What an interesting year. This has to be the 4th or 5th large tech-centric company that's
Just like every other company that's done this, the backtrack is likely meant to appease the consumers before the policy gets re-introduced later. Perhaps with slightly different wording.
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I posted the list of alternatives simply because OP asked for forks.
What’s wrong with Firefox
Me posting this list shouldn't be an implication that I believe Firefox to be bad. I'm offering alternatives as the OP requests.
and how do the forks address those points?
Every one of the links I shared have detailed information about how their product mutates the original Firefox or Chromium browser. Do you really need me to copy-paste that information into a comment?
Not the OP, but here are some alternatives anyway.
Firefox:
Chrome:
I wasn’t implying they get paid better. The comparison to views vs plays was done to address the “It’s not a song” comment. How did you get that implication from my message?
It’s semantics, but the equivalent for a song would be plays. I think the problem with using views or plays for a metric like this is that they don’t account for people that take in the entire piece of media. It considers people that accidentally click an episode and then close it after some seconds, and people who watch an episode from start to finish, to be the same. One of those people are going to see a lot more ads than the other, thus making the company more money. Just my hypothesis tho.
To my knowledge, pipewire was never meant to replace any part of systemd. I don't think systemd does anything related to audio either. OP was claiming otherwise so I asked for clarification.
Pulseaudio isn't part of systemd.
Which part(s) of systemd is pipewire meant to replace?
he thinks it’s success is entirely due to his decisions and beliefs
Hate to be the one to draw a parallel, but this is the same mindset Spez has and why he justifies the choices he made with Reddit.
Most of these stores sell your data to third parties and do that just for profits.
Sure. But until you bring some proof that Valve is actually selling my financial data, I'm going to chalk this up to baseless claims. So far, all the proof you've provided has been a hysterical article that cites Valve's own ToS and Privacy Policy and makes claims that Valve is basically operating the exact same way as all other digital storefronts do when consumers make purchases online. It also claimed that Valve is tracking my internet history citing a reddit thread with multiple comments debunking the claim.
What data was recorded when you bought your linux?
That depends. I use actual RHEL quite a bit considering it's what I'm familiar with and what's used in my workplace. Before I could setup any of my personal servers that use RHEL9, I had to provide all the exact same information you requested. My laptop is running FreeBSD, which cost me nothing considering it's not sold in a storefront. Not sure what you're getting at with this unless this is once again some false equivalence.
Look, I'm all for moving away from Steam if there's an actual compelling reason to do so. Valve doing illegal shit that no one's reported is certainly a legitimate reason for me to move off the platform, but neither you nor the only other person in this thread claiming Valve is the literal devil have provided any legitimate reasons not to use the platform. If all it takes is a hysterical article with some bogus claims and bold text for you change how you consume products, I got this huge bridge to sell you.
Nix and Home Manager have been my go-to for managing dotfiles and symlinks in my home dir