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

And you don’t either

Lmao, yea it’s the last step on the package of just about every microwaveable food I’ve seen

“Not Dishwasher Safe” == “We didn’t want to spend the money testing it and want to free ourselves from liability”

Sometimes it’s true, sometimes not

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

No joke, not only are kids bones more “rubbery” and difficult to break, if they do manage to break it they’re gonna be in a cast for like a couple weeks and that’s it.

If an adult breaks something that’s gonna be like 3 MONTHS of cast time (minimum) AND most likely some form of stupid physical therapy :/

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Just archive.is it

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Lol Sony trying to LARP as Nintendo

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.

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Meh, someone call me when it’s THC lmao

It’s pretty simple really

Detective: “Excuse me, I’m Detective so-so, recently we’ve come into some information that indicates something traumatic may have occurred in your past, are you ready to hear the details or would you like some time to prepare?”

Person: “WHAT‽ I’m gonna need some time to prepare, I’ll contact you when I’m ready”

This’ll give those vulnerable time to prepare for a shit storm and those who feel they’ve already adjusted and would rather not hear about it the opportunity to decline

Your attitude is very much “You need to hear about it no matter what or how well adjusted you are. Oh, your brain was able to process the incident without causing any I’ll effect? WELL TOO BAD YOU NEED TO HEAR IT”

Again, not every traumatic incident results in a mental ill effect like PTSD or depression. Some people have more resilient mental stability than others. What of them? What if the disclosure itself is just too much and now they NEED therapy when they could have gone their entire life without worry?

I don’t think you read the second half of my original comment

There’s no good answer on this, maybe some sort of initial generic question like “Something bad has happened to you in your past you maybe unaware of, would you like details?”

It would still cause one to worry about that something has happened to them, but at least they would have time to figure out their own best way forward before being bombarded with details