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masterspace ,

PSA: Once this rolls out into the actual downloadable Windows builds, everyone should be able to do this by reinstalling Windows.

European Economic Area PCs

As noted above, some functionality is only available in the EEA. Windows uses the region chosen by the customer during device setup to identify if the PC is in the EEA. Once chosen in device setup, the region used for DMA compliance can only be changed by resetting the PC.

masterspace ,

That's the real gift given by Microsoft:

Once chosen in device setup, the region used for DMA compliance can only be changed by resetting the PC.

Just change your region back to where ever you are after setup. Nothing on your PC outside of the OS will be reading the region set during Windows Install, they'll be asking for the currently set region.

masterspace ,

Because Apple saw that and said "hold my beer".

masterspace , (edited )

The story so far

  • Epic Games introduced its own in-app payment system on iPhone which takes a 3% cut of revenue, the same as on Android, Windows, and MacOS
  • This bypassed the App Store, and denied Apple its 30% commission cut of revenue
  • This was a blatant breach of App Store terms & conditions
  • Apple responded by throwing the company off the App Store
  • The two companies went to court in the US
  • The US court told Epic that, no, Apple did not operate a monopoly according to famously narrow US antitrust precedent
  • The US court told Apple that, yes, it must allow app sales outside the App Store
  • Both sides appealed the parts of the ruling they didn’t like
  • The Republican stacked US Supreme Court declined to hear either appeal
  • Meantime, the EU Digital Markets Act also required third-party app stores
  • Apple agreed to comply in both the US and EU the EU
  • But it imposed terms which have been described as malicious compliance

Fixed that for you, 9-5 Mac.

Apple (slrpnk.net)

I don't care if anyone has a Xiaomi, Oneplus, Samsung, etc. Each brand is using a modified version of Android, and they chose to be compatible with each other. But for example the "blue vs green bubble" drama is a thing specifically because of Apple locking their unsuspecting users into a closed ecosystem. And it sure isn't...

masterspace ,

Yes, but make a criticism of Apple's monopolistic behaviour online and you'll immediately have a million brain dead Apple fans screaming at you about how iPhones have to work exactly the way they do now or the world will fall apart.

masterspace ,

OPs point is also that they're exhausting. If you try and make a legitimate criticism of Apple's monopolistic behaviour as a trillion dollar corporation, then you just get flamed by Apple fanboys.

masterspace ,

It's really not.

Even just how Apple handles apps. If I asked you which company would present their apps in a neat organized alphabetized list that you can quickly scroll or search through, and which company would just dump them all in a mass of garbage on your homescreen and make you search for them, you'd assume it would be Google that forces you to search, but nope, that's Apple's terrible UX for managing the most basic aspect of a smartphone.

masterspace ,

It's been my experience and evidently it's been OPs and everyone who upvoted this.

masterspace ,

Lol no one is responding to posts about how much you like a feature with hate, unless you're trolling the wrong community or youre the person in OPs post, saying that in response to someone making a criticism of a corporation's monopolistic behaviour?

masterspace ,

A feature added late to iOS, and one they have hidden behind the pile of homescreens you have since every app you install is just dumped on them. On Android you swipe up from anywhere on the homescreen and you immediately search or browse.

masterspace ,

The idea that things wouldn't be worse for Gazans with Trump in power encouraging Israel to wipe them out is honestly fucking ridiculous. Both sides do bad things so both sides are equally bad is like grade 3 level reasoning.

masterspace ,

Lmao, what a dumbass post.

"Oh my god what an easy solution, just convince all Israelites to leave".

Oh my god, why didn't anyone think of that yet!?!?!?

This sounds like the thought process of a 14 year old who read their first article on the subject.

masterspace ,

When it says "Jewish people need a place to live so make every country safe for them".

If that's not the solution being proposed then what solution is it proposing?

If a solution isnt being proposed, then maybe the problem isn't that simple.

masterspace ,

It's not a strawman, the post says the situation is simple, and then says to make other countries safe for Jews, implying they should just go to other countries.

It's either that they're proposing a solution that that's simple, or maybe the situation isn't simple and easy to solve like their 14 year old self claims it is.

masterspace ,

It literally is exactly what they're saying.

masterspace ,

Why is it so much to ask to make every country feel safe for jewish people? Have the fascists won, or what?

