he’s probably right. the company wants to be disruptive, and it’s normal for any company to steal data. you can self host the current model, but that doesn’t mean this will always be the case. certainly they will want to make a profit at some point. it’s day 1 silicon valley shit

many services will not accept email addresses that are not Gmail or protonmail or outlook etc. I don’t know what you would use

Gray Jay was awesome while it worked. unfortunately for me, YouTube sources simply spin forever instead of playing the video.

I don’t know how to specifically tell you that it’s really fucking bad other than the fact that I can never figure things out without looking them up because it’s really bad and it’s not good and that’s why I can’t

in case this isnt a joke, how the fuck would that help?

I have trouble displaying like 10% of the internet

holy shit man

i used the notes feature once and something happened and they all disappeared. all of the work was just gone. cool 😎

it’s the same with Google Books. you can’t copy text from the book you bought into your notes. you’re not allowed to copy text. i want to buy books legitimately for my research, but i cant use any of this shit.

im on board with the idea in general, but im not going to do this. it would be an endless effort to the benefit of almost nobody. places go up and down so fast here that google maps is often out of date too. it’s filled with stale information and im flagging missing places constantly. every digital community in this country is a garbage pile.

the ride share apps here do use open street maps though, and im making corrections to building addresses when i find something isn’t right. it’s great.

the biggest problem I have with switching is that Google Maps is a business directory. open street maps is empty where i live. it works okay for navigation, but not so much for finding a coffee.

open source never heard of it

why is the open VPN logo the Avatar for this subcommunity Lemmy

I want the ability to filter posts in my feed by type. I don’t want to see any image posts.

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that’s because they’re deleting posts. you don’t see it until you are subjected to it

I hate when my 4-year-old kid lectures me about the open source software movement

that’s the most r/linux thing ive ever heard

Every distro is essentially the same it’s not the question you want to be asking

a yellowish coating

people just think it is normal

no, man. what