Google sold their domains (and customers in the process to, I think it was square space)... Definitely just go with namecheap, they support the EFF, have a good website, and reasonable prices
It really didn't... Firefox has been neck and neck performance wise the entire time with a massive arsenal of extensions (and to be fair some of those extensions did negatively impact performance enough to scare people off) and I can't think of a major feature Firefox didn't have first or get soon after.
Chrome largely just became a "speed meme" though among enthusiasts and had the backing from Google to win over IT teams.
It absolutely is, and actually it used to be even closer to the house of lords. Up until this last century the US Senate was not directly elected, the state government would appoint the state's senators. IIRC the Senate was inspired by the house of lords, the major difference being term limits instead of lifetime appointments.
(I imagine the Senate was more meaningful back when the state government couldn't talk to people in Washington in seconds)
If that's your mentality it shouldn't matter whether the software is paid or free as in beer. I'm generally in that group, but I'm pretty pragmatic about using some closed source software when it's non-critical to my life...
A Lemmy app where tons of alternative clients exist and everyone I'm doing is more or less public anyways... Yeah that doesn't need to be free software.
I'm sorry to hear that you're priced out, and I think it's fine to give pricing feedback like that. I just am sick of everything being "outrage" where someone "dares" to try to make some money in exchange for their effort.
I both wish you a better financial situation and that a shorter term compromise arrives where you can afford the app, or that you continue to be satisfied with Connect. One of the beauties of the fediverse is that it's not an all or nothing thing, there are other clients and other ways to support folks and the community (even just being a friendly person, so props there).
I mean, does it pay creators better/does it actually do the job of funding someone better? i.e. what's the advantage? Is it just kind of a meaningless difference or will creators benefit?
🙄 it's a small dev, who got shut out of the previous customer base they'd built up, and now has to rebuild with fewer customers (and fewer potential customers at least short term).
If your job lost 70% of its customers, I bet you'd be begging your boss to raise prices to avoid a 70% pay cut.
It's not a money grab. It drives me crazy how much stuff people say is a "money grab", "theft", "a scam", "predatory", etc. Asking for money isn't malicious, neither is asking for more money than you personally think is reasonable/makes sense for your finances, and neither is offering a freemium ad supported app (which is better than nothing if you're not willing to pay with money).
Edit: and sorry if that sounds overly aggressive, but you definitely struck a nerve/peeve as of late. It just seems like everyone wants to be as dramatic as possible lately.
Google is still one of the better ones for sure... Apple has gone majorly down the route of proprietary tech, not contributing upstream to OSS they use, not updating OSS they used to regularly ship, and vendor lockin games.
Love my brother laser printer. I've had it for years, print infrequently, haven't had to change toner once, and it works everytime I ask it to print on the first time
Hell, other countries hand out much more severe (i.e. lethal) punishments for traitors. It is a shame the US doesn’t as well.
If you look at a lot of these cases, these people are more mentally ill than true traitors; the leniency vs harshness often takes that into account (dumb person following the crowd and doing something typically out of character vs someone with clear hostile intent). The true traitor is the orange man.
I'd contest that, that shouldn't be taken for granted. I've tried several questions in these things, and rarely do I find an answer entirely satisfactory (though it normally sounds convincing/is grammatically correct).
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Ehh... No.