I was using it as a counter-example.
Yeah, that's a good one. The alternative stuff that does get popular is usually intended to hit an entirely different market, rather than a higher-end market. Is it Ollie that's the new hot thing? It's being marketed as the "healthy option," and not high-end soda.
I was thinking that the answers here are generally gonna be products that are cheap/synthetic by nature. High quality chocolate has to be high-quality-sourced. High quality soda with the particular flavor that people like exists to the extent that bubbly sugar water can be high-quality.
Good answer.
I think it's hard to fit software into this question because typically when a product is made, there isn't as large of a need to make a cheaper / more accessible product on account of larger teams typically meaning faster features, and cracked versions existing. They exist, but they're almost always less feature-complete, and there's a different type of user that seeks out an open-source alternative.
That said, I think FFmpeg is a good entry here.
I've got a guy like this now. I'm sure he does what he does perfectly fine, but I watched him struggle to identify a very obvious bug he pushed to production which disabled an entire function. It's a little different now when I see him being snarky with other team members...
This isn't what I meant when I told Samsung to cut it out with putting WiFi in everything.
Can't even use it with Premium.
Yes, I have YouTube Premium. Family member has it, might as well take advantage of it.
I would've liked to have gotten one of the bulkier ones, and if I had foreseen this being an issue, I would've waited.
The T14's trackpoint created a pressure spot on my screen simply from being closed. I traveled with it only a handful of times, and when I did, I had it in a light bag with hardly anything else in it. Yes, I need a laptop carry case, but regardless, this really should not be an issue.
I've since put a felt pad between my screen and keyboard for when I close it, but that should not be something I have to do with a $1200 laptop.
Otherwise, it's been great.
They weren't so much assumptions about specifically your usage, as I wasn't really speaking directly to you. Regardless of your specific situation, I still stand by my final point.
Additionally, the availability of votes is largely a technical issue. It's been explained better and more in-depth than I have time for at the moment, but the idea (as far as I remember) was that because of Lemmy's instanced hosting nature, your votes are visible to instance operators anyway, and since that's not a particularly tough boundary to cross (nature of federated web), they just left it extended to all users.
Someone correct or fill in information I've missed.
It's only ridiculous because you're used to pouring your entire life into Facebook or Google's servers.
If you're disturbed by it being public, I think you should be just as disturbed by it being in the hands of data farmers and merchants.
The fact of the matter is, nothing you do online is private—and on the spectrum of "how private is it," social media platforms are traditionally designed to put you at the near zero end of it. So separate your concerns if you want any illusion of separation from your actual life.