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honestly if its just one show… it might be even worth just buying it with the price of netflix now.

Thats how I felt with movies that are on there with it at 20/m now

I mean, I know a lot of people don’t like doing it anymore but calling and asking has a fairly decent chance of working if online gives no details.

Personally I’m unsure how a bank could even force NFC to go through a specific provider, mine has always just issued virtual card numbers whenever I enrolled, And if the bank itself didn’t support the provider automatically, I always called the bank to manually approve getting the virtual number. it’s a little confusing to me that your bank even blocks the ability to in the first place. I would have thought you would have been able to use any mobile wallet that works on Graphene OS. Being said those are limited last I knew

edit: rereading it. I see what you mean. You mean through your bank’s app as a native solution. Yeah, you’re just gonna have to call the banks for that one. I would assume that customer service would definitely know whether or not it’s through Google Pay or through their own system.

I mean, a bank is a bank, they are all very similar. Unless you have an extremely good interest rate on it, I would just close the account and go elsewhere. Make sure to tell them on the way out that’s why.

Alternatively you can just transfer funds to another app and keep using their bank and use the other account as the NFC payment one but, that’s too complicated for my tastes.

wait recently blocked? did they end up reverting the change they did back when the API thing was done? that was one of the things they did then was restrict API key generation

Personally, I don’t think mobile devices such as cell phones or tablets should be lumped into the same category as personal computers such as laptops and desktops.

Like, sure, they are technically still computers, but they are treated more as always on assistants.

Myself, I leave my cell phone, smartwatch and tablet on 24-7. Only restarting when I have an issue, it needs an update, or the battery dies. However, my desktop, game consoles, laptop, and TV’s are turned off as soon as I’m done using them. (Although the TV doesn’t actually turn off because it forces a rest mode.)

edit: I got OCD on my list orders

For clarification, this will likely mean anyone using a VPN won’t be allowed to also use non-google phones. As google will repeatedly request captcha on known VPN endpoints and they are common vectors for malicious programs and bots to use, so it’s almost certainly going to be escalated to the QR code level.

Honestly I expect a bit of resistance to this change from web operators though. They are not going to like VPN users submitting bug reports saying “they can’t verify/its annoying so fix it”. There are far more users using VPN’s as a standard than there is custom firmware or degoogled devices.

I find it weird that the web operator decided to make it so rotation data only is publicly shown if your phone is actually laying down. Because if you’re holding it in the standard position, it doesn’t even announce that it collects it.

10$ a month to access the equivalent of deepseek, or any of the other models?

Yea I don’t know about that one.

Plus liability wise that is a nightmare. Surprised they had the audacity to do it.

I guess having the dashboard is cool… but I doubt this model will be very different compared to normal gemini

I mean, if they heavily subsidize the cost they might.

The everyday person will overlook the no name branding phone if it’s cheaper than the others.

I would love forced support for downgrade. Especially with reverse engineering and jailbreaking

I firmly agree with everything you said there, and I want to add that if the main reasoning for wanting to remove the rule is “fuck Reddit” , then that means that this concept itself is a picture example of a mildly infuriating post.

And by that I mean, It’s mildly infuriating when someone just blanket decides that because they hate something, that everything about that thing is bad and nobody else should be able to see it. It’s almost never a black and white concept.

Personally, if it’s organic, and by that I mean not automated, and someone went to Reddit, saw the post, and then reposted it Here, I don’t have any issue with that.

I don’t use Reddit, so any mildly infuriating post that gets posted from there to here is a post that I wouldn’t have seen otherwise.

As long as I’m not forced to go to Reddit to interact with it, which so far out of what I’ve seen in this community I haven’t had to because it’s usually the picture and the post description lemmy side as well so I have no big issue with it

Just because Reddit is a shit site, and I don’t like it, doesn’t mean that all content on the site isn’t worth anything, and if it’s something that’s cool or entertaining, and someone wants to bring it here, I’m all for it.

They did that about a year or so after I blocked reddit via DNS. No idea why, I don’t use a VPN for reddit, and I hadent given them any traffic outside the once and awhile checking a tech support post, but something about my network triggered it.

No big loss.

This… People keep dreaming of reddit crashing and burning or going under but, realistically if that did happen a good portion of the existing userbase will filter into the fediverse somewhere, and thats a lot of inorganic growth. Currently there are a handful of popular topics, and some niche topics. Yes there are also reddit like mannerisms but, when people slowly filter in, the room can be read and the existing culture remains, when a mass intake happens (like what happend with the API debacle) the influx is faster than the adoption and the culture comes with it.

my aunt used to seek out parking garages that either were proactive at ticketing vehicles that were sticking way out like that, or had a lowered roof at the front to prevent larger vehicles in the first place. She said she was surprised that they existed but said it made actually navigating it so much easier.

I can defo understand that, it’s hard enough parking as it is, and thats without a vehicle taking up half the roadway as well.

While I agree wholeheartedly with this comment, I felt the need to add a footnote to it.

if you currently use mainstream media services such as Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, etc., be careful going this route because some service providers are known to intentionally drop the quality of your stream If it realizes you’re on a browser instead of an official app. I know Netflix for sure does it because I’ve seen it first hand.

I don’t know how it is now, but I know a few years ago if Roku was pre-installed on the TCLs, they would be required to connect to the internet in order to even set it up because they required a Roku account in order to operate.

We had issues setting up demo units for it because our demo broadcast used a unified source that was via HDMI and we couldn’t get the TV to broadcast a HDMI signal without setting up a Roku account.

We ended up just not setting those TVs up, and when customers would ask to see how it looked, we’d say unfortunately we don’t have the capability of showing you.

Nobody was about to sign up to Roku using a store account and then have to deal with juggling the passwords just to use a display TV.

would locking usage behind an account post sale be concidered bricking devices? because if so they should add those customers on.

The sad thing is, jokes aside for some teachers is actually is accurate.

source: grandfather had a college professor that said his personal policy was that a student could never jump more than one letter grade between quarters.

I wondered what the boot-it bundle on pizza hut actually was for. It always talked about how a portion of the order went into the program but never really explained what it was. I always did it because the deal was good but, it’s nice to know what the money was going to.