I had a disc-based MP3 player. The looks on my friends faces when I had 150 songs on my discman and they had 12.

Yes and it’s likely that they will not be allowed to any longer after Google lost their anti-trust case.

For me, I never had a Reddit account so I don’t have a basis of comparison.

I don’t even really care about the features, look, etc. I care that it’s decentralized and not owned by a corporation. That’s the beginning and end of it for me.

Someone who repackages/patches free software has different incentives than upstream. So generally speaking, derivative browsers are more privacy friendly, have better features, etc.

That’s not to say that upstream isn’t important. It absolutely is! It’s just that derivatives are generally better.

Yeah going to the grocery store was a 40 minute round trip growing up. You go there and buy as much as you can so you don’t have to go again for two more weeks. Having a train will not be suitable for this type of trip.

In my case it’s ESPN+ to watch hockey games. ESPN only checks geolocation when you first connect to the stream. So long as you don’t turn off the stream you can watch the entire game. So I turn the VPN on for about 10 seconds and then turn it off. Works every time… at least last season it did.

I use the OpenVPN configuration on mine to get around geoblocks. It works fine but I do need to disable IPv6 to force my client (a Roku) to connect over IPv4.

I have found that after about 45 minutes the bandwidth tanks and my stream looks like potato quality. Maybe because I’m on free tier and am streaming HD content? I did find out that the website only checks my IP address on startup so now I only run the VPN long enough to connect.

I looked into this because I thought that you must be missing something, but yes, you are correct.

Both the F-Droid package as well as the one on the Proton’s GitHub page do not allow for guest logins. This is curious. Perhaps the guest account option requires some sort of non-free library? I’d be interested in the answer to your question.

I’m not skilled enough to be able to speak to that.

Maybe I’m in the minority, but all I need is a fuse plugin. I don’t need specific syncing like a OneDrive/Google Drive app.

It’s unclear that they need to handle a specific flavor when they could release a Flatpak. I think the community wouldn’t have any problem tweaking the dependencies for particular distros.

This is how it’s supposed to work on the Fediverse. If you don’t like an instance, you defederate. I take no position on people at lemmy.ml, but unless people are rage addicts the best thing to do is ignore instances you find objectionable.

My understanding is that .ml was cheap (maybe free?) and the Marxist-Leninist thing was a happy coincidence/backronym.

There’s a guy who works as a product owner at my employer. He has a PharmD. He got fed up with the metrics for how many prescriptions he had to fill. Now he does software.

It’s crazy to think that someone has a terminal degree in a really technical field and he nope’d out because of how bad it got.

Glad I could be of service.

Ahh the halcyon days of downloading one song from a private FTP server with upload ratios, found by Lycos FTP search. Over a modem, natch, so it took about 50 minutes…and that’s when your mom didn’t kick you off the internet so she could make a call.

It does seem like the TL;DR of right wing Israelis is “Hitler was right, but his only problem was that he was killing us.”

Ahh Bill Maher is not a liberal comedian. He’s really not either of these things.

I see you. We are brothers.

The Doors - Light My Fire

I don’t even particularly like this song, but it’s what came on YouTube Music.