If Renotec Not Safe? Don’t!

If they offered you 20,000 more than what you expected, might be you are underselling your actual worth and could have negotiated for more.

It’s sad that this has basically become a standard. Subscribe to a service, but then you have to pay extra on top of that to not see ads. Are we now supposed to be grateful that products and services we already pay for aren’t trying to bleed us for every cent they can get?

“Pwease give us access to your contacts UwU. We wanna find ur friends. All of them.”

Or you get raided by the Swedish police, sometimes.

Well, that’s basically what a torrent community is, and plenty of those are targeted by takedown requests/lawsuits. They don’t host pirated content, they host access to pirated content which is hosted/seeded by others.

This is an untested legal question. The way federation works is that the content is hosted on Lemmy.world servers by virtue of being federated. The only way to not have the content hosted locally is to block those communities.

Lemmy.world didn’t develop the federation standard and didn’t put the content up in the first place, but takedown requests and lawsuits traditionally targets content hosts, not necessarily the specific offending party who used the host. Sites avoid legal liability by policing their content, which Lemmy.world did in this case.

I personally still think it’s shitty because fuck the man and all, but I get it. It’s not my ass on the line, it’s theirs.

If you know anything about grocery stores, you’d know that relatively few of them actually hire dedicated cart pushers. The people who are asked to go out and get carts are typically people whose primary job is something else that they have to put on hold. And with stores struggling to hold sufficient staffing even before the pandemic made things worse, these are people who are also already very overworked and would probably love to not have to spend longer than needed out in the elements when they’re behind on everything else.

I unsubscribed. I find myself using Amazon less and less for shipping anyways, so now I definitely don’t feel the need to stay subscribed for streaming either.

It’s also worth noting that Apple was never proven to not be a monopoly, only that Epic couldn’t provide enough evidence to prove that they were. US courts never prove innocence, only guilt.

Google simply could have been worse that Apple at hiding what they were doing, making it easier to find evidence. Or perhaps Epic’s prior failure to provide evidence in the Apple case may have helped prepare them with what to look for this time for the Google one.

Edit: Not to mention that the Google case was decided by a jury, whereas the Apple case was decided through a ruling by a judge, which adds another layer of difference between them.

On the one hand, I sympathize with anyone losing access to How It’s Made and Mythbusters. But for everything else on that list, that money was already thrown away for no good reason. I’d like to hope the audiences were small or non-existent to begin with.

Sony is doing the world a favor by purging most of that garbage from their service, to be perfectly honest.

It’s an app that provides an alternate UI.

Half the other posts here include Jerboa, Voyager, Connect, Boost, etc. anyways.

Sync is my ride or die. Always has been, and I hope it always shall be.

Warms my heart to see so many other options here, though.

Not to mention in the early years, all of the logic you’d see from iPhone enthusiasts who would convince themselves that they didn’t need X or Y feature from Android and in fact iOS is better without it anyways because it just works, only for Apple to turn around and implement it a couple months or years later anyways.

Basic features like the notification shade, quick actions, home screen widgets, etc. I saw a lot of people happily claim they were better off without these things.

Adobe is the one for me. They implemented subscription models, mandatory cloud integration, and spyware just to bleed as much money as they can from their captive consumer base. But the one thing they simply won’t do is make their products competitively priced. They set up their industry stranglehold and now they’re going to milk it for all it’s worth.

There are people who bought Photoshop back before the subscription model who cannot access it today, now that the DRM servers validating their authenticity were taken down with the move to Creative Cloud.

But pirates still have access.

But do you have just one piece when you do?

This is also my experience. Recent example, I can buy a 1.9L container of mayonnaise for $8.99 at Costco to make homemade potato salad for my grandmother’s 95th birthday party. But I forgot to prepare until the last minute and realized I had no mayo, and so I went to the local place who charged $7.99 for 443mL of mayonnaise from the same brand.

Amazon sells 3.78L of mayonnaise (dear God who needs that much mayo?) for $18.70, making them not quite as competitive as Costco in terms of price per mL, but pretty damn close, and moreover still way better than the local place.

If you lie, then the data is worthless anyways. Or even harmful to their objective.

And when the president of NOA’s last name is Bowser, too, all sorts of fanciful scenarios are just coming to mind.

You say that, but when your employer is still running Windows Server 2012, you’ll find a lot of 10-year-old solutions to problems are still very much applicable.

Even beyond that, there are a lot of new versions of things that are still built on legacy software. Some things change but some things just remain the same for a long time.