Nah, too much freedom. Use Red Star OS to properly restrict your activities and let NK know what you’re doing.

Breaking news! Trump said something, and it wasn’t true.

Normies noticed when MS took away the start menu in W8, but didn’t notice when W10 shipped with a ton of spyware “features”.

So when I walk past some bicycles parked outside of a store, and simply use my eyes to determine if they have locks, I’m essentially a hacker.

Seems like we’ll get financially viable fusion power plants before that happens.

I had a very different mindset at the time. Nowadays, I can totally understand the need for subscriptions/ads, but back then I just wanted to get everything for free. LOL. Nowadays though, I care a lot more about privacy so the blocker stays on.

I’m also paying for services that are worth it, but I’m just not convinced that YT is proving enough value to me. Besides, I’m also shifting towards other video platforms, so I’m less of a burden to YT than I used to.

That’s probably true for now. Killing the API would be too much of a shock to millions of people, which would obviously hurt business.

However, making small changes every year is more acceptable. Remember how ads were initially rolled out vs. what they are today? At first, it was just an ad banner below the video, and I was willing to quit YT then and there. Well, turns out ad blockers handled that, so I stuck around. However, a shocking number of people still don’t use an ad blocker, such as Ublock Origin on Firefox, and they seem to just tolerate the ads. These changes happen so gradually, that people get used to them.

My guess is that YT will keep on making the service worse every year, and eventually it will be the time to kill the API. At that point, everything else will probably be so bad, that nobody will even notice the API any more.

And that means that using nail polish remover in weather like that is going to be annoying. That stuff evaporates very easily as it is, but in weather like that it’s all gone as soon as you open the bottle.

Professional photographers use needles to keep things from sliding around.

“Dodge this”, Han Solo said and threw the ring in the volcano.

I follow the “buy a Windows computer, install Linux, and slap an Apple sticker on it” school of thought. If it’s an Android phone, I would recommend using another Apple sticker.

That’s not very far in the future, so it’s going to be really exciting to see how that works out.

Looking forward to it, but won’t be disappointed if it takes a bit longer than expected.

Basically anyone can get banned by Google.

Lizard people wins the price, hands down.

The way I see it, we’re finally sliding down the trough of disillusionment.

The way I see it, Germany built the right amount of solar power, but not enough gird energy storage.

“People do not always accept what you say. Then those conversations can be very annoying.”

That’s because the doctor assumes it’s a debate where facts and logic matter. Spoiler: it isn’t.

Delusional BS is often connected with emotional matters. What wasn’t originally reasoned in, can’t be reasoned out of someone’s head.

Regardless of the origin, I totally agree with the gatekeeper part. Linux should be for everyone, and elitism isn’t helping.

I agree with you for the most part, but you omitted the symbiotic (or even mutualistic) relationship users and platforms have. For example, Google provides a video platform, and user provide the videos. Such a transaction comes with a contract we all neglected to read, but accepted regardless. As far as the contract is concerned, both parties should be fine with this situation. Nobody is stealing anything.

Obviously, this situation has quite a few problems, and the Fediverse addresses many of them. However, self hosting text, audio and video doesn’t happen for free, just like Google can’t run their servers for free. Either you pay directly to the devs and admins, or you find other creative ways to make money flow. That’s where the Fediverse and commercial platforms differ greatly.