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That is most likely going to generate less revenue than promoting donations, or a comparable amount at best. WinRAR is the meme example.

From a PR and marketing perspective, if I wanted to maximize my revenue as a single developer I would set up a Patreon or encourage recurring donations through the software by providing bragging rights stuff (merch, insider access, early access to unfinished builds and so on). Single mandatory payments simply reproduce the piracy/license access of commercial software and shaming people into paying without coercion just makes you seem less appealing to people who would donate anyway.

It’s all usable when you get used to it, but this is a great thread to link for people who develop scripting and programming languages, or just text-based technical interfaces. Because yeah, all that crap is designed with the US layout in mind and screw whoever chooses to use ~ and | as commonplace characters.

FWIW, I don’t even code and I still keep a US layer in the background. I forget which one I’m using constantly, it’s all muscle memory. I just Win-space and try again whenever I type a character and it’s not what I expect.

I want the record to show I didn’t even go with the top 5 most absurd Met gala outfits that came up when I googled, I was trying to keep it fair here.

Admittedly, if you were on some isolated area and this came off a boat you’d think you’re being invaded by aliens, too.

FWIW, our universal health coverage here will cover medical dental care, but not cosmetic. They’ll patch up or remove your bad tooth, but I think it’d be harder to get an implant or a crown without paying for it. Weirdly, dentists are still one of the two or three basic services where people here are still willing to pay for uncovered medical attention, the others being eyecare and pediatrics.

When I needed surgery my private dentist still sent me over to the public system, though. Took a look at my X-rays, told me she wasn’t gonna touch any of that without an MRI and an OR on standby and told me to go to my public doctor with a note and tell them to get me booked with a maxillofacial surgeon, which I did. It wasn’t that big of a deal in the end, but the reaction was… revealing.

Man, I am so glad “anarchocapitalist” is starting to stick. I can’t believe they got away with the other word for as long as they did.

This. There is zero chance of creating change by voting for a third party selectively in a FPTP system.

Electoral systems are known to be extremely stable because all the power is in the hands of people who benefit from the current system, again by definition. Crucially, it doesn’t matter WHO they are, if they won with this system, they are for this system.

To get electoral reform you need those who benefit to find it either ethically important or politically expedient to enact reform. Right now is actually a good time to start bringing up that issue, because one has to assume there is a growing realization in Democrats and at least a segment of semi-reasonable conservatives that the current system is exposed to very, very bad things in a short timeframe.

So if the US is going to get electoral reform done without going through the process of setting the country, and subsequently the planet, on fire you need a) a Dem in power, and b) a massive consensus and outright downpour of activist pressure for this on every level of government. Probably forever, seeing how the entire rest of the system is a mess, but baby steps.

I can’t imagine anybody in the US would advocate for the nonsense in the OP above ruthlessly, relentlessly campaigning for this instead.

It’s like they’re cosplaying at politics.

How to make that relevant again: Get a time machine.

The fascists are already on the ballot, in case anybody missed that detail.

I swear, this stuff barely played back when it seemed like an idle concern of the politically inclined. Today it seems entirely detached from reality.

But hey, by all means, absolutely get the kind of reform that would make this make sense again. I want a world in which this thread doesn’t feel like either disingenuous trolling, a conservative psyop or entirely delusional. I want a world where Americans can vote for multiple parties and get proper coalitions and stuff.

But seriously, until that point, just vote for whoever the Democrat is.

Also right wing extremist.

Not every time, but enough times that I just assume at this point.

They take away the ability to include links in video descriptions. That’s still not related to watching videos, but it seems like a legit eff you to small content creators.

Turns out when you stop using it the recommendations become more and more unhinged and take on a slight pleading tone.

It’s weird and kinda satisfying to watch, honestly.

Incidentally, I dropped Youtube’s web app like a rock when they started messing with adblockers and today they emailed me to say they’re cutting down features in my account because “I don’t have enough of a history”.

I swear, these decaying tech firms just don’t get the value of not appearing to be flailing in desperation.

See, for me it’s often the other way around. Wtih the usual suspects we’re often just in each other’s ears for a while and moving around to get a coffee or even just pacing up and down to stretch our legs. It’s the outside-facing stuff that requires the face time.

That depends on your business, I suppose. Either way the audio only stuff is definitely the better choice IMO.

I have to use cameras just out of politeness and I also do a bunch of audio only calls and frankly the video calls are much more stressful and often less productive.

You know what? I hate when I catch myself doing that. I don’t feel I’m being phony or forced in calls, but sometimes I switch the camera off and I feel my face drop and I feel kinda guilty.

I mean, at the risk of being obvious, take your contract to a lawyer or two and ask them.

This is the tamest version of this meme possible. I do have to say, despite the lack of sex stuff it is not inaccurate.

It already was someone else. I am old enough to remember when all these conversations (and the very accurate warnings about algorithmic filtering and artificial content promotion) being directed at Altavista and Yahoo.

That article downplays SEO and mostly argues that Google is responsible, and it still gives Google way too much credit. I mean, it’s gonna take a lot more evidence to make me believe they broke the internet by accident, for one. People knew all this crap would happen before Google was even a thing.