Oh yeah, that’s the problem… All the companies falling over themselves to give out extra discounts to consumers.

“Why is the government stopping us from charging our customers LESS??”

The video is ultimately more about the materials science of the 1880s, as well as some really interesting stories about the early automotive business.

Yep. GrapheneOS provides the Google apps that you wouldn’t be able to easily get otherwise, but allows you to install them or not. And they come with additional privacy protections.

Also, IUDs are not particularly risky. That’s just bad marketing.

I suppose if somebody could organize a team of volunteers to pay for the Play Store fees, and take care of the logistics for small devs to get their apps approved, then it might be possible.

Honestly, this still worries me. There is no telling how many apps I rely on will evaporate over the next year. Several devs have already announced sunsetting their projects.

There are a number of projects that rely on on user installs, either because they are small passion projects (it costs money to be on the Play Store), or because they provide a function that is not permitted by Google Play. Without a vibrant community outside of the play store supporting them, it’s hard to see how they will all survive.

Please don’t put water on a grease/oil fire.

Yes! This drives me crazy. I will sometimes go back and edit posts to add more info months later.

We have all been in a situation where we are looking for a very specific answer, and the answer only exists in one obscure forum from a decade ago that has the exact info we are looking for.

It’s hard enough to ensure lemmy’s long-term fidelity without people axing their own content.

It’s criminal that there is no embedded video.

The left is quoting Reagan now?

Never heard of Scout or seen the logo, but that’s a big swirly poo, right? I’m not crazy, am I? This feels like being punked.

It’s most definitely a poo.

You forgot they called it Bing in the middle too

More likely to be murdered and more likely to be assaulted.

I believe that is correct as far as lemmy goes. The AP protocol is open by nature, but there may be a private implementation —I’m not sure.

There are several Discord-like projects, but I don’t think they are federated.

No, it’s a dolphin embryo

Wait, I knew about the potato, buy I didn’t know you can play doom on doom itself! How does that work?

On the other hand, this is how companies fall. In my area, many small businesses are foregoing Google entirely. SEO is expensive and complicated, and so are websites, map prominence, and most of the things Google sells. They’re not worth the investment.

Mostly, companies are shifting toward Meta products, so it’s not as though everything is hunky dory (want to know when that hip new boutique is open? Don’t bother with the web search, just look up their Instagram). There is a very real threat of collapse if Google keeps up the antics.

Exactly.

The former. Also more likely to be assaulted.

Our society does not protect women.