The ones I really like I will still buy something from. The others I don’t listen to enough for them to even make $1 from streaming anyway.

For those wondering, the ebooks for Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free, With a Little Help from My Friends, and Context are pay what you’d like.

50 million+ installs on Android, so it’s not a tiny number.

There are too many damn apps already imo, but apparently some people like having as many as possible

DuckDuckGo said U.S. app installs went up 18.1% week-over-week on average during the May 20 to May 25 period, compared to May 13 to May 18. The company said that growth was sustained for six consecutive days and peaked at 30.5% on May 25. On iOS, the rate of install is even higher, with week-over-week growth hitting a 33% average, peaking at 69.9%.

Here’s another WP option that’s open source

https://www.bookingcommerce.com/en/

I’d do the same if I wasn’t so tight with my money lol. I prefer having multiple on-site backups so I don’t have the subscription fees.

If something bad enough happens to my house that it destroys all my backups then I imagine photos are not going to be very high on my list of priorities.

Obviously cloud storage is convenient, but there’s definitely better value in on-site backups.

That works out to $84/year, which is about what you could get a 1TB HDD for.

2 x 1TB HDDs in RAID will be much cheaper and reasonably safe in the long run.

1TB SSDs will be even better value due to their extended lifespans, and you’d get much better speeds.

I don’t think it’s anything more than short-term versus long-term thinking.

I would not describe either country as “good”, but that has nothing to do with the above statement.

I don’t really see how that is relevant. Or how a country’s energy sources alone can determine whether they are “good” or “bad”.

Yet… they play the long game.

Wow that’s crazy! I literally covered my head with a towel and stuck some sunglasses over it and they approved my verification

Yeah it’s not easy to get people to care, and even harder to get them to move from something they’re familiar with.

The main motivation for me was getting off WhatsApp, so anyone who refused to get Signal just has to deal with SMS now.

I ripped the bandaid off when Facebook bought WhatsApp. I told all my contacts and the ones I actually talked to were willing to install Signal, even my grandparents.

You can make an account without using your real details. Just stick to the browser and don’t use their app.

I appreciate you being honest in your response here.

I’d recommend adding this disclaimer to the post text and repo readme for complete transparency, and so anyone who doesn’t want to use AI-generated projects can move on without creating arguments in the comments.

There are many genuine reasons to not trust code generated by LLMs, especially with anything network-connected or handling important data, so it’s important to be upfront about it.

Haven’t used it for a few years, but Jitsi was great if all you need is video chat

Just use your hyperfocus superpowers

/s

I did consider less common uses like that, which is why I specified “general reading”. I prefer paper for my sheet music, but I’d choose something with a faster refresh rate than e-ink if I had to use something with a screen anyway.

The only reason I’d want 2 “pages” is so I could close it to protect the screen(s)… but that’s exactly what covers are for.

Apart from the tiny minority of people who might prefer the form factor/“book feel”, are there any actual advantages to having 2 screens for general reading?