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[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Yeah this isn't as good as it sounds, the other 5 continents are still stuck with all of this garbage.

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[–] 1371113@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

They’ll just enable/disable features based on geolocation. I doubt it’ll be a whole different version like in the good old days.

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[–] 1371113@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

Yup, but then you’ll still have the same frustration we have now, running the script every time there’s a feature update and the bloat gets reinstalled. If it wasn’t for games and work I’d be using nothing but macOS and Linux.

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[+] adam_b@infosec.pub -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

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[–] 1371113@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

I used to be super anti-apple but now buy MacBooks for the longevity. Less ewaste. Over time actually more cost effective. My daily driver is a nearly 9 year old MacBook that I replaced the battery on 2 years ago. Still getting official updates too. My father laid out twice the price of it for a high end XPS machine in 2019 and it died inside 5 years. Apple actually fix manufacturing issues without a huge amount of fuckery like HP/dell. I can’t speak to iPads and iPhones but Macs just last longer so end up being cheaper in the long run.

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[–] VinnieFarsheds@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Skill issue, what's stopping other countries from creating better laws?

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[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

The problem is that showing enough politicians money effectively makes you become the government. There's minimal chance of a law being introduced unless a rich person or corporation backs it, and EU laws would interfere with their shady business practices.

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[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Lobbying, at least here in the US.

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[–] DigitalBits@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not big enough to force companies to make large changes. The US is, China and India are. But what about Australia or New Zealand? Or any of the individual south american countries? Too many changes, microsoft or one of the other big players will just pull out of the market, or threaten to pull out.

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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago

If they already have a version compatible with EU law, they will just roll it out instead of removing an entire country from their market.

Would be a bad business move otherwise.

Of course, only if the laws don't force even more restrictions.

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[–] psud@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

will just pull out of the market, or threaten to pull out.

That would be wonderful. They would no longer be able to enforce their patents in countries they don't trade in; GNU/Linux users worldwide will have (patent infringing) access to the Australian/NZ version of whatever

It would suck for the games I play that need windows, but it would also give more incentive to those to port them to Linux

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[–] Wahots@pawb.social 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Valve only started doing 2-hour refunds after Australia twisted their arm about it. They brought it to the world, and it became an incredible selling point. Perhaps this will be the same thing.

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[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago*

Valve is a lot more consumer friendly to begin with, though. Don't get me wrong, they did heaps of bad things too, but compared to Microsoft?

I'm not gonna hold my breath on this one

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[+] adam_b@infosec.pub 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 2 years ago (10 children)

I got Dev Home on my home rig. Swifly executed the powershell command to uninstall thr sYsTeMs aPp.
Fuck off MS.

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[+] adam_b@infosec.pub -7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

We don't need another web based app...Just give us the .deb, .exe, .msi or whatever...

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[+] adam_b@infosec.pub -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

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[–] Nommer@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

No thanks. I don't need more apps bloating up my browser and slowing it down even more. Plus what if they don't support my choice of browser? Now we're back to square one. Just port the programs over to run on the OS. Much less headache that way

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[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

That's more finger printing to get tracked by, no thanks. I like to keep my browser apps slim and generic as possible to blend in with other privacy concerned people.

At th same time, I 100% understand why you would find it appealing, and recognize it may very well be a good thing overall.

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[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Lots of things already have Linux alternatives; I've heard people mostly stay on Linux for the anticheat-enabled games that are usually only one developer setting away from Linux compatibility.

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 2 years ago

Wrappers can be used to do it locally.
Some Android apps are basically nothing more than a web agent.
Give me the basics of the web end with a pretty html5 rendered front end locally and done. No need for web apps for which you are required to be online at all times.