Ilandar

an iPhone comes clean out of the box

How does it come "clean out of the box" when you literally just said it requires modifications to the settings to improve its privacy?

at least there’s no vendor garbage

Samsung and Xiaomi apps are vendor-specific and can be disabled, even without the use of UAD (which works fine, not sure why you're lying about that).

unlike an Android where you’ll be forced into a 3rd party tool or a ROM like GrapheneOS if you want a clean experience.

GrapheneOS is available as an option because Android has an open-source basis. Remind me which alternative privacy OS Apple allows third party developers to create for iPhone? Which iPhone did they allow users to install this imaginary privacy OS on?

You also are sure that your apps won’t be able to get system-wide access

Android applications have been sandboxed for several versions now.

Not sure why you're so offended here. The advice I gave you is literally what you claim to be doing.

That's good, I'm glad to hear you're getting professional treatment since your original statement indicated the opposite:

I know it is not helping me the same as a professional would.

I love the moral grandstanding from virtue signallers like yourself when you get called out on how utterly useless and selfish your behaviour is. I'm still the only one to offer genuine advice here; advice I know to be backed by academics and science. You have literally done nothing other than to encourage this person to continue a form of treatment you know to be dangerous, all to appear empathetic on social media.

How is stacking 10 buckets of sand and letting them fall in an art gallery, comparable to real art? Dunno, but they call it that: “real art”.

Your insinuation here was that AI art is "real art" because someone once stacked 10 buckets of sand and called it "real art". It comes across as pretty desperate that you relied on a comparison with something as questionable as this to argue that AI art is the equivalent of traditional art. As you said, there will always be artists and "artists". Sounds like AI "artists" fit in quite well with the latter group.

The problem with iOS is the lack of freedom and control you have as a user. Yes, Apple may be "better than Google" when it comes to some aspects of default privacy on their devices (being better than the worst is hardly something to brag about), but as a user the level of privacy you can achieve on your iPhone is always limited by the design of the operating system, where you are just a user with no permissions and no ability to modify or even replace the operating system entirely. You are locked into a proprietary ecosystem that you cannot get out of.

I’m not saying that Apple doesn’t track things, because they do, but at least there’s no vendor garbage and you can go through the Settings and disable everything you don’t need, restrict Apps from running in the background etc.

Did you make a mistake here? You are describing an Android device. You can even remove apps entirely from a device with a tool like Universal Android Debloater, and Android allows alternative app stores so you don't need to rely on a heavily limited selection of proprietary apps.

There is nothing "dismissive" about offering advice to people who clearly need it. In actual fact, you are the one who was dismissive of the issue here by offering some cowardly "feel good" reply instead of opening up and sharing your honest thoughts. Stop tiptoeing around issues and enabling harmful behaviours. Relying on AI chatbots for mental health advice is very dangerous, and it's absolute madness to encourage this as a primary form of treatment when you are seemingly aware of the dangers yourself.

You literally just encouraged them to continue using a chatbot for mental health support. You didn't nudge them anywhere.

Totally valid? Getting mental health advice from an AI chatbot is one of the least valid use cases. Speak to a real human @[email protected], preferably someone close to you or who is professionally trained to assist with your condition. There are billions of English speakers in the world, so don't pretend we live in a society where there's "no one to talk to".

According to that article, he and the owner of the business patched things up and reached a positive resolution. Continuing to be mad about it 10 years later, particularly when no one involved actually cares, is the most terminally online behaviour. Switch off the phone, go outside and breathe some fresh air.

I'm pretty sure they were referring to the user who shared the full quote, not Snowden himself.