Support for a device on each cellular provider isn’t automatic. There is are certification and approval steps that cost them money upfront.
Charging fees is unlikely to recuperate their network engineer costs so from a consumer perspective it’ll look like blocking but that’s not the reality. It’s that the device wouldn’t be in their supported device list.
It’s a more meaningful assistant name than Siri or Alexa.
Yep the successes are anecdotal not generational. Stepping backing and looking at raw numbers it’s clearly heading for a series of catastrophes that amplifies with each successive generation.
The weird part is the working poor can often maintain their lifestyle into retirement because they lack the very assets everyone is told to have. They can qualify for additional benefits that prevent anyone above the meager limits from various avenues of additional help.
This is all solved by basic income but we spend an insane amount avoiding the simple solution because it’s not capitalistic.
Yes, some of them are stupid because this is not restrained to the working poor. Those people are stuck but they are not the entire scope.
This includes professionals making stupid financial decisions.
This includes people who are working at companies that have company matching but not investing to receive free money is stupid.
This includes people who have cars worth more because the idea of driving and maintaining an older vehicle is a hit to vanity.
The joke is to say it’s avocado toast or Starbucks and the reality is it is sometimes lifesystle choices.
The issue is 401ks were never a good solution. The level of financial literacy to properly manage one is clearly not universal.
However, the financial stupidity of these people is not an excuse for the richest country in the world to allow a situation the prevents retirement but no one wants to talk about that.
Instead we talk over each other about the symptoms pretending they’re the disease when the real disease and it’s cure is obvious, fund retirements not the military.
Social security is basic income for the infirmed but it doesn’t pay out enough for survival.
These people are just layers of scourges.
The numbers don’t make sense here. The monthly cost to store that sort in data is way more than what they are asking for here. Even if they somehow extracted it to drives they own its over a million dollars just in drives.
There are libraries that can polyfill this with almost zero effort. List should not effect any active site that offers rss feeds.
Telescopes caused autism.
It is the advertising of any market differentiator or specifically when it’s for security.
Then it doesn’t happen. Your fear is not my fear.
Would you rather they ended up with zero dollars?
Yes.
The only terms under which I could potential accept tax money being used to save a company from a collapse leading to massive layoffs, is if the resulting company is also made entirely employee owned.
When you take into account inflation and the overall market gains over that time, they absolutely did not make their money back.
Having a vendor explicitly supporting it…epic is an understatement.
it’s because every device connected to a cell halves the bandwidth available to each device, and after something like 30-40 devices the cell is full.
I don’t know where you’re getting this from. There not how cells have worked since at least 3g, sort of sounds like how consumer grade WiFi hardware operates.
Towers are designed with sectors that are directional and each can support thousands of devices but those can’t handle 10k people at a stadium.
If you had bothered to read the article youd have read they are talking about how stadiums are now using distributed antenna systems (DAS), which is basically hundreds of antennas spread over the venue and fed directly into fiber. Each one is designed to handle a small section. The carriers do need to hook into the endpoint here so this isn’t something that can be setup on a whim.
I don’t see it mentioned but there are also mobile units, cellular on wheels (COWS) are common one and they really easy to spot if know to look for them. Basically a cell tower on trailer that can use microwave for the back haul for when on site fiber isn’t available.
If you end up at a venue and can’t get service it’s because the venue is too cheap to use any of these existing options. They could also be using some outdated antennas, LTE can’t handle as many connections as the new 5G stuff.
Yes. It’s all bad. The solution is to get rid of these political stooges. Dealing with capitalists is a different topic. There is some cross over with the poltical stoogery but that’s all there is.
Apple is doing this instead of requiring app developers to implement and maintain their own system, which is what Android is doing.
The question comes down to who trust more, any random app developer or a single entity.
For example this means meta doesn’t have to verify their iOS users because iOS already has.
I’m sure most people in this thread are coming at this all from a morally superior position about how they don’t use meta but they also don’t use iOS devices so this is another bit of outrage.
No one here is actually anything besides get upset about something that doesn’t effect them. The internet has become a silly place.
On temporary contracts and at reduced wages of course because times are tough.
Software engineers predicted this would happen. The percentage of developers that love fixing other people’s code is essentially zero, fixing ai code is even smaller.
If they require low wages, they’ll only get the worst of the worst. Expect this phase to repeat until they are forced to hire for competence and pay above market rate required to convince senior developers to deal with not just the ai mess but all the failed attempts to turn it around.
There is a branch of battery research that is only focused on grid storage. It’s the last piece to make solar and to a less extent wind unbeatably affordable.
In a home solar setup, batteries are the other half of the cost and have not fallen as fast as the cost of the panels themselves, the other half of the cost. For fully off grid setups, they quickly become the main cost.
They behave exactly a child does when a parent forces an apology.
They have the words they’re expect to say so they do say them but they don’t undersranr why, they definitely don’t mean it and they lack the restrain to not doing whatever they apologized for over and over.
This is one of the reasons that causes me to pause whenever I’ve considered purchasing one. My state also has a yearly fee.
I work from home and don’t drive to justify these fees so I just keep my long ago paid off vehicle well maintained for a fraction of the cost of a car payment.