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i recently spent 4 hours installing random driver versions to get wifi working on a windows pc, i'm of the opinion wifi is just for phones at this point

I feel like you might be listing a bunch of edge cases that won't affect most people, or at least are as likely as a bunch of other edge cases with completely different optional solutions

i wouldn't do it to a real world trolley as it would cost a lot to replace something that is better in many respects to the alternatives but i wasn't taking it too seriously and they only gave the trolley negative traits within the question

not really, there's a lot of great work i could have been doing on my past projects that wasn't a management priority

i would guess it makes the deck unique so cards can't be added on the fly

ultimately the issue is laws in favor of the incumbents, while more competition would absolutely be a better solution long term if laws aren't being made to ensure net neutrality laws are definitely not going to be made to allow more competition.

VPNs can and will adapt, they're only detectable if they behave a certain way, last article i read a while ago openvpn was generally being detected by the way it did the handshake.

but yeah, the only permanent way to block VPNs is to get rid of encrypted traffic, otherwise they're going to be in a running battle of updating their detection methods and vpn providers obfuscating their protocol

i guess you could quantify that as the real problem if you like, it's a much harder problem however.

the incumbents are currently successfully shutting out big competition from putting in their own infrastructure (google has been successfully blocked from areas by lawsuits, along with municipal ISPs).

edit: and even if competition was unfettered, it would still take many years and a lot of investment to provide real alternatives

giving a shit about what the "right" way to deal with these assholes is probably not that productive.

not immediately, they could pass extra laws though (and probably will if they get momentum)

changing ISP isn't that simple for a very large chunk of americans, their options are one of the duopoly or dialup.

open source currently aligns with MS's business plan, they haven't turned good or bad they just see where developers want to go and think it's a good thing to go with them.

it doesn't change any of their other business plans but currently it's great for open source software and luckily if they change direction again we have permissively licensed software out of it.

they can't scoop that code back out of the pool so i don't really see a downside, except maybe having to fork projects and maintain them without the MS cash if they do change direction

facebook messenger is fine, but it's exactly the same as any other messenger/texting.

facebook itself is a different beast, aside from the event planning stuff it's pretty much just a bunch of "look at what people you vaguely know are doing" for me

heh, most of this stuff is extra wastes of time past the very first hurdle that you should be working on: make something that works and is useful to people.

sure it would be great to have scaling to 10,000 users already sorted by the time you get there but odds are your project will never get there, when you get to 5k users you need to start worrying about that

if you're just doing it to learn or for fun then obviously this article or my comment don't apply

yeah, none of that shit happens with real money

lol, apparently i don't understand anything

from what i've read they bought several other patents that kind of covered mp3 but expired later to stretch out their hold on them, i wish i'd saved them since google is just returning hundreds of articles about whether mp3 is dead or not

that's not really true, windows update has been working fine for pirated copies of windows for ages since creating spam-bots hurts everyone and doesn't really sell more real copies of windows

it's also worthwhile mentioning that a lot of 3rd party companies provide support for open source products, it's paid support of course but most of microsoft's support options above the base level are far from free

i'm in this situation as well, i've moved to a slack group with my work friends and direct messaging with others, facebook was just a shitty way to talk to people i don't really care about where my posts were spirited away almost immediately

0.5% is being generous, i had almost no interaction with people i cared about while i was on there and i'm glad i've switched to other platforms where they aren't as interested in feeding me their stuff and just letting people talk

aterroristsayswhat?

this is why we have botnets running on security cameras.

you can't just demand the user be smarter, you put sane defaults on there so they actually have to go to at least a small amount of effort to shoot themselves in the foot.

nfc: i hold my card up the the screen, a progress bar takes 2 second to light up and i just wait for the transaction to go through. i've had way more issues with failing magnetic strips.

this is the point where it broke for me, i should have realised when they were going on about feeling physically sick and had thoughts of suicide but kids suddenly "seeing the light" realising the error of their ways and banning themselves from all human contact really seems unlikely to me.

that's actually pretty interesting, i wouldn't be offended by a friend saying it but a stranger saying would piss me off, but even then it's not so much the words as the intent, i'd be just as offended if they'd said "thanks" in a sarcastic way to some imagined slight.

i think it's mostly that most scientific studies have no clear outcomes, people want resolutions not "we did this study, it wasn't perfect but the findings seemed to point towards this effect and more better studies should be done in this area to back up this before we can say it probably does cause this effect" is not anything anyone who isn't a scientist would care about, especially since those further studies will very likely not happen

you're absolutely right, i've seen beautiful, useful interfaces impossible to maintain due to lack of backend skill, i've seen great core functionality let down by bare-boned interfaces that don't let the user easily do the multiple parts of a particular task without too much effort involved in manually doing each part of it.