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  • That is disingenuous.

    People underestimate the cost of building a fucking browser, it’s not the equivalent of maintaining a array sort app on fucking github.

    Some random dude promising to “donate from time to time” is not a valid business model.

    I wish they’d strip down and just focus on the browser, but fund it HOW? Ads? Subscription?

    The reason a lot of companies are doing AI shit is essentially RD shooting in the dark, hoping something will pan out.

    You have to do this if you are a tech company and want to survive in the future.

    It’s fun to meme on ai and but that shit is coming and pretending it doesn’t exist or has no value simply isn’t true.

    So I ask everyone again, what business model exists for a software company to make money without ads or charging a monthly subscription.



  • Like I said, fuck Joe Rogan, but every big Corp has been responsible for awful shit. At some point you have to live and you have to give in somewhere.

    This is coming from someone that self hosts and even I can’t be bothered to self host every fucking random ass song in existence.

    My value proposition is that my entire family doesn’t have to listen to ads and I don’t have to spend half my day tracking down songs.

    Again, my larger point is that spotify for all its bullshit still isn’t streaming video levels of utter bullshit.














  • The whole smart phone thing is such a lesson in letting go of the rope.

    Once you let corporations get away with a little, they will eventually take everything.

    Every time we lost a bit of control me and a few of enthusiasts were screaming, but the regular populace just shrugged…

    Even on reddit you’d have to argue with idiots “oh just use Bluetooth headphones! Oh who needs sd cards, just use the cloud! Oh who needs rooting, it’s not needed”

    I swear to god if Windows / OS were invented today 80 of people would just shrug as all control of their PC was taken away.