CyberSyndicalist [none/use name]

The answer is as others have stated appl not supporting the open standard RCS.

I will elaborate with apple are deliberately dragging their feet supporting standards as a deliberate attempt to put social pressure on you to buy an iphone.

an audience member asked Apple CEO Tim Cook for some tech support. “I can’t send my mom certain videos,” he said; she used an Android device, which means she can’t access Apple’s iMessage. Cook’s now-infamous response: “Buy your mom an iPhone.”

The Apple Antitrust Case and the ‘Stigma’ of the Green Bubble

The solutions others have suggested of installing other messaging apps like signal will work but I will suggest another; Buy your wife an Android.

wingdings

executive function

Rufus

If you want something easier to manage you can use Parabolic which is a graphical interface for yt-dlp that you can install as a flatpak.

Best printer 20XX: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine

call it SUES. SUSE won’t be able to complain since they are so hung up on it being pronounced SU-SAY.

support should drop when we hit the sweat spot where the energy saving from running modern RISC devices over old CISC outweighs the energy cost of manufacturing replacements.

Can’t speak to the specific sites that you use but I’ve personally found firefox user agent spoofing results in almost every site that didn’t work on firefox suddenly magically working if they think you are on chrome.

I guess mileage varies here because flatpaks have always just worked for me. I only use flatseal to revoke excessive permissions.

Web devs don’t make the pages Firefox friendly? Since the user base is smaller, they just don’t care?

correct

also in the case of Google controlled websites the errors are often deliberately introduced to sabotage firefox

Debian was planning on dropping 32 bit support and Steam is still a 32 bit application so valve freaked out.

I click on it’s front page and immediately see anti-semitism, racism, more anti-semitism and transphobic and queerphobic hatespeech.

Hmm wonder why you are rushing to it’s defense?

oh what do you know, you’ve previously defended neonazi lemmy instances like explodingheads with whataboutism arguments and have multiple bans for bigotry.

“free speech” absolutists just being nazis yet again

They are not really “free speech” sites, they are fascist sites. They will use your left wing posts as rhetorical proof of their openness until such a time that your antagonism gains any traction at which point they will promptly censor you as they do not really have any ideals. The game is rigged, post on a fascist site and you will be a tool for fascism.

Lemmy was built explicitly in recognition of this fact for the master’s tool will never dismantle the master’s house.