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Ads force you to pay for some thing
Actually no, it's worse. Ad companies take everything they can from you using any method they can including monitoring everything you browse or watch on TV or say near your phone or TV or in your car or what you look at in every shop or what you buy or who you chat to, compile massive secret databases and sell 'you' to anyone willing to pay, regardless of what the information is used for.
Nonsense. Adobe had a flash to ios system ready to go to allow all flash apps to run, and Jobs deliberately blocked it from working, leading to the eventual death of flash.
Jobs was one of the main bastards behind screwing over engineer's pay.
Under Jobs we had soldered ram and ridiculous upgrade prices, changing magsafe port sizes just because, dropping OS support for official Apple modems when the majority of the world still had dialup, flaking cases and dodgy screens and phones that have to be held the right way, water sensors that react to humidity and void warranty, locking down ios upgrades to prevent downgrading, ebook price fixing...
It's not a safety check bypass. Boeing wants to make pilots responsible for turning off the deicer within 5 min of ice disappearing to prevent the flawed engines breaking apart in flight.
Why would anyone buy a used Tesla when 1st buyers already have issues getting dying batteries replaced?
It is wouldn't, but the ITC ruling is quicker to get than going to court for patent issues.
Which is exactly why Apple uses import bans to screw with competitors importing headphones.
There is a grey area though when a company becomes the defacto monopoly over a service. Google and Microsoft email both have history of blocking email from other providers and have created a landscape where trying to run your own email server is a nightmare. But should they be able to refuse service to you if you block ads?
I can send the same mms from Android to Android and Apple recipients and they receive the same media. Yet sending from Apple to both the Apple users get good quality and Android Apple deliberately sends pixelated rubbish.
Because Apple deliberately screws with messages to non Apple users. Every video my family sends to me is low res heavily pixelated trash, to the point that you can't even recognise faces.
An individual has families to feed and mortgages to pay
How is this not an abuse of market power where the Google controlled app store allows other browsers to be banned for reasons that their own browser would never be automatically banned for?
If Windows automatically started blocking access to Chrome for up to 2 weeks at time while Google appealed false take downs everyone would be flipping their shit, including governments and justice departments
So, the magic mouse is fine to use if you don't use it as a mouse...?
I can't decide which is more appropriate, "Think different" or "you're holding it wrong"
this already happens with Excel and access. Entire companies rely on a spreadsheet some wizard invented years ago and now no one knows how to change it, and it goes weird if multiple users try to access it at once so make sure you copy it locally first and change the file name so you can track the versions
Paying for YouTube is supporting a company that protects doxxers who are making them money
Incognito literally means to have your real identity hidden. It seems deceptive for a company to name/market a product as 'incognito' when it is literally funnneling data to them that identifies you and links to you real identity.
Especially when the text warnings do not explicitly state that browsing data is being sent to Google and added to their tracking and marketing database about yourself.
I was most surprised by Australia Post, after reporting a weird login issue during the start of Covid when everything was going to shit. It was took a couple of weeks before they got to it, but I received a couple of phone calls from the same person who genuinely wanted to help, who worked internally to identify and resolve with their tech teams.
Worst by far has been Nintendo Australia. Switch spontaneously stopped charging after being plugged in for a couple of hours. Retailer sent it to Nintendo who diagnosed internal damage to the usb port (caused by their official charger..), and they would only throw it in the bin for free or I had to pay to get the broken switch back or pay more for a refurbish. Then they lied about their complaints email and gave me their direct address. Then sent me a non functional switch back which I had the retailer replace on the spot with a brand new one (under Aus law this should have been the original solution, but my spouse had to drop it off and wasn't aware of consumer rights).
Excel isn't the only MS product with US date insanity. Outlook set up for AU region only supports date filtering in searches using US date formats, which is the icing on the turd sandwich of date searching as Outlook requires you to hand write in text search queries to search for before/after x date.
How many times can a government employee drive by your property for the single aim to conduct surveillance including taking detailed photographs?
Doubtless the censorship also extends to publishing apps that are critical of topics Apple relies on for profit. A walled garden of Apple approved thought
This is the dumbest argument.
Better idea would be mass cloning badges and flood checking in at multiple sites (it's amazing what unhappy engineers can build, especially if they are experience in aerials of remote access). Forced them to spend money researching a better system, meanwhile giving garbage results.
Most accounts with passwords have the fail-safe method of 'prove my identity to company, they reset'. I.e if you can't remember your bank password, there are paths for the bank to reset for you.
Anything that Google controls you have absolutely no way to get in contact to resolve issues. This is already a problem with all of their products. Locking all of your access behind a Google controlled door is just setting yourself up for a future nightmare.
I'll pay Google when they start weeding out the utter garbage that is uploaded targeting kids. Things like frozen characters getting tired up and thrown in water, or their clay stomachs getting cut open. YouTube happily suggests these abusive videos when you are watching kids shows, and Google does stuff all about them
Are there stats on performance differences?
Anecdotally, I find that blocking ads and associated garbage massively improves page loading, and FF performs fine even with hundreds of tabs open
Compared to say 10 years ago, now days devel environments are made up of stacks of modules that you have to hand configure. 10 years ago a LAMP server involved hopping on a Ubuntu server, paste in an apt command from a website and off you go.
After not doing any devel in years I was trying last week to do the modern equivalent (nginx + php) and literally none of the guides online ended up with a webserver that processed php, which I eventually figured out was every single tutorial I tried was giving the wrong code at the step where you have to manually edit the nginx configuration file, because you have to declare the php version there and Ubuntu apt installs a more recent version, so nginx can't find it. Previously the linking between webserver and php 'just worked', now it's all manual and there are no breadcrumbs for non-experts when things break
So a reasonably simple server has a qualified engineer confused for few hours, what hope does anyone have for something more complex?
If you use labels extensively then you should look at removing before migrating. When using IMAP each label acts as a folder, and if an email has 5 labels then IMAP has 5 copies of the same email.
Lol great attitude. why would anyone pay money to any company you manage now or in the future if you deliberately trash user data and justify it with 'but we emailed you a couple of times first'
Yeah the article clearly states that the message sent was "please confirm contract" and the response was [thumbs up].
Tech people have an unhealthy obsession with trying to create tech to replace non-tech jobs, without any care as to the impacts on society. Chat and image AI generation is just another example of tech screwing over other people.
It's called a pantograph. There is a carbon strip on the top of the pantograph that is typically replaced every couple of months as it wears. The overhead wire isn't wire like you normally see, it's more like a thick copper bar that is unwound and has a flat surface on the bottom that the carbon strip runs on. The overhead does wear out over time, but is much longer lived than the carbon strips.
Sparking I think is when there might be damage to the overhead wire that temporarily interferes with current as the strip passes over, as you see sparks happening at the same place as trains pass
Given that a small number of companies are concentrating ownership of businesses, there really should be legislation that restricts their ability to 'ban' people.
Australia has 2 main supermarket chains, and they also own numerous other stores/brands. If one decided to ban you from every store it makes it very hard to shop for food.