But who advertises an additional restriction on a service?
Responsible service providers give 30 days' notice to allow users to migrate their processes away from depending on a service feature that will stop working.
How does "compatible with GNU/Linux, provided the shared folder is on a partition that uses ext4 and not ecryptfs" imply "not compatible with GNU/Linux" in practice?
Between Google, Microsoft, and Apple, it's easy to find alternatives that offer free tiers with more storage
Among these three, how many offer a GNU/Linux client? Or are GNU/Linux users instead expected to either A. lease a VPS on which to run NextCloud or B. pay the ISP to upgrade to a plan that allows forwarding ports and leave a PC at home turned on all the time?
The Dropbox website offers downloadable client applications for Windows, macOS, and GNU/Linux. Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive both omit GNU/Linux.
Google Drive's desktop client requires Windows or macOS. Google does not offer a client for GNU/Linux. Users of GNU/Linux will need to use a different solution.
Syncthing apparently has a public relay pool in case both devices are behind carrier-grade NAT.[1] But how well does Syncthing work if both devices aren't turned on at the same time? And what's the recommended way to copy Syncthing's 56-character friend codes across machines? Some IM network?
[1] "Carrier-grade NAT" is a network address translation layer that an ISP applies across an entire neighborhood to conserve IPv4 addresses. ISPs generally refuse requests to forward ports to a customer behind carrier-grade NAT.
Dropbox integrates with GNU/Linux bettter than Google Drive and OneDrive do. Consider what happens when I visit each of three major cloud storage services' sync client download page using Firefox on Linux:
Dropbox
Success. The site offers a.deb file to install.
Google Drive
Failure. "There is no Drive app for Linux at this time. Please use Drive on the web and on your mobile devices."
Microsoft OneDrive
Failure. Firefox begins to download a Windows executable, and the program's page on AppDB rates it "Garbage".
"Recommended content" is an ad for something for which you have already paid. Many people are more likely to excuse an ad for something for which you have already paid than an ad for something available for an additional fee.
Why give the television access to your network at all?
In order to activate the TV's operating system so that even the non-smart features of the TV will work. Otherwise, the TV gets stuck at the EULA screen and won't even show ATSC in, composite in, S-Video in, component in, VGA in, or HDMI in.
Or an even better use case- you have emulators on PC (which are banned on the XBox Store)
Then how is Haunted: Halloween '86 for Xbox on Microsoft Store? It's almost certainly an NES emulator, seeing as the exact same game is also for sale on cartridge. I'm under the impression that it slides by rule 10.13.10 on grounds that it's self-contained and won't run ROMs other than the packaged one.
But your "even better use case" is valid: You're playing a game for another platform, be it Windows or something a Windows PC can emulate, whose publisher hasn't rereleased it on Xbox.
KB+M is vastly better for virtually every genre of game except maybe platformers.
Perhaps 4-player fighting games like Duck Game and Rivals of Aether and Super Smash Bros. are close enough to "platformers", as are 4-player party minigame collections like Mario Party. But is KB+M also better for 2-player fighting games like Street Fighter II and Tekken?
The difference between a PC Monitor and a TV isn't that different anymore.
The difference is that they are in different rooms. The PC monitor is on the computer desk, while the TV is in the living room. In addition, last I checked, tower-style cases still dominated mass market desktop PCs, and they still were eyesores in the living room environment. Many gamers don't want to have to spend hundreds on a second PC just for one game nor haul one PC back and forth between the computer desk and the living room. (Others' views)
- $480 per year for a seller to be on its platform - 15 percent of each order's total, including shipping but excluding sales tax, or $1.00 per order, whichever is higher - 3 percent of sales tax
Apple charges each seller only $99 per year, and it has no $1 minimum fee per order. I imagine the $1 minimum fee has something to do with credit card and ACH debit processors taking a 30 cent fee per transaction.
Paid apps and in-app purchases on Amazon Appstore have a similar fee structure to Apple (source), though without the $99 per year fee:
- 20 percent for movie and TV subscription IAPs within Android apps - 30 percent for paid apps and all other IAPs, including paid Alexa skills
For the common man, phones and tablets are going to take over.
