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avon b7 said:

lkrupp said:

avon b7 said:

Hey, I pointed out some accepted facts. 

Let's be fair. As you know I'm pro EU but not really pro or anti US/China. 

It says loads about you as a human being that you have no problem with a totalitarian dictatorship with a miserable human rights record, a government who enslaves and attempts genocide at every opportunity, Tibet in 1950 and the Uyghurs more recently. Unlike you I am vehemently anti-China for a whole host of reasons. And I am not fond of western Europe for its complete dependence on U.S. military might since WWII for its security so it could spend mightily on its socialist programs. I chuckle at the French unions shutting down the country because Macron wants to raise the retirement age by two years. Now that Putin has designs on you ( the former Russian President, Medvedev, talked about “adjusting” the border with Poland) at least the Germans have pledged to spend more than 2% GDP on defense. The French will always be the French though.

Oh, and you are always touting and hauling ass for Huawei. What’s that all about? Whenever there’s talk about the iPhone market there you are yammering about Huawei. You hang around an Apple centric tech blog but you are always at the ready to tell us how Apple’s success is an illusion, a specter, fake news, posting links from god-knows-where as proof. 

You're welcome to your opinion but it is very, very skewed. 

I have no problem with it though, because I don't rate people 'as people' based on a thread on an internet site.

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Do you know why I rarely speak about Samsung? Because my only Samsung devices are TVs. I know very little about Samsung. 

I talk about what I know and I know a lot about Apple and a lot about Huawei. 

Sorry for the rant. 

gatorguy said:

So what is the privacy danger from using GMail? It's mentioned more than once, but the only example given is a promoted ad or two in the "Promotions" tab which hardly qualifies as an invasion of privacy.

The article then implies Google doesn't offer E2EE for GMail, but stops short of saying so.  FWIW it does, and according to MacWorld "Google one-ups Apple with end-to-end encryption for GMail... tops Apple's new Advanced Data Protection". And from another article " (Apple)Mail is encrypted in transit, but not at rest. "Consistent with standard industry practice iCloud does not encrypt data stored on IMAP mail servers." Apple is physically able to give legitimate authorities your data"
There is an option to use encrypted mail, however.

So in the cons, there's only one, a very vague "Big privacy policy concerns" without any example given.  If there's something else you might want to be specific. 

As far as I know Google doesn't use the contents of your GMail for data monetization, ie, ad placement. 

You’re right that Google doesn't use the contents of your GMail for data monetization, ie, ad placement Gatorguy.

From the Google Keynote (Google I/O ‘22).. 

https://www.youtube.com/live/nP-nMZpLM1A?feature=share&t=3922

From the transcript:

"We never sell your personal information to anyone or use the content you store in apps like Gmail, Google Photos, or Drive for advertising purposes. We also never use sensitive information like health, race, religion, or sexual orientation for personalized ads, period. We believe that the best ads are helpful, relevant, and safe."

I remember several cases of Google stating this in the last few years. The same thing was, for example, stated at Google I/O 2021..

https://www.youtube.com/live/XFFrahd05OM?feature=share&t=2268

tmay said:

waveparticle said:

tmay said:

waveparticle said:

blastdoor said:

waveparticle said:

blastdoor said:

waveparticle said:

blastdoor said:

waveparticle said:

blastdoor said:

lkrupp said:

Is this Covid or is it China colluding with Russia to make things hard for American companies?

They are conspiring with Russia, but they have much bigger goals for that conspiracy.

I’m sure this is just Covid.

India is also continuing importing oil from Russia. Is this a conspiracy from MSM? 

So are you trying to change the subject because you agree that Russia and China are conspiring and just don't want to talk about it? 

Xi literally said, and went out of his way to say, that his friendship with Putin is "limitless." He has previously said that he and Putin have very similar personalities. Chinese propaganda has also been mimicking Russian misinformation about the war in Ukraine. And now Russia has asked China for military assistance. This isn't conspiracy theory, it's conspiracy fact. 

Why do you say this is conspiring? China has never said it will work with West sanctioning Russia. Same to India. West wants to sacrifice its economy sanctioning Russia. Why do China and India like to sacrifice their economy too? Both Ukraine and Russia have good relation with China before. It is the West treating Russia and China as adversary. 

I suppose you're right that if they are openly cooperating, then it's technically not a conspiracy. So you got me there! :-) 

Oil is a red herring. There are not international sanctions against Russian oil. So it's not a problem for either China or India to buy Russian oil. What is a problem is sending Russia weapons (which Russia has requested of China, but we don't know yet what China's answer is) or helping Russia circumvent sanctions that do exist. 

I don't think China is sending Russia weapons. 

I hope you're right, but then I guess that means the friendship between Putin and Xi isn't 'limitless'. Which would be good! But I'd like some confirmation of that. 

Russia and China are neighbors. Neighbors need to be friendly. This is the limit of friendship. 

Russia and Ukraine are neighbors. 

Your theory needs work, hence, why China needs to state explicitly that it is not shipping weapons to Russia.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/under-new-scrutiny-chinas-nuclear-pledge-to-ukraine-11647007200


China's word alone is worthless.

Ukraine does not want to be friendly with its neighbor.  That is why it has war. My theory is perfect. Why do you always end your post with derogatory?

LOL!

Fact. Russia, again, has invaded Ukraine. You must be under the illusion that resisting being invaded by Russia, is "unfriendly". 

How's this war actually working out for you and China?

This is the part where China needs to "choose wisely".

https://uscnpm.org/2022/03/12/hu-wei-russia-ukraine-war-china-choice/

DAalseth said:

mpantone said:

DAalseth said:

Is OneDrive available ONLY as part of Office365 or can you get it by itself?

At least on Windows PCs it's pre-installed. I assume it still has a basic free tier for macOS users like it had years ago when it debuted.

Of course, you could simply answer this question yourself with something called a "search of the Internet." I'm not going explain what that is nor do that for you. Neither should anyone else here.

I am happy to help people on the Internet with random tasks but one thing I balk on is to encourage them to be mindless, lazy slugs.

I hereby bow out of further discussion in this particular thread.

Best of luck.

Did that and all I found was stuff talking about how well it worked with Office365. 

StrangeDays said:

gatorguy said:

Allowing a user choice of what applications to load on their own personal $1000 expenditure puts the onus where it belongs. The only legitimate reason not to is purely profit-based and not because they're "saving us from ourselves". 

Completely wrong, or course. But how can we expect a google guy to understand the value proposition of the platform when he doesn’t even have an iPhone? Having absolute trust in the walled garden and security of apps within the App Store is the entire reason for its success with non-techies. That isn’t profit-based, it’s value-based. You general-IT-dude types still fail to grok Apple, forty years later and counting. It shows.