I have thought that way before.
But nowadays I have a different perspective. I’ve got everything I need to be happy, and that’s enough for me.
You’re not going to be obsessing over all your career achievements on your deathbed, you’re just going to wish you had spent more time with loved ones.
Motherland if I’m not mistaken.
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Plex DMCA’d my private server a few months ago.
So I cancelled my Plex Pass and moved on to greener pastures.
They seem to be doing everything they can to get rid of their foundational userbase so they can attract… Ad supported free TV watchers?..
What morons are running the show in Silicon Valley?
The only thing you can’t do with an open API is exploit every dollar of value that passes through your service.
The main difference between a Silicon Valley API and a FOSS API, is the SV API is trying to get tons of people rich as fuck by exploiting you. The FOSS API can live long and prosper by simply asking for donations every once in a while, or engaging in very light-handed monetization.
There are like a million little nuances to this whole issue, and the lack of nuance is what Silicon Valley relies on to convince people that they must pillage their users, but that’s the gist.
I think the best solution to this whole monetization issue is to just make sharing bandwidth as easy as possible on the fediverse.
If hosting can be done by everyone using an instance, no one entity has to bear overwhelming costs, so there’s no excuse to demand money.
Every billionaire uses charities.
They’re a way to exert control over the money that would normally go to taxes, and be up to the government to spend.
It’s not inherently bad, but charity is not quite the saving grace of billionaires that many make it out to be.
Ryobi is just so cheap that it doesn’t make sense for me to buy any other cordless brand with the number of batteries I have.
But for hand tools and corded stuff I get the cheapest I can find, until something slows me down too much, then I’ll upgrade.
That’s how I’ve built a small empire of tools.