If it were, they wouldn’t tie it to storage space. That doesn’t matter to scammers and spammers; they’d require it for sending to more than x recipients per month, or for API access, or for any number of other things. The one thing spammers and scammers don’t need is storage space. They just need a trusted email gateway and IP address.
Storage is incredibly cheap, though. If Google used S3, the cost for a 15GB account would be pennies a year, and since they host their own architecture it can be orders of magnitude less. This isn’t about recouping costs. This is just about shaking users down for more subscription money.
Yeah, this here is exactly the reason why anytime I have to migrate from any piece of software I’m migrating to something open source and standards compliant.
Yeah, I can’t wait for the tell-all book that someone inevitably releases in 20 years about how Xwitter was a complete ghost town propped up by sports and racism. The company is clearly hemorrhaging money like a firehose.
Four months ago, we packed up our family and moved from middle America to New Zealand. It’s been amazing, eye-opening, terrifying, beautiful, fascinating, freeing experience. But through it all, I’ve fallen even more in love with my family.
And I’ve always been a family sort of guy, but facing this challenge with my wife as a teammate (she’s a force of nature!) and seeing my kids take to the new situation and flourish…I love these folks. It’s been hard, but they’ve been not just the reason we did it but also the reason it’s been a good experience.
It might not completely go away, but it will slide further and ever quicker into irrelevance. Just like Xwitter has done.
Sailfish is closed-source, isn’t it? I want to be excited about it, but I am hesitant about another closed-source OS.
Yep, I didn’t say it was likely. But I also never thought Windows would lose market share to Linux.
If there’s enough pushback, they’ll eventually either do it or they’ll die.
Still almost half the planet, though. Way too much.
I wonder if that’s the ad blocker or if it’s Chromium.
Interesting. In the video with the CEO and the product manager, they specifically called out that the old battery is compatible with the new chassis but not the inverse. I wonder what the deal is there.
And that’s an artificial limitation. The game would work fine if they didn’t go to extra effort to hamper it; so the technical hurdles have been overcome.
Old battery works in new chassis, but new battery doesn’t work in old chassis.
Not anymore. Most corporate environments I’ve been in use Office on the web or Google Docs.
Gaming is better on Linux than Windows now. I said what I said.
It’s built with a lot of off the shelf components and the schematics for the parts that aren’t are open source. So even if they stopped tomorrow, the stuff they’ve already sold will always be repairable.
There are still a lot of Chromebooks kicking around, too. And those are technically Linux.
In fairness, from MacBook Neo teardowns I’ve seen, it’s only slightly more involved. But then again, the Neo doesn’t have a haptic trackpad. For the Pro’s haptic trackpad, yeah, I would bet it’s a pretty huge pain to replace.
That’s the excuse. But phone numbers tied to names are available all over the dark web and the light web—that’s a fundamentally worthless data point by now. They don’t actually want that, they’re just saying it so you think it’s for scam prevention.