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IMHO, inkjet printers as a whole are a scam. That is, unless you buy a really high end one for professional photo printing.

I for one am happy to watch it die! Burn baby burn! 🔥

I am not 100% certain that this is the correct answer but I think distributed computing still happens but it between containers and VMs instead of physical machines. This is just a guess though and could be wrong.

The way Rolling Stone put it, Twitter welcomed the Taliban with open arms as if to say, “Please come in. The water’s warm so you might as well swim.” Elon Musk is facist and a support of fellow fashies.

Trumblr is still corporate social media and given a different turn of events would sell you out to get ahead so I don’t have any soft place in my heart for that.

That’s kind of what Lemmy, Mastodon, Friendica, and Pixelfed among others are already doing.

Google reaps a more than simply healthy profit compared to what it outlays to help open source projects. Alphabet is not doing this out of altruism so it’s definitely profit motivated. Google’s cash outlay to benefit FOSS is mere peanuts when compared to the lucrative value it gets in return.

Yes, I feel you on that one!

It’s definitely against the ToS for me ISP. I doubt they’ll ever really find out because the bandwidth I’m using isn’t as crazy as the other customers which regularly stream from Netflix, Hulu, etc. I can kind of hide in plain sight. Also, my internet connection is fiber to the home. I have the lowest tier of service at 300MiB up and down. So I guess I realize I’m coming from a situation of relative privilege. I wish most people had this capability.

Never underestimate greed is something I learned in my 46 years alive.

There would be some initial shock but we would quickly get over it. Personally, I would be delighted if Google were to do a complete epic fail and close down.

Yeah, fuck one drive! Microsoft can eat my entire ass.

It does not mean anything for me because I am not a Windows user. For Windows users it means subscription models and renting software. It could also mean eventually booting your computer into a desktop that is in the cloud. I hope to god that does not happen because it may make finding hardware that will run Linux and BSD that much harder.

My server in my home costs me a lot less than 30/month to operate. Since this is a hobby for me I don’t assign a monetary value to the time I spend working on it. I built the server with second hand components that I got at a swap meet for less than 700 dollars. Now knock on wood things have been running smoothly and I do a lot with this server. It doesn’t just power Lemmy and Mastodon, but it also does my Jellyfin and NAS. It’s probably overspec’d for my needs but that means I can use it for a long while.

I see maintenance as a part of the joy and learning of the hobby, much as a gardener enjoys the hard work of moving heavy bags of soil around. It’s all very much up to the individual. Some hobbyists have a deeper passion for it than others and that is perfectly okay.

I pay far less than that in actual utility usage to operate my server which has 128GB of RAM and 16TB of storage space. I’ve just allocated 300GB of that for Mastodon and 300GB for Lemmy for now.

Well, more to the point they don’t want their identities sold. They don’t want to be a product for some corporation. When you are on a decentralized platform and somewhat anonymous, it is actually a greater degree of privacy.

Oh most definitely! I just like the fact that my words are preserved in a transcript so that it does not become heresay.

That’s an oxymoron if I’ve ever heard one. It’s still gathering metrics on people’s activities. Let’s not try and gloss over that.

Self-hosting is probably more affordable to do when ran out of your own home. I run my lemmy and mastodon servers out of my home on 16GB of RAM and 300MB of storage space. This would cost a small fortune to pay a cloud hosting provider for.