Sure. I could also just not have a phone, or ever leave the house. But being able to pay for things with ones phone is convenient, and I miss the convenience daily. I wish there were privacy respecting alternatives, but there are not.

Google wallet not working means no tap to pay, which I consider a big loss. And none of my credit card apps (chase and capitalone) work outside of Google android, so that sucks.

I had to return the phone TWICE for exactly this problem. I bought a specifically unlocked phone, and got a locked one twice, directly from Google. They just do not care.

I just installed Pop!_OS this week and have this problem constantly. The point I had to write a service to watch for all my audio devices to vanish and restart the others.

Sad day when supporting Russia with regards to freedom looks like the ‘good guy’ position.

That doesn’t matter, legally. They are hosting that data, they are the server it’s being served from, so they are legally responsible for that material. Being federated does not protect you from legal responsibility for things that your server serves up. Just because Lemmy can’t obey the law doesn’t mean it doesn’t have to (or result in potentially severe punishments). And it very much can. It can defederate from that instance.

Why do think google search has to respect takedown notices? They aren’t hosting it, but because their server returns it in search results, it’s liable.

Edit: they almost certainly ALSO sent one to lea.pet. We want to believe lawyers are greedy and evil and stupid. They are only two of those things.

That’s definitely a good idea. I wonder where there is left to host servers that aren’t controlled technofacists. The world is rapidly, and sadly, running out. I feel like a count y could make a killing just by being a country of “we don’t care what the hell you host”

I hate AI and Microsoft as much as the next guy, but to me, this looks like a grey area. The name and logo (all most people will see of this account) aren’t really clearly parody… there is a faint smile in one of the squares, but at 16 pixels tall, you’d never see it.

“It came from somewhere else so I don’t have to respect a takedown notice” is not a valid defense.

This is certainly an interesting hill for the fediverse to choose to die on.

This could be an intentional first attack by big tech to get a knife into the fediverse. Showing a judge blantant disregard for takedowns isn’t a great look, and they have a LOT of lawyers.

I sounds more like it makes electricity out of fresh water, destroying it in the process (turning it into saltwater through osmosis/dilution). Sure… if there is some crazy salty water you have, and want to turn it into “still salty, but maybe less so”, you can indeed gather a tiny little fraction of the power.

But given that fresh water is also a precious resource in many places, this seems relatively niche.

Yeah, this seems like a sure fire way to get GPL completely invalidated in the US. The court system is reaaaaly friendly to corpo interests right now.

Saying it uses less power that a toaster is not much. Yes, it uses less power than a thing that literally turns electricity into pure heat… but that’s sort of a requirement for toast. That’s still a LOT of electricity. And it’s not required. People don’t need to burn down a rainforest to summarize a meeting. Just use your earballs.

Presumably they do what Visa/Mastercard should have done, and tell them to shove it. It’s just a bunch of uppity idiots from Australia, no one HAS to listen to them…