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  • SGG@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldAm I the only one?
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    3 days ago

    Just like GTA 5, I’ll wait for the PC version to go on a sale.

    It’ll take a few years, but it’s GTA, which makes it an easy wait for me.

    I played the GTA5 campaign once, played maybe 100 hours of the online multiplayer with friends, and we all decided it was over hyped.

    The game looks nice, it’ll hopefully play well, but I just don’t get the hype.



  • The wording I would say is correct more than it is wrong.

    Companies did pay tariffs directly, and because of this I would say nearly all increased consumer pricing for effected goods, so indirectly people paid for those tariffs.

    With the refunds going out, while ideally it would be a simple refund, the cost is performing the refunds (in man hours and potential transaction fees) which is the additional cost to taxpayers.

    I would also say the number of companies deciding to send those refunds on to consumers is extremely low, they’re just keeping the refund.

    So it is definitely not regular people being “double dipped”, which is what the original line may imply, but yeah, it’s seemingly been used as a way for companies to make extra profit from people at the taxpayers expense.






  • In this case I agree with others that you probably should not send anything at all.

    If you absolutely are going to send something. Less is more. An apology of literally just “I am sorry”, and an offering to them that if they ever want to reconnect that you would be open to it. No explanations, no reasonings, no what ifs/offerings.




  • I looked at the permissions the camera app has on my phone. While yes it has a few they don’t seem unreasonable to me.

    Camera, microphone, photos and video are the absolute bare minimum to be able to capture pictures and video and be able to save them locally.

    Notifications while not critical makes sense so it can show a recording notification.

    Location once again seems common sense to me because lots of people want their photos geotagged. I believe this is also why nearby devices is required.

    I was able to disable location and nearby devices and the app still works, which I think is acceptable.

    I’d be curious to see what permissions your camera app has/had/requested to see if it was after more suspicious access.