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Zedge comes to mind. A site for buying ringtones (among other things like notification tones and wallpapers) or at least barred you from downloading the “premium” ones without subscription.

This won’t work on android because changing icon is trivial lmao

you’d be surprised. Present someone a choice between privacy and convenience, most people will pick convenience.

I mean, when asked for something like this and the quick answer was Everything, you’d wonder if the OP meant the voidtools’ file search software ‘Everything’ or just… everything. At least provide a quick explanation of the usage, 1 sentence is usually enough.

RadioGarden as well

the API isn’t free, corporation use for navigation paid huge amount to Google for their maps.

and also from

Brave browser, based on chromium has an ad reward program that you have to opt-in

two movies came to me pretty vividly,

Spirited Away (2001), no-face is pretty scary even now, but the scene that disturbs me is at the beginning when Chihiro came back and find her parents have turned into pigs…

MirrorMask (2005), fittingly I watched this when I was sick with high fever and for so long I thought this movie was a fever dream, it haunted me for days until my fever subsides. I don’t remember anything about the plot, just that the atmosphere and aesthetic are nauseating

I kinda miss clicking “disable inbox replies” after posting or commenting on reddit lol

I used to own a flash drive that’s also a mp3 player, it’s pretty neat

I guees I’m stuck in the 2000s as I still rocking my 10,000 mp3 collection lol

Playing it makes me realize I really can’t multitask (aiming for enemies and shooting to rhythm) lol

Up there with Canon, I feel like that shit needs to be serviced once a month

More like instagram but instead of images, you’re now allowed to post texts

I imagine people are gonna abuse it for posting highly controversial takes that’s borderline immoral if not illegal… People already do even with associated username, imagine if it’s untraceable (by regular users) back to you. The nazis are gonna come out en masse, both who are trolling and actually serious. Seems like a moderation nightmare.

What about Detroit? I’m not even remotely near US and I see a lot of stereotype about Detroit

Nah man, my friend plays GTA and the next morning he got hit by a bicycle, that’s very dangerous

Eh, at least it’s clear enough and (hopefully) there’s minimal dark pattern, intentional or not

Their only problem is in consistency where Windows at least has “backwards compatibility” as an excuse though lol

This is the gist: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

Basically, big companies can destroy decentralised network from within once big enough people adopt it.

What they do is

1. Embrace - adopt the network with their own proprietary system, like Threads for example, as opposed to other system in the fediverse right now that are open source.

2. Extend - spend resources like money, manpower, and even extensive knowledge on how to expand and make the network a better place with a lot more features while simultaneously promoting and making so that only their proprietary app can access it in the best way.

3. Exterminate / Extinguish - once they have good amount of users, they can start crippling the other side, like maybe Threads can see posts from Lemmy and Mastodon but not the other way around, people are gonna think that Threads is superior and leaving the original instances. They can also pull back resources like even the people who used to work on developing the network that they used to give so generously before, and such the maintainer now has no way to keep up in developing the network.

Also known as the EEE tactic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Didn’t realise it was ‘P’ lmaoo