Once programming enters the high school curriculum of "the common man", how will this be practical on "phones and tablets"? Will students who own only a phone have to buy a tablet and a keyboard?
I live in Norway. I haven't touched cash in about 4 years
When you shop at a yard sale (an occasional personal sale of used goods outside one's home), what form of electronic payment does the cashier accept for payments of 5 to 30 krone? (For those at home, that's about 0.50 to 3 USD.) Or does Norway not have yard sales?
MY 2 year old daughter will never see cash. [...] when the time comes for her to spend money she'll have a mobile phone.
Between "when the time comes for her to spend money" and when she graduates, from what income will she pay for service on this phone? Do flip phones in Norway support electronic payment? Or does "the time" not "come[] for her to spend money" until she graduates?
The pocket computer than approximately everyone carries
Just because someone carries a pocket computer doesn't mean he also subscribes to Internet access for use on that pocket computer while away from home. Currently I subscribe to cable data and do not subscribe to cellular data because switching from cable data to cellular data would cause my home use to routinely exceed the 10 GB per month mobile hotspot data cap that all major cellular ISPs impose.
If all banks in a particular city "have decided not to do business with a specific customer" living in that city, and regulations enacted by the government make it nontrivial to start a bank that does do business with that person, then for all practical purposes, "the government has decided that a person is not allowed to have a bank account."
U.S. banks and credit unions are part of EFTPOS networks called Interlink and Maestro. "Visa Debit" cards are on Interlink, and "Debit MasterCard" cards are on Maestro.
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But who advertises an additional restriction on a service?
Responsible service providers give 30 days' notice to allow users to migrate their processes away from depending on a service feature that will stop working.
Dropbox works with disk-level encryption, just not file-level encryption.
Is rclone the best third-party Google Drive solution that isn't paywalled?
How does "compatible with GNU/Linux, provided the shared folder is on a partition that uses ext4 and not ecryptfs" imply "not compatible with GNU/Linux" in practice?
Between Google, Microsoft, and Apple, it's easy to find alternatives that offer free tiers with more storage
Among these three, how many offer a GNU/Linux client? Or are GNU/Linux users instead expected to either A. lease a VPS on which to run NextCloud or B. pay the ISP to upgrade to a plan that allows forwarding ports and leave a PC at home turned on all the time?
It's much better to use whatever comes with your distro.
Which Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive clients in the Debian or Ubuntu repository are any good?
The Dropbox website offers downloadable client applications for Windows, macOS, and GNU/Linux. Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive both omit GNU/Linux.
Google Drive's desktop client requires Windows or macOS. Google does not offer a client for GNU/Linux. Users of GNU/Linux will need to use a different solution.
Syncthing apparently has a public relay pool in case both devices are behind carrier-grade NAT.[1] But how well does Syncthing work if both devices aren't turned on at the same time? And what's the recommended way to copy Syncthing's 56-character friend codes across machines? Some IM network?
[1] "Carrier-grade NAT" is a network address translation layer that an ISP applies across an entire neighborhood to conserve IPv4 addresses. ISPs generally refuse requests to forward ports to a customer behind carrier-grade NAT.
Dropbox doesn't integrate well with anything
Dropbox integrates with GNU/Linux bettter than Google Drive and OneDrive do. Consider what happens when I visit each of three major cloud storage services' sync client download page using Firefox on Linux:
Dropbox Success. The site offers a"Recommended content" is an ad for something for which you have already paid. Many people are more likely to excuse an ad for something for which you have already paid than an ad for something available for an additional fee.
Why give the television access to your network at all?
In order to activate the TV's operating system so that even the non-smart features of the TV will work. Otherwise, the TV gets stuck at the EULA screen and won't even show ATSC in, composite in, S-Video in, component in, VGA in, or HDMI in.
Nobody has cable any more.
Then how do home users receive their Internet? And how do they get the bundle discount on said Internet?
Or an even better use case- you have emulators on PC (which are banned on the XBox Store)
Then how is Haunted: Halloween '86 for Xbox on Microsoft Store? It's almost certainly an NES emulator, seeing as the exact same game is also for sale on cartridge. I'm under the impression that it slides by rule 10.13.10 on grounds that it's self-contained and won't run ROMs other than the packaged one.
