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KYC and centralisation means govt will promise your money is there. These are essential for dev country or 3rd world. Even with so much kyc often there are fraud. This has minimised fraud.

If you are looking for RMS style freedom etc then look elsewhere. This is not Iceland or Nordic.

One another overlooked issue is India was the largest printer of currency. Until UPI etc modernisation - lots of torn currency - usually caused arguments/inconveniences among population. Also often shopkeepers or transport agencies did not return proper money change upon payment.

Irrespective of privacy, now it take few seconds to pay. Just works. Even without NFC. No worry about return change.

Are you sure? It is sometimes close to 30°C in summer in Fue. BTW, did you forget sealevel rises, dust from Sahara, what is you have many days of > 40km/h winds. all those are climate change.

Isnt the aim to remove dependency on Google/Apple? EU should have forced Google and Apple to allow people to use NFC pay without having Google or Apple accounts.

If you talk about using NFC card. Yes, that is available.

Nothing is difficult. Even cash is possible.

Many useful features like verified by visa or Google Pay or Apple pay is not available.

If you are that anal then using railway does not need app. You can use a mobile browser or desktop. I have seen people show QR code from their computer too. For D-Ticket one can buy from one of the local transport associations - with Chip Card (I am using that).

Ideally they should have also told all German banks distribute or offer non-App based accounts or 2FA? But they did not.

Also people are dependent on Play or App store. DB does not offer the app for direct download.

this does not mean anything logical. Billions use android. Some will be affected due to any company or ID etc.

Pretty sure you can visit your local apple store and see many people asking for shattered screen or lost iphone. They did lose their accounts.

Moreover even if you use macbook - if you lose google or apple ID situation is same. (for the majority) appstore is important. See your comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111545#48123885 you are happy to give everything to iCloud but don't like Google?

I can also store all my data in hetzner cloud. Use chromebook only as a hardware. If Google account is blocked then use Guest session. No account needed. Your turn?

Reddit r/k12sysadmin disagrees. Sure, as always there will some that will switch to Apple. Why not. Some even have MS.

So whats next. Apple will force corners... Glass. Microsoft will push copilot. Firefox will push AI.

Are you waiting for w3m or curl?

So many in hn already downvoted you. That says the SV nature and opinions in tech sector.

They do.

Did you use netscape?

It was awful especially if you use open source OS like Linux. It slowed the computer, fans full speed. Wtf are you smoking?

It is saddening that you are ignorant in knowing that technology companies follow Apple's devices more carefully that other OS.

The point about Apple is that everyone from zoom, slack etc will be forced to optimize for that 8GB. (Same like getting rid of awful flash player).

Many a people need only a basic device for Netflix, YouTube, google docs or email or search/but flights tickets. That will be amazing.

Many have job supplied laptop/desktop for great performance (made rubbish by AV scanners but that's different issue)

Nail in the coffin for ChromeOS (or aluminiumOS) if they 8GB RAM variants are sold > $500.

have to show them your phone number,

Not always working. You can see often in google community support people lost their phone. Get a new sim card and phone. Google sends the 2FA request to old phone - without that they cannot restore data.

Double whammy for people that use eSIM that gets sent to their old email address.

Was this the answer from your other colleague?

Not download. I have a good connection.

- Installation is slow. REally slow. They blame it on btrfs. But the same for XFS. It took at least 30 min. Why?

- rpm-ostree - same.

https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin/discussions/4087

Ask your colleague if his family is still there... May be not.

or ask another colleague whose family is still there. Would be different answer.

I tried a lot to get this in reality - using fedora silverblue. But that thing sucks. It is slow. Really dogslow. Devs are blaming rpm-ostree or btrfs - no idea. I wish there was something like ChromeOS but open.

Hint: Maybe firefox should pivot (re-do Firefox OS) to that.

If you have a $100 phone then UI is lighter as compared to running firefox etc.

A few years is different case. Invidious is also getting blocked easily. Are you running it now? If yes, then report.

Ironically iPhone helps them earn more. Most apple device owners have no choice or awareness.

2FA is a mitigation against people getting pwned by reusing passwords or using

Stolen/lost password hashes or some AI based programmer that dumped passwords in plaintext somewhere in a database.

If 2FA is proper even trivial passwords are fine.

With that argument we are discussing this on...errr US - the organization that perhaps grew those companies.

The word is not ironic it is pragmatic.

Correct

Why do so many developers and sysadmins think they're not competent for hosting services. It is a lot easier than you think, and its also fun to solve technical issues you may have.

It is a different skillset. SRE is also an under-valued/paid (unless one is in FAANGO).

Look the bottom of that page:

An error occurred: API rate limit already exceeded for installation ID 73591946.

Error from https://giscus.app/

Fellow says one thing and uses another.

Again lots of doomsayers like you said it when systemd was introduced. Nothing happened. Same with RedHat IBM takeover.

You do prove the extreme polarized politics. For you it is AfD vs others.

In reality it is not. It is a spectrum of parties. People vote often for smaller parties in the state and larger ones in the national.