Okay so they uninstall WhatsApp? What operating systems are they using and what countries are the manufacturers for those based in?

Others have pointed to the very slow development pace. I’ll point out something else. When I was first starting out with desktop, Linux enlightenment 16 was one of the desktop options but apart from looking very ‘different’ to KDE or Gnome, it was damn difficult to get it to look anything other than default. Other desktop managers came on in leaps and bounds but enlightenment just stayed where it was and from what I can tell still is where it was. Meantime, kde and gnome have had multiple major versions and forks. These days I use either xfce or cinnamon, depending on whether hardware acceleration is available. Fundamentally I want my desktop environment to be a launcher for my applications and a way to manage my peripherals and UI preferences. I don’t want to be looking at it or dealing with it or spending time thinking about it. I suspect that enough other people feel the same way

So, the Klarna pattern?

You’re presuming they they had documentation

I have a Rocku streaming stick and it won’t work without an internet connection

I thought they already did this in Australia

I thought it was ‘careless people’ he was scared of

Maybe they unzipped the archive? /S

This sounds like a client problem. Modern Lemmy has community blocks as part of the insurance user profile. Have you tried web client or another app?

At 200mph

Sure, list five

Toilet can mean the whole room if separate (i.e. no shower or bath) or just the appliance, depending on context. Can use loo to mean what Americans would refer to as ‘bsthroom’/‘restroom’.

This is what we were all told for years and years- that it was impossible that anyone could hear anything in vinyl that was supposed to be there but that couldn’t be reproduced with digital at cd quality. Then DVD came out And people could genuinely hear the difference from CD quality audio even in stereo. It turns out that dynamic range is limited by the audio sampling rate and the human ear can easily detect a far greater range CD audio supports.

Would it make a difference if they did? Here in the UK every supermarket has a loyalty card scheme. I held out for a long time but eventually I simply couldn’t afford to pay the effective 20% premium for not using it

There’s a large variety on Windows too, e.g. Temurin and Corretto are both available there

I’m missing the part where consumers are required to use their ISP DNS. I never do, in favour of CloudFlare DNS, Google DNS, etc

I wanted to leave Twitter too. I’m a professional engineer in tech and I found setting up in Mastodon to be… …not straightforward, as did a whole load of other people. I eventually got set up. I couldn’t find anyone or anything, the whole model being based around local instances rather than users or topics but… I tried to make the best of it and I followed the other people who had left Twitter that I had followed there when they said where to find them on Mastodon. Then I found I had run into a ‘silencing’ drama where some other instance admins had taken issue with an admin for the instance I was signed up to and as a result everyone on my instance was essentially shadowbanned in a whole load of other places. It had been happening maybe a month before I even found out about this. I’m a grown up, I don’t have time for school time drama. I found that I was using Mastodon less and less and so were the people I had been following. Then my BlueSky invite came through. I can find topics and I can find users. People post and people respond. I don’t have to worry which of 100 identical usernames across different instances is the ‘real’ one or my instance being defederated or silenced.

The problem with Mastodon is it’s basically a social network for people who are into Mastodon, and enjoy centering around their specific instance. It might work for Warcraft guilds but it doesn’t work for me, or any of the people or topics I want to follow, ostly current affairs and tech. As opposed to BlueSky which is a social network for people who:

• Want to move on from twitter
• Are interested in finding and following people and or topics

No doubt at this point you will want to tell me how I’m all wrong, clearly tech illiterate and how Mastodon has at least as many users as BlueSky. Sure, whatevs. It’s like Linux on the Desktop, not a viable mass-market proposition at this point (saying this with 25 years Linux desktop experience).

Mastodon as a mass market solution has failed. It’s essentially irrelevant outside of a tiny niche

Sorry, only just seen this. I don’t work in this sector I am afraid. Some things that might help you:

• There is no legal definition of a ‘valid’ address in the UK- If you post it then the Post Office will try to deliver it. If they can work it out from what is written, and they will try very hard, then that’s ‘an address’. This has been established in law.
• There is advice on how you should write an address . This is how e.g. a bank or utility will address mail, but see above. TBH at this point you could probably put a What3Words on the envelope and it could work.
• For most addresses in the UK you will want to correlate the postcode with the street address, as shown here. A street address is a number (or house name, or both) and a street name on one line, e.g. ‘29 Acacia Road’. Street address + Postcode is how people target e.g. a satnav to an address. A postcode generally relates to a group of addresses, but larger organisations, e.g. a hospital or council office will have a postcode just for them, e.g. ‘Buckingham Palace’. Beware that whilst postcodes don’t change, new ones are being added all the time and they aren’t sequential.

Cuts both ways however:

It’s common to encounter, especially HR Portals, trying to enforce a ‘valid’ address. Trouble is it’s often an American developer and they have no idea about other countries. Here in the UK they like to insist on a 'county ’ field for postal address, despite it being over thirty years since postal addresses here even had counties (which didn’t match the actual counties but anyway). The drop down list they like to give isn’t a list of counties either, it’s an out of date list of local authorities, which were never part of anyone’s address.

I worked at a place once where we had to use an internally developed form to order supplies. Form checked user name against company active directory (fine) but also checked that surname+first initial was at least 6 characters. No idea why and very resistant to changing it but my surname is 4 characters and a lot of Chinese ones are only 2…