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811.
by ssss11 6y ago
I gotpartway through building a travel planning app a few years ago, and I had thought the best way could be to allow 3 trips to be planned, then your trial ends unless you subscribe. Or you could severely limit the functionality in a perp
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by ssss11 6y ago
No one but the Sales and Ad Men need smart billboards.
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by ssss11 6y ago
I hear your point (2 young kids) and there’s plenty of things I’ve done that with, but this isn’t one of them. I have a Synology NAS and probably spend less than 5 mins a month on it.
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by ssss11 6y ago
As long as “free” exists, and the general population don’t understand why it’s free - then sure this will be the case. I think the knowledge tide is turning on surveillance and there will be a time where people will gladly pay (a reasonable
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by ssss11 6y ago
Alternatively all the companies i know of use Teams. These are huge corporations that already have tons of MS.
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by ssss11 6y ago
So “smart”
817.
by ssss11 6y ago
There is no problem here. jedi mind trick hand wave
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by ssss11 6y ago
People make the best use of what they have, what they know and what they’re willing to spend money and time on. i dont agree that people have chosen not to have privacy or portability or the other things you mention, they simply dont have a
819.
by ssss11 6y ago
I recently bought a TV and couldn’t find any dumb ones in the local big brand stores.
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by ssss11 6y ago
It seems to be a race to the bottom
821.
by ssss11 6y ago
Perhaps its a professional blog and they’d like to know about their audience.
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by ssss11 6y ago
Why not two modes - beginner, locked down. Advanced, control it how you like?
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by ssss11 6y ago
Its the age old walled garden approach isnt it? Capture the market. We aren’t the customers and we need companies that will treat us properly, but imho the root cause is providing everything for free - that will necessarily need to change.
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by ssss11 6y ago
Apparently there’s no more than 999,999 unique residences?
825.
by ssss11 6y ago
If my parents are a yardstick of Western retirees, they havent improved their understanding of windows or email in the last 20 years let alone the new web platforms sigh
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by ssss11 6y ago
English is always changing you just don’t like the current changes. Go read medieval english and see how you like it. I’m sure as it became popular Latin speakers despised it.
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by ssss11 6y ago
Sorry but this sounds diabolical... we need companies worthy of our trust so we can gain the benefit of the apps we’ve chosen to use, rather than avoiding them with manual workarounds. We need laws and penalties applied to companies that ab
828.
by ssss11 6y ago
Ueah this should have been the way it went, for facebook at least, but of course they _want_ to be a media company... they think they can take down traditional media and have got themselves into all sorts of problems!
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by ssss11 6y ago
Facebook hasnt changed since the start? I completely disagree. What fb was at the start was actually useful - simply a way to write a status update to your friends and see what they have been up to in chronological order. None of the tracki
830.
by ssss11 6y ago
Do you think they favour a fair election over $$$? Do you think there is anything they favour over $$$ at this point?
831.
by ssss11 6y ago
Is this being added to Chromium code? Its hard to tell if its being added (and in which release) or if parts of it or all of it are already in Chrome or Chromium and are just being enabled now
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by ssss11 6y ago
But alot of people want Netflix etc streamed. also alot of people dont know how to manage firewalls, pihole etc. This idea of stuffing tracking and ads into everything “smart” is such an insult to the individual.
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by ssss11 6y ago
This. I found the same thing in Australia.
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by ssss11 6y ago
I use pihole to block sonos, tv etc phoning home but while still allowing them to play music or videos from spotify, netflix etc. it works pretty well
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by ssss11 6y ago
Learning how to communicate well - how to get your point across, how to debate without shutting down, and listening. Especially verbally/face to face.
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by ssss11 6y ago
Isnt this just human nature? Not everyone is looking to improve the world and when they get power.. well, power corrupts. I’m equally pessimistic, not about new technologies but about who controls them - we need to empower societies not cor
837.
by ssss11 6y ago
Do SSI (self sovereign identity) systems such as Sovrin solve this?
838.
by ssss11 6y ago
Sounds like the plan is to make Chrome the OS. Native apps already do things like that.
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by ssss11 6y ago
Would you recommend any resources on this topic to read instead?
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by ssss11 6y ago
That sounds logical in theory but in practice users may use a tool and still loathe it. Their choice to use WhatsApp is partially dependent on their contacts’ choice to use it.

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