the (presumably small) fraction of smartphone users who carry a Bluetooth keyboard everywhere.
It helps when the keyboard is a full-sized, foldable keyboard
How many people do you see in practice carrying such "a full-sized, foldable keyboard" with them everywhere they go in case they need to reply to an email?
(like the early 4-parts Stowaway by Thinkoutide, sometime branded).
Your Internet connection being expensive af doesn't make Email non-free.
Email over Internet is exactly as expensive as the Internet connection over which it runs.
I'm not sure what kind of point you're trying to make, but it certainly doesn't sound like "SMS is free".
Let me restate more simply: I'm under the impression that more cellular subscribers in the United States currently subscribe to unmetered SMS than to unmetered data.
Fortunately, the bigger the mail hoster the higher the chance they have someone competent somewhere.
Just because a mail service such as Gmail has someone competent doesn't mean that the service's users have a way to contact this competent person.
Read the fine print. "Unlimited" means there is no hard limit on total monthly data transfer volume, especially the relatively bursty transfer associated with interactive use of a website or a mobile app. There's a limit on data rate (not volume) when associated to a congested tower, during which lighter users get priority. And there's a limit on the data rate (not volume) of more steady streams associated with long-form video playback. This is to encourage users to view videos directly on the phone, with its physically smaller screen, rather than using its HDMI, AirPlay, Miracast, or Chromecast output with a living room TV as a substitute for home wired Internet.
Perhaps the intent is that "foreground microphone" and "background microphone" ought to be split into separate permissions, as ought "foreground camera" and "background camera".
if that "Destiny 2 super companion app" asks you for permission to use your camera and microphone, tell it to F off, as there should be no reason for it to have access to those.
I don't know about that. Does Destiny 2 expose an API for companion apps that allows syncing a companion app to a player's account by photographing a 2D barcode displayed on the screen?
Same thing for the United Airlines app. It demands "camera". Why?
I haven't flown in decades, but my first guess involves using the device's rear-facing camera to scan 2D barcodes printed on boarding passes and the like.
You need either an ISP or a mobile data plan to access the internet, and it's not free, sure. Then, email is free
Email over cellular isn't free if it causes the data subscriber to hit his plan's cap. Overages tend to cost $10/mo or more.
and sms costs extra money (you don't get "free text", you pay for it monthly)
I thought one already had to pay for SMS in order to get 2-factor authentication on popular websites. Google and Twitter, for example, won't let a user use TOTP as a second factor unless the user first sets up SMS. And nowadays, the next step up from pay-per-minute cellular tends to be a plan with more minutes and texts than the average subscriber knows what to do with.
And "blackholing" doesn't mean there's no trace in the log files.
But good luck convincing a major email provider to check log files for you.
Nor is a data plan, which email requires. You need either cellular data through a cellular carrier or home data through a home ISP. Some cellular plans in the United States have unmetered talk and text but metered or no data.
When people tell you your Email "probably got lost", you can be pretty sure they're lying in your face (or are too dumb to check their spam folder).
Unless a filter on the recipient's server has blackholed the message on "almost certainly spam, phish, or malware" grounds rather than bouncing it or routing it to the recipient's spam folder. Or unless it has sat in queues or greylists on various intermediate MTAs for a total of several minutes.
My first guess is that users of low-end Android phones are less likely to regularly use email in the first place.
An iPhone is more expensive than an entry-level Android phone. A cellular subscription that provides more than 10 GB per month of data* is more expensive than one that provides only 1 or 2 GB per month or only voice and SMS. Thus we can assume that ability to afford an iPhone and ability to afford a large data plan are correlated.
In addition, many people want a mobile phone more capable than a flip phone but not quite as capable as a flagship. Composing SMS, for example, is laborious on a flip phone because of the limits of T9 and of the small display that often doesn't show previous messages and the message being composed simultaneously. It used to be common to upgrade from a flip phone to one with a physical QWERTY thumb keyboard to make SMS use easier. But now that physical thumb keyboards are no longer common, the next step up is often an entry-level Android phone, not a flagship-priced iPhone. Someone who regularly uses only voice and SMS may not be aware of email, and someone who uses only voice, SMS, and popular social websites may use email only for password resets on said websites.
* More precisely, cellular Internet data transfer allowance.
