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faust201

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    Comment #49018228

    Agree to your point. But the hawker in street in India wants to get paid or he or she cannot eat next day. And if majority say they will use UPI/online payments - they accept. Do y…

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    Comment #48879088

    KYC and centralisation means govt will promise your money is there. These are essential for dev country or 3rd world. Even with so much kyc often there are fraud. This has minimise…

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    Comment #48783518

    Are you sure? It is sometimes close to 30°C in summer in Fue. BTW, did you forget sealevel rises, dust from Sahara, what is you have many days of > 40km/h winds. all those are clim…

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    Comment #48783489

    Isnt the aim to remove dependency on Google/Apple? EU should have forced Google and Apple to allow people to use NFC pay without having Google or Apple accounts. If you talk about …

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    Comment #48751140

    Many useful features like verified by visa or Google Pay or Apple pay is not available. If you are that anal then using railway does not need app. You can use a mobile browser or d…

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    Comment #48736516

    Ideally they should have also told all German banks distribute or offer non-App based accounts or 2FA? But they did not. Also people are dependent on Play or App store. DB does not…

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    Comment #48125635

    this does not mean anything logical. Billions use android. Some will be affected due to any company or ID etc. Pretty sure you can visit your local apple store and see many people …

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    Comment #48119526

    Reddit r/k12sysadmin disagrees. Sure, as always there will some that will switch to Apple. Why not. Some even have MS.

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    Comment #48119518

    So whats next. Apple will force corners... Glass. Microsoft will push copilot. Firefox will push AI. Are you waiting for w3m or curl?

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    Comment #48065408

    So many in hn already downvoted you. That says the SV nature and opinions in tech sector.

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    Comment #47578558

    Did you use netscape?

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    Comment #47578547

    It was awful especially if you use open source OS like Linux. It slowed the computer, fans full speed. Wtf are you smoking?

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    Comment #47578530

    It is saddening that you are ignorant in knowing that technology companies follow Apple's devices more carefully that other OS.

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    Comment #47546959

    The point about Apple is that everyone from zoom, slack etc will be forced to optimize for that 8GB. (Same like getting rid of awful flash player). Many a people need only a basic …

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    Comment #47247954

    Nail in the coffin for ChromeOS (or aluminiumOS) if they 8GB RAM variants are sold > $500.

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    Comment #47209927

    > have to show them your phone number, Not always working. You can see often in google community support people lost their phone. Get a new sim card and phone. Google sends the 2FA…

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    Comment #47192375

    Was this the answer from your other colleague?

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    Comment #47192130

    Not download. I have a good connection. - Installation is slow. REally slow. They blame it on btrfs. But the same for XFS. It took at least 30 min. Why? - rpm-ostree - same. https:…

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    Comment #47191807

    Ask your colleague if his family is still there... May be not. or ask another colleague whose family is still there. Would be different answer.

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    Comment #47120066

    I tried a lot to get this in reality - using fedora silverblue. But that thing sucks. It is slow. Really dogslow. Devs are blaming rpm-ostree or btrfs - no idea. I wish there was s…

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    Comment #47021973

    If you have a $100 phone then UI is lighter as compared to running firefox etc.

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    Comment #47021966

    A few years is different case. Invidious is also getting blocked easily. Are you running it now? If yes, then report.

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    Comment #46970981

    Ironically iPhone helps them earn more. Most apple device owners have no choice or awareness.

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    Comment #46942295

    > 2FA is a mitigation against people getting pwned by reusing passwords or using Stolen/lost password hashes or some AI based programmer that dumped passwords in plaintext somewher…