pastabatman @ pastabatman @lemmy.world

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This really demonstrates how apple has its customers and competitors by the balls when it comes to messaging. This OEM is putting time and resources into developing an unauthorized iMessage app using banks of mac minis as servers and requiring users to grant them access to their iCloud account, a system that apple could "break" or sue out of existence on a whim. RCS isn't the perfect solution, but it's better than this.

You can't doomscroll and consume endless content. There are no apps. You can only communicate with known contacts. There is no screen to separate you from the real world. It's a dump phone plus a digital assistant in a novel form factor.

It's a long shot, but there might be a niche for this thing among the people who are tired of being over connected. There's a mild resurgence of dumb phones for the same reason. They absolutely have to nail usability though. If the user has frustrating interactions with it and think to themselves "This would have been easier on my phone" then they've basically failed, especially with that hefty monthly fee.

I won't be a customer, but I wish them luck.

From the linked article from The Hill:

“I like Tom Emmer a lot as a person, but I couldn’t support him as Speaker of the House. He didn’t object to Joe Biden’s electoral college vote,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)

Screaming internally

She could run as a spoiler candidate just to keep trump from winning if he is the nominee.

He's not literally selling credit card numbers. If he introduces a "Pay with X" service, then Twitter has a ton of new info about purchasing habits to link with Twitter activity that will make the platform more desirable for advertisers. The $1/year is to get the payment info in there so users are more likely to choose it out of convenience. It might also reduce bot activity, which is how it's being pitched at the moment.

The reasonable Republicans have always had the option of approaching the Democrats and making concessions in order to get a speaker elected on a bipartisan basis, they just haven't.

I know boimler's hair is purple in lower decks, but I didn't expect it to be purple in live action for some reason and I couldn't stop thinking about how weird it was whenever he was on screen. Like, the Simpsons have yellow skin while animated but if they were real life people it wouldn't be neon yellow. Am I crazy?

I'm not so sure about the special license thing. The limit on 3rd party apps is because there isn't an API in Android that exposes RCS to users, only OEMs (which is how Samsung can do it). If Google flipped that switch and made the API public, 3rd party apps would be able to use it just as easily as they do SMS without paying extra or obtaining a license. It's an open standard.

Only Google knows why they haven't done this already.

True. So true in fact that I'd be willing to bet that even if the EU made them implement RCS they still wouldn't do it in the US. USB-C only worked because it's a hardware change and maintaining separate lightning and USB-C models and accessory ecosystems doesn't make sense. RCS is a software change that costs them nothing to NOT use in the only market where it would hurt them.

I had no idea this was the procedure. I'd love to have more than two viable parties, but I pretty much never want the house to pick the president. What a mess.

Fair, but this article is talking about primary information from people who are actually there and small local news outlets being drowned out by misinformation. A lot of primary information in 2023 comes from social media which is then investigated and fact checked by larger and more reputable news outlets before being reported.

So yes, the average person who just wants to know what's happening should not be getting that info from social media but reporters often have to. Changes to Twitter since musk took over (specifically paid blue check marks and the removal of titles from links) have made the process of sifting through the misinformation and disinformation exponentially harder, even for people who do it for a living like the researcher in the article.

The D.C. dysfunction is more proof, they would argue, that the nation needs a “Red Caesar” who will cut through the what they call constitutional gridlock and impose order.

If you’re not one of those dudes who thinks about Ancient Rome every day, let me translate. The alleged brain trust of an increasingly fascist MAGA movement wants an American dictatorship that would “suspend” democracy in January 2025 — just 15 months from now.

It's so weird to me that they think the person for this job is Donald Trump. After everything he has said and done, they think Trump should be the dictator of America.

I generally dislike massive celebrities being overtly political outside of their artistic endeavors. Their political opinions are no more valid or important than anyone else's yet they exert a ton of influence over their fans, often young and impressionable fans, who are highly likely to agree with them without really informing themselves on the issue. I think they need to be super careful and responsible with that power.

With that being said, I'm really struggling to be upset with Swift or Kelce for "wielding their influence" to "promote their politics" as outlined in this article. Swift is cool with LGBT people and tells her fans to register to vote? Kelce is pro vaccine and also did a beer commercial with a brand that also did a sponsored social media post with a trans person once? This stuff is so benign it's barely even news. These issues are only political because Republicans specifically made them political so if they're upset about it, I can't really feel sorry for them.

I would modify the electoral college rather than get rid of it. Make it so that states are obligated to assign their electoral votes to candidates in proportion to the number of votes received. For example, Maryland might go 60% blue and 40% red, so they would give 6 of their 10 votes to blue and 4 to red.

This would de-emphasize the importance of swing states, not completely disenfranchise rural voters, and would return a result that more closely mirrored the popular vote. It might also pave the way for a 3rd party to be relevant if the stars aligned elsewhere.

I also do this but I can always finish the burger

I also cannot tell if this is sarcasm

I have room in my life for exactly one gacha game, which I don't spend money on. Sometimes this is a fun little distraction, even though progress is slow without buying currency. This is how I felt about Record Keeper before they shut down the global version. I love FF7 so I'm giving this a shot, but it's been a week and I'm struggling. There are so many superimposed mechanics that it feels like a new player starting a free to play game at year 5 or 6 of its life, after they've steadily added new mechanics, currencies, and other powercreep for years. But it hasn't been out for years, it's been out for a week and there are already so many things to keep track of. It feels like work.

Also, the "automatic" battle AI is VERY good. Better than I am. And you can double the speed so the battles go quicker. At first I was relieved because it meant I didn't have to pay attention while grinding, but why am I doing this at all if I'm not even playing it?

Company swag? Nah, just pay me more I wouldn't want people to know I work for meta.