Well, here in Denmark you can get a NemKey device. But that’s only given to old people in care homes.

The other method would be doing everything by in-person appointments, which need to be booked weeks in advance and usually requires you to answer a list of security questions each time.

Essentially very annoying to do if you don’t have a smartphone, especially if you want to do something simple and quick. Like transferring money from your bank (logging into your bank account requires NemID), buying something online (verification done through NemID), transferring medical documents to a new doctor and/or changing home address (NemID log-in at the civil registry).

These are all things that can be done within seconds or minutes with your smartphone, but will take weeks (counting the time you have to wait for an appointment) if you want to do it “the old fashion way”.

In other words, here in Denmark the expectation is that you have a smartphone. Loads of services are now smartphone dependent, like taking public transport (tickets and check-in cards are slowly being phased out).

Dude, the world has been quite done with the US since before 2016. It’s now just hit parody levels of ridiculous.

In Denmark, as a citizen, you get an official secure email sort of thing attached to you NemID, called “eboks”.

NemID is a central account in the Danish registry that holds all your personal information, such as medical conditions, home address, bank accounts…

You are required to have an app on your smartphone called “MitID” which you use for logging into services related to your NemID.

Your NemID is being secured by a security company the Danish government hired called Nets. Security and encryption is handled by them, and the government and related elements will only send mail to your eboks, which requires you to log in with MitID.

It’s all the same UX to me; I start up Stremio then check what torrent to stream from.

Which, on its own, is rather troublesome… To put it mildly…

The big deal is that development time is put into these… Uh… “features”.

Yes, and us unionists are fighting back. What, do you think we’re all just sitting on our arses with our heads up rectums?

If a fascist takes over the Danish government I’m going to riot, and I know which friends to call on to make it happen too.

Rather arrogant to believe the US falling means the decline of our entire civilisation.

Nah, checked Wikipedia. Germany is one of the countries that entirely blocks the site.

Luckily I live in Denmark, and Denmark doesn’t block the archive. So when I’m back home I’ll certainly be checking it out.

Heh, like wine tasting.

“address not found”

That’s OK. I’m using Linux. Perhaps this will drive more people to Linux. The less people using corporate owned tools the better.

I thought it was so comically stupid back then. But a friend of mine said this was just a bullshit way of hyping up AI.

They have always been. It’s now just impossible to ignore.

Yeah, I’ve noticed an uptic of AI generated content being posted outside the AI circle jerk subreddits. Places like the AoE4 and Bionicle subreddits have had quite a number of AI posts already.

Theyve become too courageous, with others going out of the way to defend the use of generative AI with weak arguments like “but cars also steal jobs”.

The one subreddit that I’ve seen have a healthy response against AI generated content is the Bionicle subreddit. Doesn’t really surprise me as the Bionicle community is full of creatives.

And haven’t even achieved AI yet. What we call “AI” is still nothing more than an upjumped calculator.

Huh… That’s not a bad idea, actually.

Yes, but they still have problems. But I’m noticing a trend in foldable phone designs, and I’m worried that by the time foldable phones get really good, the ones that fold smaller aren’t around anymore.

I’m not sure what features you feel are lacking. And I haven’t used Plex at all.

For me, all I want is being able to connect to it from any device, and sync play.

Oh yeah. My friend group starts having issues with more than 8 people watching. ^^;

Unfortunately the plugin seems to be abandoned.