Well, yeah, you can. Whoever told you that you can’t, don’t believe them, they are probably being payed to say it. You could also pay for the book to support the author but most likely your money will not go to the author so don’t bother.

Are we even sure it’s the same person?

They sure do

And also killed the dude that was trying to compete.

Well he’s not wrong. The decompression would be a problem though.

Likely because anyone who could tell about their strain is dead.

I mean we don’t need “some dude said” when we have the devs telling us themselves:

lemmy.ml hosting is only financed by donations via Opencollective. All other donations go exclusively to developer salaries.

https://lemmy.world/post/29114540/16863750

You may not believe them but I don’t see why, it’s not like it costs a lot of money.

I think a more valid point against donations is from the other answer to my comment about devs presenting lemmy.ml as a kinda official instance or as a face of lemmy which is pretty bad for lemmy regardless of your political views.

How so when they specifically say only one type of donations will go to the ml?

Thank you. Seems I was correct then.

How do they exploit their position as devs to push their political agenda? Do they add something to the code that gives them some exclusive benefits?

If you mean they just host their own instance, isn’t it the whole point of Lemmy and what all the other instances are doing? Some even block other instances that do not match their political bias to not ruin their echo chamber. I mean I’m on lemmy.world which probably would be more accurately named lemmy.ultra.left.usa for some time now.

I fully understand you not wanting to support lemmy.ml financially and want to point out that only one donation method is used to help hosting it, all the others will not benefit lemmy.ml exclusively but will benefit all the other instances and lemmy as a whole.

Not judging and correct me if I got it wrong. You like Lemmy and want to support it but you personally don’t like the developers of Lemmy?

Yeah, nothing important. Just your banking apps, personal documents, photos, government apps, emails, all the services linked to your phone via mobile number, personal chats, work chats, 2fa codes, some other not important stuff. But at least it doesn’t have your games. Unless you play games on your phone, then you are fucked.

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They know, read their yearly financial reports. They said for a decade that Windows is not only not profitable, there’s no future for it. Microsoft for several years now is a company that sells cloud and opensource services(Linux, Github, etc).

you need an active online account and the key will be saved online

Is there a legit reason for this? Why can’t they just encrypt the data with the password used to access the online account?

Do they even have one? I thought it’s rare situation when the product speaks for itself.

Knowing Americans it’s probably the middle.

In Linux-land usually we just recompile all of the software from source

That’s just incorrect. Apart from 3 guys who have no better things to do no one in “Linux-land” does that.

Do: have fun.

Don’t: involve in any illegal in Malaysia activities.

That looks incredibly tasty.

taxes pooled together from all of our incomes cannot be used to subsidize Healthcare, education and a basic living income for all citizens

Well that’s how it’s done in most rich and even some poor countries. So I assume you are talking about the US which is indeed in a terrible situation with human rights for it’s wealth. And sadly voting red/blue won’t ever change it.