Are billionaires as much of a problem in China as they are in the west? I thought they already had way less, and the ones that do exist still have to bend over backwards to appease the CCP.

Yeah that doesn’t work if you live in Seattle.

Because there are way more available games than time for a lot of us

Nightlys are not things you should recommend for production use. Especially for (potentially) non tech savvy teachers and students.

Dan hymen-collider Schneider

bad actor

Actually while typing that out I thought more about the technical architecture of such distributed alternative streaming service that pays artists fairly, and it does sound like it could be fun to build.

But everyone in the fediverse already knows how difficult/impossible it is to get the average person to switch to open source software. It would most likely be a waste of time.

Because they have all the customers.

If you don’t like the rate the current major platforms give, you could choose to use one of the many alternatives that (presumably) exist.

And if they really don’t, I could build you one in a couple of weekends with all the open source resources and federation protocols available today.

But none of that matters because all the paying customers are on those major platforms. And until you convince users to move off those platforms, you’re basically their bitch. They’ll pay you whatever they happen to feel like paying you.

Just use Windows defender already. It’s been good enough for ages. All the others downplay this to justify their existence.

They ship a version of Windows 10 without any of those included. It’s called Windows 10 LTSC (Long Term Support Channel).

Try installing that to never be bothered again.

To be honest, that was the biggest value proposition of GitHub Copilot.

Think of it like discord, but federated.

It’s relative. If you just started, it might feel like a lot of YAML, but if you used it back when everything had to be done in YAML, modern Home Assistant will feel like little to no YAML.

I’m going to assume they don’t include the gunpowder

Oaf. For a very vocal sub, it sure goes quiet when people start asking for constructive solutions instead of criticisms/rants. 😆

I really do hope I’m mistaken, and the responses will start pouring in as this post gets more visibility.

God I hope I don’t use any products from your company.

https://tailscale.com/

Like responsibilidade said below, it’s built on top of WireGuard and it’s the best overall VPN solution I’ve ever seen.

Yikes, people here are brutal to people with differing viewpoints, heh.

Doesn’t seem to matter how knowledgeable in the subject matter the person may be either.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The animated series are great! (Lower decks is my favorite of all Star Trek).

TOS is… not. While it was great in the 1960s, most of it hasn’t aged very well. Feel free to skip TOS and start from TNG.

However, if I was a billionaire, I would consider trying to build up the religious Left. Bear with me.

So, it turns out you don’t have to be a billionaire to make things happen. I can think of two ways a bunch of people on Lemmy can make a movement like this happen.

Approach 1: Create a non-profit/charity

This will have to start very small, be funded through donations, and slowly grow by helping people in various ways, causing more people to join and expand. Like you mentioned, it will take a very long time to make a dent in Catholicism.

Approach 2: Get corporate America behind this

This is a lot easier than people think - we just need to figure out how do monetize this. Given how many private jets and other extravagances Christian evangelicals have, I suspect there could be enough money in religion - we’d have to discuss and work out how to get enough $$$ to make it worth their while without having hate as a core tenet of our religion.

This approach could have the advantage of multi-million dollar advertising budgets, lobbyists, and many other resources to have a much faster impact than the other approach.

Let me know if you’re up for discussing and fleshing out the details. I think it could be a fun exercise, and it might even lead somewhere in the future - I personally have a few contacts in high places in corporate America that will always listen to new business pitches 😉