@TechConnectify @ahnlak As for Youtube Premium, there was a creator in the early days of me subscribing to it as Youtube Red, they put out something like 5-10 hours of content per week, and I watched all of it. I asked him what his total youtube red watchtime was, and he said something like 50 minutes per month. There's something that was screwy with their setup when I was watching ~25-40 hours in a month and it was only crediting him with 50 minutes. (All Factorio content.)
@TechConnectify @ahnlak There used to be a platform like that, used by some web comic makers, I can't remember the name but it was something like Plaudits. You put in however much money per month, and whenever you click on a button on the website it applies a plaudit token from your account to them, and at the end of the month it would distribute that amount you put in, divided by how many tokens total you gave out through the month. You could also say "this creator gets a minimum of 20 plaudits per month" and it would apply those automatically for you. If you gave out 50 plaudits, and you added $20, then each one was worth 40 cents to the creators.
I think it lasted less than a year.
I think it lasted less than a year.
@TechConnectify @RobertoC_73 This is one reason why I use Pleroma and Fediverse, rather than Mastodon. Of course, Mastodon uses Fediverse too, but when they say "you can't be commercial on mastodon" I can say "I'm not on Mastodon."
@ademalsasa A Pihole device on my network, though it is backed by cloudflare for caching.
@union The US military, right now, is mostly hamstrung by some of its own requirements for enlistees. They're turning down a lot of people due to being out of shape, taking psychiatric medications, due to marijuana use, or due to misdemeanors, etc. I imagine they'll be loosening those restrictions up first before they bother doing anything else.
@hackaday It's depressing that they only compared it against Charge only or Charge-n-Sync cables, and not any proper 10 gigabit USB-C cables.
re: Long, phones, privacy, freedom, work
@requiem @pluralistic I've been using the Pinephone as a second phone, and really the problem is more the quality of the thing. SXMO is reasonably usable, but the speaker quality, mic quality, the way the modem randomly crashes while it's in sleep mode, etc makes it a poor experience.
@ademalsasa The nice thing about the toughbook I have is that it's 1600x1200 resolution. It is a fairly old one though, i5-2540.
@ademalsasa I have a Panasonic Toughbook, fairly compatible. A Dell laptop, which is also reasonably compatible. Another older Dell which has even better compatibility, and supports OpenIndiana as well, and a Steamdeck, which was made for linux. I want to get a Frame.work laptop though.
@ifixcoinops Every time I cash one of my paychecks at the bank, I ask them for a roll of dollar coins, then I will use them in whatever parking meters or coin op machines I encounter. Usually they either have one already made or they can get one in a few minutes.
@gamingonlinux I've tried that before, removing someone from the tag list that is, and they still got notified of the reply.
@gemlog True, Their intention is definitely to attrack medium to small business rather than us hobby users, so they focus a lot of their effort on customer relations management and other similar tools. I'd in general lean towards reasonably priced business tools with consumer uses instead of ad-riddled consumer tools turned towards businesses. @keithzg @requiem @VeilidNetwork @MMRnmd
@gemlog I used to do that a long time ago, I think I stopped self-hosting in 2008ish. Zoho costs a bit, but it's better than hosting on google themselves, and the interface is almost as good. No ads. One thing I ended up doing was switching my sending domain to not match my receiving domain. I get constant notices and bounces from people sending spam spoofing my receiving domain. @MMRnmd @keithzg @requiem @VeilidNetwork
@requiem @gemlog @VeilidNetwork @keithzg I wouldn't want to build an entire new system. So google defederated you, that doesn't mean you have to move to a different protocol. Just use the same protocol with other people who aren't on google. I pay a non-google email service to maintain my domain for me still.
@requiem I don't see any examples of people trying it, and I don't have a latte panda to try it on. Does it only support UEFI or something?
@requiem I mean, any cheap x64 board should work for Haiku. You probably won't see them at Raspberry Pi prices most of the time though, so plan for the $100-200 range.
@psykose @developing_agent @marcan I was Extremely disappointed when I took that thing apart and found that it was cobbled together from cheap consumer-grade wall sockets and aluminum wiring. It made me want to get commercial grade wall sockets and copper wire and rebuild the whole thing, just keeping the outer shell of the rack power distribution box..
@psykose @developing_agent @marcan Mostly because it's a sign that something is being made super cheaply, especially when it only has maybe a meter of wires, and it's a multi-hundred dollar power distribution bar...
@marcan @developing_agent Aluminum wiring is still a really bad idea, they used to be used in cheap mobile homes before 1974 before they were banned, mostly because they have high resistance and overheat.