Spez is a greedy little pig boy.

WebOS was amazing. I was convinced it was the future of mobile computing. iOS was completely proprietary and Android was a dumpster fire. But HP was the worst buyer imaginable. It’s such a shame. What could have been?

Google disagrees. In fact, the company tells the BBC “Trust us, bro.”

Non-AI summary.

“It’s quite a shock. You get to know these guys, you become their friends—not just an employer but a friend,” he told NBC6

And most other consumers, I would wager.

And then he went to the US and endorsed someone who actively campaigned on the promise of being a ruthless, authoritarian dictator? The mental gymnastics on this one are olympic.

It’s in the last paragraph of the article. It basically creates an abusive-by-design DMCA-like system that effectively forces services providers to immediately remove anything reported, without cause or investigation (because it’s not feasible, again by design). This will allow conservatives to effectively bully anything they don’t like off the internet… and not just porn. Anything.

Yes. At the same time it weakens Section 230 in order to create additional free-speech weakening censorship opportunities.

French politicians passed a law that requires porn sites collect pii (identity) in order to access the site. PornHub won’t violate the privacy and security of their users, so they simply block the locales that pass such laws.

I have to admit, of all the nations on earth, I never expected this sort of puritanical theatrical authoritarianism out of the french.

When it’s really bad, it can be far worse than nothing.

Besides having an ancient codebase and encouraging poor programming habits, it’s creator abandoned the project for months after an embarrassing public spat with another company. Plus its UX has gotten consistently worse over the last several years. It may have gotten more powerful, but also much less usable.

It’s like WordPress, but good.

If your work can’t afford less than $20/seat/month for business-critical software, I’d start looking for a new job because your paychecks are about to dry up, anyway.

Corsair

I believe I found the problem.

The sad thing is that nobody knew there was a doomsday clock.

I’m not sure Microsoft would agree, but I feel that’s fair game since the registry is readily available and accessible to any user. It seems clear that Microsoft now treats Windows as a marketing tool to get people to subscribe to their other services, anyway. The way they cram marketing and adverts into every process and corner of the OS, it’s a wonder they are still trying to charge at all.

Aha, I didn’t realize that was an option.

I see there’s a notesnook-sync-server project. Thanks for pointing that out or I’d have missed it!

I think people here are honest about Linux, but there is a catch that often isn’t clarified - there are many distros and desktops out there and they are all optimized for particular use-cases.

Want to game and nothing else without technical headaches? Bazzite. Want to game and love to tinker? EndeavorOS. Want to do productivity stuff? Ubuntu, Kubuntu, or Fedora.

Want updates fast, including graphics drivers? Arch or openSuse Tumbleweed. Want stability instead? Debian.

MacOS fan? GNOME desktop. Windows fan? KDE Plasma or Cinnamon desktop.

It goes on and on. I still keep a Windows partition because a few things I need simply wont work properly on Linux no matter what I do… notably, the Affinity suite. But Linux as a whole is getting better fast. More people are working on it and that work is starting to snowball. I’m hopeful that in a few years I’ll finally be able to get away from Windows entirely… but you’re right, not everyone can. Not yet.

A freedom-focused decentralized platform is naturally going to attract people who love freedom-focused decentralized software. You should learn to love that about Lemmy, lest your own misguided desires contribute to your suffering.