Not an American... But holy crap... If Disney succeeds with this... then ... E-v-e-r-y single service will have a clause like "you hereby agree to never ever take legal action against us, our subsidiaries, cookie partners, affiliates, our friend's dog or Bob for anything we might or might not have caused in the next 2 billion years if we don't give you permission.".
I'm happy that I'm living in the European Union av and not in Florida.
Both are CL 19 do you should be fine.
I'm sorry to be the guy that tried to ruin your party, but "if we collectively..."... How many people are you talking about?
100, 1000, 10000, 100000 ?
This is business. We're talking about someone's livelihood. Peace on earth is nice but it doesn't guarantee food on your table.
Syncing is an alternative as long as it doesn't mean that a view pays less on Odyssee than on YouTube. If it does, then the creator would not gain anything, just kidding income.
What is your selling argument for a YouTube creator with 100000 views on average to move to Odyssee?
My favorite channel wouldn't have millions of subscribers and a somewhat steady recurring income because of this.
It's a classic catch 22: Without viewers, no content creators. Without content creators, no viewers.
I think it's great that they try to get rid of what makes YouTube suck but I don't see that content creators are leaving YouTube anywhere soon.
Of course it's clear the China is helping Russia.
Yeah.... I totally respect that China doesn't want to support any of the sides in Russias aggression against Ukraine.
So let's fucking do this the Russian way by using proxies when purchasing products and services from China. China doesn't seem to have any problems with that.
Or does it all boil down to that China "unofficially" supports Russia?
I recommend you shrink the windows partition on the internal drive and install Linux in the then empty space. The extra disk you have can be used as and extra disk or you can create mount points for /home and other directories.
Microsoft does not recognize other operating systems as "equals" (WSL is not Linux being week. It's making Linux a puppet controlled by Windows) and therefore they design everything Windows as it was the only OS in the world. Therefore keeping Windows will often require some extra acrobatics from you.
Goldman Sachs is overhyped and unreliable.
I have the same experience as you do, but there's a reason that the big ISPs continue to be big: The majority of customers seems to prioritize a lower price than a better level of support.
(Also, I'm not just talking about ISPs. I meant customer support in general and how the view has changed from "keeping a customer is much cheaper than gaining one" to "cattle, cattle, cattle. If we lose one, there's hundreds to gain".)
Nice try. But let's play with the thought that there's no way we can let a rookie listen in on customer calls and gradually work their way into the role until they have enough experience.... What about hiring technicians/professionals that has been working with the products/services for 10 years?
That would be a way of getting competent customer support people, right?
And just to clarify my comment that you replied on: The problem today is that most often there's no career path for the customer support rookies and the pay is so lousy that most people just work customer support until they get something better.
That's definitively the correct way to avoid getting experienced people in the customer support.
Unpopular opinion and rant: Us, the consumers, brought this on ourselves. Not intentionally but it was a slippery slope.
No one I know did ever ask the sales representative "does your customer support answer within 5 minutes and will I always reach a representative with att least 10 years of experience, that has the authority to make real decisions?". No, but we were all very interested about the pricing of the service/product.
Then these "Please press 1 for...." happened.... and no one of us really cared about the change because the service providers offered a much lower price than the ones with customer support representatives with 20 years of experience. Since all of us went for the cheapest provider, the other ones had to cut cost to be able to offer their service on a competitive price level. So then there were no one offering competent support with representatives that knew their shit. And it slowly continued to go downhill...
So here we are with shitty services, which we pay for, where we all are treated as cattle.
If people at least started to ask for better customer support there would someone, who wants to climb the corporate ladder, creating a PowerPoint presentation with a real VIP Service Level. Of course it will cost more money, because real people cost money, but we would att least get what we want.
But no. Consumers will still go for the lowest price.
So you purchase ordinary suspension but get active suspension that works exactly like ordinary suspension and cost like active suspension to service....
It's time we get legislation that gives the consumer access to all encryption key pairs used in the product they purchased.
(For you who don't know what encryption key pairs are used for: they are used for the software to know that a change order, like "activate suspension", is legit and therefore will be executed.)