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utopiah

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  • What paid software is absolutely worth the money?

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  • Well my point, which might be different from OP but I still is important and thus why I brought it in the discussion is :

    • paying for software is important
    • FLOSS is important

    and thus ideally we would pay (again, however one can) AND have FLOSS anyway. I don't see why we would have to settle for proprietary software.

  • What paid software is absolutely worth the money?

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  • Why are you deforming my words? You are free to have your own opinion and you are welcomed to disagree but when are arguing against something I did NOT say then you are not trying to have an honest conversation.

    Anyway, on the spirit of discussing anyway (despite the risk of talking past each other) what do you imagine would happen if nobody, including Linus, would contribute (not necessarily financially) to FOSS? If nobody at all build FOSS or supports FOSS, there is no FOSS, as simple as that.

  • What paid software is absolutely worth the money?

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  • Linux, KDE, Firefox, etc... we are ALL supposed to "pay" somehow for it, whatever our means and however we can.

    When we consider free and open source software NOT paid software, we are sabotaging the very things we love.

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  • Food doesn’t last forever

    True but have you tried

    • vacuum sealing
    • freezing
    • glass jars

    because to be honest I'm still shocked at how efficient that is. You can cook in batch then if the seal is done properly that stuff will last for a LONG long while. All those techniques require a bit of upfront cost (vacuum seal ~$100, freezer $300, jars $10 each but requires boiling water so ~$100) but when done properly (which isn't hard to learn) even texture will be preserved and it does not take long.

    Source : I do all that even though I don't cook for 1, it's great to cook in batch, eat fresh then preserve some to have a rotation of meals that is not boring yet have "last minute backups" when you don't have the time to cook.

  • Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret

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  • I don't use eSIM most of the time but when I travel and I don't want roaming, damn it's nice. I just go on Airalo or Saily, pick a destination, pay something like 20 bucks and get the data. I load it up on my phone, travel, land and voila, works right away while I'm still on my way through customs. No WiFi needed, no "quick" trip to a random shop or a large provider that'll try to upsell whatever. I just land, connect, use my VPN and voila.

    Also if your phone doesn't support eSIM you can use https://jmp.chat/esim-adapter

  • Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents

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  • 1st time in my life I get a Error HTTP 451 even had to look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451 and I have to admit the reference to Ray Bradbury's 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 is pretty neat.

    Consequently because the proxy link you provided is relying on CloudFlare which is itself blocking access I recommending link first to the original content https://annas-archive.org/torrents and optionally to mirrors, proxies, etc.

  • LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems

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  • FWIW I replaced my Samsung "smart" TV by a Nebula Mars video projector. It's very convenient and let's me forget I have it, tucked away and hidden most of the time. Yes it is "smart" but it's Android and I can connect via adb to it to install apps like VLC, make it start on boot, etc. I'm not updating it.

    Next time I do buy a replacement though I'll verify first in forums if it can be rooted to have the level of control I need. Maybe there will be a OSHW equivalent to https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer for video projectors as unfortunately it seems like a trend.

  • China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along

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  • Meanwhile ASML just stops doing R&D and give up on its extremely specialized supply chain. /s

  • DisnAI

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  • My usual reminder to consider "The Mouse that Roared - Disney and the End of Innocence" by Henry A. Giroux and Grace Pollock https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/mouse-that-roared-9798216263937/ i.e. Disney is JUST a very large corporation that sells whatever it can (plastic toys, parks, movies, food, etc) thanks to intellectual property laws it reshaped to capture more and for longer period of time to the most influenceable segment of the population, namely kids.

    Disney is bad. This just makes it marginally worst. They don't care, they just want to exploit kids more.

  • DisnAI

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  • What the heck... https://openai.com/index/agentic-ai-foundation/

    puking emoji it's on OpenAI.com to talk about "Open Standards" or "Open Ecosystem" while they f*cking "donated" a markdown example while keeping the 1 thing they are seen as innovative for, namely GPT3 and above, as closed.

    It's absolute Newspeak.

    Honestly it's a good reminder of the positions between FSF/FSFE/etc vs the Linux Foundation which is basically just a BigTech club https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members where large corporations find new "open" ways to try to exploit the commons.

  • Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price.

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  • They don't want to wake up until they have something else more appealing to put their money on. They NEED something to invest. They don't care what it is, or even if it works but it has to be plausible enough to make money, more money.

    Until there is another scam to put their money in, they are stuck in the bubble, like us.

  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • tips fedora

  • Did you get your Limewire Wrapped?

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  • No viruses disguised as music, afaik

    How would that work? For games or software in general, something executable, I get it, but content beside mind blowing proof of concept, I have a hard time codecs can be hijacked so that such a payload gets to do anything via e.g. VLC or mpv.

  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • FWIW (and I know it's not the joke...) it's perfectly fine to remove the mouth piece while scuba diving. In fact it's part of basic training. You should be able to remove the mouth piece and take another one, your octopus or the one of your buddy, in case there is an incident.

    No... the real question for a good diver is how the heck you're going to say HDMI 2.1 with hand signs! /s

  • Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla

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  • Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla

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  • Is there a way to verify that? I did run Servo months ago and some pages did render without issues. Others not but that wasn't enough for me to draw such a conclusion. I remember Mozilla pushed for https://webcompat.com/ so wondering if this can be used to see the pace of change.

  • Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla

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  • It renders... so what is missing for you to use it?

  • I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.

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  • Open an issue to explain why it's not enough for you? If you can make a PR for it that actually implements the things you need, do it?

    My point to say everything is already out there and perfectly fits your need, only that a LOT is already out there. If all re-invent the wheel in our own corner it's basically impossible to learn from each other.