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It is long past time to ditch Google, if you care about an open web or actually finding things. But it is a mistake, absolutely a mistake, to shift over to another proprietary piece of shit from another unethical company.

This keeps coming up and as always it's complete BS.

This is not "government workers" in the sense of normal government employees trying to do their jobs with limited resources. This is "personal lackeys of the richest man on earth". Please don't imply equivalence.

Years and years ago. I see you've tried many things but not described whatever issues you may have had with them. I use Nextcloud running on a NAS which also runs a Wireguard endpoint so I have access via VPN to my home network when I am traveling. It's not perfect but does what I want it to do syncing a folder of files between Linux, Windows, and macOS systems, and the iOS app works well enough.

I don't use it for large scale file storage, such as photos or media. Those are on the NAS and accessed through traditional SMB file shares.

Sounds like maybe you got fired for being insufferable, not for being good, and not because other people were bad.

No, I will not stop saying true things.

I think you misspelled "to push right wing dogma"

It's on the Mac App Store so you'll find the pricing there. Looks like $10 for one month (one time use maybe?), $20 for a year, $50 lifetime.

Just a big list of bullshit. Don't waste your time.

Absolutely disgusting. Everything in this tire fire of a press release is disgusting. I am ashamed to be American. I am ashamed I once worked for the USDA.

And what irony at the very bottom of the page: "USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender." While everything above says this is a lie.

And when all the dunces celebrate someone, what does that mean?

Try the arch linux forums, they're probably going to be more helpful.

Newbie forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewforum.php?id=23

Installation issues forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewforum.php?id=17

One helicopter with two pilots, as compared to two helicopters. Perhaps try checking yourself before yelling at others.

Bold of you to believe a shady copper "recycler" would care.

I purchase ebooks from Amazon, and I remove DRM from them immediately. I'm not pirating, I'm buying, but this asshole is saying otherwise.

DRM is unacceptable. If I can't remove it I won't buy at all.

"Why is Amazon doing this? It’s a feature not many people use and those who do, commit e-book piracy."

What one earth is wrong with the people who write this kind of garbage?

This is an inane defense of highly unqualified and deeply concerning cabinet nominees through bullshit made up accusations of racism and numerous ad hominem attacks on people the author does not like.

Not the mention the crazy ass rewrite of history and statements that are completely at odds with reality. This entire thing is bullshit.

MS Word works with styles in a very similar way, and the appropriate thing to do is modify the styles to match your use case. But Word does not necessarily enforce this, and so creates additional ad-hoc if you manually go in and change specific formatting. Luckily it is fairly easy to make a change like that and then find the real style and tell Word to update the style to match your selection.

First, ebooks should not have DRM. I only buy Kindle books because I know I can remove it; if I couldn't remove it I would not buy them, period. So this is a shitty move there.

Second, whoever wrote this is a jackass and should seriously consider never writing again. I mean look at this garbage:

> This is how Amazon offers some of the best-formatted e-books on the market (blowing ePub out of the water).

> The thing to remember here is that it is illegal to remove DRM, even for personal use, but that doesn't stop everyone, creating a problem

> so it's not like we are losing access to dragging and dropping files onto a Kindle, we are simply losing access to a tool that facilitated easy piracy by pushing older formats of retail books from the website to your Kindle over USB.

This never had anything to do with piracy for me, but I refuse to "purchase" something I don't own and can't control, and that includes DRM.

If they changed something in the last year, maybe. But last time I dug into this in detail they screwed it up out of the box, specifically by refusing to use the same mp3 ID3 tag that most other software including Picard uses. So for FLACs it worked, but for MP3s it did not, until I went in and edited the code.

At the time, the developers claimed changing it to work as people would expect it to would break existing user workflows and so they wouldn't do it.

How does this help anyone?

I know what it is, that doesn't make it good.

This is an anti-renewable energy hit piece that is completely divorced from reality.

Reading the article the issue appears to be massive cost. The entire discussion about "consumer recognition of oled holding them back" is completely ridiculous if the technology is 5x or more the price.

Near the beginning, we have:

> Micro LED TVs are currently available for purchase, but they cost six figures, making them unattainable for the vast majority of people.

Then later:

> Despite enthusiasm from technologists and the display community, the mainstream infatuation with OLED makes it harder for Micro LED to move into consumer products.

If the first statement is true, then the second statement is nonsense.

Some people I know love it but it just doesn't work for me in the way I use a music player. It's similar to foobar2000 in some ways which depending on your preferences can be good or bad.

And the name is terrible.

Strawberry is better for me but still kind of janky. Quod Libet and Rythmbox would seem closer to my ideal interface-wise, but scored massive own goals they seemingly will never recover from. How in 2025 music players refuse to (not can't, refuse to) get "Album Artist" right blows my mind.

Since I subscribe to Plex I find I'm using Plexamp more than anything else, but that's not really open source.

Glass houses and all that...

"Unexpectedly" unless you were paying attention.

1Password just keeps going farther off the rails, doesn't it.

Mass flaggers who don't want to discuss things are not representative of "the community".

Jesus, what the hell did I just read? I would have expected more from someone who went to Rolla, but I find myself disappointed.