I set one up recently and it also asked for a phone number. Maybe there is a way to bypass that step but I couldn’t find it

These are not 20 year old phones. There’s a reason these transitions are made gradually.

Except they weren’t non-compliant before and this is punishing the users, not the manufacturers. I don’t even know what tech my phone uses for emergency services.

So to let people know that they won’t have emergency service during an emergency, they prevent them from having ANY service now (24-hour notice). Even if telecom companies behaved perfectly (which they wouldn’t) the initial idea was already a problem.

Guess what this post is

A speaker too. So you can mess with your pets while away or spy on your spouse. What an amazing product idea /s

Let alone Spain has already implemented a system for this which is part of a bigger EU effort. https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-builds-porn-passport-to-stop-kids-watching-smut/

Sadly, I don’t think this is going away.

I find myself adding this to a lot of hack/breach headlines lately

How common are these outages? My ISP provides a SIM with unlimited data for extended outages (like more than a day). This price doesn’t make sense for smaller outages.

Pay for it after trying the free version. Both spotify and YouTube music are terrible on the free version.

When was “originally”? Lyric availability is the main reason I chose spotify over YouTube music. If it’s not included in the free plan then you can’t compare that and won’t pick spotify.

Why does it feel like lately more and more articles fit Not The Onion or A Boring Distopia?