Multi language videos and pondering a move to iOS - Patroncast S02E43

How do you always have these cool ideas that I never think about on my own? :D

The Linux Experiment

(Finally got around to this episode) Re: Smaller channels translating on a budget: Collaborate! Larger channels have budgets, but are also more tied on who they can work with. Smaller channels don’t have the budget, but can more easily work with one-another to dub each-others videos in their native language. Maybe it isn’t all videos and maybe it isn’t real-time, but in a tit for tat fashion you can definitely get far. And then maybe establish some more complex form of exchange later and / or use this collaboration as a trial for whether to collaborate with that channel on different efforts.

Emil Johansen

I have an older iPhone SE. The form factor is nice. It’s very functional and well designed on its own and as a user of the phone I have no complaints. However, it does not work well with Linux compared to android. The battery is non replaceable, which will probably be what kills this phone in the end. And privacy is kind of problematic. With certain Android models you can remove the Google tracking as you have done with custom roms. This is not possible with Apple products. Apple also collects and knows more about the phones than Google does. It is one of the most sophisticated tracking devices ever designed. Some of the information collected is connected to you as a person through an Apple ID (sometimes optionally). You also have an option to get access to some of the information that Apple holds by enabling things such find my phone. But know that if you disable Find My Phone, Apple still knows exactly where your (or is it its?) phone is. The information is just not linked to your Apple ID. At least, that’s what they say. We can’t know for certain. You cannot disable this either. You can disable location services and this reduces power consumption and makes it inaccessible to apps, but not to Apple. Even if you turn the phone off, it behaves like an air tag. So if your near any other Apple user, the phone’s location is still recorded unless the battery is utterly down to 0 or you use a Faraday cage. As long as Apple makes more money riding the privacy bandwagon, this may be fine. But as soon as it makes more business sense to associate more information with the users they will. They’re not the most profitable company in the world for no reason. I use the tool which works best for me at the moment, but I’m aware of the trade-off. Would I buy again? I can’t say. Long story short: with Android you have choices and options later on (if you stick to some models). With Apple you can only decide when you buy.