Very neat website! But it also really shows that C++ is bloated to hell

Thanks! I agree to an extent, but it's also the beast the industry married. So as long as it's around, we might as well "deal with it". This page is hopefully one tool that helps with that :)

You have to acknowledge that every feature in C++ (including the most insane ones) are well justified with real-life use cases in the industry. It is what it is. People who don't like it are using Go/Rust where it makes sense.

Yeah? I mean that's their purpose, why is this surprising to anyone?

Usually when this sort of scenario is brought up as a concern, the corporate sycophants crawl out of their holes to gaslight everybody.

Idk what drugs you're on to think I'm some kind of amazon shill. My point stands, acting surprised about any of this is just nonsense. You bought the Amazon Smart Spying Speakers, what the fuck do you expect them to do

If this library is licensed under GPL, you can't really use it without relicensing your entire project, right?

changed to Apache V2.0 license

I think the idea might be that you don't need to check the battery health yourself but instead you get pinged when a cell's getting close to dead

I think there's a divide between how we view the people that create the digital media we consume vs. the platforms they're stuck on.

Like, I've donated to certain creators through for example patreon, but I'd never even consider paying for YouTube premium or twitch prime.

This! What benefit does any of this current system provide us anyway?

Devil's Advocate? It pays for the services we use for free.

I feel that's only really true in the way it is of a JS bitcoin miner. Locally appears to make something free (if ignoring time/energy) that wasn't before, but is overall a detriment to average affordability because it's a net loss of resources (mostly just a zero-sum game, with some small side benefits).

I don't disagree with that at all, and by 'free' I suppose I didn't even mean 'as in free beer', I just meant there was no financial transaction taking place.

Maybe at some point we're really gonna see an upfront-micropayment structure as some people have mused about.

"Free" services that are unable to pay for themselves distort the market. And eventually they price out honest and non tracking competition.

From another noyb article: personalized ads account for < 10% of revenue for newspapers

Im curious as to what you define as the average home user. Because from my perspective, Debian is the ideal OS for most of them (e.g. my dad)

I installed it on my Dada laptop and for me its great since I can forget about it until the next major version releases. The unattended updates also ensure he gets the latest security patches without me coming over and running apt every other week.

I'm not sure, I feel like in most peoples mind these scooters are just funny electric bicycles and not motor vehicles.

Most people don't wear a helmet when driving these but then lecture their kids to wear one on a bicycle.