Just worked for me. So maybe they implemented a workaround.

Something free/open that basically just hit-n-runs YouTube and doesn’t serve any ads.

Examples: Kreate (or a similar fork), Metrolist, etc.

Downside is that YT will push deliberate updates that break these types of apps occasionally and you may have to wait a few days for them to be fixed. It is a cat and mouse game.

Use these apps for music discovery. If you like a particular artist, buy the album directly from them and cache it digitally on your intended listening devices. Or go see a show or buy merch directly from the artists website. The artist makes more margin on those than they will make for thousands of Spotify streams.

It is really nice to have something to show for your work besides just a paycheck. This is something many don’t consider when evaluating career paths. CS or IT related careers damn near require you to do something tangible as a side hustle or at least a hobby, because the outputs of “commits” and “ticket closure metrics” just aren’t a edifying use of our creative spark as humans.

I relate to this strongly. Many of us in this field feel catfished by our jobs. We took the role to get access to exciting emerging tech, or to fulfill some useful purpose and apply strategic thinking. Instead the reality of the day to day is business-led bullshit, drudgery of ticket work for issues affecting one user (and its probably a problem they caused), or having to report progress and “green” status to some talentless PM who doesn’t give a shit about you or your career. That and meetings. And fires and escalations and technical bridges.

It absolutely won’t do that. You know how many millions of early generation Prusa and Ender 3 printers are in the US? Many of these models have no internet connectivity whatsoever and print from SD card.

What that means is they will also try to incorporate spyware into your CAD and/or slicer software, which is even more invasive.

This is a anti-privacy bill.

There are so many spent casings in circulation that people can already reload their own ammo to last the next 100 years. Bullets can be cast. Even powders can be made.

This is my thought also. v2.7.5 has been stable since April. I’m gonna stick with that for the moment.

Depending who we are talking about, good riddance.

Will be missed- The jaded technical guy who has 3 decades of institutional knowledge and can sight read machine code like its the Matrix.

Won’t be missed- The middle management corpo-speak fat fuck with turkey waddle jowls, spouting the latest efficiency reminders from his SVP (so he hits his own compensation-linked performance targets) while struggling to find the right button to screenshare on the Teams call.

US tech sector could easily shed double that number as long as it is middle managers and worthless PM types getting fired.

Hollowing out actual engineers, devs, and people who know how shit works in favor of “AI gains” and offshore outsourcing is like removing the engine from you car “for the weight savings”.

But if we are to uncritically believe what the AI peddlers told us, that means this mystery company should be reaping $10 billion in additional revenue or quantifiable gains in productivity!

Now to fuck up their plan by training their AI on House of Leaves.

“Not fair to those who buy physical software”

What was the most recent fucking calendar year when somebody walked into a CompUSA and bought physical boxed software??

I think I bought Half-Life 2 in box on launch day. So… 2004.

You can also use DDG, Startpage, spin up a SearX instance, or a number of other options.

California needs to wise up and realize that you can make functional firearms out of $20 worth of hardware store parts. They can’t stop the signal.

Shinzo Abe got his cheeks clapped with a homemade gun in a country with roughly zero legal civilian firearms, and a violent crime rate of less than 1 per 100,000.

Can’t stop the signal.

Awesome, glad they’re doing it.

The problem is the price and the timeframe. The next batch is available next May?

For that price, more than a year from now, you’ll likely be able to assemble or purchase a small form factor PC and build it out with similar or better components for significantly cheaper.

For years they ran a program to reward people for using Bing (they still technically do, but the payouts are next to nothing, maybe $5-10 worth of gift cards per year).

10 years ago you could accumulate a passive income of several thousand dollars per year by farming Bing Rewards, Perk (before that company went under) and a few other programs.

Great. Can’t wait for price increases or data caps or both.

I’d buy that for a dollar!

Been daily-driving Linux for several months now. There are literally zero critical workflows that I can’t do just because I’m not on Windows.

40% of things I use my PC for are browser-based. 40% have an equivalent FOSS app. 10% are Windows apps that run fine using Wine. The other 10% I can live without.

Yeah, let’s not do any of that shit either.