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…by monetising the installed (user) base…

I assume PlayStation users have higher prices for games and subscription services to look forward to. Probably even “ad-supported” tiers, if they don’t already have them.

Yup. That’s the main thing stopping me from yeeting Google from my phone (also Samsung): the tickbox sanctity of a non-rooted phone that financial (and some other) apps require. Very frustrating.

Don’t forget the phone. Almost everyone with a smartphone is either an Apple or Google user via it, and everyone seems to forget that.

I mean, this is exactly why example.com exists. But I bet ICANN didn’t expect this level of meta abstraction to the absurdity. 😅

Improvement? Unsure. Likely? Yes.

What does Zionism have to do with this topic?

Classic example of a buyer’s market.

Knew a guy who worked for Goldman Sachs in London pre-2008. One of their interview tests was to ask the candidate to stand on a chair with one leg in the air, and hold the pose. Will doing this absurdity get you the job? Choose wisely…

When you have people lining up down the street for one job, you can make people bark like a dog or cluck like a chicken, knowing they’ll never know if agreeing to debase themselves is a pass or fail.

The interviewer probably doesn’t even know until they spin the (mental) wheel. The humiliation/inconsequentiality is the point.

My recommendation is Debian for a server (real or virtual), or Proxmox. The former is perfectly reasonable and excellent experience; the latter is more flexible and more complex.

Debian is the parent distro of numerous Linux flavours (including *buntu, which aren’t suitable as a server OS, IMHO), so administration and services are all common (apt, etc). No need to learn dnf, pacman/yay, etc.

It’s still my preferred server OS, despite other options and being experienced.

Though I do also have a NUC running Proxmox (for VMs and LXCs), and both a NAS and RasPi running Docker. 🤷‍♂️ My Debian server is a VM inside one of them.

It’s a good post, but shitty clickbait headline. I’m not in the US, so will take their word for it on the details.

Good intentions, it seems, but classic thin-end-of-the-wedge territory. IP holders must be rubbing their hands with glee.

As with the US DMCA, I can easily see this DRM expanding to include patterns and blueprints of patented items so “Blocked: This file’s characteristics seem to match a patent/IP owned by Ford” (or Apple, Hasbro, John Deere, etc) will almost certainly follow quickly.

And as with the UK Child Safety Act, even poorly written, unfit for purpose laws can expand rapidly. It went from “age verification on adult sites” to “…and all VPNs” in mere months, and is heading to “age verify everything!” if they get their way.

I was imagining that setup with any stringed instrument that traditionally uses catgut or nylon. “Loaded gun” doesn’t begin to describe that. 😄

Waterfox had a rocky start, with privacy settings being reset to defaults on each load. Once that was unbroken, I made it my permanent browser on PC and mobile. Zero regrets.

Mozilla is a shadow of its former self. I understand they desperately want that Google pay cheque, but “number must go up” mentality and MBA-infected CxOs can both get in the bin.

Unless it was laid in the 1950s, in which case it’s probably aluminium wire rather than copper.

There’s an area like that between the local exchange and my house, which meant internet speeds were like living in a time capsule before FTTC came along. Always 25% of what the rest of the town had.

But other than edge cases like mine, I agree. Copper lasts a long time with minimal things to go wrong. Modern solutions like FTTC require their own power, air conditioning, etc.

Agreed. But one climb down means potentially more, as needed. 🤞🏻

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Yes, the “yet” is doing all the work here. Along with a heft dose of “Digg was great” for those of its who used it and, well, the inevitable enshittification that all PE-led startups follow. And Rose has proven he’s no exception.

A bit like Bluesky, where the USP is “just like Xitter, but without Elmo at the helm”. The days are numbered, etc.

Perhaps where you live.

Internet 101: Laws aren’t the same everywhere.

Edit: My point wasn’t specifically about amateur radio (I’m also one) nor where I live, but about the old-as-the-internet habit of people scoffing about what is and isn’t legal without even knowing where the person they’re replying to lives.

On the radio front, numerous countries require licences to legally listen to public broadcast radio (Switzerland, Slovenia and Montenegro are examples). If your handy dandy Baofeng UV5 can pick up broadcast FM radio frequencies, in such countries it will fall under licencing requirements even if you never transmit.

Microslop going full “the beatings will continue until morale improves” with their ensloppification of everything they touch, I see.

The @FediTips@social.growyourown.services account created a site specifically to help people decide on a Mastodon server based on their needs and wants:

https://fedi.garden/

They’re also an account worth following.

I’d forgotten about that. How dumb. 🤦🏻‍♂️

The 80s, I think, thanks to AutoDesk. AutoCAD required their DB9 serial dongle (in-line with the mouse) for the software to function.

As you say, well before DRM was the default for everything. I thought they were an awful company for it, but little did I know how things would pan out due to the DMCA… 😒