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Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” (arstechnica.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Oh look, Sony revoking more licenses for video content that people "bought".

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Like regular voting, you pick the best one of the bunch; even if it's only marginally better than the rest. Even if it's still terrible.

Repeat. Repeat again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

True, and that's why you can only marginally change anything on the market with that. If no player on the market offers what you want, your only choices are to punish everyone (which they won't notice) or reward one of the least-bad players.

Both can set the wrong incentives for companies to change or continue.

So it's ok to bitch a shitty choices.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You could buy a PinePhone, which matches what you were asking for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't fit "small". It was also just an example, my actual requirements are longer. I need my banking apps to work too, for example, which likely automatically limits me to Android/iOS. No idea how good they work with Sailfish for example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong with your banks website?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I need transaction codes (essentially OTP). Even if I used their website. For that alone I need a supported phone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

So your bank doesn't support any other method than a cell phone for 2fa?

I would be allergic to a bank that requires me to use a device that's notorious for being compromised for "security".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does your banking app work with waydroid? If yes, then you can use pinephone

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Might be worth a shot, but typically they even refuse to work on rooted androids, so I assume whatever security mechanism they expect, it won't be there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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