Comment on Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps

• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  and also introducing hardware backdoors, courtesy of Going Dark

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The EU like any large government is filled with people of varying quality. Some of them are absolutely amazing at their jobs and some of them can barely operate at light switches.

  Normally whenever some dumb tech related regulation comes in you usually find it’s being pushed by the idiots. You can usually tell by reading the text of the legislation and by the end of it you will have come up with about 300 problems.

  A good example of this is reading the Tracking Cookies legislation (bad) and the GDPR legislation (good), the difference in the size of the text of the bill is visually apparent.

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  • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    some of them can barely operate at light switches

    Here’s a short story for this fact.

    I have sold coffee machine on Monday. Next day got a message that it doesn’t work. I ask what is up with it and she told me it won’t start. I asked if she turned switch in the back in ON position? 1h later she writes me that it works!

    I mean yeah, there is a switch in the back and a big ass ON button on the front. But I totally think that basic troubleshooting would solve this enigma before shooting the gun at me for selling a faulty device.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We used to have a poster up at work in the IT room that had a picture of a person scratching their heads and looking blankly at their laptop and the text “I’ve tried nothing, and I’m all out of ideas”.

      Some people have zero troubleshooting skills and don’t even try. Their immediate reaction is to try and make it someone else’s problem.

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