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the entire stereotype that gen Z is amazing at technology is overrated, it’s the same as the millennials there’s some people who have excellent troubleshooting skill and are able to use technology with very little issue, and then there’s some that you can tell that they operate technology strictly on memorization not actually understanding how it works. You can differentiate the two by modifying their environments slightly and seeing if they struggle to figure how to do the stuff they normally do.

It’s actually more likely that with how user friendly environments are, that gen Z is less Savvy when it comes to using technology then the Millennials due to the fact that they’ve been pampered into environments that don’t require them to think outside the box, when I worked in the customer service field, it leans towards technical service and most of my customers who requested help were either Boomer or Gen Z, Millennials overall seemed to have the troubleshooting skills to be able to figure out problems without involving a third party.

That being said like above, this was a person to person basis I did have some Boomers who were able to rock the kiosks or have the troubleshooting the skills to be able to do it; just as I had gen Z that was able to rock the kiosk as well I’m just stating my observation of what usually happend.

Then to address the keyboard skills, most of what gen Z uses is going to be touchscreen, the desktop / laptop is a dying technology as a primary device for the younger kids as a whole, my sister didn’t even have one until she entered College(outside of a school laptop) because she just used her mobile phone or tablet, neither of those required a keyboard outside of an on-screen which you can’t use with the home system layout that used to be taught in school. So it’s only natural that gen Z might have fallen behind in keyboard skills

I fully agree with this, but my main concern right now is that with the current system how it is we’re going to get something that’s even worse. Imagine the devastation that would be caused about time they rework the existing copyright law and they decide that fair use is no longer needed, which is a very possible outcome if the current branches were to decide on it

I would use those but, I can’t go without my recommendations, like thats a hard deal breaker to me, and revance doesn’t like to allow for recommendations easily without also risking account ban, as it relies on the microg suite. I should just seperate my youtube to another account but like, I have so many years of recommendations on this one its hard to part with it

Honestly it just depends on the definition of invalid, it’s still giving you information on where you need to go so it still gives you more information than when you started it’s not like it just leaves you to a dead end number, now what some other people were proposing which is a virtual number and then just toss the phone after that I don’t agree with. Nor do I agree with a number that doesn’t give any info aside from just hanging up or endlessly ringing

It’s no different than companies like Microsoft, you have their phone number that’s a literal support line that says hey go to the website sometimes without even indicating where on the website that you go to.

I ran into that twice while dealing with an activation issue and a hardware purchase issue last year, their phone support will lead you in circles until eventually you hit a voicemail that says please go to this page. In one case it gave the location, in the other it said “this support is available on the Microsoft store website at” and it just gave you the store launchpage for ms store

As a developer myself, I’m not really sure where I feel on this. I can definitely see where this would hinder people’s want a posting on the store and suppress their creativity, but I can also see why they’re requiring it.

I couldn’t imagine publishing an app without some form of ability to reach out to report bugs or reach out for support, cuz at that point what’s the point of making the app if you’re not planning on having people use the app.

That being said, the entire publishing a DUNS number I struggle to feel bad for, they went down the same route that I’ve done in the past where I’ve registered as an organization because organizations have less information that’s had to be obtained, but because of that you’re expected that you’re doing it on a more commercial scale, which also means a more complicated and sometimes pricey system. This requirement would not have been the case if they hadn’t set it up as an organization in the first place and just put it in as a one person development project, that would have required putting more personal information.

All in all, the information that is required from developers doesn’t seem unreasonable, it’s basic things that as a user you would want, and as a developer you should want to telling your users anyway.

As for the API requirements, I understand why they want to push the newer API levels, and nothing’s more aggravating from a user’s point of view then downloading an app only to find out that it has barely been upgraded since Kit Kat and still requires every permission under the moon to operate because it doesn’t integrate with the newer permission systems, but I can understand that if you’re relying on features that the API versions required that finding the new way of doing things isn’t always an easy task, even when there’s a super simple and easy to read article that says the changes between API levels like Google provides.

Nonetheless I don’t think the API requirements are there as a way to cause a hindrance to the developer, I believe they’re there to force developers to use the newer standards and it also acts as a way of knowing which apps are still being actively maintained, because really apps that are no longer being maintained don’t really have a place on the Play Store. They already have a huge issue of abandonware apps, which gives Google play a trashy/unmaintained feel that their competitors (i.e Apple store) doesn’t have, I can understand why they are finally putting a stop to it

just have the voicemail say “this mailbox is rarely monitored and is here as a requirement for google play services; a better way of getting support is available at X”

It’s also extremely anti-consumer to not offer any support. Which is likely the primary reason that Google is requiring this. There are so many apps out there that don’t have any means of support, it’s one of my primary complaints about google play, so many abandonwares or apps that were clearly put on there as a send and done with no intent to actually use them.

well they only said offer a number, they didn’t specify it had to lead to a human, Google offers numbers it just goes into automated call center hell unless you are a buisness

Not the person you replied to, but I use the queue feature a lot, the ability to just queue up 10 videos at night and fall asleep without having to worry about making a playlist is nice. I also use their experiments a lot, like for example they currently have an AI experiment active that let’s you ask questions that it will answer based off the video. someone post a video that looks super boring or bland or too long, but you wanna know what happens? just ask for a summery, you get something that looks like this.

honestly if the download offline functioned better that would be an amazing feature too, it’s just glitchy for me.

