Your comment made me realize I’m (and I’m sure I’m not alone) sort of the problem with Linux.

Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love the massive community of tools and programs out there like free open source software. But I’ve never actually bought anything for a Linux system with one exception: Debian in a box, on a CD for like, $15.

Buuuut, I have bought FOSS, games, and utilities for Mac and Windows that started as Linux apps and work on my new system.

I guess there is a mindset of get something free to suffice with Linux systems rather than pay for polished apps, and I totally get that thrill, but is there business to be made in this market, or a sunk cost at the end of the year.

I’d really like to see the app, and it takes bold risks to populate this platform, and there’s certainly pushback, but that’s also what separates Linux from windows. No point in having a machine if there are gaps in workflow or utility.

What a coinci-dink. I just installed Ubuntu last week on a new mini computer. I like how easy it’s gotten over the past decade and pretty polished.

I still had to break out the terminal to install some utilities and programs, so that’ll exclude 90% of my family, and if something goes wrong, I couldn’t offer phone support.

But I do use Affinity and think it would be at home on Linux.

They’ve been locking down the play store, important features, and I suspect revanced had blown a gasket or two in meetings. Time to crack down, DRM up, and enshittify.

Time to break another monopoly.

I use tubesync.

Speaking as an actual former editor, nooo.

I’ve found YouTube has lowered the bar on video production standards as tools became more accessible to the general public.

The shorts I worked on (actual productions with scripts, crews, etc) have much higher expectations and understand, collectively, they are producing a work.

You can slap together a camera, some mics, lights, and a host, and call it professional, but it ain’t gunna make it so.

Corporate however, yeah. Looots of sponsors out there; tons of shrilling. Definitely loads more of that these days.

My subscription system now is a docker image that downloads interesting channels I specify or videos I add to a playlist. I do wonder how those metrics show up in analytics.

I stopped using recommendations when I accidently clicked on AI slop and that crap started taking over. It’s useless to me now. If I use the legitimate YouTube interface, I spend half the time hiding shorts, slop, reruns, and jumpcuts-make-me-interesting influencers talking at me. Ugh.

YouTube used to be people who wanted to do or share things without kickbacks. Those are the channels I miss.

Sounds like a great idea, but a significant portion of 1-star reviews point out massive data collection issues.

More information necessary before I install this on my system.

I meant to sound funny, but re-reading my comment ringed of sarcasm. Just poking fun 🙂

Let’s see here… $14/year * 9℅ = roughly $1.25.

BREAKING NEWS Namecheap raises price $1.25 / year

Unless im missing something big. I’m not thrilled, but I’m also not that concerned as long as trends remain intact. I only have a dozen or so sites and a few just for email.

I’m courious about exception B (3). Someone could find themselves on a lot of secretive blacklists. Like if your name got wrapped up in unionization, how screwed could you be?