Jeremy [Iowa]

Suddenly, I miss the old days of Android. I suppose it’s back to CyanogenMod or whatever it is these days

Regulatory capture seems about on par for Google these days. I suppose I’ll be switching back to OnePlus for Android devices; that’ll be about it for Google stuff in my home.

Like about how that… doesn’t actually change anything that was said?

We went from a time where you had to rebuild your fucking kernel to get your graphics card to work and fucking around with Wine to get to a point where you nearly throw your PC out the window until you can get a little app to run to simply running apt install nvidia-driver-xxx and clicking on a button to make a Windows game run in Linux.

I have fond memories of getting World of Warcraft working on Linux back in ~2008 only to realize it had an OpenGL mode that ran better than the DirectX mode I was trying - and failing - to get working.

You aren’t wrong about kernel and driver shenanigans.

Right, so anyone adopting such a “buy for a month and binge watch” strategy can still pay ~75% more and not receive a ~75% increase in value.

Nothing is changed.

Well, when the price increases by ~75% and the value does not increase by ~75%, this sentiment isn’t exactly surprising.

Yarr intensifies

The lack of Google/Microsoft enshittification is a huge draw.

Sensationalism at its finest.

However, the open-source developer GloriousEggroll mentions that the developer subscription to RHEL is free. So, access to RHEL source code is still possible but inconvenient?

Just want to to note here the Developer subscription is completely free and still allows access to RHEL and its source code if you want exact package sources. CentOS stream basically serves as a RHEL upstream so I understand this change. It may seem confusing for some people.

— GloriousEggroll @gloriouseggroll@fosstodon.org (@GloriousEggroll) June 22, 2023

Isn’t paying to remove ads a fair deal?

If the price were reasonable, community practices especially regarding monetization and moderation were acceptable, telemetry-tracking javascript minimal, etc. then sure.

But… we’re not there.

No. PiHole is effectively ad-blocking via DNS; the name is a play on black hole and Raspberry Pi.

Well, this certainly explains my difficulty with YouTube over the last few days. Ironically, the piped instances still seem to be fine…

This might just be enough to push me primarily over to Rumble. There are fewer and fewer reasons to use YouTube and more and more reasons not to.