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My desktop doesn't have Bluetooth. Does this mean I'd be doomed even if I had a compatible mobile device?
by hellojesus 5mo ago
My desktop doesn't have Bluetooth. Does this mean I'd be doomed even if I had a compatible mobile device?
- 2ndorderthought 5mo agoWe might need to redo this whole Internet thing because this is insanity.
- CalRobert 5mo agoMaybe it’s time to get in to Ham radio or some other hobby
- hellojesus 5mo agoI'm a licensed ham! Though I've never actually done anything ham-related. I just wanted a license plate with a call sign. But then I learned that anyone can look up my name and home address from my call sign and decided not to publicly advertise when I'm not home.
- ai-x 5mo agoIn a free market, the content provider is free to put whatever guardrails they feel appropriate. Loginwall, Paywall, CaptchaWall. If you don't like that provider, you are free to pick another.
- Eisenstein 5mo ago1. Free markets do not exist 2. If free markets did exist they would not conform to the theory that people are using when they think of what free markets are, since people do behave rationally, power dynamics are real, and no consumer can have all of the information needed to make rational decisions even if that information were available 3. The market is providing solutions to its own failures without fixing the underlying failures because it is more profitable this way. Is buying something from a company that mitigates a problem created by the same company actually a free market, or is it just extraction?
- PeterStuer 5mo agoI'm not 'free' to pick another government site. There is only one.
- nerdsniper 5mo agoYes. The technical name for this FIDO2 QR code flow is caBLE (Cloud Assisted Bluetooth Low Energy).
- silon42 5mo agoI also disable Bluetooth on my phone every few months (and never enable it)... or at least after every CCC or such.