Polylactic_acid

Catering to people who don't own a phone (Richard stallman and kids in Africa) is a lower priority to most mods than stopping waves of trolls and spammers.

You're not paying for emoji, your paying for an incredible product that provides a lot of value. Emoji is just one feature they hold back to tempt you to pay for the amazing thing you have been given for free.

It sounds greedy when you word it "paying for emoji" when in reality they are incredibly generous for holding back no core functionality from free users.

The gaming alternatives were mumble and teamspeak which also sucked. Its no wonder discord took off when all of the competition sucked.

The censorship angle is likely how discord shuts down servers used to organise gatherings that are borderline terrorism and servers used to share anime under age content.

Its worlds away from china level where your DMs are being monitored for problematic keywords.

The majority of discord users would have 16-64gb of ram and don't care if 250mb goes to one of their most useful programs.

You can enable phone number verification which makes it massively harder to avoid bans. Its way easier to cycle IP addresses than phone numbers.

Its a fairly logical anti spam method. If its a private discord server for your friends there is no need but if the invite link is public then the anti spam protection becomes pretty important.

Your phone holds the passwords for the websites but they passwords never get presented to the user. FaceID is just used to unlock the password store. You would have to steal a phone and trick faceid on the phone to gain access to someones account.

I might be wrong but I don't think thats how its working. It sounds like your phone saves a password/key locally and then when you load a website, faceid is used by your phone to unlock the keyring and sends the normal password to the website.

I'm not sure what the UX is when moving devices though.

Its not hard, it just costs money. Lego is the default option and the only reason you would pick another brand is if it was cheaper and to be cheaper they have to cut corners since Lego isn't massively ripping people off.

The browser version has a lot more friction with getting audio inputs working for me as well as not supporting screen streaming I think.

We have completely replaced a set of jira tools with gitlab. Its great.

Oculus was the first to realize that we now have the technology to do VR right and forget about all the failed attempts from the 90s.

>software updates for a UI that no one asked for.

No one ever asks for these things even if they are needed. People complain at every single youtube redesign but when you look back at the past designs they look ugly compared to the current design.

>Speech that is false and intentionally causes a panic should not be protected.

70% of facebook posts and newspapers instantly banned.

The wonderful thing about IoT is the criminal can be on the other side of the world with no chance of any justice coming to them.

Its pretty interesting how much core open source technology is maintained by a single developer and just vanishes when they leave/get bored.

Who in their right mind is going to dedicate their free time to writing printer drivers in 2020? Forking solves the problem of a poor maintainer holding up things, it doesn't just spawn interested developers out of nowhere.

Something has to be done. Obvious bullshit is fooling huge chunks of the population and causing huge damage. We have always selected acceptable content and it has usually been a positive. Schools have always picked which info to teach and what to not and that's largely a positive thing.

Yes. Stating that the product was useless due to FTP+SVN/USB drives was incorrect. The idea was a huge success. Dropbox just wasn't the one that got the reward.

Bluetooth support is all over the place for me. My Apple watch and airpods work flawlessly over bluetooth on my phone but everything else ranges from usable to very frustrating.

HFP mode is not worth using for anything unless you are roleplaying a person from the 90s taking a phone call in the car.

The sound quality is truly awful in HFP mode, I can hardly understand what people are saying when in that mode and you sound horrible to everyone on the other side as well.

Agreed. If I turn the screen off and tilt my phone I can see hairline scratches but when its on I can't see anything so who cares.

If you are actually a potential rapist there are plenty of easier methods than setting up a fake repair garage and matching vibration sensors with pot holes. The entire idea is ridiculous.

Yes I'm quite aware that if governments were after me they could probably dig up this stuff but thats not my concern. I'm focused on random internet users being able to dig up 10 year old posts which would be insanely difficult given how much crap there is on the internet and how much I have changed since then.

The original thread was shitting on the idea of an online storage solution. The idea was good, its just every other tech company jumped on the same boat and crushed drop box.

If you got to a store that has "unlimited" refills for drinks and you go and bring in a set of 40L drums to fill up, thats abusing the service. You know this is a gross overuse of the service which was intended for normal users to fill a drink a few times.

I think its a little less clear for ISPs where large amounts of data usage is normal for average users but in the case of storage, people dumping petabytes of data they don't even care about is clearly misuse. If the drink place stepped in to stop you after 5 drinks that would probably be false advertising.

Yes maybe Google was wrong about calling it unlimited and now they are fixing that by making it not unlimited. That doesn't change the fact that people were actually misusing it

I'm Gen Z too and for my whole life the advice has been "Don't put your real info on the internet". The only thing that comes up when you search my name is my gitlab profile and a technical blog. All of my cringy forum posts still exist but they are all under random usernames and would be very difficult to link back to me.

This is the reason I switched to an iphone this year after 10 years on android. Everything I loved about Android devices is dead and they are now while at least Apple respects privacy.

Apple started out as fairly repair hostile while Androids were relatively repairable. Now most android phones are sliding more and more towards glued together bricks while iphones are mostly the same to the point where most android devices are actually harder to repair.

I took my Pixel 2 in to a store for a battery replacement and the person told me that there is a chance the screen will shatter when they remove it. If a person with all the tools and training can't reliably replace the battery something is seriously wrong. Apple might be doing a lot of things horrible but they are the only ones who actually have a store in my area and offer repairs on their own devices.