Nothing is free. How would they make money as a company to pay employees and pay hosting bills?

All these big tech companies are free exactly because they are preditory on users.

Pay for good email like Fastmail or Proton.

Cost of doing business.

The Fastmail calendar is pretty good. Just a random page about them: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/shared-calendars/

It’s not too hard. The most important things are web search and email. I still use Google Maps. But I don’t want my private emails and searches at a company who is user hostile and preditory.

Basically they have made themselves kings and everyone else are peasants. Now they are dividing the land between them.

It may be the last few years of the free web because of Google. Their goals are clear.

Please switch to Firefox, another search engine and another email provider…

Being born rich is almost certainly a requirement to start with. There must be a lot of non famous brilliant people without a public voice like the clowns, Musk and Trump and Zuck and all the others.

I loved it personally. Tech is in a awful state right now and it’s correct to try and joke about it while we all lose decades of what previous generations built up as protection against these bastards.

I don’t know if you understand what military funded means… It’s basically the military paying these guys to make something they can use in the military.

There is no doubt in my mind at least that all cute robots, useful AI, and other new things are just the public tip of the iceberg kind of a thing, to make people think it’s something positive and not be afraid.

The most advanced things will be used by law enforcement and military to control and monitor the populations in secret.

So while I like tech, I’m also convinced that humans are going to use it to make the planet horrible to live on, to the degree that “don’t get children” is the best advice ever.

I bought Doom Eternal on summer sale. It’s an ok game but Im actually partially bored playing the campaign.

It looks great but I’m not a fan of the forced chainsawing to get ammo. The feeling of constantly needing to change your weapon for each monster is mostly frustrating and not fun actually.

The campaign experience seems to be “die 30 times while killing the monsters in this area” followed by “die 30 times figuring out how to jump across cliffs to get where you need”.

I guess the real fun is in player vs player so will try that later.

Random loot boxes all over the map, where you have to pay real money to open them. What do you say? :)

They are tarded actually, in constant need to be in the center of attention, and people talking about them. Seemingly no good human qualities whatsoever, but a lot of intellectual problem solving skills, which they apply only to make themselves richer and more powerful.

They could apply their problem solving skills and money to improve life for humans on the planet but they don’t have the consciousness to do so.

What a waste.

At least people in open source are trying to work together to build an alternative to the walled gardens and preditory ad platforms we call the internet today.

I like to support devs who makes great products, excellent ones like bitwarden. Otherwise they will go away and we will be left with big tech products only. Because I don’t think people like to make excellent products and still don’t see a dime in their pocket.

I actually tried the official app and it just pissed me off.

Just a couple of more days now before they turn off access. Nice.

I’m also using Boost until July 1st and then if it stops working, I’m out of there for good. Lemmy is quite good already and I don’t want to support Steve and the other dousches over at reddit.

Lemmy is hopefully just the beginning of fediverse growing more and more with new platforms and services.

Sure - only people who create content give it away for free.

Reddit is in the business of taking that free labor and telling people they own that data and set rules for it. Got it.