No, that’s why it’s in quotes. Too many plays on words that don’t cut the right way, I think.

I suspect they didn’t want to call it a “try fold”

I wish Microsoft had stayed in the mobile space. That competition might have changed things for the better.

Now we have a duopoly.

I’ll check it out. Thanks for the update.

Was that in the past few years?

I watched his stuff before the GN kerfuffle . I’m not unfamiliar with the self-promotion, compound-building as content, antics or free-wheeling vids (or vids made to look that way).

Yes, even the side channel stuff.

The tech signal to total signal is… Low-ish. It’s entertaining, it’s broad in its scope, but I can find denser, deeper stuff if I care about a topic.

His primary skill and draw is entertainment. Tech is just what fills the gaps between shenanigans, “isn’t this cool?” and the next self-deprecating remark.

I’ve stopped adopting Google products and I think I recommend it for others as well. They limp in with something half-finished, don’t get the adoption a mostly finished product would, then throw up their hands.

Im tryinf to de-cloud all together and expect I can get mostly there within the next 18 months.

If you have patience and a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5, I suspect it’s a better and cheaper (and more future proof) solution.

They want out and haven’t found a way to make money off of voice assistant. They’re just slowly killing it.

It’s part of why I’m pushing hard on my HA and hoping their voice efforts at least give me a solid voice experience at home.

HA = Home Assistant

Edit to say: I get that people are frustrated that previously good (mostly) free solutions are going away. I’m not defending tech, but I do see their business need here. Google has long lost my trust anyhow.

I’m not upset by the down votes, but 8 do wonder what they mean.

To me the only safe thing to do is pull back and build my own. Raspberry Pis aren’t expensive.

I’m curious where Nothing goes if they can keep momentum.

I just said we pay. You seem to think I’m talking about Sync.

I’m not. Technically, I guess I could be talking about both server and sync.

What I’ve seen on Lemmy is I can say I paid for Sync and donate to the server and someone will need to come along to tell me all of that money should go to Lemmy.

That’s too either/or. And it’s making Lemmy look… incapable of nuanced thought. Or entitled.

It’s not everyone, but it’s common enough it looks really odd.

We pay.

You assume.

It’s junior level reasoning.

No… no sync users donate. They used ALL THEIR MONEYZ to buy the app.

/s just to be sure

That’s not just a feeling. They professionally cherry picked facts to try to generate outrage. And threw any context out the window along the way.

I have never seen a website so consistently entitled. It changes my sympathetic view of the left into a need to self reflect and maybe ensure those sympathies get solid, unwavering boundaries.

No one is entitled to other people’s stuff. We can credibly argue whether value is flowing to the right places, but that’s not what I’m seeing on lemmy in sync-bash posts.

I appreciate you answering the question and being brave enough to step forward to do so.

I think what’s been confusing me is why so many lemmings feel they need to tell us which UX to use and whether we should value it one way or another…

They’ll say, “use what works for you” but… “it’s should be (almost free).” Making an absolute value judgment, no caveat or allowing for other tastes or bank accounts.

It’s just bad form. If it confuses them, I get it. Strict adherence to FOSS confuses me. But we can talk that through.

But I’m not going to tell them that they’re doing it wrong or that they’re objectively valuing FOSS incorrectly.

But that keeps happening to Sync. I appreciate you answering the question and engaging.

This need to continually tell us that we’re wrong for supporting the app and dev is mystifying to me.

It’s like me telling everyone to stop funding the instance because it’s paid through the end of the year. Even mentioning that the instance was/is healthy feels like poor form.

But if people aren’t sure the instance will endure, the engagement may not persist.

Yet lemmings have stirred the doubt-pot, too. The instance deserves support. The dev deserves support. Labor, any labor, cannot be expected to be free.

That’s my moral line. You may have another one. That’s fine. The above is my opinion, not objective fact.

I just don’t get the need to keep shitting on people enjoying an app or paying for it.

This is why lemmy may die.

It is not free. It’s not close to free. You can use it for free because someone else is subsidizing your use.

But the money comes from somewhere.

It’s good to see this point being made.

There’s a lesson here: people are willing to pay good money to participate on lemmy. What applies to the app may (I’d hope) apply to servers and development.

Sync user and server supporter, here. Hope we only grow in number.

You’re misrepresenting that post.

Par for the course.

The only moral “obligations” I’ve drawn are: Treat people civilly or be ready for incivility Have enough sense to mind your own fucking business.

I’m not going to tell you you’re wrong for shopping around the free stuff. And you shouldn’t tell me I shouldn’t be happy having found something I’ve liked for years. Or call me a sucker. Or be derisive.

But arguing with fools is a fool’s errand. Have the last word. Just don’t embarrass yourself.

I have nothing against FOSS. Good things have been done.

I have an issue with people acting like if it isn’t FOSS it is morally wrong. You may not have done this, but it’s a vibe I’ve seen more than once here.

That and a notion that the app should be free. That’s fine, but if people are “saving money” I hope it goes to the servers or lemmy devs.

In short: an undercurrent to some FOSS posts has seemed to be entitlement, not just a desire to see FOSS thrive.

I haven’t seen 1 person tell someone that they should get Sync and act like it’s a moral obligation to do that one thing.

I’ve seen people say they’ve felt that they felt happy or obliged to support the dev, but that’s not the same.

What I have seen on Lemmy, repeatedly, is stunted little “adults” waltzing around moralizing about things that they feel they should feel about.

It’s like watching left leaning fundies worry about “the wrong gender” using a restroom. It’s just not something worth spending hours telling people they’re doing it wrong.

It is, however, worth telling the arbitrary gatekeepers that they’re not going to be successful.

To return to point: I’m not hung up on downvotes, but they are an objective metric. That comment of mine got 3 downvotes. 3. That’s not in anyway indicative of a lack of cogency or being in left field.

Bro, you make lemmy look like the average IQ can only go up. As can the discourse.

Ohh and i don’t care about downvote, this isn’t reddit anymore, time to grow up.

Finding out who you’re talking to is actually… kind of a lot more mature than, “Wat?”