I started out with a Knoppix live-CD back in 2002. Remember that distro?

Thats what got me to start dual-booting and eventually nuke my Win XP install entirely.

It’s been all penguins ever since.

Discord works great on Linux nowadays.

And has done so for quite some time.

Black Friday, the shopping day is a gimmick

And one that’s been exported to other countries who don’t even have the same national holiday adjacent to that friday giving people the excuse to shop more on that particular day.

Here it’s nothing but a cynical corporate cash grab.

You don’t have to tell the truth.

Making it exactly like any other dating app.

Never allow “Send notification” permission for “Bot verification purposes”.

Or for any other reason, either.

Not even my bank or other places I trust get to send me push notifications in the wenmb browser.

If you really need to get my attention, and if I have explicitly allowed it , then send me an email.

how do I know someone hasn’t placed a bomb inside

You learn enough about electronics to identify things that shouldn’t be in there, and then you open up and analyze your devices.

Alternatively, you could not become involved with an organization that is at war with a powerful country who has a capable spy/espionage agency.

Which means they’re not going to respect your local do not call lists.

But the fee is nominal and wouldn’t stop any predator from doing bad things if they are so inclined.

It might slow down people from doing it in bulk, though.

I was about to say something similar.

I suspect that people in their target market not being made aware of it is part of the problem that is leading them to shut down.

Don’t bring that to their attention- they’ll start banning open source too.

Most that I’ve found have been on the ground near bus stops.

I’d expect Apple’s move to be followed by a lot of creators adding a “Don’t use the iOS Patreon app”

I’ve already received similar posts from a couple of patreon accounts I follow.

Unfortunately creators need to be paid and YouTube ad & subscription money is a big part of that for many of them.

By posting to elsewhere that won’t pay them, they would be reducing their income

Plus, those other platforms don’t have an audience.

Even Odysee, which has been around for several years, I only get 10s of views compared to the 3000-5000 that I get on youtube.

Most courier companies will do regular daily or scheduled pickups from business accounts.

I’ve been a teenage boy before and I did some bone-headed things

Same.

I would be surprised if anyone with the same history didnt do at least a few completely boneheaded things at one point in their youth.

Then once you have crypto in a wallet on peertube, it has to be deposited into the CEX - that is if the CEX has that particular cryptocurrency. Should it not, then a DEX is required, which means more steps.

That’s one of the pain points with Odysee.

The crypto that they pay out with is not directly able to be converted to fiat . You have to go through an intermediary crypto coin first, then convert to something you can buy food with.

what’s the alternative scenario here?

Parents could not upload pictures of their kids everywhere in a vain attempt to attract attention to themselves?

That would be good.

If they do, that means they don’t take design seriously

The diploma mill MBAs that run the place don’t know (or care) what good design is.

They only know how to look at business costs as “cutting into our profit”.

Though now I realize you actually have to get referred by one of the other members in order to start posting

That is done with the intention of keeping the quality of content high.

I doubt they want to get flooded with low effort “let’s play” gamers or even lower effort AI voiceover stock footage crap.

I think it also depends on the locale.

When I look at both Kijiji and Facebook marketplace, I see far more listings on Kijiji.