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But I don't need to do any of that either. My phone's settings have a transfer option for eSIMs and it passes the eSIM data to another phone.
No need to interact with the carrier app, no need to interact with the internet, no need to login to anything.
I guess activation times could be a thing but mine is always immediately active so I never noticed it.
So that leads me to my previously stated conclusion: eSIM isn't the issue, carrier implementation is.
I don't disagree with using physical either btw, I'm just saying in theory they're the same. In fact your carrier could just as easily lock down your physical SIM.
This sounds like a your carrier problem, not an eSIM problem.
I've swapped eSIMs between devices 3 times this year at my own leisure, no involvement from the carriers, no back and forth calls or visiting a store.
From what I can tell reading these comments, people don't actually have an issue with eSIM (it's literally just like your regular SIM card and the spec absolutely allows you to move it between devices with zero friction), they have an issue with how some carriers implement them, in particular how some lock down how you can move an eSIM to a new device.
Seems like carrier implementation should be more standardized.
You're not the only one, but you are a tiny minority.
Technology Connections did a really good video on this topic specifically, and while you can't extrapolate his numbers to every channel, seeing that less than 5% of all your views come from people using the subscriptions feed is very telling about how most users operate on platforms like YouTube.
Nobody wants to build their feed anymore. They want an AI/algorithm to do the legwork for them. This is ingrained in modern culture at this point. All the people I know who use any kind of social media site tell me that they just scroll through their home feed and only like stuff or follow creators to improve their home feed recommendations, not to create a dedicated follow feed.
Ignoring the GPU pricing issue, It was a really good option for Mac users to play games that don't run on MacOS. One of my friends uses it to play with our friend group.
I also used it to play higher end games because my gpu is too weak to reliably play them, but my internet is fast enough to where streaming doesn't cause any issues. (and I am not interested in paying for a gpu upgrade when I don't regularly play high end games)
Imo, if you ignore the surrounding context, it's a great option if you don't want to pay exorbitant prices for GPUs just to play a modern game.
The real issue is that this problem was artificially manufactured by the companies offering the solution and is guaranteed to enshittify in the name of greed, as seen here.
As per usual, we can't have nice things because of capitalism.
Did those people forget this is am open source browser and they can actually check it's doing what it says it's doing?
And if they're that paranoid that they don't trust the pre-compiled binaries, they can just compile them themselves.
This discussion is completely absurd to me.
This is legit the opposite of my experience. I am a relatively tech savvy user, I like to fiddle with all the settings and an ugly UI doesn't inherently deter me as long as the experience is good, so when I first installed jellyfin I was ready to have a clunky experience fighting the UI.
Despite that, I was legitimately surprised at how Jellyfin was far less confusing for me to use out of the box than plex ever was. I found Plex's UI very confusing to navigate on my TV and my family did not like using it either. I remember especially hating all the extra categories and freemium content plex added that I wasn't interested in viewing but couldn't remove (or at least did not find a way to remove). In Jellyfin all of my content is just there and very easily categorized and there's no superfluous elements in the UI, just my stuff that I want to watch.
I remember plex also gave me more trouble during installation than jellyfin did. I actually found jellyfin very pleasant and intuitive to setup. Plex sent me down a Google rabbit hole to diagnose why it wouldn't boot at all.
It was genuinely such an awful experience as a first-time user that it made me wonder why anyone would use plex.
The issue is really that Kakao is not just a comic app.
They are basically the Meta/Facebook of South Korea, one of the most valuable companies in the whole country, and they are in quite literally every facet of South Korean life.
They do instant messaging (KakaoTalk), payments (KakaoPay), banking (KakaoBank), public transportation (Kakao T), games (Kakao Games) and probably way more I'm forgetting. If you're in south Korea you cannot live without Kakao almost.
Webtoons are not a significant portion of their income, but they have so much disposable income and such a drive to go after pirates that they don't care.
Their actual audience in South Korea is very anti piracy too and support these moves. It's a very similar case in Japan, but not even the richest Japanese manga publishers are as filthy rich like Kakao, they mostly spend their resources fighting piracy within their borders and leave it at that.
Also the monetization model you're describing is unfortunately the most profitable currently. They employ it because it works. Webtoons are also by far, and I mean by faaaar, the most consumed comic format. Majority of the public is now reading comics on their phones and Webtoons thrive there. So there's a very big financial incentive to go after mobile apps because of it.
Unfortunately that's also the primary reason Kotatsu was targeted and shutdown
Bundling the sources with the app has become very risky because one specific multi-billion dollar Korean company (Kakao) has openly made it their mission to hunt down these apps' creators and nobody can stop them. They literally brag on Twitter about it and everything.
So the best way to avoid litigation and ensure longevity at the moment is to completely separate the app/reader from the actual sources of content.
But it's not that inconvenient. Once you add the repository url you can see all the available extensions in-app and download the ones you want. They are also updated automatically so it's not that involved after the initial setup.
All Mihon forks also have an update checker so you'll pretty easily keep the main app updated as well.
Mihon or any of its forks:
Note you will need to add the extensions manually but that's pretty easy to do. This is to avoid DMCA issues like what happened a few months ago with Tachiyomi and now Kotatsu (same company that took down both FYI)
The reality is you and others are afraid of change. There is no windows-only program I can't run.
Well I'm glad you represent everybody.
People who need to use software like the Adobe suite professionally? They should just abandon their whole career and not use Adobe. Because being unemployed will really show em.