Still gotta be careful since some manufacturers have started auto-connecting to open access points when they detect them.

Ironically the proton mail ceo is pretty Maga hard.

I don’t believe you can say that without adequately providing evidence and financial breakdowns. Not saying you’re wrong, but given that developers even in the EU where alternative app markets are allowed still publish to the apple app store, I think that it’s likely more fair than you realize. The cost to do all of what they provide for a $100/yr dev license + 30% pro-bono is immense. Even the least used applications with the smallest budgets receive state of the art infrastructure, toolkits, and security review as well as a bevy of other apple provided resources. It’s the same for other marketplaces as well. Steam for example provides marketing, development guidance, server hosting, and a wide variety of other non-trivial non-free to provide services for their share of the cut.

It pays for the development of system apis, update infrastructure, software deployment infrastructure, software development sdks and toolkits, among a bunch of other very expensive to maintain infrastructure. There’s the argument to be made to force them to allow competition, but I don’t think you can call it robbery from an informed 10000 foot view because everything they provide is extremely expensive and extensively technical to host/construct on your own.

Please keep it up! The US economy needs to feel significant pain if we’re to wake up from this ketamine coma or whatever the fuck has happened.

I think they should at least do an annual “Year of the Linux desktop!” episode!

You’re not the asshole, you’re playing with the wrong group. Find people that want to play the same style of game as you, don’t play with people just because they’re who you’re familiar with. Recipe for a bad time.

No, not at all, I just don’t expect the level of reliability they provide with how complex the stack is, and that is a complicated stack. (For a literal light bulb).

There’s a difference between Matter (the interoperability standard) and Thread (The preferred matter communication protocol) and you’ll see a lot of devices advertised as “Matter over thread” which is important because for those you’ll need a matter bridge device to act as an edge router for the mesh “thread” network the devices create. These can be had cheaply though and if you’re one of the like 1 in 3 Americans with an iPad you already own one.

Hue do be having that “it just works” track record. Which is absolutely divine magic in my opinion because if you took one small look at their back end infrastructure stack you’d never imagine it could be… Reliable… Somehow? Like… Look at this…

Wait… You want us to pay humans? - Every triple A gaming company since 2010.

Tbh it’d probably hurt more if it had to rupture your eardrum to get to your brain than it would to slither past your eyeball and through the socket. I mean, both are nightmare fuel, but given the choice I think I’ll take the one that seems less physically traumatic haha.

Never underestimate the fleeting willpower of gamers in the face of exclusivity deals. It’s already captured a large section of the market (xbox consoles literally just run modified windows now) and will likely capture more. It’s all about adding enough of a marketing spin on it until the average gamer stops caring, or concedes the value proposition or their morals in favor of something they want more (like a next gen Skyrim reboot or something idk 🤷‍♂️)

20/80 tbh

I’m also not sure where they got their idea that cloud is cheaper from. On prem has always been cheaper, I’ve had to walk through fire and flames to get my company to approve cloud hosting as we simply do not have the capacity to be our own mail host. Goodluck explaining tech debt to upper management though, it’s like they’re allergic to the idea of understanding it.

Actually just got my $20 for this. Class actions work sometimes I guess. 10 years after the fact.

Goodluck with that.

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If you’ve showered in the last year and don’t suffer from a nutritional deficiency you’re probably doing better than 99.999% of your ancestors. 🔥