couragethebravedog

I would say there are levels to pirates. Not everyone here wants or needs to be a pirate 100% of the time. Sure, everyone could download all their music but why bother if you have a streaming service that you consider cheap and you prefer streaming over storage. Like anything, they're levels to it.

I do not trust Whatsapp to provide the security of a signal conversation. Who wants signal and WhatsApp to talk to each other ?

Hisense TVs come with a physical microphone switch that disables the mic. Idk if this is on the budget end of TVs but I paid about 1500 for mine and it has it.

They are doing away with that soon. Going to usernames.

This is true. I'm a bit biased as that is what I would do. I'd say most users will not even notice. I think most of us here on lemmy are tech heads though and we would be the ones who do connect our phones to PC.

Unless it's limited by hardware this will be a main cause for jailbreaking your iPhone.

It's a lightweight version. It doesn't have some of the pre installed stuff that comes on the normal Windows.

I use the N version of Windows and I never see any of this.

I run N, I like it.

If you want to try Linux, try Ubuntu or mint. Those are the easiest to make an entry into.

No it's not, if it's not on the store (outside of Ubuntu does a store even exist?) then it's more difficult to install. Half the time it's an appimage you have to download, make it executable and then run. Then if you install it from a website you have to go through the trouble of adding a shortcut into your application menu / desktop and it's just way more complex than Windows.

I disagree. If you consider a power user using PowerShell or terminal, then sure. But simple things on windows are more complex on Linux. Like installing a program, if you can do it through snap or apt get then great, still more complex for the average user compared to windows where you just download and click.