You classify email and internet search as non-essential?
And what does how they are classified have to do with the ability/inability of government to provide them in a sufficient manner?
You claimed something that HAS HAPPENED, could not. There's no comeback here for you to find.
Those are some pretty specific additional qualifiers. Did I hit a nerve?
I'm responsing to someone claiming governments inherently cannot be good providers of essential services, which is patently untrue.
The nordics are home to numerous government institutions, providing a variety of services that are perfectly satisfactory, and often excellent.
Are you claiming that email or search engines not being among them today, means the rest mean nothing, or that they never will be?
If the current services are anything to go by, those things getting added to the list, will be fucking great.
I live in the nordics, would you like a list?
Asking or being asked in a way that is menacing, because some couples find that hot as hell, is not mutually exclusive with "no" still being one of the options.
I think it's fine.
The first party device has existed over a year now, proved its worth, and become more widely understood by gamers.
Android suffers from fragmentation, sure, but it being used by a variety of manufacturers hasn't stopped people from understanding that android is android, and can do similar things whether you buy a phone/tablet for 200 bucks, or 2000.
If you like the combat and the quarry, the Jukebox lets you play a bunch of challenge levels in locations from the same dimension as the quarry is in.
Using a domain for your handle means it entirely replaces the original bsky handle you signed up with.
I could go from being mentaledge.bsky.social to mentaledge.com, for example. (And they don't need to be the same "username" so to speak, I could have registered therealmental.bsky.social, but then become mentaledge.com, provided I own the domain.)
The main difference is that the orignal handle is a subdomain of bsky, while you can be the root domain if you use your own.
Before, you'd lose your original handle, meaning someone else could grab it once you did this, and then pretend to be you. Now they can't.
I don't share your view.
Company doing good thing without simultaneously promising it won't do bad thing doesnt automatically mean BAD THING WILL ABSOLUTELY SUPER DUPER CERTAINLY HAPPEN NEXT.
The opposite, actually.
When corpos are specific about bad thing definitely not being planned, that's when it is DEFINITELY the next step.
Ok. But again, this isn't that.
No part of this particular change, is even step one of what you're talking about.
This is literally only stopping new users from registering accounts under handles someone used before, but switched away from.
It's straight up a "correct " solution.
I don't think the name part of the bsky handle comes from the domain you use.
You just no longer lose the handle you picked when you registered, when you switch to using your own domain as your handle.
Before, once you switched, someone else could grab that original handle you registered with and pretend to be you.
So they shouldn't address actual concerns?
This change is tiny. Bluesky currently allows people who own domains to use those domains for their handle. (Anyone can buy domains, not just companies, I own two) Before, doing so would "release" the default name.bsky.social handle, allowing someone else to use it.
This literally doesn't take away any handles from anyone, except people who grabbed handles that were "released" by their original owners. It DOES NOT allow someone who shows up with a new spechul domain to take away the handle of a user that already exists.
I merely consider it necessary to function in modern society, and hence a service a government might conceivably provide.
You really like making assumptions about what I mean, and twisting my words, huh?