Currently the price is steep though, I’ve told myself if it raises again I’m jumping ship myself

That’s the funniest part of it, it’s only security theater. I know content creators who go by the ideology of swearing is allowed it just can’t be in the first 30 seconds of the video which is hilarious to me. So you’re telling me that the first 30 seconds is the only part of the video that matters? Makes me laugh

This Museum analogy works quite well

With image generation software it’s not intending to give you a one-to-one copy of the original source, in fact many of the algorithms have it coded to avoid that all together (or attempt to) it analyzes common image patterns that are done much like how humans when they go to an art gallery. The only difference is instead of it being one Art Gallery it’s a massive art pool, and instead of it being limited to the human mind which can only remember so much art at once it can remember it all. So you essentially have to look at it as one huge art gallery that the artist has access to 24/7.

It’s essentially the same as any artist who entered the museum, it just can remember everything that it saw instead of one or two things that it saw

I can already tell this is going to be a unpopular opinion judging by the comments but this is my ideology on it

it’s totally true. I’m indifferent on it, if it was acquired by a public facing source I don’t really care, but like im definitly against using data dumps or data that wasn’t available to the public in the first place. The whole thing with AI is rediculous, it’s the same as someone going to a website and making a mirror, or a reporter making an article that talks about what’s in it, last three web search based AI’s even gave sources for where it got the info. I don’t get the argument.

if it’s image based AI, well it’s the equivalent to an artist going to an art museum and deciding they want to replicate the art style seen in a painting. Maybe they shouldn’t be in a publishing field if they don’t want their work seen/used. That’s my ideology on it it’s not like the AI is taking a one-to-one copy and selling the artwork as , which in my opinion is a much more harmful instance and already happens commonly in today’s art world, it’s analyzing existing artwork which was available through the same means that everyone else had of going online loading up images and scraping the data. By this logic, artist should not be allowed to enter any art based websites museums or galleries, since by looking at others are they are able to adjust their own art which is stealing the author’s work. I’m not for or against it but, the ideology is insane to me.

some countries this is actually legal, it’s just the redistributing part that is illegal

note: I’m oversimplifying here, the countries that allow for downloading aren’t actually letting you have it for free, it’s under the basis that you’ve already purchased one form of the movie and you are downloading it so you can preserve what you have purchased already

I’ve actively told any friend that send me a voice note that if you want me to respond to you don’t send it as a voice note, I won’t listen to it. It requires me to put headphones in or play it on speaker, and neither of those are happening unless it’s important.

hard agree, voice messages are the worst of both worlds, you can’t look at it and get the gist of what’s said, and you have to deal with listening to it, while requiring more bandwidth to use.

I’ve told my friends instead of pressing the voice button, just press the speech to text button, I’m more likely to read a wall of text than listen to a voice message.

Yeah, like OneDrive which was supposed to be off by default, Skype which was supposed to be off by default. They love their “Off by defaults” , because for the first few updates they’re off and then suddenly during a major update you have 20 new processes running because they all have services that run even if the program’s off

Last I knew it wasn’t even encrypted, unless they realized how stupid that was

Is this even legal in some other countries outside of the US and Canada lol, I know there is some countries out there with quite strict consumer protection and I’m pretty sure second hand Market is one of the more regulated ones

the thing is, even if they did cause issues, the seal means nothing, Google is going to deny all liability anyway. This is just Google being petty and blocking third party’s imo

meanwhile actual content creators are getting demonitized for happy wheel level gore (small red particles that come out when a stick man’s limbs come off)

so dumb.

I’m going one step further, it’s not just Google app services that is the problem. What they’re catching fire for currently is the Google Integrity api, as Google is refusing to whitelist third-party ROMs onto the API which means that secure apps such as banking apps will use that API are not able to be run on third party custom roms. Their argument is since they can’t validate the security of the ROMs they refuse to integrate them, however there are a few projects including graphene OS that has done everything that they can to keep it a secure minimalistic environment but because it’s not Google they won’t whitelist it. It’s definitly anti-competitive.