The difference is that native and web-based MUAs for desktop allow for replies longer than a paragraph, whereas native and web-based MUAs for smartphones don't except for the (presumably small) fraction of smartphone users who carry a Bluetooth keyboard everywhere. Otherwise, the practical actions on a smartphone are "delete after reading" if it's a newsletter and "mark this message for later action once I get to a desk" otherwise. Because the featured article is about newsletters, it implies that senders of newsletters need to format the message to more effectively reach readers on 20em-wide devices.
Conspicuous by its absence from the featured article is what fraction of messages are composed on a smartphone. It turned out that the article is about newsletters, which are typically sent from a noreply address, as opposed to conversations for which a reply is expected.
And if you're really controlling what computing is being done on your PC then surely your PC isn't running Microsoft Windows.
Only a Sith deals in absolutes. The user of a PC running Windows has more control over the PC than the user of an iPad has over the iPad. As long as the PC isn't running Windows 10 S, the user can obtain apps from anywhere and obtain Visual Studio or MinGW with which to make extensions (sometimes called "mods") or even original apps. And replacing the entire operating system is possible if the motherboard doesn't have "Restricted Boot" (UEFI Secure Boot that the PC's owner cannot reconfigure).
Following the links I provided produces city names. The second Treehugger article describes an incident in Silver Spring, Maryland. The first Cracked article cites a Yahoo News article that describes an incident in La Porte, Texas. The second Cracked article cites articles that mention incidents in Port St. Lucie, Florida; North Augusta, South Carolina; and Blanchester, Ohio.
So on what criteria should an application developer choose a toolkit? Or is it expected that users of desktop GNU/Linux will have all toolkits (GTK+, Qt, Wine, Mono, etc.) installed in order to run all applications?
Personal Computer Master Race Personal Computer. I'm assuming it means a PC with a discrete graphics processing unit.
"PCMR" refers to people who have chosen to become masters of their own computing and video gaming experience by acquiring a device where the person who owns it, not some app store monopolist, controls what computing is done. And if you want to (say) race, you're not limited to the steering wheel controllers approved by the peripheral monopolist.
3. Connect your smartphone or tablet to the Internet.
Not everyone has WiFi I'm afraid. Still locked out.
If cellular is unavailable, and WI-Fi is unavailable, the remaining option I can think of is wired networking. This can be done in one of three ways:
A. Plug a USB OTG NIC into the phone and an open Ethernet jack. B. Plug a battery-powered access point into an open Ethernet jack. C. Plug a USB cable into the phone and friend's computer, tell the phone to emulate a NIC, and tell the friend's computer to bridge the connections. Here, the phone is using the PC's Internet connection, unlike tethering which is the other way around.
As I wrote earlier, I concede an advantage of TOTP over SQRL in situations where neither the cellular network nor the existing WLAN nor a battery-powered WLAN nor a USB NIC nor sharing of the PC's connection is possible. But how often will end users encounter all five of these situations?
I agree that a gas furnace's efficiency isn't 100 percent. But its efficiency is still greater than that of the generation and transmission of electric power. In much of the United States, an 80 percent efficient gas furnace costs half as much to run as a 100 percent efficient electric heater because of all the losses upstream of the heater.
if extra heat is doing work, then application efficiency approaches 100% because most waste is heat!
Unless you happen to live in a market whose local natural gas company is willing to sell you energy at a lower price per joule than the local electric company. That may not the case where DontBeAMoran lives, but it's the case where other people live.
So why don't websites cut out the middleman and allow advertisers to buy ad placements directly from them? That'd also allay fears of cross-site tracking.
One could imagine that there might be a way for sites to band together in the millions as collectives. I then pay $100 a year to the collective. The sites then get micropayments from the collective as their use meters.
You just described the exact business model of a late 1990s multi-site subscription collective known as Adult Check. But what ultimately took Adult Check down was that too many sites that accepted Adult Check displayed photos taken from Perfect 10 magazine without permission.
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the (presumably small) fraction of smartphone users who carry a Bluetooth keyboard everywhere.
It helps when the keyboard is a full-sized, foldable keyboard
How many people do you see in practice carrying such "a full-sized, foldable keyboard" with them everywhere they go in case they need to reply to an email?
(like the early 4-parts Stowaway by Thinkoutide, sometime branded).
Did it look anything like Portable Folding External USB Wired Keyboard for Cell Phone / Tablet PC - Black?
