Simple auth was honestly one of the upsides for me.

Plex claims to have an offline mode, but I could never got it to work, for some reason.
And I got pissed off one too many times when my Internet went down and I couldn’t watch anything from the NAS a few meters away…

What’s better, exactly?

I switched years ago from Plex to Jellyfin, and while the UI wasn’t quite as nice, everything else is better.
And I don’t have to pay to use HW transcoding on my own hardware…

Man, deep packet inspection is some crazy stuff.

Good implementation can identify the type of traffic within seconds with scarily good accuracy.

Quite a few countries actually implement this in their national ISP’s infrastructure to block VPNs, so the citizens can’t access non-approved websites.

$3 ink from a bodega

That’s actually a fair price for 3rd party replacement.
I used to work at a computer shop, and people only ever bought the cheapest available cartridges.
We also used to do printer repair, do you know how many printers had to come in because of shitty ink?
The answer is zero.

And anyway, in your example the printer manufacturer has no business tracking your ink usage, whether it’s by spying on you and phoning home, or recording this info in the printer’s memory.

People being excited about getting spam from a scammer.

What a time to be alive…

It wouldn’t.

USA tried to keep the encryption all to itself in the past by classifying it as munitions, it didn’t work out.

And criminals don’t care if encryption is banned anyway.

That’s a very charitable way of looking at DRM.

Company’s PR dept saying “we didn’t do it” is not proof of anything.

If they’re not blocking 3rd party cartridges, why even implement DRM?
Do they have so much extra money that they’re developing features they’re not planning to use just because they’re bored?

That’s an optimistic view.

But really, that’s just Google being Google.
Even years before the “AI” hype their Assistant kept suddenly losing features that worked perfectly fine before.

Thanks for the link.

Looks like not really closed-source, but not fully open as the previous printers were.
And the reasoning is the usual, other companies stealing their designs. :/

What is that even supposed to mean?

Aren’t you confusing them with Bambu?

Their slicer is based on Prusa’s exactly because Prusa isn’t doing closed source.

Thank you for being one person in this thread that actually read and understood my comment.

A bunch of comments repeating “Signal is the most secure because I said so” was not helpful.

Sure, buddy.

Maybe you should read the comments you’re replying to first.
If you can’t do that much then maybe you just shouldn’t comment at all.

I’ll simplify it for you:

1. Did I suggest Signal is not secure? No.
2. Did the OP make a claim Signal is somehow the most secure chat on the planet based on non existing sources pulled out of his ass? Yes.

Discussion quality on Lemmy starts looking like Reddit now.
Almost feels like home…

OK, and how is that different from the other chats?

You do know that at least Signal and Matrix use pretty much the same crypto, right?

And Matrix can be self-hosted, so I don’t need to worry about what they can see anyway.
On this point alone Matrix appears more secure than Signal…

And Threema is Switzerland-based, so by default it’s more trustful than a USA-based company.

Signal is the most secure

[citation needed]

Yes.

It also gets some free publicity by claiming to be federated/decentralized without the user having to make any actual choices in regards to a server (because there isn’t really any choice).

the alternative is around the same price

You know that’s not true.

There are stupidly expensive Android flagships, but there are also a lot of phones for a fraction of the price.

This sounds like FUD. Do you have a source for that?

Before that, they claimed they were simply too insignificant to even be eligible for VAT.

How is this FUD when you just said they admitted to it?

Exemptions vary by country, but often they only apply to small businesses.
Often there’s no right to any exemptions anyway if your company isn’t headquartered in the country (and Kagi is from USA).

Either way you only have to pay VAT on transactions made after you go over the limit, while Kagi admitted they have to settle unpaid taxes.
This situation can only happen if they didn’t pay the taxes they already legally owed.

See: https://kagifeedback.org/d/3592-march-19th-2024-introducing-sales-taxes

Kagi will have to retroactively pay for all sales tax/VAT that we did not collect in the last almost two years. We have chosen to absorb this on behalf of our customers.

They tried to make themselves look like the good guys, while in reality they just paid back their overdue taxes they were required to collect all this time.

Not knowing the tax rules is not an excuse.
If they wanna do business internationally they can afford to hire an accountant.

Information on this is extremely intransparent however, so this might be wrong.

It’s not “extremely intransparent”, it’s just a little complicated.
And accountants are really cheap for small businesses.

I also liked the part where they decided they don’t need to pay the VAT.