neutron @ neutron @thelemmy.club

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I hate apps and services doing that.

I lived in a country doing that, and couldn't understand the people making social media profiles with their (actually traceable to a real life identity) phone numbers public. Don't you love receiving spam calls?

The message speaks well of my situation, but that doesn't mean I'll buy a fucking Sneakers™ like a mindless consumer drone. FUCK™ YOU™ BRAND™

Its the same for all East Asian countries as well, but I guess slapping JAPAN on it means fast upvotes, like that "Place, Japan" meme.

What if I use Debian but with backports and flatpak for apps that need fast updates?

I see. The authorized-app-only approach was deal breaker in my case, as I needed imap/smtp. Hope it works for you well.

Remember that banking and finance is full of regulations, and have moving speed of snail. Opposite of IT. When asked for something like this (open source or cross compatibility or anything nerdy) the first question is "who will be liable for losses and damages when something breaks?".

Liability is probably the biggest factor. When something isn't working properly, they want to be able to point fingers at someone and blame them. The vendor then blames someone else. Open source tends to be the polar opposite, which means huge red flags - hippie stuff, no payment, no liability, no pointy-blaming game.

Or so I've heard from people working in that sector. For places as conservative as them to deploy FOSS solutions, you'll need the government branches cooperating with clearly worded laws and regulations, dragging them kicking and screaming into adoption.

And that's assuming no one will lobby against in the process.

Malicious compliance mixed with "let's see you click all that shit". I don't think the devs wanted to implement this...

There shouldn't be, but that doesn't mean it cannot be enhanced. Hopefully a popular feature from an extension can become integrated into official web clients.

Its very ingrained on me that a proper business should be able to spare a few on a domain for themselves, as I remember it before the dot-com bubble.

Now? Websites have been displaced by social media altogether and many small business simply prefer having an Instagram profile, for example.

Yeah, that's what happens, something cool but that's it. It would be nice if l could use it for something else other than a glorified online resume.

I also bought a cheap domain for experimenting around, so that's where all my "not so professional" stuff goes.

Generational thing, maybe? Plus conservative churches love holding onto archaic customs, like the old KJV translation.

Are we going to hear about enshittification in academia, too? Ugh.

There are videos I still visit and were uploaded more than 10 years ago. It would be a shame losing them all, pieces of internet history instantly gone.

To be fair, you can be a developer maintaining a website or an app for a company that operates on stuff you have no idea about. Working for a hospital doesn't mean you can perform surgery.

Sorry for the late answer. I ended up choosing Midagu for the time being. Unlimited inbox sounded attractive enough as using alias in my use case wasn't cutting it.

Speech recognition, probably? [ˈɛni.əv.ðə] vs [aɪ.nid.ðə] can sound similar enough when you're in a hurry.

I did the same with laptop HDDs. So many cheap storages.

Superb answer, thank you very much internet stranger!

Help me understand something, DNS records are the info (A, AAAA, TXT, etc) that's modified to configure services like websites and mail servers to a specific domain, right?