There is actually infrastructure involved… payment infrastructure, servers, modems and cell connectivity. Sure none of those things would be needed if there weren’t subscriptions, but there certainly is infrastructure used to verify your subscription and cut you off when you miss a payment.
Maybe it will be here soon, horizon forbidden west will be out quite soon on PC (mar 21)
Have you ever tried using aurora instead of the play store for devices that don’t natively have it?
I think what’s funnier about this is that most home assistant users make purchasing choices based on support in home assistant. So anyone that bought one of their units and used it in home assistant would have just bought something else without the support in home assistant being there.
As a result I would think they actually made more money from having that plugin existing.
I think the issue here is more that interacting with certain companies or services is unavoidable. As an Android user I often will have to interact with iPhone users and the impact of their vendor lock-in techniques is that the experience of those interactions is worse on both sides.
I can’t convince every person to stop using an iPhone, or even just just a different messaging app, most people can’t even agree what to have for dinner…
So users that take it upon themselves to try and improve the experience by trying things like beeper or beeper mini are actually trying to help others maintain their choices and preferences without the degraded experience.
So sometimes a person voting with their dollars isn’t enough, since it’s others choices that still have an impact
Won’t be long until my ai model can produce it’s very own Linux distro complete with 7 fingered keyboard layouts
https://www.androidpolice.com/install-add-on-extension-mozilla-firefox-android/
The option to install any extension has always been possible it’s just a tad more work to get setup.
I did this ages ago, I just add the extensions I want to the list and then they appear to let me install them
Vianet - a provider out of Sudbury
Lakeland networks - a provider out of Bracebridge.
Ontario has a pretty aggressive fiber/broadband roll out right now. https://www.ontario.ca/page/ontario-connects-making-high-speed-internet-accessible-in-every-community
My family cottage is getting Bell fiber this summer too.
Ontario, Canada $82 after taxes for 400/200 A second fiber provider is coming to my street (doing locates now) and they are $82 after tax for 1000/1000.
Edit: 82 cad is 62 usd
LLM AIs think any sentence that starts with who what where when, why or how is a question.