I think you already got your answer here https://mander.xyz/post/49981172

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Car travel is massively subsidised. The road maintenance, emergency services, new road construction, traffic light electricity, smart highway monitoring, snow ploughing and more are subsidised for roads.

Many railways are privately owned, so all costs are paid by the owner or anyone who uses it. If railways had similar subsidies to roads they would be far cheaper.

In Australia, Woolworths got reprimanded for selling fuel at a loss. They had a deal where you could buy groceries to earn points which could get you cheaper fuel at their fuel stations. Other companies couldn’t compete, and Woolworths was only able to sustain it because the extra profit they made from selling groceries covered the loss on the fuel.

Many companies have done similar. Uber operated at a loss for years to force taxi companies into bankruptcy, then put their prices up to higher than the taxis had been after the competition was gone.
Comcast had very cheap internet prices in any area where Google was offering Google Fibre, but exceedingly high prices (and worse service) in areas with no competition. Google couldn’t compete on price because Comcast could afford to operate at a loss in a few areas, and Google couldn’t afford to start offering internet across the entire country during it’s startup phase.

It could be done, but big businesses don’t play fairly. They have lots of money to spend on driving you our of business, and lots of future profits as incentive to do so.

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The square app will not run on a phone that has developer mode enabled. I turned developer mode on to disable annoying animations, so now I can’t take card payments unless I carry around a second phone.

If Google goes through with this, my payment phone won’t be able to run any third party apps.

If you put enough energy in one place it will cause a black hole. This type of black hole is called a Kugelblitz.

Current graphics cards do not yet use enough energy to worry about a kugelblitz occurring in the 12-pin connector.

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Except empathy. You can still decide to keep people as slaves when it benefits you and you don’t have empathy.

I choose to misinterpret your definition of “important” and die of dehydration.

I would eat soup with fork if could.

I saw this elsewhere on Lemmy. It’s now my favourite.

Australia almost did this right with the National Broadband Network.

Unfortunately, it was then sabotaged by the government after an election changed the majority party.

It seems to be back on track after wasting an extraordinary amount of time and money by installing copper lines, just to completely replace them with the fiber lines that were in the original plan.

Are they going to sue to operating system owners next? What about the web browser that offers the steam installer download?

It sounds like a faulty device to me. I recommend reaching out to customer support at a minimum.

I didn’t know you could use different launchers until a few weeks ago. I’m so much happier with Lawnchair.

Yes, microG is on /e/OS by default. I believe my bank uses some of the security features from Play Services that aren’t in microG.

I’m not 100% sure that it can’t be fixed, but it’s such a minor nuisance that I don’t think it’s worth my time to investigate.

Fairphone 6

My bank app will install, but I can’t login unless I also install Google Play Services. The website works fine without.

No issues with other apps. I do prioritise installing from F-Droid whenever possible.

Waterfox