We fought the man and won.

I think Anna is a woman’s name. /s

Last attempt to squeeze some money before these formats are abandoned in favor of competition, I guess.

If they use light mode they’re no friends of mine!

To be fair, I’m actually pleasantly surprised that people didn’t go for it.

It’s not like majority of people seemed to give a shit about privacy not too long ago…

Can you, though?

Because when I was still using W10 a few years ago I tried every trick I could find and it still auto updated…

Automatic, yes.

Forced without consent with no option to disable them? No.

You see, that’s the fun thing.

Android will still technically allow sideloading, they’ll just make it difficult and scary for average user, and annoying for devs.

That sucks, because they’re one of the only ones supporting Wayland, and I don’t like using software from shady companies…

Optimization? Did you mean to write monopolistic, anti-competitive, and unethical practices?

Because if there’s one thing Nvidia knows how to do, it’s to play dirty.

Tidal doesn’t even have anything over Spotify.
Their version of Spotify Connect barely works at the best of times, on my AV I couldn’t get it to work at all.

And Qobuz… isn’t even available in a bunch of countries.

For me, the only real alternative is piracy and setting up my own streaming.
But I’m too lazy for that, so with Spotify at least the artists get paid something, and I can be reasonably certain that whatever I want to listen to will actually be available.

Also, Bandcamp was sold a while ago and fired half their staff, so not sure about ethics here.

I’m not saying I don’t sympathize, but when this happens to me I just downvote and move on.

There’s a difference between what you’re saying, and intentionally visiting threads about a thing you supposedly care so little about that you have to announce it for everyone.

Yeah, I remember, now we still have Windows being vulnerable, but in addition we also have untested changes pushed automatically to paying customers.

Forced updates are great!

Sure looks like a paywall to me, except you get a choice of a currency you can pay with.

Well, I’d expect a professional driver to anticipate and switch lanes early enough instead of hugging the left lane for no reason…

And they claim “zero vendor lock-in”.

Exporting your content from whatever weird format they’re using in the DB isn’t exactly making the switch easy.

Simple auth was honestly one of the upsides for me.

Plex claims to have an offline mode, but I could never got it to work, for some reason.
And I got pissed off one too many times when my Internet went down and I couldn’t watch anything from the NAS a few meters away…

What’s better, exactly?

I switched years ago from Plex to Jellyfin, and while the UI wasn’t quite as nice, everything else is better.
And I don’t have to pay to use HW transcoding on my own hardware…

$3 ink from a bodega

That’s actually a fair price for 3rd party replacement.
I used to work at a computer shop, and people only ever bought the cheapest available cartridges.
We also used to do printer repair, do you know how many printers had to come in because of shitty ink?
The answer is zero.

And anyway, in your example the printer manufacturer has no business tracking your ink usage, whether it’s by spying on you and phoning home, or recording this info in the printer’s memory.

People being excited about getting spam from a scammer.

What a time to be alive…