No one has argued otherwise.

Because if your answer to “the jewish question” is a settler colonial ethnostate, you’re literally repeating fascist opinions.

No one has claimed that.

Because if your answer to “the jewish question” is a settler colonial ethnostate, you’re literally repeating fascist opinions.

That is the clear solution they're implying, either that, or there isn't a simple solution, and they're a fucking moron for claiming that it's a simple situation.

masterspace ,

That’s not referring to displacing people though, now is it? Don’t you agree that we should address antisemitism in other nations?

How is that a solution to the current situation?

How about we make it so that everyone in every country has their basic needs met? Yeah that would be great, it's also an irrelevant point to bring up while discussing how "simple" the Israel Palestine situation is.

masterspace ,

There’s clearly one state that’s been consistently in the wrong, that even celebrates its atrocities.

Bruh, Hamas celebrated the mass rape and murder of civilians. I'm as angry at Israel's response as the next person but you need to pull your head out of your ass if you think this is entirely one sided.

masterspace ,

You have. That was the thesis, OP stated. You called that thefis naive.

Lmao, no. OP's thesis was that 'the situation is simple, we just need to make everywhere safe for Jewish people'. That is naiive to the point of being an irrelevant non-sequitor.

No, they’re implying the opposite: “Don’t commit genocide and set up an ethostate”. The “don’t” applies to both.

No, they're not, because they're not talking about how simple it was in 1945-1947 to make the decision not do something, they're describing the current situation as simple.

Saying "well don't get yourself into this situation", is not useful, helpful, or remotely meaningful. Everyone is already aware of that. That goes hand in hand with it being a shitty situation.

masterspace ,

You linking to a thread with a bunch of people condemning Hamas proves my point, not yours. And try making a real point, instead of just linking to your favourite echo chamber.

masterspace ,

Lmao, don't try and claim that it's entirely 1 sided if you don't want me to bring up Hamas then. That's something that's actually simple.

masterspace ,

I'm not, but you're free to leave.

masterspace ,

When you said that the situation is entirely one sided, you opened the discussion to bringing up how it might not be, that would lead us to Hamas.

Don't want to talk about Hamas, don't bring up the Israel Palestine situation and claim that it's entirely one sided. I blame Israel for a lot of Hamas' current state of being, that still doesn't make the situation entirely one sided.

masterspace ,

You brought it up bro. You responded to me.

You don't want to talk about Israel Palestine, stay out of this thread, really not complicated.

And yeah, I edited it because I initially responded emotionally and then thought that there was a better and clearer way to express myself. Sorry you got the initial notification before the edit 10s later.

masterspace ,

I clearly explained why I was insulting your post while insulting it.

And you claimed the situation was entirely 1 sided, so I brought up the Hamas attack, you then stuck your fingers in your ears and repeatedly claimed that this wasn't about Hamas. I got frustrated and responded emotionally before editing my post 10s later.

Keep ignoring any voice you don't want to hear though, I'm sure you'll learn and grow as a human being that way.

masterspace ,

Again, if you say the situation in Israel / Palestine is one sided, you are inviting people to bring up Hamas.

If you're going to deny that Hamas' Oct. 7 attack happened, then that's on you to provide sources. I'm not going to dignify someone asking for sources on basic facts that have been widely covered in literally every major and minor news source.

masterspace ,

I'm not but tell yourself whatever helps you sleep at night

masterspace ,

You are tho. You have been very actively trying to play down Israel’s aggression.

Literally have not. Quote me where I do.

1 is a nuclear state that has the most advanced weaponry and backing from the biggest countries and financial aid from the whole world and the other is a resistance force that allegedly did bad things(which no one has said otherwise to you).

Hamas mass murdered over 1000 civilians and promised to do it again and again until all Israelis are dead.

I'm not defending Israel responding by killing over 10,000 women and children, but to claim that it's an entirely 1 sided situation is simply inaccurate, and to claim that the situation is simple is asinine.

masterspace ,

Don't commit war crimes don't make enemies. It's that simple.

And which side are you referring to?

masterspace , (edited )

I mean, SpaceX is still a legitimate success story... I think that has a lot to do with Gwynne Shotwell and the engineers dedicated to pushing forward spaceflight, but as much as I despise him and even kind of want SpaceX to crash and burn just to spite him, if I'm being honest it is still the one thing he's touched that is a legitimate success, both technically and commercially.

masterspace , (edited )

Tl:dr he has no real point.

