how do I know someone hasn’t placed a bomb inside
You learn enough about electronics to identify things that shouldn’t be in there, and then you open up and analyze your devices.
Alternatively, you could not become involved with an organization that is at war with a powerful country who has a capable spy/espionage agency.
I was about to say something similar.
I suspect that people in their target market not being made aware of it is part of the problem that is leading them to shut down.
Don’t bring that to their attention- they’ll start banning open source too.
It’s also on the cusp of a major upgrade release, so good documentation of the latest version’s features will be in high demand very soon.
I’d expect Apple’s move to be followed by a lot of creators adding a “Don’t use the iOS Patreon app”
I’ve already received similar posts from a couple of patreon accounts I follow.
I think it also depends on the locale.
When I look at both Kijiji and Facebook marketplace, I see far more listings on Kijiji.
We’re Watching Facebook Die
It’s not happening fast enough.
I didn’t say it wouldn’t work for me, only that they make it hard to get here.
It would be cool if they sold the thing in (or were willing to ship to) my country…
Better late than never.
Now look at how much the executives are being paid in the US compared to the cost of the vehicles…
It ain’t the welders and wrench turners who are adding the most to the cost of vehicles.
The world doesn’t need an EV Mustang or $99K F150, it needs an EV Focus or Escort oor Fiesta level car that normal people can afford.
The last windows I had on my home machine was Win95.
Embrace the penguin.
My kids didn’t have any problem figuring out how to do what they wanted to do on a Linux machine, it’s really not that hard to move.
Being super cheap does make the X32 family pretty popular at the entry level.
Before I retired I was also almost entirely analog.
But these days it appears that even the gear targeted at small bar bands is leaning heavily toward a fully digital workflow.
Most of the apps to interface with pro level mixing consoles and lighting boards are Mac / iPad . Very few for Android, limited Windows options and pretty much nothing for Linux.
Live production stuff as well.
So much of the available “industry standard” software is fully proprietary and Apple only.
Anyone who is trying to make money from their videos isn’t likely to have any incentive to be on Odysee, unless thay start paying for views with something other than their useless in-house crypto.
Plus, the audience on Odysee is miniscule compared to pretty much any other video platform.
they turn around and lock all but the most basic features behind a pay wall.
To be fair, that was forced by the music industry.
If they didn’t licence the tabs and come up with a payment system they were going to be sued into oblivion.
And one that’s been exported to other countries who don’t even have the same national holiday adjacent to that friday giving people the excuse to shop more on that particular day.
Here it’s nothing but a cynical corporate cash grab.