But I don’t need to do any of that either. My phone’s settings have a transfer option for eSIMs and it passes the eSIM data to another phone.

No need to interact with the carrier app, no need to interact with the internet, no need to login to anything.

I guess activation times could be a thing but mine is always immediately active so I never noticed it.

So that leads me to my previously stated conclusion: eSIM isn’t the issue, carrier implementation is.

I don’t disagree with using physical either btw, I’m just saying in theory they’re the same. In fact your carrier could just as easily lock down your physical SIM.

This sounds like a your carrier problem, not an eSIM problem.

I’ve swapped eSIMs between devices 3 times this year at my own leisure, no involvement from the carriers, no back and forth calls or visiting a store.

From what I can tell reading these comments, people don’t actually have an issue with eSIM (it’s literally just like your regular SIM card and the spec absolutely allows you to move it between devices with zero friction), they have an issue with how some carriers implement them, in particular how some lock down how you can move an eSIM to a new device.

Seems like carrier implementation should be more standardized.

You’re not the only one, but you are a tiny minority.

Technology Connections did a really good video on this topic specifically, and while you can’t extrapolate his numbers to every channel, seeing that less than 5% of all your views come from people using the subscriptions feed is very telling about how most users operate on platforms like YouTube.

Nobody wants to build their feed anymore. They want an AI/algorithm to do the legwork for them. This is ingrained in modern culture at this point. All the people I know who use any kind of social media site tell me that they just scroll through their home feed and only like stuff or follow creators to improve their home feed recommendations, not to create a dedicated follow feed.

Ignoring the GPU pricing issue, It was a really good option for Mac users to play games that don’t run on MacOS. One of my friends uses it to play with our friend group.

I also used it to play higher end games because my gpu is too weak to reliably play them, but my internet is fast enough to where streaming doesn’t cause any issues. (and I am not interested in paying for a gpu upgrade when I don’t regularly play high end games)

Imo, if you ignore the surrounding context, it’s a great option if you don’t want to pay exorbitant prices for GPUs just to play a modern game.

The real issue is that this problem was artificially manufactured by the companies offering the solution and is guaranteed to enshittify in the name of greed, as seen here.

As per usual, we can’t have nice things because of capitalism.

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Did those people forget this is am open source browser and they can actually check it’s doing what it says it’s doing?

And if they’re that paranoid that they don’t trust the pre-compiled binaries, they can just compile them themselves.

This discussion is completely absurd to me.

The ones that do, also went mainly touch screen only and cost a fortune.

There are sub 200 dollar DAPs (digital audio player) with physical buttons that run android and thus can run all your streaming services.

Though I’d argue using a DAP for streaming is kinda wasting your money, but if you really want to the function is there at a reasonable price.

You can also use wired headphones with a 3.5mm jack with them.

I just use a flac library I made myself and listen to it with a DAP that cost me less than 100 dollars. Makes the experience much engaging to me personally.

You can also look at Japan, where railroad isn’t even the main moneymaker for the companies that operate them (pretty sure some even run at a loss). Instead, it’s the hubs that those railroads create (ie all the real state connected to the stations which is owned by the railroad companies and can be rented out to businesses).

In essence, railroads shouldn’t be built because they’re profitable. They should be built because they’re a basic necessity for unifying a country/region. The profit comes from the increased mobility and the new hubs and opportunity that mobility can create. But most politicians are too short-sighted for this.

The entire video disrespected the Japanese people and the families of the deceased in the efforts for clicks.

This is the understatement of the century.

He and the people he was with literally found a dead person who had committed suicide and filmed it all while giving whacky reactions.

Thousands of online celebrities are assholes, but I only know one person who took a video of a suicide victim and posted it online for the world to see, and that’s Logan Paul.

This is legit the opposite of my experience. I am a relatively tech savvy user, I like to fiddle with all the settings and an ugly UI doesn’t inherently deter me as long as the experience is good, so when I first installed jellyfin I was ready to have a clunky experience fighting the UI.

Despite that, I was legitimately surprised at how Jellyfin was far less confusing for me to use out of the box than plex ever was. I found Plex’s UI very confusing to navigate on my TV and my family did not like using it either. I remember especially hating all the extra categories and freemium content plex added that I wasn’t interested in viewing but couldn’t remove (or at least did not find a way to remove). In Jellyfin all of my content is just there and very easily categorized and there’s no superfluous elements in the UI, just my stuff that I want to watch.

