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  • How does one have a donation = no influence policy?

    Huge companies donate to make open apps like this reliant on them. Then they threaten to pull the donation if that doesn’t happen…

    Strong Copyleft licenses protect from this by allowing others to fork and keep an app going without being taken advantage of.

    If Google donates 1 billion dollars tomorrow, and over several months, Ladybird will expand to use that money. Then Google can threaten to stop the donations unless LB does something like “make ad blockers worse”

    It’s a web browser. The only money they will make is from donations. Unless they do something wonky with their business model, like charge. Then no one will use it anyway.




  • No. Apple TV is 2 different products with this name. Apple TV+ is a subscription based TV streaming service. Like Netflix and Disney+.

    The other one, Apple TV, the one Sonos is copying, is a piece of hardware that plugs to your TV and downloads apps to connect to the other streaming services. This hardware piece is comparable to an Amazon Firestick, a Google Chromecast, Nvidia Sheild, Roku, and a slew of cheap Android TV boxes.












  • butter@midwest.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldDarn it
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    Drive in theaters use your car radio now instead of those little speakers. Though overall the niche was replaced with movie theaters.

    Fountain drinks are probably about the same. Though some places can do things like chilling the line. Again, the niche was largely replaced with cans and bottles. For their shortcomings, they keep fizz in much better than fountain.

    They might have us beat on happy days. I didn’t watch it.





  • You have to ask yourself: what can you actually get away with.

    If you’re techy, get a Linux phone. I assume there’s a WhatsApp client, but if not you could bridge to Matrix.

    Then you’ll have the option to use a phone, without the addictive qualities of Android/iOS.

    Your next best will be GrapheneOS. By default, no Google, so no notifications at all. But that can be turned on and enabled if needed.