Will you ever actually talk to these people? I have lots of these people in my contacts list who I once knew but haven't spoken to in ages. I have never once randomly messaged one of them.

Thats illegal since the GDPR.

Well, in Europe maybe. And only if a game character and items in their game count as your data. (IIRC there was actually something in the license agreement about all characters remaining property of Blizzard.)

The GDPR is about personal information. That is your name, address, email, IP address that you used to connect with, etc.

So yes, they can keep your character, but they have to delete anything that can link that character to you.

I'd say the majority of websites were never tested on safari because most small dev places can't afford to buy macbooks just to test one browser.

They could use Sauce labs or some similar very affordable solution.

Potentially. Although in my experience safari works 99% the same as chrome so I'd bet a bunch of devs just assume if it works on chrome it will work on safari.

The market can only sort it out if the lifespan of the product is made clear. If I buy a fridge today, I have no idea how long it will last. I can't see what standards the fridge was engineered to or what shortcuts they took and by the time it's known how long that model lasts it's already off the market and replaced with a new one.

Thats kind of how warranty works only that usually the product lasts much longer than the warranty.

They could be much cheaper to repair if they used standard parts so repair places didn't have to order in custom pieces that they only use about 1 per year because every fridge has it's own version.

They might be more expensive to build, esp since customers may be more interested in having a tablet in their fridge than a repairable fridge.

Most people don't live particularly close to one.

>If a car is not cool enough for me to want to own, why would I care to use the communal car rather than the bus? Can the auto industry survive selling 10% of the vehicles is does now?

Not every industry has to survive forever. Can the telegraph industry survive the ~0% of sales it had before? Cars just aren't that useful in densely populated areas. The US will have to move away from personal vehicle transport and to mass transport/walking/cycling.

This article is really poor quality and gives no useful information at all. What even is a replica of the vote system? By the sounds of the article they could have just inspect element substituted words on the page.

>“It would be extremely difficult to replicate these systems since many states utilize unique networks and custom-built databases with new and updated security protocols,”

More meaningless words. "unique networks and custom-built databases" Makes it sound even less secure but I agree with how it would be pretty much impossible to create a replica unless it's all open source.