He just lists two failed smart helmet startups, then talks about a successful smart helmet that doesn't use a full HUD but uses an LED light bar. The only actual point he makes is that it's hard to make a display that's visible in the sun.

It's also a motor cycle channel so he makes points like "why not use your mirrors or built in dash" which is not really applicable to cyclists, eskaters, EUC users, etc.

masterspace ,

I've been using RSS for literally 18 years and that has always been the case. News sites make money by advertising, they get no advertising if you just read the RSS feed, so they give you a snippet.

It would be nice if every site was like Arstechnica and gave you a full text ad free RSS feed when you pay to subscribe.

masterspace ,

I used Google Reader and I still use Feedly on a daily basis and I have no trouble saying unequivocally that this is a trash article not worth posting.

It's just bringing up a bunch of unrelated decisions, mostly made over 10 years ago, strung together to try and make it seem like Google is EEEing RSS, when the reality is that the various people who have made decisions across the different divisions of Google are all just unintentionally deprioeitizimg RSS because the alternatives have more sticking power.

masterspace ,

“deprioritizing” does not explain all of the mentioned decisions.

Which ones doesn't it?

Plus there are still many cases for which there are no alternatives that work similarly.

Yeah, they're not making decisions on what best suits the end user, they're making decisions based on what makes them the most money.

The article is factual

"I declare FACTUALNESS"

masterspace ,

For many people, they essentially replaced or supplemented their RSS feeds with Reddit and now Lemmy. RSS nailed the technical challenge of publishing news sources, but people often don't just want to read the news, they want to talk about it and critique it etc.

masterspace ,

You know that it's entirely possible to live in a generally patriarchal society, while some men have it shit, right? No one is arguing that we live in absolute patriarchy.

masterspace ,

That may have been the point of the original comic, but given the caption, I think OP's point wasn't that both sides are bad, but was that a two party system is inherently biased towards corporate capture.

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    masterspace ,

    but the price is fair I guess. they couldn't have really made it much cheaper without sacrificing a tonne

    Stop being a fan boi of a trillion dollar monopolistic corporation.

    "The price is fair I guess"? You can buy SEVEN quests for the price of a vision pro.

    masterspace ,

    It's not wrong and not unfair. The AVP can't connect to a gamng PC and be used for full fidelity VR, and it has basically no games, nor the controller support necessary for high quality games to come to it in the future.

    masterspace ,

    Is the benefit not obvious? Your account / followers / identity is not tied to whichever instance you initially sign up for.

    masterspace ,

    Sure, but that's an easily addressable problem

    masterspace ,

    Your ignoring the thrust of their point:

    If you disagree with your instance or want to leave it for whatever reason, you have to wipe your identity and create a new one.

    That is in no way a feature, just a hindrance.

    masterspace ,

    But it is an inherent feature of ATProtocol

    masterspace ,

    I think about this often, but I wouldn't consider ActivityPub a settled on standard just yet...

    masterspace ,

    Lemmy doesn't, since it's not part of the protocol, and in both situations you still lose your actual id.

    In general, there's technical reasons why ids and instances are associated on Lemmy / Mastodon, but not UX reasons.

    99% of users just want a username, i.e. @bigCommieMouth, they don't necessarily want their identity tied together with the server they use to interact with the network, i.e. @bigCommieMouth, and if they did really love a specific server and wanted their identity tied to it, they could always just make @bigCommieMouth_kolektiva_socia.

    masterspace ,

    So? 100% of users never used the fediverse before it existed. Bluesky / ATProtocol is now offering an alternative where usernames are not tied to instances, and that sounds like a better UX.

    masterspace ,

    If you don't want to discuss the relative merits of Bluesky, don't participate in a thread on Bluesky.

    bye

    masterspace ,

    i thought this thread was about me correcting misunderstandings about activitypub software

    I don't see a title saying "self post: let me correct you about the activitypub protocol", I see a link to Bluesky launching federated storage.

    there are no merits to their network that i can see unless one or both of those come to pass

    Then don't engage in a discussion about their identity system, just post a blanket comment saying "they suck cause they're not open enough" and leave the thread. The rest of us are here discussing the relative merits of one protocol vs another.

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