Article is from April 2025.

Unfortunately there are still bills to pay even if you don’t visit the site for months. Keeping the lights on is not free. So that is a very unlikely subscription model you’re describing.

That’s your only comment up this article? Did you even bother to open the article?

I would wager they many of the same people arguing for a boycott went on to purchase it anyway. Opinions are free, as long as it doesn’t affect your life in any way.

I’m sure this won’t be abused by law enforcement nor by politicians to spy on their competitors /s

Like they are going to give a rats ass what you say. They will use it anyway.

Which works for some content, but a lot of childrens content is only available through subscriptions to Netflix/Disney+/Max.

Don’t know why you’re being downvoted. Truth hurts I guess? I have worked in IT for more than 25 years, installed Slackware from floppies in the 90s and have tried Linux countless times since. Every. Single. Time I end up wasting my time trying to fix hardware drivers or being forced to accept the programs I want to use don’t work on Linux and the alternative programs are just plain worse.

Oh and I have used Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, Fedora, Mint, Slackware, Pop! Os, Alpine, Gentoo.

It’s fine to refuse to help, but offering your unsolicited opinion on windows instead of helping is just rude.

Having worked in this industry for going on 25 years, I long ago learned that there are way too many incompetent programmers in the world working critical jobs. It’s best not to think about it.

I know you think you’re being clever. But what you really are is arrogant. Telling someone the answer to their problem is to do as you do, instead of helping them with their issue.

That’s great but all it takes is some of your blood relatives to submit their genetic data and they can calculate your genetics to a degree that is accurate enough.

Good for them! I’ve always wondered when working Americans would decide unions are a good thing.

Thank you. I was about to say the same. Subscribe to office 365 and get the business version of Teams. Even if privacy is a requirement, what’s wrong with teams?

Killing Floor.

Used to have Paperwhite. Upgraded to Kindle Oasis a few years ago. No regrets.

Adding to your advice: RTFM. I have been a professional developer for more than 20 years and the number of people i have worked with, who bothered to read the manual, can be counted on one hand. So many bugs can be avoided if people bothered to read the manual for whatever software/SDK they are using.

Advice that has been valid forever. Don’t mix your personal life with work. That includes software, mobile phones, computers.

I have tried on several occasions to like GrapheneOS. But every time I install it on my Pixel 7, basic functionality breaks. Things like receiving regular phone calls, as in people calling my number using a normal phone. GrapheneOS will sometimes not even ring and immediately display a notification saying “Missed call”. If my phone cannot be used as a … phone, what good is is?

So a pharmacist should be allowed to refuse selling e.g. birth control, due to personal beliefs? Everyone can just decide who they want to service for any reason, right?