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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Don't buy a Windows key. If Windows was installed initially it should remember your hardware and activate. If it doesn't, there's numerous ways to pirate Windows.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why would you hand your browsing data to the VPN company? It's just moving the problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Absolutely those things are different. But the point of a search engine is to, crudely and algorithmically, sort out both.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Every (for profit)company is a monetization company. That's the definition of a company.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I agree in this case.

But there's a narrative that software needs regular updates or it's worthless, but some things are just done and stable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

If it's feature complete, a keyboard doesn't need regular updates. According to the other thread it's not feature complete, so it could be abandoned. Since it's FOSS any enthusiastic person could stop it from being abandoned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Which makes the argument that heat pumps don't work in the cold completely wrong from a user perspective.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I disagree, a lot of white collar work is simply writing bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Probably some people, back when smartphones were novel in 2007.

At this point though, it's tacky and implies that you don't care enough about the conversation to turn it off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

So a property development company is developing a property. What's the mystery?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I think it's useful terminology, but only very generally and in hindsight. Web 1 is a pretty clear era in the 90s and early 2000s, characterized by simple static blogs and personal websites, and email. Everyone knew this would be big, but nobody figured out how, that was the dotcom bubble. Web 2 began with the rise of big tech companies like Google and Facebook in the late 2000s, it has been characterized by social media apps, centralized platforms hosting user created content, funded by targeted advertising and data mining. Web apps became possible and smartphones took over. Every product became a subscription service.

I think we're at the start of web 3, but it's hard to say what that is yet. The big tech companies are crumbling and there's increasing unrest at the old system of web 2. Fed up users are turning to platforms like this. There's a lot of demand for crypto nonsense like NFTs. AI is changing the way we do everything.

I hope that web 3 is the age of decentralization because that would be awesome, but it's impossible to predict the future.

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