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mannycalavera , 10 months ago to casualuk in What's the point of the Cadbury's Flake when the Cadbury's Twirl exist?

The marketing team didn’t understand basic inflation.

mannycalavera , 11 months ago to casualuk in TIL postboxes extend an extra foot or two into the ground

Is this to stop theft?

mannycalavera , 11 months ago to moviesandtv in How Frasier Is So Rich As A Radio Therapist Finally Explained By Original Show Writer

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mannycalavera , 11 months ago to android in Pixel 8 Pro leak reveals 'Super Actua display' for 'direct sunlight viewing'

So basically a waste of money if you live in Ireland?

mannycalavera , 11 months ago to britishfilms in Wicked Little Letters review – foul-mouthed farce wastes Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley

When did the guardian become so prim and proper? Ooo a bit of swearing, heavens!

mannycalavera , 11 months ago to android in EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power - The Guardian

First of all, phones aren’t sold with AOSP.

They’re not. But my point is that EU manufacturers / start-ups could easily make their own flavour of Android based on AOSP and launch that as a product. Why don’t they? Case in point Huawei.

mannycalavera , 11 months ago to android in EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power - The Guardian

Stock Android = AOSP

Google Android = AOSP + Play Services

I totally accept that Google Android is the defacto Android. But to claim that people can’t build competing services based on AOSP is just wrong. Just take Huawei as an example. That’s all the EU needs to push. EU Android with EU specific services. They could build it now.

mannycalavera , 11 months ago to android in EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power - The Guardian

OK

mannycalavera , 11 months ago to android in EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power - The Guardian

What’s the principle here? That manufactures aren’t allowed to tailor the user experience of their products? That doesn’t sound like good legislation. The equivalent would be if I wanted to bring my steering wheel from Toyota to my Audi because it promotes competition.

The regulations will encourage competition by allowing alternative payment systems, benefiting startups and consumers.

Car manufacturers must be compelled by the EU to provide pluggable and safe steering columns in cars to benefitting startups and consumers.

Obviously such a thing wouldn’t happen because it wouldn’t benefit EU car manufacturers. But let’s not talk about that, eh?

Let consumers vote with their feet. Let them choose alternatives that work for them. If there aren’t decent alternatives, build them. Why go heavy handed on legislation thinly veiled to extort money out of companies? Seriously why not build a competing payment system for the EU? The APIs are available and there’s tonnes of talented engineers in the EU. Start there. Build something better.

mannycalavera , 11 months ago to android in EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power - The Guardian

Ok that’s strange I can uninstall and disable Google Maps just fine in my phone right now and install an alternative Map provider of I wanted. Didn’t need legislation to do it.

mannycalavera , 11 months ago to android in EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power - The Guardian

Stock Android is AOSP. And it’s free.

I’m not sure why EU start-ups don’t just build services on top and compete like Huawei does in China or to a certain extent Amazon does with its Android variant.

mannycalavera , 11 months ago to android in EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power - The Guardian

I don’t really understand how this is a material change from what AOSP gives you right now? Can anyone explain?

For example: AOSP has been available to EU start-ups for over a decade for free and open source but none have built alternative payment systems or email or maps or advertising services on top of it in a cohesive way before. What is this law going to allow them to do that they couldn’t before? 🤔

mannycalavera , 11 months ago to asklemmy in If we discover the means to travel faster than light, but researching and developing the technology means that the Earth is destroyed in just a few decades, should the technology still be pursued?

Where are we going to get the infinite energy required to move faster than light? ONSHORE WIND FARMS?!?!

mannycalavera , 1 year ago to asklemmy in Can you drive a manual transmission?

Yes and here in the UK if you fail your test enough times with a manual transmission you get to try with an automatic.

mannycalavera , 1 year ago to worldnews in New WHO chief scientist backs China fact-finding mission to examine COVID origin

They don’t have any factual basis. They’re an incredibly bitter small minded racist. They’ve been posting the same shit on almost every thread they’re in. It’s really sad to to see. As much as we teach our children about tolerance and acceptance you still get people like this with their warped views. They’re too far down the rabbit hole of racism to notice so will just lash out at anyone by calling them a bot. It’s pathetic.