My thoughts exactly. That was such a viral ad campaign.

Along with seizing all your funds until they’ve “investigated.” Its not like this is on the banks, the government forces them to do this in the name of “stopping terrorism.”

Ive heard plenty of examples of elderly people getting conned into buying ITunes gift cards to pay their “delinquent taxes” but I find the thought of trying to explain the process of activating developer mode, navigating to some shady website, downloading an apk, finding the download folder, and then installing some bootleg app to a confused elderly person, over the phone on the very device they want you to do this on to be quite comical. I can’t see many of these people completing even step one of that process.

I’m sure there are malicious apps to sideload out there, but those are also all over the PlayStore too, so I don’t see what this change really fixes.

I got it last week and it has been taking up all my free time since then. I’ve also never been into casual games like this (Animal Crossing didnt do it for me) nor minecraft, but I’m enjoying the combination of both.

What active scams? These scams should be pretty ubiquitous at this point if they’re doing all this to “stop” them, but I’ve never even heard of anyone having security issues from sideloaded apps.

In the sales world, this effect is called “price anchoring” and is used by tons of companies. All those sales you see where something is “marked down 50%!” are using a manufacturers price that does exist in real life to get that 50% markdown. In reality, the sale price is just the actual price of the item but people see the “huge discount” and think they’re getting a deal.

That’s not up to the streaming service but the record company.

That doesn’t really matter for the end user as they’re in a relationship with the streamer not the record companies. I hate this drive to obfuscate responsibility in corporate America.

I think you can integrate lidarr into SoulSeek too.

Didn’t the creator also dox a customer for criticizing them?

Frequently the attitude towards equipment is that it can be sold once they’re done with it. Particularly specialized equipment might sit a little longer but that’s built in to the calculation.

As someone tangentially related to all this, I’m not so sure how accurate this is. The equipment we have isn’t ever sold until its completely deprecated and the space is needed for new tooling as a lot of this equipment takes years of planning, installation, and qualification before its ever allowed into production (along with strict service term contracts). The market is also relatively small and this would effect everyone equally, so I’m not sure how solid a plan like this would be. I imagine it would be similar to the housing market after the '08 crash where everyone is trying to unload dead weight at the same time which further devalues everything at a time when capital is desperately needed and sales have plunged off a cliff.