And to top that off, those features have a terms contract you need to accept to use. Yet you don’t know what that entails until you spend a lot of money.
Both your point and this also needs to be denormalized. We should be able to have full visibility for purchase decisions and have no push back on returns if we don’t.
The Xbox team has been full of people that migrated over from T-Mobile for years now. They are full of layers and layers of leadership that has no idea how the game industry works.
If you look at their decisions over the last 5 years a lot of it makes business sense on paper, but look at where it brought them and the industry. A titan that is inept and brings nothing to the table.
Which is why we need to de-normalize this thought process. People should always ask, why does my vacuum need to go online? Or at the very least, can I turn that “feature” off?
I agree that KYC isn’t inherently evil. But the way its been weaponized is.
For instance in the telecommunications space it make total sense for mitigating spam SMS messages and Robocalls. But the carriers all sell your data for profit. They also don’t protect your data properly and are breached all the time. That’s malicious.
So no, I won’t throw the baby out with the bathwater and agree its an oversimplification to simply call KYC evil. But I also don’t blame people when all they see is abuse and never a good and proper implementation that isn’t exploitative.
I’m in NA and I’ve never been asked to leave a restaurant in my life.
The closest has ever been being in a busy restaurant at peak time and seeing a line of people waiting to be seated and I’m well and done just chatting it up.
Still not asked to leave, but I noticed glances from staff and such so I left earlier than I would have, but on my own accord because I want to be helpful.
Most banking works fine. There was a time it had more problems but I don’t even need to use a secondary profile with Google Play Services running any longer.
NFC works, but that is app specific. So no, wallet won’t work because google wallet wants Google services to work. But in the EU some banks have their own contactless payments that work fine. In the US none do to my knowledge. For bus pass etc that would be down to your app and if they require google services or not. There’s always the option for secondary profiles.
To me, I was amazed at his many apps use google services for notifications. So many apps work, but don’t give me notifications unless I open the app… Which I’m okay with because 99% of them I would turn off anyways.
I personally think anydesk is the easiest to deploy and use, cross platform and little effort.
Rustdesk is great too and my go to as a self hosted option.
This is what I expected for the Xbox one generation.
It’s not a bad idea and I welcome it. It allows flexibility and support for things outside of the Xbox ecosystem so you don’t have a broken console experience.
Of course their track record for Xbox hasn’t been good for a while and their track record for windows right now is abysmal.
So just make it windows 12 and call it a day.
The best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago. The second best time is today.
I’m confused at your point and the camp you refer to.
There was an outbreak in the US in multiple states, mostly TX where there was at least 1 death and hundreds hospitalized.
Then a boy from mexico travelled to TX to visit family, contracted the disease (but may not have shown symptoms yet), then returned home. That introduced the virus to a village of unvaccinated people, which created another outbreak and deaths occurred.
Its tragic. And the article points in many ways that vaccination / herd immunity would have prevented this. But that’s not always the world we live in.
You’re presuming the infection was known.
Your instinct is right, you shouldn’t move any infected person any distance. That just stresses them when they shouldn’t be, and migrates the disease.
But also flip it. Why would you actively go to a place that has had an outbreak of a disease, even though its subsided without first being vaccinated for it? That’s equally insane.
“Brought it to them” is a misnomer. The boy travelled to TX where he was exposed and then he brought it home.
The point of the article shouldn’t be taken with the view of countries and borders, with that view the point is that the Americas (plural with many countries) have lost their disease elimination status.
The better point is that it shows how viruses move and spread. There are multiple take away lessons numbered in the article, however they are also not concrete because the data is not concrete.
Correct. In the US there is no entity that is supporting it. Technically any of our banks could create an app that supports it, but they’re lazy and cheap.
Correct. And everyone needs to remember the actual problem, not the symptom. Its like leaving one social media platform for another then when it too goes to crap complaining. Oh how can this happen again!?
If you look at the foundations of the OS the pattern becomes clear. They release a concept of an OS, but its half baked and not implemented well. So they fix it and rebrand it, and that’s the “good” version.
95 became 98
ME became XP
Vista became 7
10 became 10 - they broke pattern by wanting to stay in a perpetual 10 state and keep updating it (which is why it was around 10 years). 10 was not good when it launched and took years to fix it, essentially becoming its own replacement.
I tried out a handful of Lemmy apps and Thunder is what I used for most of it but then switched to Summit. There’s aspects I like about both and aspects I dislike about both, but they don’t have a bad UI.
Oh but the best part about Nest is that if you don’t upgrade it doesn’t go offline. It stays online sending data back to Google. So it’s not like they pulled the plug, they just pulled the plug on service because they wanted to and they’ll still sell your data for profit. Double whammy.
I don’t really fault them when they don’t know there is an alternative. And the alternative isn’t clear cut and/or very good.
I do fault them for when they think that the platform is the solution and don’t expect the same thing to happen.
This is effectively a paywall. They want you to pay with your privacy. No thanks, I’m not buying.
This sounds really interesting. I’m looking forward to what this becomes.