That would depend on the regulation. Some are specifically designed only to apply to large or established companies. (Although you're not likely to find this type of regulation in the US, or anywhere else subject to regulatory capture.)

Rather than the typical industry regulations, what OpenAI is advocating for sounds more like a total rewrite of the social contract. They need to have something to point at and say "We're a responsible company." It's also more aggrandizement: "Our tech will single-handedly save society"

We know that behind closed doors - though they increasingly don't even bother to close them - the bros are materially supporting politicians they know will give us the exact opposite of short workweeks and an overhauled tax system.

The calls for regulation are not serious. (Like most of what else comes from over there.)

Lol. There are some pretty good zingers buried in the literature.

I'd add a footnote to my post observing that although mainstream medicine no longer gives patients leaves to munch on, an important "medical" industry called alternative medicine, nutraceuticals, or just "supplements" frequently does. Several studies suggest these are usually shredded mixtures of generic houseplants of questionable origin.

It runs MacOS and it's pretty fast, unlike any netbook ever.

Yeah it's got gimped specs but they will be fine for most users, unlike netbooks.

Nobody? Let's run down the list shall we?

Firstly we're talking about the core messaging app. I think people would be rightfully pissed if they were given a phone which lacked an app to send and receive SMSes out of the box. That's what we're talking about here. Samsung is replacing a core phone feature with a Google app. No thanks. Samsung messenger is nice and basic and does what it needs to do.

Samsung Browser - I use this. It's Google Chrome except you can install adblockers on it. Because God knows Google Chrome is a piece of shit on Android.
Their App Store - I use this. Only for one or two apps, but Google arbitrarily blocking apps from Huawei is a pain. Samsung still allow Huawei to publish apps in their store. Competition is a GOOD THING. You want vendor lock-in go buy an Apple toy.
Fitness tracker - I know plenty of people who use this. I use a Huawei one, but virtually everyone with a Samsung Gear watch or the Samsung Ring (which sold incredibly well) will need this app for core functionality.
Payment System - I know plenty of people who use this. Not everyone likes to be locked into Google Wallet, and above all not everyone CAN be locked into Google Wallet. I used to use Samsung's payment app back before my bank supported Wallet.

Bixby, and AppCloud - I'll give you that, that's a cancer. You can't actually disable Bixby though.

Precisely none of those need to be removed to make the phone fit for purpose or usable. In fact all of them do precisely nothing unless you click on them.

Poor phrasing. You say it is doing so without consent but then admitting that you actually give it consent and that you blindly click agree to whatever is on the screen? Maybe someone else should setup a phone for you.

It can be disabled. If someone doesn't know how pre-installed apps can be disabled then there's really no helping them. This was a feature introduced in Android 4.0 some 15 years ago.

[learn to internet]

Everyone who cares about this already knows this

You don't actually care

So fuck off

I had, I believe it was a Galaxy A01 for a brief period, due to a job that required mobile Microsoft Teams. Their crapware was the only thing I didn't like about it. On their low-end phones it seems to serve the purpose of sequestering disk space, to make you think you need to upgrade to a higher-end model. They had it engineered so that you can install two or three apps you actually want on it, then you start getting disk space warnings from the OS.

The strangest thing was that, for all the crapware apps loaded, two basic applications (calculator and FM radio) were nowhere to be found, neither the vanilla Android version, nor a Samsungized version.

I think you'll find most people actually know how to use a phone and for apps they will never use they simply long press the app and then hit "Disable" which not only removes the app from the home screen, but also blocks it from updating freeing up space on the user writable partition on the phone.

Forgive me if I sound snarky, it's probably due to the fact that this feature has existed for FIFTEEN YEARS having been introduced back in Android 4.0

  Also I'm not sure anyone on the face of this planet would call the default shipped SMS/RCS messaging app "bloatware". People generally expect the phone to do out of the box functionality of a phone when they open it up. What else do you consider "bloatware"? The contact list? The phone dialler? How about the OS itself?

Samsung has always had a messaging app. Always. In fact in the early days of Android *all* phone vendors had their own messaging app and virtually none shipped with a Google default.

And? Early adopters have bugs. The question is was your ex happy with the phone, not whether it lasted as long as someone other than her expected it to.

Right, that's why my karma is maxed and you have to post anonymously because it actually makes your posts more visible.

Artemis II is breaking Apollo 13's record by about 4100 miles. The primary reason they're going further is because they're passing much farther from the moon, about 4000 miles, compared to 158 miles for Apollo 13. The moon is also a little further from Earth, accounting for the other 250 miles.

Copilot becomes an evening contributor on a self-proclaimed "for entertainment purposes only" network, bringing "fair and balanced" news, opinions and information ...

... or, whatever.

You misunderstand the term tested. Testing != using. Unless you used your Gentoo box to read through the commits to the kernel and then run specific tests against the 486 code to ensure there were no regressions.

Why the distinction? The point is that in some cases security would be just fine if the software were kept up to date. The fact that a device has a listening port open doesn't mean security is good or bad, it means it has specific functionality. One of the biggest problems in the consumer IoT world is that 99% of the shit out there is set and forget, open to any bug regardless of whether the vendor has patched it in newer products. Deploying modern software is fundamental to the issue under discussion.

If a third party client existed then it would work just fine. RCS is an open and clearly defined standard, and even iMessages supports it. Samsung users had no problem receiving or sending RCS, Apple users had no problem receiving RCS, and Google has no "control" over RCS as that standard is managed by the GSMA and it's 750 members much like nearly every other aspect of your phone.