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Republicans in Congress try to kill FCC’s broadband discrimination rules in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

no

NSA is buying Americans' internet browsing records without a warrant in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al... in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 34 points 10 months ago

With each new HP news article I grow more pleased with last year’s decision to ditch HP once and for all and get a Brother.

The Brother just works. Even surprises me in some scenarios where I anticipate lack of support and it comes through anyway. Great printer!

HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten | Then the company cranked up the price of cartridges, complaint alleges in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Happened to me! Even with me taking efforts ahead of time to prevent the new firmware download, it somehow snuck through. I finally got so fed up with their BS because of this, I got rid of the hp and bought a Brother. Brother workin flawlessly, and I can rest easy knowing it will just print shit when I need it to and not try to extort cash from me to do so.

Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s the containerization causing this imo. I also host nextcloud on bare metal and it’s quite stable

We need to stop attempts to normalize grind/hustle lifestyle in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Some people have no lives, because theirs was taken by the system.

YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To answer your questions - users such as this bring something more valuable than ad money. They bring data. Google harvests data and metrics on users in a million ways, packages this up, and sells it for considerably more than they make on ads. In free services such as this, YOU are the product.

Ads suck, nobody wants to watch them, and they simply represent google maximizing shareholder value at every opportunity, as they are legally bound to do under American capitalism. YouTube ads are not a critical revenue stream that will make or break them.