@quasigod there's a reason #SimLock and #NetLock died in #Europe over a decade ago.

• People don't like getting shafted - espechally on expensive devices.

That being said even #Prepaid providers don't lock their devices anymore but instead they just sell people devices at cost with a tiny margin and make their €€€ longterm bunding a free #SIM with every purchase.

• But yeah, #US #Telco|s are shit!

#sim #scp #migratie

Als je dit allemaal in ogenschouw neemt, dan is het miserabel gesteld met de acceptatie van een diverse samenleving in Nederland. In theorie is die er, maar in een onderzoek van 2020 zie je dus al dat dat in de praktijk zwaar tegenvalt. En in de verkiezingsuitslag van 2023 zien we die "geheime" onderstroom nogal pijnlijk terug. En in moties van de VVD en uitspraken van een VVD staatssecretaris, die nota bene vóór integratie zou moeten werken.

En nul excuses of terugnemen.

#sim #migratie #scp

Over de tweede generatie:

"Meer integratie en participatie betekent meer blootstelling aan uitsluiting, bijvoorbeeld op de arbeidsmarkt of in het onderwijs. Ook speelt mee dat de tweede generatie meer meekrijgt van de politieke en maatschappelijke discussie over integratie, migratie, racisme en de islam. Dit alles geeft voeding aan sombere opvattingen over de mogelijkheden en kansen van personen met een migratieachtergrond in Nederland."

Dan was dit vast een goed jaar.

#sim #scp #migratie

Dus de mensen zónder immigratie achtergrond vinden dat Nederland gastvrij is, maar tegelijkertijd zijn ze niet erg enthousiast over een diverse samenleving.

"Het zijn juist de leden van de gevestigde groepen en de tweede generatie die zich vaak uitgesloten voelen en somber zijn over het maatschappelijk klimaat ten aanzien van de kansen van migranten en de openheid om daadwerkelijk te komen tot een cultureel diverse samenleving. Ze zijn gevestigd, maar niet thuis."

#sim #scp #migratie

Over of mensen Nederland gastvrij vinden.

"Opnieuw zien we dat de tweede generatie het vaakst van mening is dat Nederland niet erg gastvrij is voor personen met een migratieachtergrond. Dat geldt voor alle onderzochte herkomstgroepen."

Dus de mensen die het inmiddels kunnen weten, de tweede generatie, constateert dat Nederland níet erg gastvrij is.

"Onder personen zonder migratieachtergrond is het enthousiasme voor een cultureel diverse samenleving minder wijdverbreid."

@KrissyKat espechally since #PhoneNumbers are #PII, #Spamming isn't prosecuted as a #felony and even if one doesn't live in a cyberfacist dystopia that demands "#KYC" on #Prepaid-#SIM|s they'd still have an expense.

• Also I find almost all #Newsletters to be #ValueRemoving #Spam they could've offered via #RSS instead or better yet, not at all!

@Saupreiss @unixtippse @der_mit_ph

ALL DAS sind #Downgrades in sachen #UX!

• Ich kann ja verstehen wenn entsprechende #Ladesäulen autonom und ohne #Personal laufen sollen, aber was hindert die daran wie #Tankautomaten und neuere #Parkscheinautomaten einfach ne #ec-Karte mit NFC & PIN zu akzeptieren?
  

Das gibt's vandalismusgeschützt und robust als Drop-In - Lösung von drölfzig Zahlungsdienstleistern und bedarf weder #Digitalzwang noch #AppZwang, wenn die schon kein #Bargeld akzeptieren wollen!

Bei Kleinbeträgen bis €25 wäre auch #CallPay & #SMSpayment problemlos machbar, was auch mit nem #StupidPhone samt #Prepaid-#SIM geht, ohne Registrierungs-Zwang!

@chbmeyer @dejan @smartphone

It would award 800 points for using an anonymous #SIM card, but doesn't give any hint where to obtain one. Esp. a "+49" (DE) one. Not even a link.

I want my 800 points! Now!

You want to have anonymous prepaid SIM cards because you want to prank people.

I want anonymous prepaid SIM cards because KYC is the illicit activity on something where fraud at the expense of the telco is impossible and because it's cyberfacist bs!

• We are not the same!

@joel +9001%

The only option I knew was the #Fairphone #FP3plus which was discontinued, abeit it's <$500, nit $400.

• every device after that went more expensive AND removed features like a real #DualSIM capability (#eSIM is not a replacement for a #SIM slot!)

February 15, 2024 - Day 411 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 447

Game: Fantasy Blacksmith

Platform: Steam
Released: Nov 16, 2019
Installed: Feb 1, 2024
Unplayed: 14d
Playtime: 33m

Rating: 1 - Nope

Fantasy Blacksmith is a first-person work simulator, where you get to play as a blacksmith in a fantasy setting, making swords for adventurers.

If it sounds like an interesting idea, that is correct. It's an interesting idea.

The execution, on the other hand, will push you to build your first sword so that you can immediately fall on it, and put yourself out of your misery.

It's like the devs on this game thought of the worst possible way they could do every single thing in this game, and then found a way to make it buggy as well.

Some games are so bad, they cycle through to being some kind of perverse pleasure.

This is not one of those games. This is a game that makes Snowtopia look like a masterpiece of UX design and user-friendliness.

This is a game that will have you longing for pixel art, just so the game is actually bright enough to see what you're doing.

It feels like something that was coded by a repurposed Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser, producing something which is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a game.

Every single game element seems to be a psychological challenge to see how hard you can push a user before they break and throw their mouse across the room.

While it doesn't reach the nadir of Edge of Twilight - Return to Glory, it does put in one hell of an effort.

You do not play Fantasy Blacksmith. You suffer through Fantasy Blacksmith. It's a painfully obvious:

1: Nope

February 14, 2024 - Day 410 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 446

Game: Snowtopia

Platform: Steam
Released: Dec 15, 2022
Installed: Feb 14, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 27m

Rating: 1 - Nope

Snowtopia is a top-down/third-person snow resort management sim. It's the last game in this month's Humble Choice Bundle.

You start out in the middle of nowhere in a snow-covered valley with the main buildings of a snow-resort in the centre, begging for you to build it out into a functional skiing paradise.

There's potential here for something interesting, but it's let down painfully by a tutorial that explains things in a way that still leaves you unsure of exactly what you're supposed to do.

However, the game's biggest failing is that it tells you to build ski runs on the vector-graphics hills, and then when you try to, it gives the cryptic error "Impossible to build on uphill slope."

It feels like it was designed by someone who understands exactly what that is supposed to mean, and since it's obvious to them, it should be obvious to everyone else.

However, having lived just south of the NSW snowfields for over a decade, one of the most important things required for ski runs is the uphill slope, so you have something to ski down.

Don't let the time played fool you; I became determined to *at least* complete the tutorial. I did not. I gave up in frustration.

Snowtopia? Snownopia. It's a:

1: Nope