masterhogbographer

masterhogbographer t1_j93uvkx wrote

Being a boomer and still having cable it’s crazy not just how many new shows I discover but how many old shows I’d forgotten all about but just randomly flick on right in the middle of an episode and say “wow I forgot Frasier was this funny, I’m gonna watch it again”

That never happens when I’m going through my plex or Netflix (though I’d cancelled it) and looking at icons.

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masterhogbographer t1_iw7df4k wrote

Because it isn’t apple.

And I say that with zero intention on trying to start a flame war.

I say that because due to various reasons whenever apple has a flaw like this everyone knows about it very quickly after reported. And by everyone, I mean everyone.

There was a hands on device vulnerability in iOS last year or the year before, that my wife asked me about wondering if she needed to upgrade iOS asap. She is not tech savvy and I’m the only one in her life that is.

The inverse is, when there’s a similar exploit for non-apple devices, even people in the field can miss it. A friend of mine is a decent techie. Works in IT, and one of their specialities at the company he works for is security.

But the last few vulns for android that have popped up, I’ve been the one notifying him — he an android user and apple hater, me somewhat agnostic — of those vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, he texts me the instant there’s public word of an iOS or MacOS exploit lmao (not even joking, his hated is not healthy imo, but I guess tribalism is society these days…)

The sad part is, if this was apple, after just an hour this post would be front page back in June. And then there would be reposts of the same blog articles across dozens of subs that also would have been top of their sub with hundreds of comments and every month since June there’d have been more articles bubbling to the top with titles like “how hasn’t apple fixed this yet?” Or “Tim cook should resign in face of deflategate” wait that’s another thing entirely

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