sure, but then you're alienating an entire userbase that can install an OS (which is just a flash drive and hitting a few keys during startup), but absolutely does not have the willpower to sit and figure out configuration on their new OS that absolutely does not work out of the box. Shit, I have enough to deal with in my daily life, I don't want to be debugging driver issues. I haven't had driver issues in windows or mac for over a decade, yet it's the very first thing you encounter on a new distro install.

they're very correct. Last month I tried out Zorin (which was recommended by one of the linux communities here) and sound didn't even work properly. I plan on writing up a full doc for the linux community on the problems a staff software engineer had with a basic no-frills install (I'm trying to find a distro for my wife), but Linux is absolutely not ready for the general populace.

buying a pan increases demand for that item, which then gets built in those factories that then pollute the water you drink and the air you breathe. So yeah, they're directly correlated.

Google have exceptions for some companies and Apple have exceptions for some companies,

Google has exceptions for specific companies, while Apple has exceptions for classes of companies. There is entirely a difference, hence the difference in court case outcomes "no matter how unhappy that might make you".

So no matter how unhappy that might make you, the logical conclusion for different verdict comes down to jury trial vs. judge trial

as I point out above, you are completely ignoring the defining factor in the two cases. Classes of apps versus specific apps.

And if the win against Google is upheld in the appeals courts, that will create a precedent and then a new party (or same party with different case) can take Apple to court again with this case on their side.

no, it will not, I'm sorry, but you are very wrong about this.

You didn't even bother to read your own links. The exceptions aren't for spotify and netflix, they're for all reader apps, like spotify and netflix. It's literally the reason they won the case in america. The second link actually proves what I'm claiming more, they aren't favoring Spotify or any specific app store company, they are favoring their own apps and have different rules for those on the app store. Neither of which is why google lost. Google is giving specific companies on their app store favorable terms.

Legally, there might arguments that Apple can justify their monopoly, but in a jury trial they would have lost.

you can claim this all you want, but all evidence points to the contrary.

The Gentiles must be circumcised

Nobody is saying anyone must be circumcised. But it is encouraged and usually forced upon children in christian churches through baptism. Your verse does not say what you think it does. See my reply above.

No I'm not. My wife works on reservations. American Indians prefer to be called Indians, not Native Americans.

ok, that I can understand, if they're only considering "tools" to be those on lgpl systems themselves.

Only applies if there aren’t bicyclists and if your view isn’t blocked. I’m sorry but your attitude is why pedestrians are dying.

I can guarantee you do not pay 100% attention to your surroundings at all times. Even trained spies can’t do that. Sometimes you get caught up in something and otherwise forget. This is a case of special pleading…also known as a double standard. You’re expecting perfection from others but can’t meet that expectation yourself.

We've already dealt with one problematic server by defederating. But, it was kind of an easy decision, because it was a private instance and it had a bot that was just posting every link from hacker news.

I’m a pessimist. I feel like inevitably, some kind of flamewar or drama will cause cross-board invasions between subreddits (and now, different !communities@different.servers on Lemmy).

In all likelihood you are correct. I think we will have to come up with rules for the server and then if other instances cause flamewars here that go against those rules then we can talk about defederation.

Hey, yeah I actually was going to see if I could post the full setup and cost on this later, but since you're asking now I'll just go ahead and post it here!

The domain - programming.dev - cost $560 or something like that for the first year, then it's $427 for every year after.

The lemmy instance is running on a Vultr High Frequency instance at the lowest tier. I thought I could up it if we started getting high traffic, but expect the server to run just fine for quite a number of users. I do think I might have to move postgres off to its own dedicated instance, but haven't really thought too much about that yet.

I think bandwidth is actually going to be the biggest issue, because if we federate with other massive instances then even if there is only a small number of users, we're pulling in all the traffic from the other instances. I can definitely understand only allowing a few instances, but not sure I'm going to restrict that just yet. If people can donate then that shouldn't be a problem.

The email is all running through SendGrid. I was going to use Mailgun, but Sendgrid is a bit easier to use and has a lot higher cap, and I expected to get to that in time. Currently SG costs nothing, but I expect it to cost $35 a month after my trial runs out...