anlumo

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[–] anlumo 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I didn’t know that “emit” is a verb that can be used for such an action.

[–] anlumo 1 points 10 months ago

This is not the issue here. The problem is that everybody has to pay through their nose to get the priviledge to publish on an alternate marketplace or be an alternate marketplace.

[–] anlumo 1 points 10 months ago

The problem is that fixing the loopholes most likely needs changes to the Act itself. That takes years, the first revision of the Digital Markets Act took three years.

[–] anlumo 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The problem is that fixing the loopholes most likely needs changes to the Act itself.

[–] anlumo 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Loophole-proofing means doing a revision to the DMA, which means that they need to go through all of the stages again. It took three years on the first round, and they're probably going to need a few more revisions to get all of the holes fixed.

[–] anlumo 1 points 10 months ago

First Windows 10, then Linux.

[–] anlumo 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Some think that the EU won't accept the terms that Apple set up for alternate marketplaces, but it'll probably take a decade or more until the EU can get off its ass.

[–] anlumo 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yes and no. My previous Mac was a MacBook back when they still had RAM slots. I switched away from macOS because it became such an embarrassment of an OS.

[–] anlumo 3 points 10 months ago

Hard to say, it might depend on the plane model. I've heard that Boeing 777s autopilots are really snarky.

[–] anlumo 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Well, it's not like I can upgrade it.

The problem is that I had to get the cheapest one to be able to add it to the tax writeoff in a single year, otherwise it's split among three years (the tax code in my country is weird like that). If I could aftermarket-upgrade the RAM, I could just have bought the basic model and then upgraded, but that's not what Apple wants me to do.

Also, how should I know that I needed more RAM? It's not like they're writing that on the box (quite the opposite actually, Apple says that 8GB is enough for everyone).

[–] anlumo 90 points 10 months ago (17 children)

If the requirements are the same as for iPhones, this change is entirely inconsequential, because Apple can just add so many hurdles to sideloading to make this infeasible.

[–] anlumo 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, you don’t have to have a large amount of reserves, because it’s paid as part of the salary regardless. If you’re fired, you don’t have to pay it any more, even though you can still benefit from it.

It’s not dead cash sitting in an account on the bank, it’s in constant flow.

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