> lock in That sounds like the least researched comment on the subject of UPI because this lock in simply does not exist because it was made to not exist by design. Upi is built on top of an existing technology called IMPS which stands for Instant Money Transfer System. This is a functionality similar to wiring money in the United states except it's almost instant (10 sec) but limited to a maximum of Rs. 5,00,000; what matters is that that this underlying tech is transferring money not from an app wallet to another wallet but from a bank account to a bank account with these apps basically being only a medium to scan QR codes for most people using UPI, however due to the recent boom of digital payments in india everyone and their dog has made added UPI functionality to their existing online banking apps, budgeting apps, online shopping (see: amazon pay). This coupled with the fact that UPI does not have any convienence fee has led to quite a large variety of options for the consumer with most people maintaining several UPI applications (why wouldn't you, it's free and might get you the occasional coupon). The reason why google pay and phonepe work is mostly because of a great user experience and a huge marketing budget. And about the bureaucracy, it is quite dysfunctional at times but ever since demonetization back in 2016, Modi knows that the only way he can bring back any trust in the financial system is a better bureaucracy, which works but is mostly just him saving face.

Well, that's all we can do, Room Temp Superconductors are one of those things everyone wants to make, but that's hard so we do the next "best" thing; lie. But when the outcomes of a true usable-at-liveable-temperature-and-pressure superconductor essentially guarantees rainbows in the sky forever, like sustainable fusion energy, maybe being hopeful ain't all that bad

Agreed, when the game chugs along it does come down to simply seeing still images or gentle movement However bitrates cannot be compromised since you never wanna lose the ball as a compression artifact; and since sometimes all the action comes down to tracking what is the equivalent of a few white pixels on the screen against a dark sky. in fact, since most of the coverage of the game involves following the ball (similar to football or hockey), losing the ball (which does sometimes happen since the ball is tiny compared to people and sometimes moves at hundreds of km an hour) is extremely jarring to the viewing experience

ik its DRM, but the fact that marketing interncame up with that and they ran with it suggests that consumers today have no idea what true privacy and security is, i.e, they have no idea what it is for a device be protected from bad actors than being protected from you

> Many people predicted this would be a permanent acceleration that would continue even after the pandemic ended. I did too

Seriously bro, you know, think about it, you have a lot of money, and you know what comes with a lot of money, a lot of people who want your money, and these are the "many people" you are talking about. Billions use the services Meta (as a group of companies) offers. idk how you expect to expand further, because you are kinda out of humans, even someone who looked at the situation for half an hour in like December 2020 when the economy boomed back could've predicted it wasn't gonna last forever, its was going to the cravings people have that would be promptly fulfilled (except maybe semiconductors but you are a software company who can rapidly innovate so that one really doesn't matter)

They should, but idts its gonna happen, mostly because the market share of Apple products in India is so low that there really much 'incentive', or should I say, 'reason' or 'cause' for them to do it

is having an orgasm

That was a long reign, now, get some rest

Self hosted software that you pay for? with a subscription? Definitely not a bad idea

The fairmail project has been unarchived and has restarted development after Google cleared the project of any issues

I feel that RISC-V really has the power to become what ARM is today and will so in a while