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bl4kers

@ bl4kers @lemmy.ml

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  • A la carte pricing has gone out the window in favor of bundles. This enables the same subsidization model of business used by Apple, Google, etc. Even when you pay, they display ads and reminders to get you to upgrade to higher tiers. Drive launched in beta only for paid users. Drive now encourages the use of their proprietary document format. They hand out storage bonuses for each year of membership. That's not a sustainable long-term practice and purposefully creates stickiness. Generally speaking, they don't have easy export tools, so they're not very interoperable. Forwarding emails sent to @proton.me or @protonmail.com addresses to a new inbox is not possible unless you're a paying customer, which makes switching more difficult.

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  • Moved from Proton to Mullvad to Windscribe

    Proton kept getting worse and is moving towards a walled garden.

    Mullvad seemed great on the private payment front. Their apps are pretty solid. The device limit was too low for me. For 6-10 devices the price doubles.

    Windscribe won me over with their build a plan option. Their apps aren't the most visually appealing but get the job done.

  • Are there actually any good mobile games?

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  • I recommend not supporting that company. The old Ticket to Ride app was delisted and servers shuttered. It probably had ~$100 worth of IAP for different maps which couldn't be transferred to the new app

  • Has a stranger's reply to you on social media ever changed your strongly-held belief(s)?

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  • Yes, but not in a way you might think.

    When it comes to the death penalty, I've always been on the "against" side of the fence. But for very heinous crimes, I believed I understood why families of victims would want to pursue that.

    On an online forum, I encountered such a family member. They shared the crime in great detail, and how they felt about the assailant. The way they discussed it was very ugly, selfish, and overly punitive. It was clear they no longer viewed the person as a human being. They weren't able to process the trauma. This changed my belief that there are rational arguments for the death penalty from family members.

  • Which opensource projects do you donate to? (only crypto)

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  • Didn't they go hard promoting Web3?

  • Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told

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  • Almost all of the big websites have parental control settings that would alleviate the vast majority of these "problems" if parents actually used them.

    Nope. Parental controls in general suck and are often bare bones just for a semblance of legal compliance. Parents don't have access to every device children have access to either

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  • This could really use a lightweight web interface. A wall of text with open-ended prompts is going to turn a lot of folks away. Maybe I'll reach out to the author and see about extending it

  • What kind of fancy taste/food experiences do you know that I can quickly acquire as part of a birthday gift?

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  • If you're down for a recipe...

    1. Get a couple packs of blueberries
    2. Pour them in a bowl
    3. Add a couple tablespoons of cocoa powder
    4. Add cayenne pepper (twice as much as you think you should)
    5. Stir with a spoon to combine
    6. Use the same spoon to eat (do NOT eat with your hands)

    Should taste equal parts spicy and sweet. If too spicy, dilute with more cocoa powder or blueberries.

  • Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs

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  • The EU is developing their own centralized system

  • Changing direction for my lifesim game, looking for opinions

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  • I'm more pessimistic about the idea. Life simulation can include anything and everything, which means making an API will be difficult.

    Just my two cents. Wishing you the best

  • How do you discover new music in 2025?

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  • Started Degoogling last Sunday

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  • Anyone have good alternatives to Google Sheets? I don't even care about the social features. I gave LibreOffice Calc a shot and it was super frustrating. Seems like maybe CryptPad is my best bet as far as open source goes?

  • Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits

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  • This is still the case

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    What app/program do you wish existed and what does it do that you've not found elsewhere?

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  • Drop-in cloud/API replacement for YouTube front-ends. It would keep track of watch history and return recommended videos from an algorithm that's user configurable

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  • Perhaps Teams has changed, but in the past I personally found it more efficient for text communication because it forced everything to be a thread. With Slack there's too much variety (messages & threads in channels, direct messages, huddles, canvases) which consistently leads to visibility and findability issues since everyone uses it differently. Though I understand technically they're very similar and the emphasis is mostly visual

  • What big budget movie had absolutely no buisness getting made?

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  • Same thing for the sequels. Here's an article about it. Maybe it's the passage of time, but I'd say 2 is much more visually stunning than 1

  • If Oracle goes bankrupt in the future, what would you like to see as the destination for some of its products?

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  • Oracle owns Cerner which is the largest healthcare IT provider. I believe by a wide margin...?

  • I need to buy a fridge+freezer soon, what should I look out for?

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  • A warranty is only as good as the company offering it. I'd opt for a shorter warranty with good customer service

  • Reminder: Proton Mail addresses have vendor lock-in

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  • Could you specify what you mean?