B2B is notorious at this. Sign a lease for colocation or card processing or whatever and most of them want a multi-year commit. A commit that lets them cancel on you for free, but you cancelling costs insane fees or pay their total revenue. It's anticompetitive and basically ensures they can give subpar service if they want to.

Plausible, but should have limited the number of times it is turned on in that scenario.

This is probably the most out of touch comment I've ever seen. The average person lives paycheck to paycheck through no fault or shortsightedness of their own. They didn't have the same advantages as you. And if you were born in their shoes, you'd be just as stuck despite how clever you think you are.

Maybe this is what finally kills tipping. When society realizes tipping culture has got to the point where people would rather not employ a human than deal with the perpetually awkward and combatative dance of tipping.

It's the false positive problem. Let's say the thing is 99.99% accurate. Well, in a deployment nationwide, with a database of hundreds of millions that's still going to be people false flagged every day. Imagine you're just walking to work and Ring pings you incorrectly as the armed and dangerous suspect they're looking for. You're in for a rough morning when the cops show up to wrongly arrest you.

I will never willingly install government spyware app.

Pretty clear the parent should have known better than to expect the Internet to do her parenting for her, but feels entitled to a pay day. Kid clearly has some mental health problems, she should bear the responsibility for not protecting him.

Very few games can't be run on Linux these days. Pretty much just the ones with kenel anti cheat (which should be treated as malware anyway)

Actually kinda agree. It'd be too far on a personal device, but on a dedicated work device it seems reasonable. Especially if the trade is you get to work from home, it seems like a fair deal.

Dunno about uk politics, but in the US, the executive and legislative branches have significant levers if they think mass public safety is at risk. I imagine UK has similar powers in times of crisis. It also associates broadcom with a food panic, which is just generally bad PR next time companies are considering their VM plans.

As you point out, one of the previous best reasons to use Firefox was good ad blocking support. But with the EULA change, shameless simping for Google and even ads being thrust onto the start page, Mozilla has made it clear this is not the best choice for ad haters or privacy conscious people. At the point you have to start digging through settings to find all the ad check boxes to turn off, it's just easier to use something else. That crowd has gone to Librewolf or Brave or whatever, and rightly so -- Firefox isn't the right choice anymore.

Licensing deals will likely prohibit them from doing so. And even if not, it's a tremendous loss of addressable market for sideload developers since the largest manufacturers will go along with it. Google doesn't have to make sideloading impossible, just commercially impractical.

The whole bank app problem would be moot if more banks had check upload on their website. For whatever reason it's often mobile app only. Last time I opened an account, they outright lied that they had web check upload. I don't want a bank app, I just want the check upload feature. I think they restrict it so as to not cannibalize their remote deposit capture subscriptions.

Discord is notorious at random AI bans, too. Really makes me wonder what big tech's strategy is since they're all doing the same thing.

If anyone is dumb enough to think Google won't be sharing your home address publicly (like they already do with their main app store), then I got a bridge to sell you.