JustEnoughDucks

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[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 6 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Yes but once you make that much, then amassing more money turns into a game of how you can fuck over the most people to increase your value. See: every billionaire in existance.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 5 points 6 days ago

If you can borrow against that at any time you want (read: 90% of billionaires), then you have that money effectively liquid and untaxed.

Then they will take out a bigger loan to pay off the existing loan and as such, pay almost nothing in taxes, the stocks that they borrow against grow faster than the interest on their loans, and they can repeat this process until they die where their debt just gets eaten by taxpayers because they transfer assets at the right time to children and then their estate will pay back the debt after death (just transfer stock ownership to lenders probably)

Even if the stock market crashes during this time, they can declare bankruptcy, free themselves of their debt, and then sell assets and they already have a huge golden elevator ready to bring them back up.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 5 points 1 week ago

Non profits can still be super corrupt, especially in the US as they don't have to disclose any money flow so a huge percent of the time it goes to the board of directors.

See: Susan B kohlman

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is why there are separate rules and standard for implantable, wearable, and supporting medical devices.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

On the final episode with my rewatch

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think it has to do with data differences between self hosters and data hoarders.

Example: a self hosted with an RPI home assistant setup and a N100 server with some paperwork, photos, nextcloud, and a small jellyfin library.

A few terabytes of storage and their goal is to replace services they paid for in an efficient manner. Large data transfers will happen extremely rarely and it would be limited in size, likely for backing up some important documents or family photos. Maybe they have a few hundred Mbit internet max.

Vs

A data hoarder with 500TB of raid array storage that indexes all media possible, has every retail game sold for multiple consoles, has taken 10k RAW photos, has multiple daily and weekly backups to different VPS storages, hosts a public website, has >gigabit internet, and is seeding 500 torrents at a given time.

I would venture to guess that option 1 is the vast majority of cases in selfhosting, and 10Gb networking is much more expensive for limited benefit for them.

Now on a data hoarding community, option 2 would be a reasonable assumption and could benefit greatly from 10Gb.

Also 10Gb is great for companies, which are less likely to be posting on a self hosted community.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago

Yes but that whole line of a few years also suffered many breaking bugs from HMD like media sound being completely borked in an update and crackling and unusable for literally months before they fixed it. WhatsApp voice messages were hell for 4-5 months.

Or the USB port being so low quality that there were rampant replacements needed after as little as 6 months (my own 7.1 needed 5 replacement USB ports in the 2 years I used it. Never had that from a phone before or after)

Or the short battery life after an update second to only the HTC 10's rapid battery drain bug.

The 2018-2019 HMD years were really rough for software as far as phone usability, plus the bad USB-C part number they continued using during that time.

Otherwise they were decent looking, decent performing, cheaper phones with bad cameras.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, mine is just a docker container. Maybe there is something with that? Is your containerized in the VM?

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

50% is quite decent and is 20% higher than most other "decent" services including physical stores. Building and keeping an app up to date with ever changing content requires at least a part time developer which is expensive.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Interesting. For me it was a set and forget. I check the change notes before updating every month or so, make a very small change to the yaml compose, and I am back in action in under 10 minutes.

Different experiences I guess.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago

True, but the same judge who would say that this means Github's AI tools can harvest and regurgitate code that you upload as its own would have a good chance of ruling that the Winamp BS license is valid and the forkers have to fork over money.

But there is the fact that the company is based in Brussels and their license apparently breaks Belgian law 😂

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Did he disclose an amount?

5% to artists is very different than 40% to artists.

Or is he adopting the Spotify bottom line?

Only pay artists after X downloads and only pay a few cents after thousands of downloads and use the rest for profits

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