ozymandias117 @ ozymandias117 @lemmy.world

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Which makes Meta’s entire business illegal in the EU, thus the lawsuits and bans

My credit score wasn’t good enough, so I had to show the last place I rented 6 months of my employers payments to rent

I’ve never missed a payment, nor do I have any debt. I just don’t exist in the system enough to rent

Yeah, just the American version

It affects where you can rent housing, what houses you can buy, whether you can get a car, etc

Depends on the severity of the issue.

For a life threatening emergency, no

For like pain relief, yes

Do people ever avoid hospital visits

At least in my experience, we’ll generally be able to go to the hospital

Do hospitals put people on a payment plan

Generally, I’ve just seen the debt transferred to a debt collection agency afterwards, since there’s no money for them to take. They’ll harass you, and it affects your credit score, but they can’t send you to jail

Aeon’s confuses me - an hourglass is well known as a “busy” or “wait” symbol

I’m not sure I’d want that as my branding for an OS

The primary reason the company I work for is using a QC chip over any other ARM offering is the GPU they bought from ATI. The CPU cores aren’t particularly interesting

If AMD or nVidia release a SoC, it would likely be a strong contender for our next design

As someone that has worked on the HAL layers and has used the NDK, but doesn’t know much about app development…

Where does AndroidX fit in? I thought app developers had the SDK and NDK

I moved from somewhere with billboards all over the place to somewhere signs over 6 feet tall are illegal

It’s breathtakingly nicer

That’s sort of my original point - bringing VAC into the discussion of “it’s a sport” isn’t very meaningful

VAC has never, and will never, had an affect professional esports

I mean… professionals always have to spend dramatically more on hardware…

There are rules around the engines and bodies f1 and nascar drivers can use, there are rules around what shoes runners can use…

A slimmed down operating system on a specific hardware configuration isn’t unreasonable

Professional players should all be using the same hardware and software configuration

VAC is to keep the game fun for more casual players

Hamstrung in different ways?

RCS predates iMessage, but it was never widely adopted. Google has been running with it, but it’s been with Google-specific changes to the protocol

If they can get others to adopt their extensions as a standard and offer an open source example implementation, it could probably be better than iMessage

Google has a problem getting other people to use standards they work on because they drop support for them all the time, though

“Enable” is incorrect, and why I was warning you about it. It’s on by default, so you need to “disable” it if you want E2E encryption

A blue bubble is unlikely to mean a message is E2E encrypted. That may not matter for your threat model, but Apple almost certainly has the decryption keys for your messages

iMessage is only E2E encrypted if both users have iCloud disabled or have gone into their iCloud settings and enabled “Advanced Data Protection”

The apps getting removed weren’t popular apps there in the first place

The most popular apps here have never been the most popular apps there

Yes, the CCP is trying to cut them off before they become popular, but it’s better for Apple to get money from the currently popular apps there

QC uses the firehose protocol to load software that early, but that’s a good overview

The tools are generally available to flash, but manufacturers may not offer the next signed bootloader as something you can easily download (that one then implements fastboot)

You also need some mechanism to force the PBL to jump to download mode instead of trying to load the next bootloader

At that time, “Hard Brick” was getting used for the hardware was damaged

“Soft brick” was something like a boot loop where the device was unusable, but something like a DFU flash could repair (using DFU since every manufacturer had their own boot flash implementation back then)

At some point after that, people just went back to saying “bricked” for both

“Bricking,” “hard bricking,” and “soft bricking” became inexorably intertwined during the early days of flashing custom Android ROMs

It’s pretty simple… removing apps a country doesn’t want people to have access to doesn’t meaningfully affect Apple’s revenue

Allowing you to install things outside of their control does affect their revenue

Of course the first is less difficult for them