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FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days
  • It is illegal for all carriers using gsm-based communication. So that's everyone at the moment and that means that you can't have phones locked when they're purchased. They can lock the phones they're under contracts if you finance the phone. Then they don't have to remove that until the phone is completely paid off. What's been going on over the last 4 or 5 years is the company will give you a subsidy for the phone even if you pay it off in full and then claim that that subsidy is part of a financing deal. So they'll put a fake price and be like the phone cost $1,200 but we'll sell it to you for $800. Then when you pay off the 800 right when you walk out the door you're still getting a subsidy that directly pays for that extra $400 they gave you off that wasn't part of the actual price. If you ever go to change service they automatically use the rest of that monthly subsidy immediately to pay off the phone keep that on the phone since the cost is the same as the subsidy for each month you have the phone untill it's paid off.

    If you have Verizon they have been blocking phones even if they're not allowed to do that claiming that any phone not purchased through them or the model number that they sell in the store is not compatible with their Network and needs to be evaluated for security. Then they make it a pain in the ass to get your phone approved to be on their Network and it can take up to 90 days even if it's the same phone just the "unlocked" version with a different model number. This was less of an issue when the FCC rules for GSM based carriers were being enforced, but under Trump and Bush they were not enforcing the rules. And until LTE we had two carriers that were not using GSM based technology so they were not covered by the rules.

  • VPN by Google One shuts down
  • Allo didn't ever make sense. What about Hangouts. Hangouts worked with imessage. And also works better than allo did And also works better than aloe did at any pointat any point.

  • Apple announced RCS with a whimper when it should have been a bang
  • From what I understand they wanted their group chat to keep working properly. I would have been issued a work iPhone since it's what I had working as a contingent worker with them so I do not understand.

  • Apple announced RCS with a whimper when it should have been a bang
  • So long as the green bubble still exist there's no reason for Android users to celebrate either. I had to change to iPhone because it was costing me job opportunities. And I won't be able to switch back until the green bundle is gone. Apple knows this so without legal action they're never going to end that.

  • That’ll be Why the Median is Barely Over 40
  • You're confusing median with average (mean). If you took the top thousand out of the meeting you wouldn't change much. Median is if you take and find the middle person so you take half of the population from the top and have from the bottom.

    It's also household income so it will include two earners at this point

  • ba dum tss
  • A pound at one gravity is equivalent to 2.2 kg at 1 gravity. Outside of aerospace there's not really a need to distinguish between mass and weight so it kind of gets used interchangeably.

    It just bothers me when people complain about units and then use the wrong kind of unit.

  • Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled
  • Those boxes are in a skin for normal Android to make it work with the TV. The only device you likely come in contact with with Android TV is the new Chromecast or a Sony TV. Other than the Nvidia shield and the Chromecast most actual Android TV devices still come with malware from the manufacturer. Even the Sony TVs, but basically every Smart TV comes with malware to spy on what you're doing too.

    I think the new dish network's at top box also runs Android TV, maybe you found one of those wild.

  • Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled
  • Can you even get an actual Android TV device now that isn't a Chromecast or an Nvidia shield? Other than a few TVs that mostly come with malware (tcl, Sony, Hisense) I can't think of anything else that has actual Android TV you can buy as a consumer.

  • ba dum tss
  • Pounds are a measure of weight (force) not mass like grams. Stone is the imperial measure of mass and slug is the standard unit (US unit). In metric Newtons would be equivalent to pounds.

  • In a historic about-face, Apple publicly supports right-to-repair bill
  • The last time it failed it was supposed to come back with allowing modules instead of parts. Apple would be fine with selling "modules" as they consider their devices to be top case, bottom case, motherboard, battery, and screen (has stuff attached.) If they can have a needs calibration some where to shame 3rd party repairs and not allow board level repair it is just what they wanted.

  • Electric suggestions between US$750 and US$1500ish
  • I would stay away from Mexican strats. Unless you get a deal they not good bang for the buck. A little more gets you an US one, and a bit less gets you a better Asian import. Maybe a Jackson or Charvel, or a Kramer, or a squir classic vibes and and amp upgrade. Ibanez and ESP are also great options.

  • The greatest country in the world
  • Majority of the world uses YYYY-MM-DD. Day 1st makes no sense. If you need the month or year it should come 1st. You need to zoom into what you need not select from any number of months with the same day. That would be like putting time with seconds 1st.

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