It’s a nice quality of life feature, you enter a fresh vehicle instead of scorching hot After being parked for hours in the summer sun. But I would never pay a €150/yr subscription for that, fuck them

Why they do this:

After the first three years, Volkswagen is charging ev customers €150/year to see the charge level on the app, remotely start the air conditioning, schedule charge and so on.

Any tinkerer is thinking “well, if I am paying this extortion just to see the charge level on the app, then I want to exfiltrate my data in home assistant or similar, getting better stats and so on”

So they blocked the API with Google play integrity signatures

Now, instead of spending money on engineering ways to block uncertified devices, they could have simply introduced an official API with rate limits and stuff.

The fact that they noticed all those “unauthorized accesses” it’s prove that people just want to pay for a lightweight API access, not a 250mb app that takes 4 minutes to remotely start the air conditioning

After all, we’re talking for €150/year for accessing the data of a €1 iot sim card using 0.0001€ of compute time. There should be enough margin for that.

For testing I installed a perpetual version of publisher 2019 in a VM (only publisher, edited the XML setup file) and activated with massgrave. It has a banner on top that says that on October it will automatically uninstall and there will be no way to open the proprietary files anymore

I hope it’s just that they didn’t test the message and that it was meant only for office 365 and not all the perpetual versions

Somebody is still purchasing burned CD compilations, even in 2018??

Unless he had some of the rarest lost media ever, I can’t see him making more than £100 per year

No, the 99% is the android compatibility.

Because sailfishos is not a Google certified platform, every app that uses root detection or play integrity check, won’t run.

And which apps use those checks? Not the freemium games. Those are designed to maximize ad viewing, so they want to block uncertified devices

Also: an average freemium game can adapt the UI on a 480*640 screen (big buttons), while almost no developer tests normal UI in such a low resolution. And nobody tests movement of input focus with keypad. Chances of a broken UI that can’t be interacted with the t9 keypad are very high.

This is why they showed WhatsApp, Spotify (two commercial apps that are tested and working on the lowest end devices with tiny screens like the qin phones) and AntennaPod (which being open source they can send a PR to fix UI issues) and dismissed the rest as “we block all the useless stuff”

So what I mean is, the phone can run 99% of android apps on the play store using aurora, but, because the play store has million of useless/slip/shovelware games, if you really need to run a specific app for work or for banking, chances is the app is in the 1% incompatible range and not the 99%

imo not at all, like for the recent github copilot enshittification

users will groan and complain for a month then move to a different VS code fork, one year later nobody would even be able to remember the shape of the icon

Maybe someone that really wanted them filled the board with yes men

Would you daily wear them if they were giving this for free at an event?

People is paying this kind of money to do an operation to remove glasses, then they introduce the “master of glasses”, that weigh like 20 glasses

They gonna ask meta ai

About that, I think I read that they have an unofficial policy like “thanks to ai coding agents, if a coding team needs more than a single pizza to be fed, it means it’s too big and someone needs to be fired”

(Now, how to delete this meta ai stuff chat in my WhatsApp? It seems I can only delete on my side but they keep the rest for training)

No

It’s a Lemmy post for a digg post for a retweet of a polymarket tweet on xitter

In the aftermath of the outbreak, the Air Force issued an exception to the voluntary vaccine policy, requiring that all recruits at Lackland get flu shots

It’s useless once the virus has spread, vaccine is prevention, not cure

He described the flu vaccine requirement as an “absurd, overreaching” mandate that had served to “weaken our warfighting capabilities.”

Proceeds to weaken their warfighting capabilities

In 2009 the LG cookie dumbphone had an internal antenna for FM radio

99% of android apps

I’m certain that the number is inflated by the massive amount of slop and shovelware that is in the play store. The missing 1% is the apps that you actually need, like banking and such

Web browsers are blocked at the system level

Did they ever try to use a browser on a 2" clamshell at 480*640 with a T9 keypad??? It’s so painful that it’s already for emergency use only, don’t need to protect me from myself…

president’s nationwide campaign against “fraud” in government spending.

Projection much, huh?

They don’t care at all about the vs code fork (probably his colossus data center with 89% vacancy can vibe code a clone in a few hours)

They care about the subscribed users and how they can enshittify their experience by removing access to Claude opus and introducing grok the Nazi vibe coder

And After the IPO they burned 60 billion on a vs code fork that is also hemorrhaging money, but the stock price went up 6%

assuming API pricing

API pricing is not what it costs openai to offer the inference.

API pricing is what they’re currently selling their inference, with profit included in price.

“But if the user didn’t get a subscription, he would have spent $14k in token” is a wrong assumption.

The user is wasting the tokens on useless tasks because they’re free to him, but once he has to pay them, he wouldn’t ask to generate 100 images of a toilet eating carrots anymore

It turns out that in modern versions (for Mac) they inserted a timebomb that disables the license check.

“Sorry the software now is EOL we can’t send an update to disable the timebomb that we set five years ago”

Users of office 2021 are luckier (for now) because it goes EOL in October, so they can receive the June patch that moves the July timebomb forward another five years

They mean that when it was originally posted on the db0 Lemmy piracy community, there was a disclaimer to say it was sarcasm