You do know landlines are still a thing, right?
shrugal
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It's not, because the statement is much more accurate in the case of internet-connected devices, and for emergency messages it's enough to have someone around you who has one (e.g. a neighbour). I guess it would be really hard to find someone - in the areas where this change is made - who doesn't have access to such a device in that sense, maybe even impossible.
It's really more like assuming everyone breathes air because most people do.
I use a Synology NAS + Plex + Chromecast, works great.
DS video is much worse than Plex in my experience, it's not even close. The only upside is getting hardware transcoding for free, but that's about it.
Which had me wondering for the first time I hearing about “The Year of the Linux Desktop”, what percentage do we have to hit for this to be the year?
Imo it's more of a list of things that need to happen, like some mainstream games, apps and devices getting 1st-party Linux support. I suspect this to start happening around the 20% mark, but ofc that's just a guess.
Just a guess, but it might be because they blocked "Threads.net" with an uppercase T, so it could just be a bug.
Go to lemmy.world/instances and scroll down to "Blocked instances". If "threads.net" doesn't show up in that list then they haven't blocked them.
It's pretty logical actually: The advocates of openness must be closed to one thing, and that is whatever aims to destroy openness itself.
The contacts would let you know what instance most of your friends are located (e.g. look up email addresses).
I don't think that's possible without creating a privacy nightmare, at least not with an identifier like the email address.
I've been removing Google services from my life bit by bit over the past year, and I have to say it is crazy how hard it actually is! They have inserted themselves into so many digital workflows, securing monopoly positions and preventing the rise of competitors and open ecosystems. In many areas the only alternatives are other tech giants, or accepting feature downgrades and having to set things up manually.
I'm really glad that the browser is one area where the transition is actually very simple and straightforward!