I remember plex also gave me more trouble during installation than jellyfin did. I actually found jellyfin very pleasant and intuitive to setup. Plex sent me down a Google rabbit hole to diagnose why it wouldn’t boot at all.

It was genuinely such an awful experience as a first-time user that it made me wonder why anyone would use plex.

The reality is you and others are afraid of change. There is no windows-only program I can’t run.

Well I’m glad you represent everybody.

People who need to use software like the Adobe suite professionally? They should just abandon their whole career and not use Adobe. Because being unemployed will really show em.

They now use LTS chips designed for IoT devices

This is no longer the case for the Fairphone 6. It uses a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3, which is a regular SoC for mobile devices. I believe this is because Qualcomm finally extended support for these chips past 5 years.

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It was heavily criticized due to the severe drop in animation quality after the first episode. It’s like they spent 95% of the budget in episode 1, which got everybody hyped (and it is legitimately good), and then left the rest of the budget to pay a couple of overworked interns to haphazardly put together the rest of the animation.

The events of the story are all there, and the art style is the closest you can probably get to the original, but it does fail to capture a lot of the magic of the manga due to shoddy animation. I wouldn’t recommend it, personally.

Plus all this stuff can be disabled in discord too, if you want to be that serious. There are per-role and per-channel settings that let you disable images, link embedding, external emojis, etc.

It gives you choice. I have no choice in Element, it’s always unfun all the time.

Just to add on to this, in those unfortunate cases where there really is only Fandom, you can use an extension like LibRedirect which will redirect any Fandom pages to a breezewiki instance, which is a stripped down, privacy respecting, no BS front end for Fandom.

You might not have heard of the formats but you’ve definitely listened to them. For example, Youtube has only served audio in aac and opus for years now. Most instant messaging apps also use opus during calls to reduce bandwidth usage. And those are just some big examples. Basically almost any online service has dumped mp3 in favor of aac and opus since they’re better in every way (in the sense that they have better quality at the same bitrate as mp3, so you can reduce the filesize by a lot and still preserve the same audio quality)

You actually tricked yourself into believing this isn’t all about shutting down competition to American companies or stopping people’s (especially young people’s) power to disseminate even remotely left leaning views that could gain traction and threaten the oligarchs.

I mean even the politicians who back this bill state as much, so I’m not sure why you think this is about national defense. American citizens are just under as much threat as before, but now they have one less way to express themselves. Ain’t that great. /s

Over simplified, because Romani are usually nomad, they live in moving settlements and don’t typically integrate much wherever they settle in. A lot of the hatred they receive also stems from these settlements being illegally set up in private/public property, as well as how they result in a lot of trash being dumped everywhere. There is also an issue with Romani criminality (stealing, damaging property, and sometimes there are even shootouts between different Romani families which result in casualties).

There is also a perceived notion that governments do not want to deal with these problems, which further fuels the hatred against the Romani as they’re seen as criminals who get away with everything.

The truth of course lies somewhere in the middle. Most Romani are not bad people if you take the time to know them, but there is definitely a lot of toxic cultural norms being perpetuated by leaders of many Romani families, which doesn’t help with clearing the stereotypes, and with very little to no integration between the Romani and the cultures they are in, it’s hard to get rid of the animosity.

Wow, you’ve really succinctly put it best! Being a European myself, this is how I constantly feel when I hear racist shit in my daily life (mainly from family).

It’s like, people here just can’t even fathom that what they’re saying is racist, that they’re racist, because to them what they’re saying is just a simple fact of life that everybody accepts. They don’t show open animosity towards minorities or throw racial slurs like you’d see more in America (though there is definitely some of that here too don’t get me wrong), but it’s a very casual, low-key form of racism where folks comment on X group of people all being one way and no one batting an eye for example.

And if you so much as suggest they’re racist, or the country they’re in has or had issues with racism and other issues of oppression, a lot will legit fight you tooth and nail over it because they can’t handle the notion of it.

It’s really freaking weird and took me a lot of time to be conscious of it myself, since I grew up surrounded by this sort of attitude.

And it’s not just right-leaning people doing this. Some minorities like the Romani are openly discriminated by just about everyone across the political spectrum, the degree just varies. And then based on the country you’ll typically see a lot of Xenophobia towards the bigger migrant groups.