It’s weird to hold the belief that AI won’t oppress us while showing it that it’s fine to oppress animals as long as you’re smarter

Way back machine has it since December so not exactly news but good to hear anyhow

Battlefield 4 works

I’m holding off is because I think the Switch 2 will be even better.

You meant steam deck I think?

Put them back mf

Good read

If you use the computer to access a single webpage that’s bookmarked, youtube and ebay, maybe an hour every week at most, expecting them to have to learn a new system and a command line isn’t feasible.

You don’t need to access the command line (nor even the system really) to do browsing. The same browser you use on windows is gonna work on Linux.

Case in point

Western people overwhelmingly think animal abuse is wrong yet 90+ percent pays for it through their food choices

There is actual estrogen in milk from other mammals

Where did I accuse them of selling data right now? I’m simply noting the risk that they will have to cover the insane costs of their inefficient infrastructure through either becoming a paid app or collecting data to sell.

And my point is that since their costs are so high they will either have to become a paid app or start collecting data to sell. Or become more efficient but you’d think if they knew how they’d already done that.

I think the main red flag is that they are spending so much money. In 2023 they had 55m monthly active users and they spent $35m. The casual WhatsApp user that might switch to Signal is definitely not gonna pay for this so either Signal fans have to donate more or Signal has to start finding other monetization which if we look at other companies means selling private data.

(Also, half their spending is on hosting and they are not self hosting so a donation to Signal is basically a donation to Amazon and Google.)

You should leave a review, I am not affiliated with them

Because Signal is not decentralized nor anonymous

During onboarding of the app you only choose a name and get a random email address

30 million dollars https://element.io/blog/element-raises-30m-as-matrix-explodes/

You can argue that element is not matrix but you’re fooling yourself. Others even have to look at how element implements stuff instead of following the matrix spec

It’s a 0click so you have to have vpn running the entire time on any device that you install signal on

How is it different? In my experience it’s easier as they’ve already heard of email.

Ah so they are just capturing users currently and will have to make return on investment later? That’s a no from me.