Sometimes it’s the only option or the preferred option.

I haven’t. Maybe someday I’ll be willing to, but not today. It’s a hassle and extremely intrusive to provide my bank statement and photo ID to a company whose security I don’t trust.

That’s usually how I pay if someone requests money. Venmo is owned by PayPal but my account there works just fine.

I thought about that, but they ask for enough info that they’d be able to identify me. And then they’d probably ban me. At least right now I have the option of restoring my account, even though I have no intention of doing so.

Any USB-C headphones work.

This report is from 2016. It’s mainly of historical interest.

This is an old article. It references the Batygin and Brown paper from 2016. As of 2024, it is still considered possible, but no direct evidence has been observed, and alternative explanations have been proposed, according to Wikipedia.

There’s a great community called The Lyrics Game - !thelyricsgame@lemmy.ca - where people post AI art of song lyrics and others try to guess the song.

This would have worked great! I bet it would have been guessed quickly as “Fireflies” is frequently guessed (but to my knowledge hasn’t been one of the songs yet).

That is some unusual hair. He looks like a delighted DJ. Rapper’s Delight?

This doesn’t sound like a serious problem for a company like Google. They can afford to solve it by brute force — just put a Wi-Fi hotspot in every single room.

A classic!

Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull?

When the mezcal worm grows up

Unfortunately, Apple has the resources, both legal and financial, to tie that up in the EU courts for decades.

Who would’ve thought? This isn’t going to fly with the EU.

Article 5.3 of the Digital Markets Act (DMA): “The gatekeeper shall not prevent business users from offering the same products or services to end users through third-party online intermediation services or through their own direct online sales channel at prices or conditions that are different from those offered through the online intermediation services of the gatekeeper.”

Apple has an annual legal budget of approximately infinity dollars. I assure you they are aware of this and they believe they are in compliance, even if just barely.

If challenged, they will have no problem fighting it — they have nearly as much cash on hand as the entire EU budget.

I hope the EU challenges this, and I hope the EU wins, but Apple isn’t going to be surprised by whatever happens.

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Strange when the party receiving the “commission” gets to dictate the terms of that commission.

Although Firefox on iOS doesn’t support extensions, other browsers do.

Orion supports Firefox extensions.

Safari also has tons of extensions available, such as: StopTheMadness (annoyance blocker, highly configurable), AdGuard (ad blocker), Vinegar (blocks YouTube ads on the web), and many others.

While it’s true that lockdown mode can break things, it’s likely there is something that can be fixed here - a setting or a particular API, perhaps. After all, the app is still in development and these don’t seem like intended effects of lockdown mode.

I recommended Brother laser printers to some older relatives and this happened. The printers required a power reset every few days.