This, but unironically.

Call Microsoft about a bug and tell me how well their support works for you.

Pretty well, actually.

“HAHAHA…no”

– Capitalists

My bank requires a second factor for everything done over the web instance. That second factor is either an app or a hardware token generator you have to buy seperately.

Transaction number. It’s a second factor for authentication of basically everything you want to do while banking online.
Most people use a phone app for it (which doesn’t reliably work on degoogled and rooted phones), but you also have the choice of buying a dedicated TAN generator device, so people without smartphones can use online banking.

Things I need from the Play Store are:

• Banking App
• Banking TAN App
  I downloaded them using the Aurora store and although they complain about missing play services on every startup, they work without them.

Things I don’t need, but use (installed in the same way and run without play services):

• App from my country’s train service
• App from my carsharing service
• Netflix
• Spotify
  I could run those in a browser, but I don’t see what the big difference would be. They run without play services.

So luckily, in Germany, you can live without Google. Nothing actually requires it.

“We value providing our customers with choice, so there is an option to dismiss the notification.”

Thank you daddy Microsoft for still letting me click “no” on your invasive popup ad with a dark pattern to make me change my system settings.

If you read more than the headline, you’d know that you can simply purchase those options instead of subscribing, if you want.
Which makes the entire article pointless. But you’d need to read more than the headline to see that, which is too much to ask.

That’s not what that word…you know what, fuck it. I give up. Enshittification now just means “becoming worse” and I won’t be able to stop that.

“Or you can just purchase any of those features permanently”

This fact, hidden somewhere in the middle, makes the entire article pointless.

Pretty sure 4 of those are Linux distros.

It already is, but it isn’t mandatory, yet.

as always – it depends on the jurisdiction.
But in most cases, they will use a new hyphenated last name that consists of both partners’ first last name, with the man’s first last name first.

Every once in a while I check up on what reddit looks like now.
I find the same or similar topics posted, with 600 comments instead of 30, and 570 of those 600 are just whatever’s the first thing that pops into everyone’s mind after reading the post title.
I like it better here.

The perpetually online type is on Mastodon.
Here on Lemmy are the people who disconnected from social media, block or boycott 95% of today’s internet and self-host matrix servers to discuss about self-hosting matrix servers.

Canada geese are whatever the fuck they want.

Environmentalists don’t like it when you bury too many sharks.

You don’t know what your ISP-provided router does exactly. It may let some traffic through from the outside. It may get an over-the-air firmware update or config change at any time from your ISP. It definitely has well-known, unfixed vulnerabilities.

Also, if you rely on NAT, you have to have 100% trust in all devices that are inside your network.

Thank you for your valuable contribution.

Why does the article specifically mention that she’s black?