I had Crapcast for awhile before fiber became available, I regularly use terabytes of data and their 1TB cap would be blown through in no time.

If data caps actually solved a problem like it does for cellular networks, it’d be different. But it’s not, it’s a cash grab, I “just” had to pay Crapcast an extra 20$/month

You see, for cellular, a tower is truly limited on the bandwidth because it must be shared among all cellular devices connected to it. And that could be thousands upon thousands of individual devices.

But for hardline, the ISP builds a trunk to the neighborhood and they build it to spec assuming they would sign up a certain percentage (Probably like 80%, or more if they know they’re going to be the only service for a while) to their highest tier. If their highest tier is 1Gbps, then they build their trunk line to that neighborhood to handle 80% of the houses having 1Gbps service.

They never get close to that percentage in the real world, most people are going to stick with some middle of the road package or slower. But, the trunk was built to handle 80% of the houses being active 24/7 at 1Gbps, which just doesn’t happen in the real world so a LOT of that capacity remains just at the ready.

Now that’s just bandwidth, has nothing to do with the amount of data transferred, that line to your house is built to handle whatever the ISPs highest package is or planned higher, whether you use 1Gbps to transfer 1 GB of data or 1000 it doesn’t matter

F in the chat everyone

@dessalines@lemmy.ml won’t, judging by his profile he’s too afraid to post his propaganda and shit takes outside the safety of the .ml echo chamber and the “friendly mods”

Oof don’t say that around @dessalines@lemmy.ml they get bigly mad when you point out bad things about the CCP lmao

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Well I am just shocked, SHOCKED! Well, not that shocked.

For some reason the author is trying to equate it to an “AI-Mediated breakup” which…doesn’t make sense, a summary of something is not “mediating”

Mediating would be like having the AI write and deliver a breakup text, simply summarizing it isn’t

Crack the console then, ps2s have software cracks by now, and sideloading cartridges exist for a fair few portable consoles.

That’s what I do, I don’t find value in the physical discs, but the consoles themselves are where it’s at IMO

The following console gens and below are wide open:

Sony: PS4 and PS Vita (for portables) Microsoft: Xbox 360 Nintendo: Switch and 3DS (for portables)

🎶JOE BIDEN THE INFRASTRUCTURE GUY! JOE! JOE! JOE!🎵

It’s…in the first paragraph

Today, Judge James Donato issued his final ruling in Epic v. Google, ordering Google to effectively open up the Google Play app store to competition for three whole years. Google will have to distribute rival third-party app stores within Google Play, and it must give rival third-party app stores access to the full catalog of Google Play apps, unless developers opt out individually.

True, but legal precedents can be nuanced

For example, that whole litmus test with the three questions to determine if something is art or pornographic or obscene was borne out of a legal precedent.

So something similar could come out of this, where it’s only applicable if the company in question is X market cap and controlling Y percentage of the market segment or whatever. It doesn’t have to nor should be an all or nothing kinda thing

Can confirm, I just pulled up Epic Games Store from within the MS Store lol

And on top of that, this isn’t some startup who has to depend on every dollar, even if you’re right @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works this is fucking Google with a 2 TRILLION DOLLAR market cap they can lose some revenue to make room for some competition even if it’s a tad unfair.

That’s just the perception with the average person, not that they would actually do it

Yes but only through sideloading, this order requires Google to allow third-party app stores to be distributed from within Play Store, i.e. you can search for “F-Droid” from directly within Play Store and install it.

Which also comes with a bit of a positive reputation to truly allow a competitor to rise. Before, non-technical people (read:the average person) saw sideloading as dangerous because of “viruses”, which led to low uptake of Epics own store (Which they did try to distribute through sideloading)

Now if an average person sees F-Droid or other app store in the play store they’re automatically going to think “It’s in the Play Store and vetted by Google so it MUST be safe to check out”

Yea that’s exactly it, no more side loading needed.

Apple got away with it because they were VERY careful to go up to the line without crossing it as well as careful wording of things, unfortunately.

Yea, I wasnt entirely clear, I brought up Manifest v3 as a “this is already complicated, and a browser engine is even more complicated” example

No Chromium fork maintains Mv2 anyways even though it is easier, and yes some do have their own builtin AdBlock and are able to function well that way. But I do not consider that ideal, one would be entirely dependent on their AdBlock implementation where as if a fork maintains Mv2 then you would be able to just change your extension if you don’t like something about it

I work in IT and have implemented quite a few MDM systems. For Android, a work profile will be entirely isolated personal data wise. IT can’t see anything beyond the work walls, however, there are a few shared things.

If work enforces a tougher screen lock setting, it’ll take precedence over your regular lock screen setting. You might also have a few other things change while it’s active, like display time out (if work has a shorter setting).

We can also see certain shared info like device serial number, IMEI number, OS version, security update version etc. Depending on the configuration, GPS/location info can be obtained as well (via an force-installed policy app for example)

You can pause the profile at anytime which suspends ALL work profile app activity (So if there was an app they install that they could get GPS info from, that app would no longer be functional until unpaused again (no it can’t “run in the background” and collect info on the background either, it’s wholly suspended)) and the pause feature can be set on a schedule so if you have a 9-5 you can set it to that and avoid the whole “always available” problem.

None of the forks are immune to Mozilla enshittifing the engine itself.

Browser engines are complicated beasts, the w3c specifications are thousands of pages and a proper engine would have to implement it all.

It’s the reason why not a single chromium fork is able to maintain manifest v2 in defiance of Google, because they would have to then maintain the engine themselves for the most part