Amju Wolf @ amju_wolf @pawb.social

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Best part about a simple AM receiver is that it doesn't need a battery... For emergency situations it'd definitely be best as it's dead simple to construct, you can boost gain in radio station for more reach / power to the battery-less receivers, etc. and the transmitters are simple, too.

For emergencies it's also not a bad idea to have an offline copy of Wikipedia.

The problem is that you have to make the line somewhere. Sure, one small feature is kinda miniscule, but you could easily name dozens, and that starts eating into costs and/or other actually useful features fast.

There's also the fact that when you have a "swiss army knife" of phones chances are it doesn't do anything really well.

Humans are efficient, and there are also huge losses in converting the energy from work to electricity, and then further converting this to whatever voltage you actually need, while also likely first charging a battery somewhere so you can use it at a different time than you are cranking/pedaling...

However humans are also strong and can think of mechanisms that help with leverage and whatnot; for example an elliptical machine would probably be better than a bike.

With that being said the power you can generate is still pretty small; around 100Wh is floating around. If you worked out more you'd make more, obviously, but that might not be feasible.

It'd still be more than enough for essentials like charging your phone though.

This is literally about changes to senders who make 5k+ messages per day, so yeah, no need to worry.

Ehh I dunno, this doesn't really change much for regular mail operators. Anyone can choose to reject any message as spam based on whatever rules they choose, and this seems pretty reasonable.

Except not at all. This isn't what it costs them or what your data (targeted ad views) are worth. This is what the hope a few suckers will pay them (and to get you used to the idea of extremely expensive premium services), and otherwise at least 3 (but probably more) orders of magnitude more than they'd make if you watched the ads.

All these subscriptions have the same problem: they're incredibly pricey, offer almost nothing in return (they usually still track you), and if you had to pay them all you'd have like at least a $2k hole in your budget just for subscriptions.

It just doesn't make sense.

That's so convoluted that at that point I can just torrent the show. It's easier, faster, free and I don't have to wait for it or try to figure out which streaming service has it.

Having 5 streaming services instead of 2 when they each have exclusive content isn't competition, it's just separate small monopolies. They hold the content hostage and you can't actually choose when you want to watch something specific.

It'd only be competitive if they all had the same catalogue or you didn't care at all what you watch, which I suspect just isn't a reality for most people.

Literally pretty much every online service - especially subscription ones - want a card. Not necessarily a credit card, but at least debit.

Even in Europe many people have credit cards and pretty much everyone with a bank account has a debit card.

And they're going to produce thousands of those trucks in a month. And have them unescorted. Makes no sense.

That's largely a problem of "modern internet culture" than anything. Resources locked behind proprietary crap like Discord "servers" is a big issue, too.

Kagi looks neat but they'd have to have absolutely amazing results if they want me to pay for them, which I doubt they have... And sorry, but paying $10/month for a fucking search engine (where the actual cost per user is negligible and profit scales with number of users extremely nicely) is just insane.

I guess Google would make at most about $1/month off of ads from me... if I didn't block them. I'd be willing to pay that, maybe up to $3 for a really good service. But this is just insane, and continues the trend of "oh you like a service that's not complete crap? I guess you should pay an order of magnitude (or several) more than what's necessary to provide that service, because fuck you, what can you do?"

If I had to pay for every service like that I'd probably spend $500/month just for that and then they'd still figure out that hey, we can still put ads in and make a little bit more cuz why not, what are they gonna do?

Oh right, don't get me even started on DDG using fucking Apple maps which are complete garbage in my region. Why can't they support OSM? :/

I used DDG as my main for about half a year recently (and also a few times in the past). I always eventually end up back with Google. Don't get me wrong the results aren't that much better; but they're definitely marginally better, at least for me. The personalization helps, too.

This time I had a brief detour using Neeva for a while and I was really happy with it; was kinda like a better DDG; but that got defunct so I ended up with Google again in the end and I just don't see a way out.

Migrating email alone is a huge pain. To be truly independent you need your own domain in case whatever provider you choose goes to shit. Any decent one will cost money. Now, most people don't even know what a domain is, let alone where and how to buy it and use it for email. They also have to pay that mail provider, configure everything and migrate their old emails and forward their old mail. Oh and now they also have different logins everywhere, and because they probably don't have a password manager either they need to get one or just have different logins for different things.

That's ... a gargantuan task. for an average person - even if you provide them with a rough outline of what they'd need to do they probably wouldn't be able to do so without help.

Also, as a side note, what do you use for watching videos? What phone do you have? What maps do you use? It's not so easy to "de-google" completely.

Telegram clients also technically have source available, even if late.

I mean if it has the potential to kill the value of real CSAM that's kinda a win though... Sure, it's disturbing, but I'd rather people don't actually get abused in order to create such content - which will inevitably happen anyway.

This, I think, is actually the worst part about Lemmy. Instead of having more control and privacy you have less because everything is out in the open. Which is terrible for the users and could also have a chilling effect on the platform.

What's worse is that this is never really communicated to the users.

Ah was it for the major version already? Well they shozuld definitely go back to that, if not even further then to show their commitment (like, say, 2 LTS versions).

But yeah, you are right. We've already seen hundreds of people check out Godot, I hope it only grows from there.

They only way they could even have a shot at getting the trust back would be to do a 180, revert all the shit decision like remove license tracking and whatnot, and in their ToS commit to clear guarantees like the original ToS being applicable not just to the version of Unity you have, but to the whole major version so you apply for LTS updates under the original license you started developing for.

If they want to charge more or extra for free to play games or something, they can still do that, just not in a shit way.

Oh and they should take another look at their data collection to better comply with privacy laws and whatnot.