I couldn’t care less about the ‘profit’ for feed in, it’s just about not relying or paying energy providers. I keep getting told by Solar companies that batteries aren’t cost effective yet.

Yeah I’m getting to that point where I’m willing to pay more to install solar, and a battery or two, just so I don’t pay electrical providers as much each quarter.

Identification would need to be handled by a 3rd party to even remotely work. Then they pass on the “yes they’re over 16” tick to the social media platform, with no actual identity details.

Edit: and likewise, Identity company have no details about the social media account name or anything. Just a token transfer of sorts.

Would a Windows Enterprise 10 LTSC IoT edition be better than Windows Server though?

Do all that reach that threshold get discussed though?

For me, it’s the price, and effort involved with researching cheaper/better providers. Maybe once a year I’ll look at competitors. If ISP raise price, that’s when I more seriously look at competitors.

Has any petition here ever actually lead to any change?

Probably need one, just for the benchmark comparisons.

Can it, or others mentioned in thread, stream from shared folder on local networks?

Guess their thinking is that Google may not be a monopoly in 3 years, so the rules might not need to apply at that point, or they be reviewed?

Why do I doubt this.

I personally fucking hate it. But my whole friends group use it for events (bad, birthdays), and messenger chat.

How do you convince ~30 people to switch to something else?

What app do they switch to?

Has options for pasting, and even a clipboard history feature? Although have not enabled that or tested it.

Same. I’ve been attempting to de-Google and stick with FOSS where possible, but only Lawnchair has come close to Nova Launcher, but it’s not without its limitations like setting a primary home screen, and better widget padding and removing round corners.

I’m still experimenting with others, but many are no longer under active development either.

Agreed. Plenty of notes apps; none with decent collaboration features.

I went with FUTO Keyboard. It’s the only keyboard that ticks all my boxes to replace GBoard so far.

I wish the swiping predictions were a bit better though.

Is this also how they know which ads to feed you?

I tried it and was underwhelmed, but also overwhelmed.

I love the idea of choosing everything I want, but Arch also meant the pain of learning to install everything I actually need first.

Is there a minimalistic distro that installs all just the essentials (drivers, services like DHCP, a package manager, desktop GUI), and then I choose from there?

Yeah. Then I’ll fill up my free 15gb quota with garbage OS files, and be prompted to pay a subscription to backup the other 1-2tb of data.

Audit trail in a corporate environment maybe. Assuming non-Microsoft admins have access to that data, it could be a benefit.

Can’t imagine the risk it introduces though.

And resource usage overhead.