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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I get what you’re saying but the forgetful customer is explicitly what they said they want, which is dumb any way you look at it.

I don't disagree on that.

Many times you’re forced into signing up for subscription, or coerced under the guise of a free trial. Now this wouldn’t be as bad if they came back and were like, “hey we see you haven’t used our service in a while, do you still need it?”

Maybe, but at this point I doubt that a forgetful customer would pay attention to it. What would really make the difference would be to renew the subscription explicitly. This way you could be forced to sign for a false free trial, but you would also need to confirm a subsequent subscription.

rather than just leeching money from the user. The system is designed to purposely allow the user to make these errors and that’s wrong any way you want to shape it.

Yes, this is another way to see it. But the solution in my opinion is not to eliminate the concept of subscriptions. The solution is to educate the customer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fine, but this is on the buyer not on the seller.
I mean, if you buy a subscription to something and then don't use it (or forgot to cancel while not using it) is not really a seller fail: you would have wasted your money even you'd have bought it without a subscription.

I get subscriptions are (mostly) bad, but it is not always a seller fault and the buyer should be aware of what he is doing or spending money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

and then simulating all the toolpaths to be able to export the G code for a CNC machine. I don’t know how much of what I saw is smoke and mirrors, but even if that is a stretch goal it is quite significant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

My point was that this already tested on a smaller scale with ships: the fuel changed and that changed the exhaust fumes ability to reflect sunlight which cause some problems the proponents of the solution have not foresee.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I remember to have read that change caused some other problems, and these collateral problems were unexpected.

But I don't remember if the problem were about the ocean currents or that the ocean was warmer or a mix of the two plus something else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

There are gasses and particles that can be released into the atmosphere that will reflect sunlight and warmth away from earth. In theory that could be done very quickly.

As far as I remember, that was tried with ships and it has some collateral effects that cause different damages to the oceans.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably. But this way you have no control on who quit, with a good probability that are the better ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Almost 500 million users market.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I know. I was only pointing out that you can have a waterproof phone and a replaceable battery. Obviously you need to do better than the S5 but it is nothing impossible, even wanting to keep the audio jack and the USB ports.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The two features are not mutually esclusive. I owned an S5 which was waterproof and had replaceable battery more than 10 years ago. It did not seems too hard to do

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I would love to know how you would decide if the scan or copy of my ID, with picture, I send you by mail, or upload with a web form as a jpeg, is real or a fake.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you are right but the actual facts are that even outside OF there are underage female prostitutes that do it for money or the latest bag from some high end brand and often are prey of some predator. Only difference is that off-line prostitution is harder to find.
OF is only folowing what it is happening in the real life, making it easier obviously, but it don't create any new dynamic.

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