But your "even better use case" is valid: You're playing a game for another platform, be it Windows or something a Windows PC can emulate, whose publisher hasn't rereleased it on Xbox.
Granted that level of performance isn’t needed if you’re playing Tetris
Don't underestimate. As soon as you hear the robotic voice say "Ready, Go!" you know you're in for some some fast $#!+.
KB+M is vastly better for virtually every genre of game except maybe platformers.
Perhaps 4-player fighting games like Duck Game and Rivals of Aether and Super Smash Bros. are close enough to "platformers", as are 4-player party minigame collections like Mario Party. But is KB+M also better for 2-player fighting games like Street Fighter II and Tekken?
The difference between a PC Monitor and a TV isn't that different anymore.
The difference is that they are in different rooms. The PC monitor is on the computer desk, while the TV is in the living room. In addition, last I checked, tower-style cases still dominated mass market desktop PCs, and they still were eyesores in the living room environment. Many gamers don't want to have to spend hundreds on a second PC just for one game nor haul one PC back and forth between the computer desk and the living room. (Others' views)
Summary of fees to sell physical goods on Amazon:
- $480 per year for a seller to be on its platform
- 15 percent of each order's total, including shipping but excluding sales tax, or $1.00 per order, whichever is higher
- 3 percent of sales tax
Apple charges each seller only $99 per year, and it has no $1 minimum fee per order. I imagine the $1 minimum fee has something to do with credit card and ACH debit processors taking a 30 cent fee per transaction.
Paid apps and in-app purchases on Amazon Appstore have a similar fee structure to Apple (source), though without the $99 per year fee:
- 20 percent for movie and TV subscription IAPs within Android apps
- 30 percent for paid apps and all other IAPs, including paid Alexa skills
For the common man, phones and tablets are going to take over.
Once programming enters the high school curriculum of "the common man", how will this be practical on "phones and tablets"? Will students who own only a phone have to buy a tablet and a keyboard?
How can a third party verify that the server is in fact running that code?
How well does SFTP work if both the machine sending the file and the machine receiving the file are behind NAT?
I live in Norway. I haven't touched cash in about 4 years
When you shop at a yard sale (an occasional personal sale of used goods outside one's home), what form of electronic payment does the cashier accept for payments of 5 to 30 krone? (For those at home, that's about 0.50 to 3 USD.) Or does Norway not have yard sales?
MY 2 year old daughter will never see cash. [...] when the time comes for her to spend money she'll have a mobile phone.
Between "when the time comes for her to spend money" and when she graduates, from what income will she pay for service on this phone? Do flip phones in Norway support electronic payment? Or does "the time" not "come[] for her to spend money" until she graduates?
There'd be no point knocking over a convenience store or fast food joint if there was no cash there.
Instead, they'd knock over places that sell gift cards for cash.
The pocket computer than approximately everyone carries
Just because someone carries a pocket computer doesn't mean he also subscribes to Internet access for use on that pocket computer while away from home. Currently I subscribe to cable data and do not subscribe to cellular data because switching from cable data to cellular data would cause my home use to routinely exceed the 10 GB per month mobile hotspot data cap that all major cellular ISPs impose.
If all banks in a particular city "have decided not to do business with a specific customer" living in that city, and regulations enacted by the government make it nontrivial to start a bank that does do business with that person, then for all practical purposes, "the government has decided that a person is not allowed to have a bank account."
U.S. banks and credit unions are part of EFTPOS networks called Interlink and Maestro. "Visa Debit" cards are on Interlink, and "Debit MasterCard" cards are on Maestro.
Dear United States. New Zealand has had EFTPOS for years and years.
We have EFTPOS in the United States as well. It's just very rare to see a merchant that accepts EFTPOS but not credit cards.
There is a small fee to the merchant for each transaction
Which itself is prohibitive for the 0.50 to 3.00 USD transactions at yard sales. Is there also a monthly fee for a merchant to accept EFTPOS?