uh, no?

Uh, yes.

the chat app does have access to your messages, as I originally said

What you originally said was gibberish, but I digress. The chat app is open source, so you can evaluate what it’s doing with those messages for yourself.

1. Bit charitable to say “no one uses it” when they have >300M MAU
2. Wasn’t talking about Threads, I was talking about Meta.

how are programs denied that access? how is it that they can’t do that?

Apps are typically given their own dedicated storage volume, and access to any other part of the filesystem requires permission from the user.

this includes the ability to read the saved passwords from my browser, and to install browser addons without my consent or knowledge.

WTF kind of computers are you using?

Yes but you can also pay someone else to do all that work that isn’t Apple, and then use it on Linux.

It’s usually as simple as logging into your Nextcloud account on Linux.

If that is insufficient then you are not a typical usecase.

If you are doing a 200 mile trip, being home for 10 hours, then going out and doing another hundred miles on a regular basis, you are an extreme usecase. If you do this 1 or 2x/year this could easily be covered by spending literally a few extra bucks and stopping at a (presumably existent) L3 station for a few minutes.

I do the same trips as the rest of you, only on a monthly basis with multiple bikes strapped to a hitch on the back, and in a 200-mile vehicle. I arrive home with very little range (<10%), but over the course of just a few days on L1 I will be back to 80%, without making any compromises about where I want/need to go.

People want their car to be able to go places when they want to go places

“People” don’t need to travel the same way you do.

You are talking to me as if you think I didn’t own multiple full EVs

No I am talking to you as if you don’t understand the usecase of the vast majority of drivers, and you don’t understand the point of the video in the OP. Which is fine, most people don’t, that’s why he made it.

Again, no.

You seem to think it means “most daily situations,” but I think it means “most house installations.”

That’s the opposite of what I think.

Once a week I need L2 charging because of all the stuff I do that isn’t commuting.

No you don’t. You go and do those things, then plug it in and charge it up over the next 6 days until it’s fully charged again. If that is insufficient then you are not a typical usecase.

They’ve been doing it for quite a while. Very slowly. The problem is it’s currently unidirectional, and opt-in. I imagine its the same reason Apple has adopted RCS (also opt-in): legal pressure.

If they just ignore it completely, legislators might completely fuck them like they did Apple with alternative payments. But if they kinda half-ass it then they can point to it and say “SEE, WE HAVE INTEROP! NO MONOPOLY!”

You guys really should do some reading before you downvote things you don’t understand

This is not about me or you, this is “usually”.

You can log into any Lemmy instance from any Photon instance.

What electric vehicle gets 5 miles/1.2kWh?

Most of the small ones.

Why would you think a chat app has full write access to your disk?

Uhhhh no?

It’s just software…

I mean that’s the easy answer but:

1. Documenting and sharing the events is part of the protest
2. You may need it in an emergency.

Lots of them do that if you look.

Mostly old-ish technology, which is far more interesting because they had to be more innovative.

I’m not telling anyone what they need. I’m telling you what people usually need. Which is the topic of the conversation you started.