Problem is when you procrastinate because manually importing transactions and correcting them is just annoying enough to make it a hassle. Then the transaction batch gets too large and you can’t remember details anymore so you give up and don’t track your budget at all.
That’s been my experience in the past at least.
It’s more complicated than just a spreadsheet but not as complicated as regular programming. You will want to learn general accounting practices like double entry bookkeeping to really understand how to use it though.
Seems to me that anything beyond the actual hosting and serving of the video file is unnecessary to include by default in a federated video streaming solution…
You are basically saying “Other than the most expensive and complicated parts” the rest is easy or unnecessary. Which isn’t necessarily accurate but still is being a bit dismissive of the problems at hand.
And one of the biggest criticisms of Peertube (aside from the dearth of content, which helpfully avoids the “expensive/complicated” parts) has been Discoverability. How do people watch your videos (or your playlist) if they don’t have a way of knowing that your videos even exist?
I guess it depends on how much you trust a company (both now and in the future) to do something they shouldn’t with this kind of setup, whether on purpose or though incompetence.
Personally, I don’t software silently installing unrelated services to my machine just in case the company decides they want to have it running on my machine in the future.
That’s surprising to hear. Netflix has always been a step above, Hulu is decently behind. The rest are pretty rough from my perspective, but slowly getting better over time. Amazon was definitely miserable to use for a long time and I don’t think had anything but a basic “fast-forward/rewind” functionality with no thumbnails for quite a while.
The Peacock app and streaming has been hit or miss on plenty of occasions.
I think the worse is the Disney app that makes it difficult to just replay a movie that’s already been watched. It likes to resume at the end of the credits of the episode you want to watch rather than realize I want to watch the whole episode not just the final 10 seconds of credits. Or that switching between an episode when watching something from your “Previously Watched” list means finding the series on an entirely separate list in the UI.
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Can anyone confirm that my understanding of the source article is correct?
The “Windows 12 may require a subscription” is coming from the fact that the word “Subscription” exists in a Windows config file somewhere?
That seems like a pretty big leap to me. Not that I don’t think it’s impossible that Microsoft would do this, but the evidence here seems thin to say the least.
The competition should be about having the best platform, not exclusive content.
Those both sound like competition to me. What you are really asking for is “I want things to be cheaper” which is a separate and sometimes related issue to competition, but separate nonetheless.
The path to lower prices the way you want would be government-mandated price controls on the industry.
“Electronic or appliance product” or “product” does not include any of the following:
(i) Equipment or repair parts as defined in Chapter 28 (commencing with Section 22900) of Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code.
(ii) A product or component of an “alarm system” as defined in subdivision © of Section 7590.1 of the Business and Professions Code, including a fire protection system, as defined in the California Fire Code.
(iii) A video game console.
Funny seeing such a specific exclusion being made here.
I wouldn’t consider blockchain “simple”. Especially when the alternative truly is simple, where the system is based on a “single” source of truth.
That top comment is ridiculous.
The article clearly outlines where people are paying for this content. And the idea that “no one is allowed to talk about this topic while human trafficking exists” is nonsense.
People need to learn to read before commenting on an article. The article isn’t that long. Maybe spend more time actually fighting human trafficking than virtue signaling on social media if it’s the only topic you feel is important.
…meanwhile, piracy automatically downloads new episodes often mere hours after it’s released, for free, you don’t have to actively manage subscriptions
I wasn’t aware that any such setup still worked with minimal setup. The ones I’ve seen reference in the past were shutdown and more torrent sites are getting shut down all the time.
Are you talking about private trackers? Because those can be hit or miss, assuming you can even get access to a good one at all.
Agreed, I wasn’t necessarily speaking about this specific issue, just about the broader issue of Patreon and the lack of good alternatives.
When you use Stripe/Paypal as your payment processor you have to be willing to accept whatever demands they (and the banks backing them) decide to make on any given day.
I hate how much of a monopoly they have in the space…
It’s not necessarily Patreon that’s the root problem here. The problem is the foundations of the financial industry (banks, credit card companies, etc) have complete control over the content and products you can exchange for money.
If Wells Fargo decides that your product or content has offended some random executive, they will call up your payment provider (like Stripe) and tell them to close your account. And the payment provider will do it because they don’t really have a choice.
So, its not a $700 monthly bill, it’s $350, which is a pretty important detail to leave out.
2500 kWh is pretty massive though. We have a smaller house but with multiple air window conditioners running we only use roughly 1k a month.
You’re electricity is actually significantly cheaper than mine, Our base price is the $0.14 kWh, which is lower than the standard rate from the utility company which last I remember was something like $0.23.
The vast majority of the people online don’t give a shit about technology, they just care about what technology can do for them. So, if we are talking about a platform like Twitter/Threads, people want a platform that allows to them follow/interact with the people they want to follow or interact with. They don’t care if it’s open/closed-source, if it’s harvest your data, etc. They just want to use it the platform, that’s it.
None of what you said explains how Microsoft today (not 15 years ago, or in some hypothetical future) will have a monopoly before or after this acquisition.
By allowing MS to do this the courts are signing to the world that smaller companies shouldn’t even bother competing because they can never outspend MS’s war chest.
Which company would you have expected to compete in the console space in the foreseeable future that will have changed their minds because of this acquisition? I’m not aware of any, but I wouldn’t mind being shown that this is a real concern.
I don’t know, I’m really interested in all these internet services that are 100% safe from hackers. Sounds like very useful information that should be shared around.