Every government tells every phone maker what to do with phones. You can’t, for example, have them using restricted frequencies. Funny that you think you have a gotcha there.
Trying to equate mandating that the user can uninstall apps if they want (a massive win for the consumer and good for competition) to mandatory installation of government ID apps is hilariously pathetic.
I don’t know why you’d think that? Apple is a publicly traded company that ultimately cares about profit and nothing else.
They already comply with a bunch of stuff in China and other places, why would India be any different?
The EU does not mandate that Apple preinstall government apps. Stop lying.
The EU went the other way and mandated that more apps should be uninstallable.
“controversial salute” is certainly one way to phrase a Nazi salute.
I can’t believe we’re downplaying Nazi salutes. If this were in a political satire film 15 years ago it’d be dismissed as being too absurd.
Self-hosting media can pretty much be as cheap or as expensive as you want.
My friend plugs an external drive into an Nvidia shield and it works fine.
An old laptop from eBay works well too, with the additional benefit of essentially having a built-in UPS.
You don’t have to have a crazy setup.
They put out a post about why they did it. But basically it comes down to it being illegal where they are, and the admins don’t want to be arrested.
As much as I hate that it’s blocked, I also don’t want possibly the largest Lemmy instance’s admins arrested or dragged into a court battle. I think that would be devastating for Lemmy as a whole.
Imagine being convinced to give Lemmy a go, and the instance you’re on dies. Or even if you’re on another instance, a shit load of users and communities that you’d interact with disappear. Would you want to keep using Lemmy?
It’s understandable to fear being arrested or financially ruined if some shithead company decides to go after you.
That said, maybe it’s time I make an account on an instance that has a more cavalier attitude towards piracy.
Depends, no?
Do you compare it to a cheap Netflix subscription, do you compare it to the 4K subscription? Do you compare it to Netflix with the multiple locations extra fee they charge now?
Do you add the cost of Disney+, Prime Video, and god-knows what else?
The costs can quickly add up.
And it’s not like you need a beefy server. I could host Plex on an Nvidia shield (which I have anyway for my TV), in which case the cost would only be that of a USB drive or external HDD, and a trivial amount of extra power.
Using the 7bn parameter variant:
You shouldn’t joke about these things, man.
I accidentally set up a home server running Plex/Jellyfin, and now I control all my media without paying £18 per month (and probably due to rise soon, like the US pricing) to a company that only has a handful of things I like and regularly takes away content, plus prevents account sharing.
You wouldn’t want someone else to accidentally do that, would you?
E: yes people. I get that your setup is expensive. But you don’t have to spend a lot. You can host a Plex server on an Nvidia shield with some external storage, you can buy an old crappy PC/laptop on eBay (bonus: a laptop comes with a built-in UPS!). A media server does not require beefy hardware.
Even a Wii U-level failure would vastly outsell the Deck.
I get what you’re saying, but there’s just no way on planet earth that the market will ignore the Switch 2 in favour of the Deck 2.
Plenty will, I’m sure. But mostly PC gamer types.
I think if you’re expecting the SD2 to sell anywhere near the Switch 2 you’re setting yourself up for disappointment.
You are very very much in the minority. The backlash was enormous and the user count plummeted.
There’s no way to argue that it defeated the purposes of Signal. Nobody forced you to use SMS.
Why would she ever need to use a terminal?
I imagine she’d be doing normal computer stuff, not writing bash scripts.
I swear half the criticism of Linux I see online is based on people thinking Linux has remained unchanged for the past 16 years.
I don’t even have a terminal app installed. It’s not required for anything I do on my PC.
It’s incredible that everybody was fine with SMS in Signal behaving this way, which is vastly less secure.
There will be more privacy, because there will be more Signal-to-Signal chats.
Also, SMS support is vastly less secure, yet Signal users loved that, and there was backlash/mass exodus when they dropped support.
and there needs to be a reason for people to switch; what’s that then?
As I already stated: privacy. People want privacy, but they also want people to talk to.
If Signal can only speak to Signal, nobody will get Signal because then you can’t talk to anybody. And there’s no point of a chat app where you can’t talk to anybody.
Add interoperability and suddenly people are more willing to try Signal because you won’t be a social outcast with nobody to talk to anymore. Suddenly you have a few contacts that are on signal and find the app convenient to use. Then the users grow from there. Meaning more Signal-to-Signal chats.
I’ve started that 3 or 4 times now.
I also don’t appreciate how you appear to be acting like speaking with WhatsApp users is mandatory. It’d be an optional feature just like the (vastly less secure/private) SMS was. Even for those people, this change would be a major win, because they’d have more people to talk to as more people join the app.
There would be more people willing to try Signal because they would still be able to talk to people and not become a social outcast.
More people using signal would then mean more Signal-to-Signal chats.
More Signal-to-Signal chats is a good thing.
How could it not lead to more Signal-to-Signal chats?
The biggest problem with signal is that nobody uses Signal. Everybody uses WhatsApp.
If you make it so people can switch to signal without it completely cutting you off from the world, then more people will use it, which will lead to more Signal-to-Signal chats, which will lead to signal becoming widespread enough that people shift from WhatsApp.
Ok, that’s your guess.
90% of my contacts did leave Signal because of the SMS removal. And that’s SMS, which nobody uses.
People being able to use Signal without being cut off from the world would be massive in terms of getting people to use signal. Which like I said, would mean more Signal-to-Signal chats, which would bring more and more people to signal once they see that it’s an actual worthwhile platform.
Because more people would be on signal, which means more Signal-to-Signal chats.
As I explained in my post.
I’ve tried extensively. For years. I was a regular Signal donor, too.
I don’t know where you’re from, but in much of the world, asking someone to use something other than WhatsApp is like saying “stop using email”, it’s an extremely difficult sell.
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