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Not the OP, but I alternate between self-hosted instances of Outline ( https://www.getoutline.com/ ) and Nextcloud (with Collabora) for this. Outline I actually like better than Go…

Same. Big fan of the YouTube metadata plugin.

I’ve been using Tauon for a few years and have been very happy with it: https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/

They’re also all software developers, right?

Are they worse than streaming? I don’t know the math, but it seems like constantly sending the same album over the network would use a lot of energy.

They’re selling your precise location to data brokers that sell it to the police ( https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/fbi-finally-admi... ) so you can get a deal on french…

That’s how I used Instagram in the first half of the 2010s. It seemed like the app was designed for that use case back then. Now it seems like it’s designed primarily for watching …

Yes! Strongly agree with this. E2E is easier than you think and will be much harder to add after the fact.

I don't think this is true anymore. The average user may not know what end-to-end encryption is, but they know they don't trust Facebook. And Apple built a whole marketing campaign…

Also, that massively centralizes the Internet in a way that's not great. If one of those CDNs gets hacked or just goes down for an hour, it breaks every website that uses it.

I think that they can do that is the problem, though? If you don’t like the way Google is running things, you can swap out the OS on your Pixel for one of several open source priva…

Yes. We live in a world where our only real freedom is our purchasing decisions. I think that leads to people making brands, TV shows, video games, etc. a big enough part of their …

Your every move is quite literally transmitted to Apple. That's how Find My works.

I would argue that modern TVs and smartphones are some of the most common ways that people are wasting their precious time on earth these days, but do what makes you happy I guess.…

Maybe it's not, but this sure looks like a predatory data grab.

My bet is they wait a few months and quietly announce that they’ll do the scanning on the iCloud servers instead. That would be relatively uncontroversial in the tech press and pro…

If the million customers they lose also happen to be people who build apps and influence the tech buying decisions of everyone they know, that could be a very big problem over time…

I find the 3000x2000 mode mentioned here works well: https://community.frame.work/t/using-elementary-os-on-the-fr...

Likewise. I'm running Pop!_OS on mine. When I pre-ordered, I figured there was a 50/50 chance the thing would even ship. But it shipped exactly when they said it would, and it's fa…

I just switched to a Framework from a 2018 MacBook Pro. My take: the display is comparable, the keyboard is much better, and the trackpad is fine, but not as good as Apple's.

Many sex workers have been warning against political censorship for exactly this reason: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/532137-sex-workers-war...

Unfortunately, phones are most people’s primary computer.

Haha, likewise. I've been walking around for the past year thinking about how this should exist. Glad it does now!