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Lemmy.world admins are power abusing bullies. If lemmy.ml is defederating for this then they are soon to follow.

What even is “fashion” in this context if not a single person will ever wear it?

In your example would you ever donate money to a developer for software you had never used and have no intentions of ever using?

You might donate to a projects developer because you want them personally to keep on with the project, but that would likely only be ontop of the other reason that you want the software you are using to continue to be developed.

Otherwise it would make more sense to donate to charities.

I recently switched reading modes from “horizontal” page scrolling to infinite vertical scrolling and it made me read so much faster. It’s really quite weird that it affects anything at all.

As for “supporting the dev” I don’t really get this concept. Do you know them personally? Surely the point would be to support development of something you want rather than the people behind it. I’m in favor of supporting software development if it doesn’t violate any of my principles such as being adware.

As far as I can tell ReadEra non-premium doesn’t have any ads. This means the paid version is only about buying extra features rather than removing ads. This is a very respectable business model in a world where almost every other app out there tries to annoy you with ads until you pay them.

I use ReadEra regularly, but I think I’m going to buy the premium version since you brought it to my attention. The syncing feature could come in handy between my phone and tablet.

I host a website on my Synology as well as frequently connect to it via SFTP. I don’t know how secure it is, but I don’t keep anything secret on there to begin with. At least based on permission settings it shouldn’t be possible to access anything you aren’t set up to.

I’ve also been looking into setting up a pi-hole so I would be curious what kind of affect that would have on a Synology on the same network.

What about on a Huawei phone? If it wasn’t there to begin with and had to be installed I’d expect it could also be uninstalled. I don’t have a Huawei phone to test it out.

By the traditional definition they are kind of wrong. I don’t agree at all with Googles relentless data harvesting and ads, but the software isn’t going to make copies to hide itself on your phone and make it difficult to remove. You would be able to uninstall it like any other app without it leaving anything behind.

So it is more like adware than a virus.

Is there a way to update from within Cinny?

Neat. Thank you for the info.

Good idea. At least it couldn’t hurt.

Looking at my phone the main apps I’d like to see get this theme treatment is Proton Mail, Libro.fm, ReadEra, MX Player, FX File Explorer, Duo Mobile.

Then I’ll be satisfied that everything matches.

I don’t think there is a better tool for web automation. Selenium is pretty much the industry standard. However, you can use Selenium across a wide variety of languages and browsers.

That’s a good point. You could sell all the houses in the world to eachother without the total value of the houses going to zero.

However with the stock market there is no way to extract this 66.8 trillion. You could maybe sell 20 trillion and then it could be worthless.

Are houses considered money though? They are where most of peoples net worth is, but perhaps it is too non-liquid to be considered actual money for this chart.

But what’s silly is that most of Bill Gates money is in stock markets so why is that money separate? Unless it is not part of the total.

I get the feeling that having nearly all money in stock markets is not the best idea. I don’t know why that would be the case, but it seems very pyramid scheme like.

Maybe they should try doing that then instead of changing things for no reason that aren’t broken.

That’s a fine opinion, but I happen to disagree.

At least personally I can just leave. It’s interesting that so many people get so entrenched in a service that they can’t go without it.

Somehow? Paying to remove ads is rewarding ads thus causing more ads in the world. It’s not mysterious at all.

There are plenty of ways to not make it an all or nothing service, but that is at least the most straight forward. You could potentially give some of it away and then have to pay for the rest. Or have some stuff for free and more premium content is paid for. Or perhaps based on bandwidth with video quality / resolution.

Anything that is not ads is going to be an improvement.