merged, I think

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@@ -48,45 +48,57 @@ you know why people put up with google's tracking? because for as much dumb bull
 ### notifications
 
 the vast majority of apps do not need to give notifications. Honestly the vast majority of mobile apps don't need to exist at all, but I can only argue that case-by-case.
+//TODO: examples. obviously I get rid of apps that pull this shit, stat.
 
 ### automation
 
-question: how do you automate your phone? if you try and do some research online, both sides of the walled gardens have a *plethora* of stupid ways to decrease your productivity of automating *other* stuff *from* your phone. But since your phone is the nexus of your security and identity, you can't let anything go poking around in it. And therefore you'll have to pull up DAVx and hit refresh, manually, several times a day. You're begrudgingly allowed to install apps without google's blessing through 3rd party app stores, but you may not automatically update them.
+question: how do you automate your phone? if you try and do some research online, both sides of the walled gardens have a *plethora* of stupid ways to decrease your productivity of automating *other* stuff *from* your phone. But since your phone is the nexus of your security and identity, you aren't allowed to let anything go poking around in it.
+So there is almost *no* concept of "automating a phone".
+And therefore you'll have to pull up DAVx and hit refresh, manually, several times a day.
+[//TODO: footage]
+You're begrudgingly allowed to install apps without google's blessing through 3rd party app stores, but you may not automatically update them.
+[//TODO: screenshot of update from fdroid]
+Worst of all: companies have fully embraced the trend that while they aren't capable of crafting a concise UI with the benefit of a full size screen... surely they'll get it right this time in a harder environment? So companies tend to unapologetically introduce or update features *only* for their mobile interfaces.
+[//TODO: examples]
 
 ### files
 
-there's a joke that millenials (and gen-z-ers) have to teach boomers what a file beyond a word doc is. But I point out those 2 groups because apple-loyalty is most rampant among them - I dare you to try this exercise.  Bring up your preferred communications-with-strangers app (e.g., X). [xkcd about how apps tell you about their updates] Dismiss the patch notes. Find an image you'd like to interact with later. Maybe you want to draw on it. maybe you just want to send it as is. Download it.
+there's a joke that millenials (and gen-z-ers) have to teach boomers how to open a PDF. But apple-loyalty is most rampant among them - I dare you to try this exercise.  Bring up your preferred communications-with-strangers app (e.g., X). 
+[xkcd about how apps tell you about their updates]
+Dismiss the patch notes. Find an image you'd like to interact with later. Maybe you want to draw on it. maybe you just want to send it as is. Download it.
 
-where is it? fuck knows. For the sake of privacy, much work has been done to ensure apps aren't allowed to share files. In exchange for the twin downsides of "virtually every app is pointless" and "a truly useful app is prevented from existing", we have accomplished nothing in the way of privacy.
+where is it? fuck knows. For the sake of lip-service to the concept of security, much work has been done to ensure apps aren't allowed to share files.
+[show an old-timey balance scale, put the downsides on one side]
+In exchange for the twin downsides of "virtually every app is pointless" and "a truly useful app is prevented from existing", we have accomplished nothing in the way of privacy.
 [pitch meeting] "oh, whoops!" "whoopsie!"
 
-Ogg Vorbis *continues* to be superior to mp3. More fidelity. More efficient compression. But apple says mp3 is fine, so, rest in peace OGG. you were the OG. ...G.
-Don't worry, there's a million billion music player apps. The only problem is that none of them matter.
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-You know what *would* be great? if you could download an audio codec on the play store. 
+Ogg Vorbis *continues* to be superior to mp3. More fidelity. More efficient compression. But apple says mp3 is fine, so, rest in peace OGG. you were the OG.
+...G.
+Don't worry, there's a million billion music player apps. The only problem is that none of them matter. You know what *would* be great? if you could download an audio codec on the play store, and whatever music player app you like could use it. But that would require apps to interact with each other.
 
 ### web
 
 you know why people put up with google dictating your experience to maximize your diet of ads? because here's the alternative.
-Firefox on the desktop is the last web browser that was a Great Thing. largely, for the most part, they're trying to preserve at least part of that.
-Firefox on mobile is absolutely not making any such attempt.  It does what all the other mobile apps are doing: once a day it abuses its notification privileges to advertise to you; "hey come back and run the app again". It frequently updates its UI (progress addiction), it collects user data. Worst of all, they *had* and then **removed** plugin support. If an adblocker is necessary to web browsing, it's even more necessary on mobile. We should all think less of the mozilla foundation for the 2020 change. (fortunately they were sufficiently pressured to walk back their mistake.)
+Firefox on the desktop is the last web browser that was a Great Thing. largely, for the most part, they're trying to preserve at least some of that.
+Firefox on mobile is absolutely not making any such attempt.  It does what all the other mobile apps are doing: once a day it abuses its notification privileges to advertise to you; "hey come back and run the app again". It frequently updates its UI (to feed its progress addiction), it collects user data. Worst of all, they *had* and then **removed** plugin support. If an adblocker is necessary to browse the web, it's even more necessary to browse the web on mobile. We should all think less of the mozilla foundation for the 2020 change. 
+[there was drama on the internet about the change they made, show some of that]
+(fortunately they were sufficiently pressured to walk back their mistake.)
+[I think in 2023 they said "ff mobile is getting plugin support". it might be google's antisolution version?]
 
 # fix
 
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-I bring that up to demonstrate: no one likes ads. Obviously. Most of everything doesn't even work.  Ads are less effective in the modern era.
 [//TODO: fact-check - I'm pretty sure I heard they're decreasing in effectiveness? if I'm wrong, it's still safe to say everyone hates ads.]
 because no one likes ads, if you're a professional Marketer, you market *yourself* on the grounds that you can make a stronger impression. Which means making your ads more intrusive.
 Everyone hates ads. Everyone hates pop-up ads **much** more, because they pop-up.
+[note] I thought this was obvious, and yet...
 No one has ever googled something, read a random blog's page, and signed up for its newsletter.
-No one has ever opened their phone's music player or GPS app and read the patch notes - and I say that as someone who kept up to date with the patch notes for skullgirls, and always reads EULAs.
+No one has ever opened their phone's music player or GPS app and read the patch notes - and I say that as someone who did read the patch notes for skullgirls, and always reads EULAs.
 
-These apps don't think they are a means to an end. They think they're an ℯ𝓍𝓅ℯ𝓇𝒾ℯ𝓃𝒸ℯ. 
+These apps don't think they're a means to an end. They think they're an ℯ𝓍𝓅ℯ𝓇𝒾ℯ𝓃𝒸ℯ. 
 [crash different video: you're taking part in the apple experience, etc]
 They want to *increase* the time spent in an app. I assume this is favorable for ad revenue metrics.
 surely the same app is better when it *decreases* the time it takes to get shit done.
-take for example, Discord. They have all kinds of fancy shit to take my money over, and I do not nor will i ever give a fuck.
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+take for example, Discord. They've given themselves loads of work to produce features other than real time chat to justify asking you for money. Meanwhile it only exists because their userbase refuses to use Matrix.
+If I want to upload, caption, and then send you a funny picture, obviously it's bad if "waiting for discord to start" takes a large portion of this time. Worse still if "finding where discord moved the stuff I'm looking for" is significant.
+It's almost funny that they're audacious enough to throw a wrench in this pipeline asking me to read two thousand words about the changes they're very proud of getting 2/3rds of the way done before release, that 2/3rds of their users don't want and 2/3rds don't understand. I'm trying to *do* something, if there was ever a time I would read your patch notes, it's not now.