The real problem is that Matias jacked up the price of its Half Keyboard to $600.
Your Internet connection being expensive af doesn't make Email non-free.
Email over Internet is exactly as expensive as the Internet connection over which it runs.
I'm not sure what kind of point you're trying to make, but it certainly doesn't sound like "SMS is free".
Let me restate more simply: I'm under the impression that more cellular subscribers in the United States currently subscribe to unmetered SMS than to unmetered data.
Fortunately, the bigger the mail hoster the higher the chance they have someone competent somewhere.
Just because a mail service such as Gmail has someone competent doesn't mean that the service's users have a way to contact this competent person.
the choice of a car is a consumer one while the electricity production is (usually) government responsibility.
In a republic or constitutional monarchy, consumers elect their government.
Read the fine print. "Unlimited" means there is no hard limit on total monthly data transfer volume, especially the relatively bursty transfer associated with interactive use of a website or a mobile app. There's a limit on data rate (not volume) when associated to a congested tower, during which lighter users get priority. And there's a limit on the data rate (not volume) of more steady streams associated with long-form video playback. This is to encourage users to view videos directly on the phone, with its physically smaller screen, rather than using its HDMI, AirPlay, Miracast, or Chromecast output with a living room TV as a substitute for home wired Internet.
Perhaps the intent is that "foreground microphone" and "background microphone" ought to be split into separate permissions, as ought "foreground camera" and "background camera".
if that "Destiny 2 super companion app" asks you for permission to use your camera and microphone, tell it to F off, as there should be no reason for it to have access to those.
I don't know about that. Does Destiny 2 expose an API for companion apps that allows syncing a companion app to a player's account by photographing a 2D barcode displayed on the screen?
Same thing for the United Airlines app. It demands "camera". Why?
I haven't flown in decades, but my first guess involves using the device's rear-facing camera to scan 2D barcodes printed on boarding passes and the like.
You need either an ISP or a mobile data plan to access the internet, and it's not free, sure. Then, email is free
Email over cellular isn't free if it causes the data subscriber to hit his plan's cap. Overages tend to cost $10/mo or more.
and sms costs extra money (you don't get "free text", you pay for it monthly)
I thought one already had to pay for SMS in order to get 2-factor authentication on popular websites. Google and Twitter, for example, won't let a user use TOTP as a second factor unless the user first sets up SMS. And nowadays, the next step up from pay-per-minute cellular tends to be a plan with more minutes and texts than the average subscriber knows what to do with.
And "blackholing" doesn't mean there's no trace in the log files.
But good luck convincing a major email provider to check log files for you.
sms
Not free
Nor is a data plan, which email requires. You need either cellular data through a cellular carrier or home data through a home ISP. Some cellular plans in the United States have unmetered talk and text but metered or no data.
When people tell you your Email "probably got lost", you can be pretty sure they're lying in your face (or are too dumb to check their spam folder).
Unless a filter on the recipient's server has blackholed the message on "almost certainly spam, phish, or malware" grounds rather than bouncing it or routing it to the recipient's spam folder. Or unless it has sat in queues or greylists on various intermediate MTAs for a total of several minutes.
My first guess is that users of low-end Android phones are less likely to regularly use email in the first place.
An iPhone is more expensive than an entry-level Android phone. A cellular subscription that provides more than 10 GB per month of data* is more expensive than one that provides only 1 or 2 GB per month or only voice and SMS. Thus we can assume that ability to afford an iPhone and ability to afford a large data plan are correlated.
In addition, many people want a mobile phone more capable than a flip phone but not quite as capable as a flagship. Composing SMS, for example, is laborious on a flip phone because of the limits of T9 and of the small display that often doesn't show previous messages and the message being composed simultaneously. It used to be common to upgrade from a flip phone to one with a physical QWERTY thumb keyboard to make SMS use easier. But now that physical thumb keyboards are no longer common, the next step up is often an entry-level Android phone, not a flagship-priced iPhone. Someone who regularly uses only voice and SMS may not be aware of email, and someone who uses only voice, SMS, and popular social websites may use email only for password resets on said websites.
* More precisely, cellular Internet data transfer allowance.
