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What are you talking about? I can't find anything to back this up, but I am curious. Their about page claims they are funded by patreon donations, and doesn't mention cloudflare anywhere.

Is it just that they use cloudflare services for traffic control, or they host on cloudflare? Especially if it is the former, that is pretty inane.

Is it a better deal after the SAG-AFTRA aggreement?

For me, honestly, their windowing system is terrible. I hate that it's design is being adopted by windows 11. I'm just going to stick with KDE and windows 10 rip off kde.

Other than that, it seems like a fine bsd derived os. I used to like MacBook hardware, but it feels like build quality has taken a nosedive in recent years. Smthat was the only reason I would consider getting a Mac, and I would probably install Linux in it anyway.

I do use Linux, but it isn't quite there with gaming (although it is getting there). That is the only thing keeping me on windows 10 on the desktop. Every other kernel in my household is Linux.

I hate windows 11, so I will be making the full switch soon I guess.

Please take this BS to another lemmy instance. Its going to be a lot of people viewing by all who don't agree with this a-scientific nonsense and will just downvote it.

I tried to get one since it was 30 bucks, so I'm not too surprised this is how they operated. They are locking down jindles real hard too. Probably going to make a lot of ewaste.

"Hey, we know we are going to miss a lot, but that is a sacrifice we are willing to make."

They really need to ban corporate lobbying.

Remarkable looks cool, but I was talking about a dedicated e-reader. They probably won't bother because their differentiator is the writing.

There needs to be one that is kindle adjacent, ru s linux, and comes with a ton of selections from project gutenberg, selling a little bit above cost. Thats the only way I could see this working.

Just an open source e-ink device with the build quality of a Kindle. Nothing fancy.

This is the whole point of federation, having multiple instances, and being open source. It's also why a bunch of the people on here are Linux heads.

Keep on mind that lemmy isn't owned by a single corporation ir organization. It is a bunch of individually owned instances that talk to each other. This means that if you own an instance, you have contr of how it is moderated, but you have to balance that freedom with making your instance a place other instances will have to connect to. Its very democratic.

This goes all the way to the source code, which is open. So, even if the devs try to change it and exert more control, it could be forked.

Of course, you could still be a doomer and say something could come along and ruin it. But, it's at least better than private, venture funded internet platforms on paper.

Enough money can make you think anything is true.

In politics, you can't really. Especially left wing politics.

Harlan didn't even bother to go through a 501c3 and try to hide it. Could have fine that, but he clearly wanted to do some weird "I own you" stuff. From Cornell's perspective, an outsider politician who needs cash, it probably does seem unfair that he has to give a major contribution back. But he does. Unless he wants to be associated with Clarence Thomas.

This comment is really funny. I loved.

I guess I will see you in the other side of Cornell's glorious revolution.

I feel kinda bad. Cornell got played like a godamn fiddle. Doesn't deserve this.

Right. That is why I am saying: beocme anonymous now before google demands your identity to watch videos. That is where I believe this is headed.

Long term, google will demand our identity to serve video data to us, even if only out of principle. I just think that service will degrade in the pursuit of more price extraction.

I have a longer term project to decouple my identity and property from online services. Part of the reaso thnat I am also on lemmy in the first place. With google products, it is becoming clear that anonymous use is really the only answer.

Yeah, I definitely agree, and haven't looked into all the options yet. It is pretty logical that they would catch on to stuff like free-tube very quickly. But I still think the only reasonable posture is to view video content anonymously, until google goes the twitter route and demands that you identify yourself to watch a video. They kind of already do that for mature content.

I would just caution anyone that blocking ads while logged into your Google account is probably a bad idea if you care about still watching videos there. Google will grow more desperate to show tracked ads to users.

The only ling term solution is to seek to watch YouTube e videos in a private way. Freestone is a good start. New piped and individuals look promising as well. I'm still researching a good long term solution.

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