the apps involved.