My gods, I love those. We should link to some.

Most other countries don’t have to rely on the antiquated network the US uses for resolving those bank to bank transactions. In South korea, Street vendors have what looks like a phone number posted on signage around their Wares or snacks and people just make effectively debit pushes from their bank to the merchant’s bank in real time with zero margins.

I kind of expect this is how the rest of the world operates and it’s only the us then sits on using its own infrastructure which it made one time, in the 1960s, and has refused to move off of since. This created a lot of the market need for a bunch of private companies to make their own little piggybacking solutions like venmo, zelle, square cash, and all the others.

Too be fair, a lot of major businesses in the US now just exist as financialization institutions extending debt to their large-scale clientele, under the guise of being manufacturing or data services. Like GM. Or Oracle.

Bazzite, all night. I’ll fortune to transition towards Linux but I still need the sad, commercial and technical predictability of Windows for some time longer.

Give me LTSC or give me death!

This is my solution, as well. Let the windows application do its thing, sandboxed effectively. I’m no purist.

Mr Jonathon Swift over here, it took me a moment to recognize your Proposal was Modest, given Poe’s Law.

Perhaps it is an ESL thing? We were using it in the States in the 90’s to describe a hardware authenticator key on parallel port that allowed CAD software to run, in a drafting class.

Later (00’s) i heard it used for all manner of peripheral USB accessories.

I’m trying to imagine what the gimmick would be.

You’re getting downdooted, but I was stuck on rereading that nonsensical sentence, as well, and I’m glad it was clarified.

Business as usual, I see. There but by the grace of the gods go we all.

100% of the phones I purchase include the SIM slot. No joke.

I want even aware iPhone users lost this ability with the iPhone 14 and beyond, until your remark. I’m so sorry. :(

“These assholes included an antenna and SIM slot again!?! HTC did that last season. So unoriginal.”

My own mother (pensioner) sent me the video asking “is this real?” But could only follow the first minutes of it.

I lol’d at that part and had to explain the brilliance of it. Then she lol’d, too.

It’s nice to share in the shadows humor, as a family, while we feel our liberties erode.

There is now enough adjacent cctv coverage to follow your approach and exit from the scene of the crime. The rush is that another Flock camera is used to identify, and then make an example out of you or me.

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Even after the Dot Bomb era in 2000-2002 and beyond.

Programmer buddy of mine was telling me their theory that AI is the last hurrah of Big Tech and Venture Capital, shifting a patient that has been in place since most of us were children.

Even after the Dot Bomb area is the 2000’s, FinTech taking it in the chin in the 2008 global financial crisis, three meaningful Crypto rises and falls, and now AI, there’s always been some new for train to institute and sell to the retail investor and the general public.

The beleaguered finances of middle classes pretty much everywhere, hand in hand with the deleted brain trusts from AI making us really dumb and unconfident (or falsely confident), convinced with the lack of new productivity borne from these last few market cycles (AI and Crypto not actually doing much for the majority of humans commensurate with the hype) results in a possible chance for actual market accountability and seeing only genuine market growth.

I think that megacrash and the world waking up to the marketing machine is considerably less likely, but agree with them (given their best experience in FinTech) that it might meaningfully end our collective beliefs that Silicon Valley can steer everyone towards brighter shores.

I just need a search engine the will also give calculator and unit conversation results. Everything else sounds be search results.

At this point, it’s been too many years that I will just query “76 f in c” or “2500*12/3” from my url bar, so this I appreciate the most modest “intelligence” from my web browser.

Literally everything else makes my experience worse, though.

So I’m taking recommendations for more search engines to try out. I don’t know why I start page bothers me so much, but it feels like the results my ISP would give me through DNS capture a decade and two ago.

Things are getting Hua-wei out of hand!

It normalizes the anti-equity principles of the granting party, which now occupies the US govt.

The benefactor had already shown exactly how they treat people that aren’t white Christian men, and it’s up to schools, businesses and organizations like the Foundation to show resistance and inclusivity.

Where can I read about the requirements? Did whole, I’m prepared to pay dues to belong in a guild or union, depending on cost, and also I’m currently unemployed. Am I welcome, even? Lol.