First RCS now this, today has been wild

  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah this isn’t as good as it sounds, the other 5 continents are still stuck with all of this garbage.

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        1 year ago

        They’ll just enable/disable features based on geolocation. I doubt it’ll be a whole different version like in the good old days.

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            1 year ago

            Yup, but then you’ll still have the same frustration we have now, running the script every time there’s a feature update and the bloat gets reinstalled. If it wasn’t for games and work I’d be using nothing but macOS and Linux.

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                I used to be super anti-apple but now buy MacBooks for the longevity. Less ewaste. Over time actually more cost effective. My daily driver is a nearly 9 year old MacBook that I replaced the battery on 2 years ago. Still getting official updates too. My father laid out twice the price of it for a high end XPS machine in 2019 and it died inside 5 years. Apple actually fix manufacturing issues without a huge amount of fuckery like HP/dell. I can’t speak to iPads and iPhones but Macs just last longer so end up being cheaper in the long run.

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        1 year ago

        The problem is that showing enough politicians money effectively makes you become the government. There’s minimal chance of a law being introduced unless a rich person or corporation backs it, and EU laws would interfere with their shady business practices.

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        Not big enough to force companies to make large changes. The US is, China and India are. But what about Australia or New Zealand? Or any of the individual south american countries? Too many changes, microsoft or one of the other big players will just pull out of the market, or threaten to pull out.

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          If they already have a version compatible with EU law, they will just roll it out instead of removing an entire country from their market.

          Would be a bad business move otherwise.

          Of course, only if the laws don’t force even more restrictions.