Yup. Just how cable TV started as “you pay extra for it, but you don’t get any ads!” and then when they realized they had everybody hooked, they started showing ads.
Same thing with streaming services. Pay money for a service with no Ads. Oh what’s that? Now that they realize they are your primary source of content, they are going to turn ads on unless you pay extra? Boom, gottem.
Paying for a service is generally going to result in less of a push to monetize the data though, especially if it’s a smaller provider or a private company.
We can’t just give up and stick with ad supported services, but then not want to see ads… Ad-supported services are always going to have to try monetize you somehow, whereas paid services don’t always need to.
To replace the current big tech business, I have a few suggestions:
Use FOSS (Free and open source software)
If this is not possible, try to find software that does not invade your privacy and made by a smaller company
Try to avoid paying privacy invading companies. I’m not saying never pay for proprietary software, but try to only spend the money on ones that respect you.
Spread the word about good FOSS apps
Donate to FOSS
Vote for politicians who are serious about antitrust
If you have the skills, contribute to FOSS or make your own software!
Use adblockers on websites that don’t respect you and/or your privacy
Well there’s your problem, you’re using an operator that shouldn’t exist. Triple equals all the things and if you want to coerce types write it out explicitly.
Nothing practical unfortunately since I already have a headless raspberry pi and x86 machine that are no where near capacity. But I do love compiling whatever rust/golang project I’m working on to riscV just to see it run there.
I also have an arm32 box so I have fun running binaries on 4 different instruction sets. Admittedly the novelty has worn off as everything just works.
The work to get the larger linux ecosystem working on riscV is unfortunately outside my domain and skill level.
Yes, but in beer are not much alcohol (4-5%), also beer with 0,9% or also without. Currently there are good brands with a fairly good non-alcoholic beer, since the manufacturing is not done as before, heating it to evaporate the alcohol (and the flavor), but the manufacturing is exactly the same as normal beer, with the only difference of using a yeast for fermentation that does not produce alcohol.
Specifically, Columbus was the first transatlantic slaver - although he went in the nontraditional West-to-East direction. And was imprisoned by Queen Isabel for that shit.
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