If I take out a loan to buy a home, I don’t own the home outright. The creditor owns the home until I pay off the debt. I’m likening the situations because I want to make it clear that he didn’t put in his own money to buy it.

I watch two people on twitch. I know both those people in real life but they live pretty far away from me. It’s a way to interact with them and watch them play games etc. That’s literally all I use it for.

The site itself is under threat of being taken down? Is that what’s going on? I don’t think it’s up to us personally to do anything. Seems like people have already mirrored it (seeing as according to your article it has a successor), and those mirrors are also listed as threats. Not gonna lie this is and always has been a game of whack a mole. There will be more successors and more lists etc because that’s just how these things work.

This is literally what certain manufacturers do. Here’s a side by side of the receiver remote for my setup and the one for the TV (which has never even been connected to the internet). One has these dedicated buttons. The other just has ones labeled for streaming or similar.>!!<

I’ll add that the location of the buttons makes a significant difference. If they’re easy to hit by accident you’re more likely to have grandma launch a service she didn’t mean to and not know how to back out of it. This causes more problems than it solves.

Yeah some TV’s these days come with streaming built in and have this kind of remote. Plus if you buy a set top streaming box like a Roku, they come with this kind of remote also. It’s stupid, but a real world thing.

Yeah. Airlines still use it for log books and reports.

Let me?

I got so tired of the “update chrome because new zero day” articles so I removed chrome altogether from every computer I own except the work on because one specific vendor’s schematics work in chrome and are broken in the other browsers. I haven’t looked back and I don’t think I will.

On lower end smart phones? It probably just slows the phone down less specifically because of how few processes it uses in the background. But I don’t know. I’m not a lite UBO user. It definitely doesn’t have the same number of features as the regular variant of UBO though.

My guess is that it’s used predominantly by people who own budget smart phones. Having lite versions of apps be available to people who don’t use thousand dollar flagships I think is kind of important. However, I intended the post to be informational.

Yeah, but he didn’t pay $44Bn out of his own pocket.

Agreed. I can understand fearing being as bloated and bot filled as reddit. But we don’t need to grow that big to be a thriving active community of users.

This is just conjecture though. I do think he originally did not intend to buy Twitter. I do think he was essentially forced to buy it. I know from news articles around the time of the sale that he gave significant pushback when relevant parties forced the issue. Things may very well have changed after he became the owner (and what deals he made to be able to afford it may never be known).

They counted comments and the number of upvotes (or what have you) in an attempt to stop trolls and bad actors. If you didn’t have enough comments you couldn’t post anything to the message boards and therefore could really engage with the message oars above a certain level. I remember that some also used to limit the number of comments any one user account could make per day, especially new users. It’s been 20 years or more at this point and I don’t remember those blogs or message boards, honestly.

To be fair, a lot of users don’t seem to want the user base here to grow at all. I don’t feel that way but I’ve had enough discussions here to know that this is literally not the case for everyone and it kind of sucks because stagnation is how social networks die.

That would have been a lot like how I remember message boards being back in the day, (late 90’s early 2000’s) and honestly I don’t think I like it. People like me (with both low number of comments and posts) wouldn’t be able to reach that bar to entry. I get the bots wouldn’t either, but that still eliminates human users as well and I don’t know if that’s a good thing.

My understanding from the other comments here is that qobuz is a good option, and Tidal also. Might want to check those out.

It would appear that he didn’t want to buy Twitter and was literally forced to do so. I think for him Twitter is a temper tantrum. He didn’t get what he wanted so he’s destroying everything around him as a result.

More to the point though, I do wonder why he didn’t just pay the billion dollars to get out of the deal (with his 270 billion net worth - which by the way includes assets not necessarily liquid cash).

I don’t know that he’s not in it for the money. I think the point is to destroy it so he doesn’t have to pay back what he borrowed to buy it.

From the article:

"Why this is a Problem

While the amendments aim to ensure access to emergency services, the changes will have severe consequences for consumers, competition, and the overall accessibility of mobile services. Whilst also not addressing the core technical standardisation failures with VoLTE Calling and Emergency Calling.

This policy essentially penalises customers for using devices that work but were not purchased directly from the telcos or their partners. Once in effect, this would further concentrate profits and market control to the telcos & major handset makers, and severely limit competition & choice in the market.

Under the updated ECSD, telcos must identify and notify users of phones deemed incapable of accessing emergency services, assist them in finding alternative devices, and ultimately cease service to these phones.

This will likely impact devices that have been manually updated to work for VoLTE Calling and Emergency Calling as they aren’t ‘officially’ supported."

Google play music used to offer it as well.