For anyone claiming that this isn’t enough, remember that Norway’s population is 5.4 million. If the fine were raised any higher, Facebook can simply not do business there. The goal is to get Facebook to comply with the law, not to remove them.
"This decision “does not ban Facebook or Instagram in Norway,” Tobias Judin, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority’s international department head, stated in a release. “The purpose is rather to ensure that people in Norway can use these services in a secure way and that their rights are safeguarded.” - > AP News
At face value many people would say that Facebook pulling out is a good thing, but it’s not that simple. Lots of small businesses rely on social media. People would be losing a forum for political discourse, no matter how fake news infested it may be. People who rely on it to initiate social interaction will have to find a different channel now. They are so conditioned to the convenience of staying connected with friends and family through social media that it has eroded forms of communication. This isn’t a judgment on social media users, this is just stating how social interactions have changed and how detrimental removing these tools can be.
Facebook has around 3 billion users. It’s economic impact is estimated at 227 billion USD. It’s part of the fabric of society, especially for people with poor media literacy. Good luck pulling the plug on that.
Starting to wonder if the ageing decision makers are gonna cause more problems like this. But even the young members of the US military have made similar slip-ups. I don’t know what the root cause of the problem is.
It’s all ages and ranks. There’s no accountability anymore unless you’re enlisted E-7 or below, you get fucked. If you’re an officer, you get promoted for doing stuff like this.
this is not just about people in us military, some of these mails may be coming from outside and you can’t really control what you are being mailed in.
Yea I tried signing up to Netflix again since they had added the new plans and ads. Didn’t last more than the first/initial month/payment. What hot garbage that experience was. The 90s experience of having a cable person come over and install something would have been more user friendly. They lost a lot of good will from me as a customer that day, I’m not sure I’ll ever go back.
Chiefly, a bunch of compatibility issues arose because their ad tracking had a bunch of requirements for some reason. We went from being able to watch anything on our TV to only being able to watch Netflix in a laptop screen.
Part of that is that we keep older hardware going. But that hasn’t been a problem for any other streaming service up until now.
Not to mention that I was paying for … ads. Nah! I’m old enough to have gone through the same thing with cable TV. No ads at first, and then they crept in, and at some point you were sitting there wondering what you were paying for again.
There are no “ads” on netflix though? Are you calling “here are shows that you can watch on the streaming service that you’re paying for” ads?
I still don’t understand your sign up issue. Were you trying to sign up on a TV? There are no “ad tracking requirements” for any of their apps that run on a tv.
There are. That’s part of the whole point of their current payment plan system and its new business model.
I still don’t understand your sign up issue.
It wasn’t a signup issue, it was a usability issue. For whatever reason, their new ad-based system introduced a bunch of tech requirements that meant stream options were all of a sudden limited, in a way, very conspicuously, no other streaming platform I’ve used is. In my situation, every other streaming platform could be played on my tv in some way. For Netflix though, that was either impossible or prohibitively difficult. This was on the ad plan. I’m not even sure if the ad-free plan would have been better, because all the limitations seemed to stem from the tech stack they were using.
Why would you be even? They got rid of it because for whatever reason people complained about offering a more economical option. Use whatever streaming services you want though. At this point it's just about content. I don't get the random Netflix hate from Reddit in particular.
Wait, you guys stopped? I used to have Netflix, Hulu/Disney+, Max, Prime, Paramount+/Showtime, and Peacock. I should have had access to pretty much any movie I wanted with all those subscriptions. Yet, at least once per month I decided I wanted to watch something either I had or hadn’t seen before and it’d be on some random service I don’t have. I refused to pay for more services so I’d just pirate it.
A week ago I cancelled them all and subscribed to a VPN. Piracy is cheaper, more convenient, and it pisses off the corpos. That’s a win/win in my book.
Eh, I’ll very thoroughly look up customer reviews outside amazon before buying anything from Asus. I have a GL702 laptop that heats up like a fucking stove, has the flimsiest cooling system and, to top it off, causes intense screen tearing when running hot. I keep expecting the screen to die from excessive heat exposure any time I’m playing.
I recently bought an Asus router that just stops working for no good reason. Looked up the issue and apparently they’ve known about it for a while but have not fixed it.
The default software is kind of shitty and buggy. I flashed my Asus with Tomato. See if your router is supported by FreshTomato for example, it can really make a huge difference in stability and features.
I have the same model. It crashes all the time due to some kind of cpu bug. Also sleep mode stopped working after linux kernel 5.10. Asus, never again.
Oh yeah, reminds me that you can’t spin the fans to the max (~10kRPM) under linux. I had to download a package off github, asus-fan-control, to make it stop frying itself
I use NBFC for that and never had any problem with the fans. They’re probably the best working part of that system - at least you can always reliably hear them! This thing is loud af.
It’s possible. I have an older S46C ultrabook from 2012 and the fella still runs good. The downside is that the GPU sits on the left of the mouse touchpad, so your left wrist will feel the heat if you play certain games
I was a Netflix DVD subscriber before they released a Wii streaming disc then started streaming Netflix back when it was glorious with all your favorite shows. Eventually I downgraded to the cheap $8 plan for a single user at 1080p resolution which was fine - my old television is still 1080p native resolution.
Then they quietly raised the price.... and dropped the resolution to 720p without telling me. Finally I had enough - after more than a decade I finally cancelled my Netflix account last year and haven't looked back.
I don't miss their "netflix originals" which only last for one or two seasons before getting canned because netflix needs more viewership to justify the investments.
Truth be told, I don't watch must television (or even youtube) in general - I have better things to do with my time than vegetating on a couch watching a tv screen.
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