Effing paywalls

Sounds like a survivable approach. Except: has anyone heard of it? I hadn’t.

This makes me puke.

It has been THE viteo platform for literally decades. There is so much content there; it would be a tremendous effort to direct that elsewhere.

And that other site would quickly succumb to storage and bandwidth costs. What options could exist?

Can you keep using the old version? The latest from Surtees?

How can people, “experts” even, work on shit like this with a good conscience? Even if they earn millions, they are still undressing all of us including their own families!

I refuse to believe they don’t know, but why don’t they care?

What a spectacular response. If you don’t mind, I’m going to bookmark and copy that text because it magnificently describes the whole situation.

Stuff you need for work don’t usually need any ad blocking to start with so that would be good enough.

Why can’t we switch to thorium and molten salt instead? Much cleaner, much safer, same idea.

And on Android?

Pay wall 🖕

Make the fuckers 2mm thicker, gain 10 hours battery life. 5mm more, two days life. Bam. Solved.

Hey, don’t diss Fisher Price toys. The old ones from 40+ years ago were solid. So much so that the iconic telephone on wheels and with eyes is still around.

Modern day crap though? Oh I’m with you!

No, that’s what a rake does.

stop buying car parts first

Oof. Same, brother. Same. 🤜🤛

What happens when you self host email but your home is offline just as someone tries to send you an email?

Will their mail bounce? Vanish?

Call him a skitjävel. He’ll understand.

My brother got a Mac for work. He couldn’t get used to the fact that a simple press of the Home key wouldn’t go to the start of the line; it goes to the start of the FILE.

Why??

The modern software industry is a blight upon this world. I should know; I’m part of it.

I said the same thing, until the kids needed to use Office365 for school.

And NO, Libreoffice won’t cut it because the school is deeply entrenched with Microsoft - it’s not just using Word or whatever, but all those OneDrive things that are so tightly integrated.

So they run Windows, and I hate it. My work laptop also runs Windows, and I hate it. But there’s only so far you can take your idealism if you still want to be part of a normal functioning society.

My home server rocks Linux and Docker and whatnot. But work and school? Just accept it.