I usually find reasons to keep using microsoft products, but right now it's the first time I'm seriously considering ditching all my microsoft services for FOSS and move to linux.

It's gonna take a lot of effort and time migrating everything I use, but taking literal screenshots of your PC sounds fucking creepy, no matter how they sugar coat it. It's like someone else literally watching all you do.

Usually you know they get your data, but now they want exactly what you are seeing and exactly what you are doing, taking it right out of your screen. It's literal and plain spyware.

I have degoogled for a few years already, now I guess it's microsoft's turn.

I recommend Okular for PDF reading. No ads, no upsells, no BS. It also has native dark mode

I guess these results count for something, however Madison's allegations have been really consistent and more importantly, were quietly published months before without any drama.

Believing the big corporation with drastically more leverage on this situation would be stupid, so they aren't 100% cleared for me. Something definitely happened with Madison, but likely for lack of records and evidence it wasn't confirmed.

We're not gonna ever know what really happened.

You can just use crypto for its intended purpose and not give a shit about the whole culture around it. I frequently use it to buy gift cards not available in my country, a VPN, and pay securely without giving away all my data.

The real issue is people coming and bastardizing the concept by trying to get rich, and treating it as some kind of gambling machine.

He didn't say "i don't believe in crypto because it's a scam" he said "I don't believe in crypto, except on its use as a scam" so it'd be great to hear why.

Strange, for me Tineye has not a single time been able to identify ANY of the images I ever tried. Yandex has worked best for me

Youtube is one of those things you can't avoid in practice. So if you don't like it what do you do? do you just miss out on most existing video content?

Same, I'd take it any day over VLC because of native dark mode. VLC's themes are janky and weird-looking.

I opened a fraud report too detailing as best as I could in 1000 characters (maximum limit of the complaint text box) how this scam went down, but I don't think anything will come of it. Apple just said "thanks, we'll check it, but won't reply"

How easy this scam was pulled off pisses me off the most, not the 30 bucks I wasted. A dev can build hype with promises, release a half-cooked app, get people to buy it with some sale tactics, and then disappear.

You logically give devs time to work on the stuff, so by the time you start getting worried of being scammed, the refund window is out.

I'm ranting more about Apple here than the bean devs. You often see other storefronts step up in similar situations to do right by their users.

I've been using Arctic for a few months now, and it's very impressive.

Reminds me when foldable smartphones first came out. If you touched them wrong the screen got fucked.

This is a common pattern in content creators. As they grow their goals shift into running a production machine that maximizes earnings, throwing away any values or standards they started with.

Just look at LTT/LMG. It's not gonna get better, so you could watch someone else who still values things other than money.

The same Linus who can't be arsed to spend $500 of various people's time to properly test a product is now telling us what to do?

I've never given money to roku, and now I'll never will

Today most Invidious instances are experiencing very harsh ip address rate limiting, it is becoming very very hard to watch yt videos through

AFAIK this is not what's happening this time. YouTube slowly rolled out a change over the past 3 days that requires some sort of app verification for the android yt app. This is affecting Invidious since it emulates the yt android client to fetch video streams. This affects invidious instances hosted privately as well.

The maintainers are aware of this, and are working on ways to solve it. Tools like yt-dlp/newpipe still work because they have working implementations to fetch data by emulating web/iOS/etc clients.

If the team is finding out that their job ends on the same day, it's totally Google's doing, and not the vendor company.

Google loves cheap, disposable workers, that why half of their workers are contractors.

Arctic for Lemmy (iOS) has just been released on the Appstore. If anyone's looking for alternatives this could be worth checking out. The app is free, and made entirely in swift. Everything is so smooth.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/arctic-for-lemmy/id6457925837

I bought bean lifetime because all of the promises the dev told us, not because of the current state of the app.

Apple has a refund reason of "My purchase does not work as expected" which does kinda fit here. Thing is, the window to make the claim had expired, and I couldn't convince them to check it.

I'm still mad Apple wouldn't refund my bean lifetime sub. I would give that to Voyager, which is one of the few apps actively maintained anymore.

Not really, they have a docker compose file ready to go, and it works without issue.

The more stuff they do to shoot themselves in the foot, the sooner something else comes in to replace youtube

I dusted off an old laptop, put debian on it, put an SSD and now I have my own invidious instance, among other services...

No ads, no throttling, no bullshit. Google is very welcome to suck it. I'd gladly stop using youtube, but there's no competition.