Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree are not that fulfilling

I agree with this opinion.

… you should never retire.

I’d retire tomorrow if I had the financial security to do so.

Oh cool! I didn’t know about this. Thanks for sharing.

Do we know if this is going to be implemented per device or it’s done via geolocation or something? I skimmed the article, didn’t seem to say besides “don’t get excited if you’re outside of Europe” or something to that effect. Basically wondering if this benefit can be gained in the future by importing a phone.

My dislike of Apple is… decades old. But Google sucks too. I need to dig into how Apple treats privacy (someone mentioned that it might not be great on another of these posts) and see how the software ecosystem outside of the Apple store shakes out. I’m hopefully several years out from needing a phone replacement, so I can wait and see how it goes.

Probably preaching to the choir in the largely tech savvy world that is the Threadiverse, but going to PSA nonetheless. If you’re concerned about privacy, don’t use anything associated with Google. Because IMO this is entirely unsurprising.

Commercial software: complete goals x, y, and z and get paid.

FOSS: Project of passion.

Short and black and white version: I’d rather use the software people are excited to make.

My take on what’s realistic: Things are rarely so simple. Commercial software will often (not always) be easier to use. I feel like most users don’t want to expend any more than minimal effort to effectively use their software (which I don’t think is unreasonable). So in those cases and for those users, easier = better.

Also, highly specialized commercial software might be better than any FOSS options. For example, there’s nothing in the FOSS world that can compete with the big players in commercial electronic medical records software.

So, while I love FOSS, and I find Capitalism problematic, sometimes commercial is better.

P.S: The response is more to the concept of the post. Your actual post is both well written and thought out and doesn’t feel at all like “black and white” thinking.

The YouTube adblocker battle is going to be a constantly moving target, so take this with a grain of salt as who knows when it’ll break.

I use Firefox with ublock origin and watch directly on YouTube. I don’t sign in, and I track the content I follow via rss. No ads, no nags, no issues.

Piped and similar as well as yt-dlp are also great and are better options for giving YouTube the middle finger, which I fully endorse. Just giving another option.

I don’t like helping non-tech people because they don’t want to learn. They just want it fixed. I understand the mindset and I’m that same way on other things. But I don’t want to be their “tech guy”.

I do like helping in the FOSS community though because people generally do want to learn.

Oh, yeah. Hadn’t thought of that. Or maybe it’d just blank out the ad while it was playing and you’d just have to wait. Either way, annoying.

I got to thinking you could crowdsource it, like sponsorblock. But that’d probably only catch popular videos, and YouTube could just randomize what ads and when.

The article suggests they’ve tried this:

YouTube employs a wide variety of techniques to circumvent ad blockers, such as embedding an ad in the video itself (so the ad blocker can’t distinguish between the two)

Though a low effort search on my part just now couldn’t corroborate that. But even if current adblocking software can’t handle it, real time commercial detection software exists and could, I assume, be applied here.

I don’t agree with that. Anything they can do can be circumvented as long as there’s people willing and able to do the work. And because YouTube is so ubiquitous I see that continuing.

They could certainly be more aggressive though. I think their pace is elaborate. Boil the frog slowly.

Bad behavior in Windows article up on the Fediverse for four hours and no one telling us how their Linux laptop doesn’t have this problem?

My Linux laptop doesn’t have this problem 😁.

Sounds like it’s a combo of bad Windows behavior and buggy implementations, but had to deliver the joke first.

I guess it depends on what you use it for.

I have two use cases, personally.

1. How to videos for stuff I don’t know how to do. Like, fix a leaky spigot or something like that.

2. Following content creators.

I could see PeerTube being fine for #1, but I don’t see it ever being positioned as a viable option for those who want to generate reasonable profit for their content. Would be happy to be proven wrong though.

I don’t like Apple. That’ll probably show. But I like Microsoft and Google even less, so ultimately I do want them to continue to succeed for the time being.

They should sell cheaper x86 and arm laptops. If other manufacturers can sell decent midrange laptops for around $500 USD, so can Apple. They can even charge a bit extra for that Apple logo and still come in well under the $1000 minimum price tag now.

Though that in and of itself might be shooting themselves in the foot a bit. They have kind of a designer brand vibe, people might not trust reasonably priced hardware from them. So they’d probably want to adjust their marketing too.

I think they should do this, because declining sales tells us less people are willing to pay that premium. Though they should keep their current product line too. I like what they’re doing with their Mx ARM chips.

I would think long and hard about spending years in a foreign country. While admittedly I haven’t done so myself, I’ve traveled to some of the kinds of countries you’re thinking of and talked to and observed expats in those places and it seems awfully lonely. There’s a cultural and, I assume, language barriers that’ll make you feel like an outsider. You may find a community of others like yourself, but still you’re likely to struggle to make meaningful relationships. Sure, working for the man sucks. But I’d argue crushing loneliness might be worse.

Of course I’m applying my wants/needs and my experiences to your situation. Maybe that’s not a concern for you. Maybe it’ll be the best thing you ever did. But it warrants consideration. The grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

Also something to be mindful of is in some countries foreign individuals can’t own land.

My nostalgia is telling me WordPerfect 6 for DOS was peak word processing. Also apparently I’m nostalgic about a word processor, surprisingly.

It depends on what circles you’re in I suppose. But I suspect you’re right for most people that dislike it. For some of us it’s the Chromium engine it runs on, and/or the company it comes from.

Edit: So more ideological reasons. I imagine the browser itself works fine.

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I mean literally speaking, sure. But if a bit tongue in cheek, it’s in the same spirit.

I had a similar thought. While I agree with the chorus that this is creepy AF and I in no way condone it, as a man who had to wade through these garbage dating apps to, fortunately, meet a long term partner I can attest to the profound sense of loneliness they cause. When I think back on it I can honestly see why some might consider this.

These apps suck, but in today’s world they aren’t always optional. My specific situation was living somewhere new at the beginning of the pandemic. It wasn’t really possible to meet people organically.

Edit: spelling