The difference is that native and web-based MUAs for desktop allow for replies longer than a paragraph, whereas native and web-based MUAs for smartphones don't except for the (presumably small) fraction of smartphone users who carry a Bluetooth keyboard everywhere. Otherwise, the practical actions on a smartphone are "delete after reading" if it's a newsletter and "mark this message for later action once I get to a desk" otherwise. Because the featured article is about newsletters, it implies that senders of newsletters need to format the message to more effectively reach readers on 20em-wide devices.
Conspicuous by its absence from the featured article is what fraction of messages are composed on a smartphone. It turned out that the article is about newsletters, which are typically sent from a noreply address, as opposed to conversations for which a reply is expected.
And if you're really controlling what computing is being done on your PC then surely your PC isn't running Microsoft Windows.
Only a Sith deals in absolutes. The user of a PC running Windows has more control over the PC than the user of an iPad has over the iPad. As long as the PC isn't running Windows 10 S, the user can obtain apps from anywhere and obtain Visual Studio or MinGW with which to make extensions (sometimes called "mods") or even original apps. And replacing the entire operating system is possible if the motherboard doesn't have "Restricted Boot" (UEFI Secure Boot that the PC's owner cannot reconfigure).
Following the links I provided produces city names. The second Treehugger article describes an incident in Silver Spring, Maryland. The first Cracked article cites a Yahoo News article that describes an incident in La Porte, Texas. The second Cracked article cites articles that mention incidents in Port St. Lucie, Florida; North Augusta, South Carolina; and Blanchester, Ohio.
So on what criteria should an application developer choose a toolkit? Or is it expected that users of desktop GNU/Linux will have all toolkits (GTK+, Qt, Wine, Mono, etc.) installed in order to run all applications?
Err....go outside and play with their friends?
That's dangerous...
for the parents. Local law enforcement in many places seems to consider playing outside to imply parental neglect. See, for example, "Children spend less time outside than prison inmates", "When 'Stranger Danger' is actually the police and CPS", "#1. Mom Arrested for Letting Children Play Outside", and "#5. Letting Kids Walk Places Alone".
Still, what between sunset and bedtime?
So what does the child do once the homework is done but the meter is still refilling?
Personal Computer Master Race Personal Computer. I'm assuming it means a PC with a discrete graphics processing unit.
"PCMR" refers to people who have chosen to become masters of their own computing and video gaming experience by acquiring a device where the person who owns it, not some app store monopolist, controls what computing is done. And if you want to (say) race, you're not limited to the steering wheel controllers approved by the peripheral monopolist.
3. Connect your smartphone or tablet to the Internet.
Not everyone has WiFi I'm afraid. Still locked out.
If cellular is unavailable, and WI-Fi is unavailable, the remaining option I can think of is wired networking. This can be done in one of three ways:
A. Plug a USB OTG NIC into the phone and an open Ethernet jack.
B. Plug a battery-powered access point into an open Ethernet jack.
C. Plug a USB cable into the phone and friend's computer, tell the phone to emulate a NIC, and tell the friend's computer to bridge the connections. Here, the phone is using the PC's Internet connection, unlike tethering which is the other way around.
As I wrote earlier, I concede an advantage of TOTP over SQRL in situations where neither the cellular network nor the existing WLAN nor a battery-powered WLAN nor a USB NIC nor sharing of the PC's connection is possible. But how often will end users encounter all five of these situations?
Have fun dragging and dropping all the source code files from your text editor to your build tool every time.
I agree that a gas furnace's efficiency isn't 100 percent. But its efficiency is still greater than that of the generation and transmission of electric power. In much of the United States, an 80 percent efficient gas furnace costs half as much to run as a 100 percent efficient electric heater because of all the losses upstream of the heater.
if extra heat is doing work, then application efficiency approaches 100% because most waste is heat!
Unless you happen to live in a market whose local natural gas company is willing to sell you energy at a lower price per joule than the local electric company. That may not the case where DontBeAMoran lives, but it's the case where other people live.
So why don't websites cut out the middleman and allow advertisers to buy ad placements directly from them? That'd also allay fears of cross-site tracking.
One could imagine that there might be a way for sites to band together in the millions as collectives. I then pay $100 a year to the collective. The sites then get micropayments from the collective as their use meters.
You just described the exact business model of a late 1990s multi-site subscription collective known as Adult Check. But what ultimately took Adult Check down was that too many sites that accepted Adult Check displayed photos taken from Perfect 10 magazine without permission.
Poor cell service or unpaid cell bill means you are locked out
Join Wi-Fi and you're no longer locked out.