Because normal users don’t need a local account. If you want one - use the enterprise edition of Windows.

Can you use Google Pay you paid for? No. Can you use Google Maps you paid for? No. The list goes on. That’s unless you only want to browse Lemmy and post silly memes all day.

iOS IS the bloatware.

Yep.

But most of the features you’re paying for won’t work.

Technically you can, but then your phone is pretty useless.

I could never understand why people are so against MS account. There’s a similar requirement to use products from Apple and Google and everyone is ok with that.

A lot of Russians who are against Putin’s regime moved to the US. The trend started back in 2014. I guess there will be a lot more deportations now…

Will they actually work? UK has the second most cameras after China, but pretty much none of them work or are accessible by police, so they do fuck all.

Oh, you’re one of those “think of the kids” nutjobs!

The problem with your logic is that now you have to have multiple accounts across the “same bloody Lemmy”. That kills the whole purpose of a decentralised approach. Defederation should not be a thing at all.

That’s what all artists have done since the dawn of ages.

Are you onboard kicking out customers and immediately closing the pub for every offence?

It sure did!

Terminator seeds are not GMO, they are regular hybrid seeds. If you’ve ever grown anything from a seed, you’d know the difference between hybrids and heirlooms.

Nah, we have loads of great companies here in the UK.

Samuel Smith Old Brewery is probably the shittiest company in the world. Or more specifically its owner, Humphrey Smith, is a full on twat. And, unlike most companies, this brewery and all associated businesses are unlimited companies, meaning that Humphrey bears full legal responsibility for everything his companies do.

Who’s Humphrey Smith? He’s an ultra rich Englishman (but no one knows his wealth size as all of his businesses are privately owned unlimited companies, so he doesn’t have to file financial reports apart from tax related stuff), he owns a pretty large part of Tadcaster town, hundreds of pubs across UK and he doesn’t give a shit about his employees, customers or people living in Tadcaster.

He has extremely strict rules for his pubs, which include no kids, no mobile phones, no TVs, etc. He regularly tours his pubs, kicks out people found using mobile phones and then fires the whole pub staff on the spot. He also blocked construction of a new bridge in Tadcaster when old one fell apart, because fuck locals.

And Russia will veto it. The end.

It’s a half baked alpha version.

You need a company for legal protection. There are too many idiots in this world who will try their best to sue you for no reason. The bigger you grow, the higher the risk. That’s why we have the Mozilla Corp and Linux Foundation: a company will pay a fine in the worst case scenario, but a private person behind the project is looking at a jail time.