Unfortunately I am primarily an android user, as I always have my phone with me.

I shall give it a go for desktop at some point though

Friendship ended with Firefox. Waterfox is my new best friend ❤️

Sure, but I’m still feeling like complaining that there isn’t a business that’s made affordable pay-to-search a thing. (That I know of)

I’m not taking back that $120 USD/year for search is way more than most people would be willing to pay

Though yeah, I suppose saying their business model isn’t working was hyperbolic, I must admit.

The business model just doesn’t make sense then (using search partners).

Because $60, let alone $120 US, a year is far more than most people would be willing to pay.

Dunno what to say, it’s just more than most people can justify paying for the service.

I’m gonna stick with DuckDuckGo and the newly free mullvad cached search

I’d happily pay for search, but Kagi is way too expensive.

10 searches a day, for $5/month? (US)

Like, that is way too much.

I can receive thousands and send thousands of emails per day for that price. Is search really that much more expensive?

This is what I’m planning to do with some textbooks I want for my work.

$200-$300 and you want me to download an app that may or may not even work in 10 years?

Nah, I’m gonna future proof my access no remorse 🏴‍☠️

I will pay though, because it’s tax deductible, and also because it I ever get questioned on it (since I use them around coworkers and management), I’m golden.

I found this help article where they say “Although not all non-genuine supplies may cause quality issues”.

They said they recommend using theirs, but up until this they didn’t say you couldn’t.

https://support.brother.com/g/b/sp/faqend.aspx?c=us_ot&lang=en&prod=dcpl2647dw_us&faqid=faq00000184_002

Plus, it’s been universally understood that you have been able to use third-party cartridges. I really think if you’re persistent enough, you’d get a refund in Australia. Because else (in Victoria at least) you could take them to VCAT for like $70, which will cost them wayyy more in lawyer expenses than the price of a refund.

This is not legal advice, but I reckon a refund under Australian Consumer Law is extremely doable if they go down this path (for existing printers).

I’m curious how this will go down in Australia. Seems like a pretty solid slam dunk refund, oh the product doesn’t work as advertised anymore?

Cool, I’ve had this for 5 years and now I’d also like a full refund under Australian Consumer Law.

Motherfuckers.

(I don’t actually own a printer)

You are underestimating how many people will give up at the slightest inconvenience.

I can tell you, when vigorously enforced, you can get the vast majority of a population to play within your walled garden (China, as an example).

Sweden however, yeah, unless they wanna go full internet firewall, not sure exactly how they plan on enforcing this.

It’s almost like this not-for-profit, for-profit subsidiary thing is a cancer (or at least, my selection bias of late thinks so).

Can someone ELI5 why a foundation can’t develop these products directly, with a for-profit subsidiary? Is there something forbidden about rasing revenue for a not-for-profit via product sales? Would this even fix anything?

Awwww yeaaah. Welcome friend, stay a while

This is fair, however, not ubiquitous and all their servers are expected to place nice with others.

Thank god email is federated, and not locked down to a particular company

It’s very common, but in Australia at least, not ubiquitous.

And obviously businesses mostly do not

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ASOP fork, donation model (pay as you feel) pls.

Please voluntary redundancy google staff. Please

(Realistically I know this is a tall ask considering this is people’s livelihoods we’te talking about)

Sign me up babyyyyy

Me too, the second one shows up, or PixelFed gets e2ee implemented, I would seriously start asking people to join.

Until then, what’s the point? (Unless you want to share publically)

Thank you for voicing this opinion. The fact so much of the fediverse is just public just makes it impossible to sell for real identity social media.

Really curious why the community in the fediverse hardly talks about it.

I’m really holding out hope for someone to pickup Futo Circles or something else that’s an e2ee replacement for Facebook / Instagram.

Hiring one extra person, for an agency that covers hundreds of millions of people? I’m gonna go out there and say yes, that is reasonable to expect. Sure, uptake is low now, but network effect is responsible for that, now when people are moving from Twitter is the exact time to encourage people to change to something better.

The European Commission has its head on straight, that they are being a first mover on Mastodon, because putting critical communication infrastructure in the hands of a private company is silly long term.

I’m not doubting your reasoning as to why this agency hasn’t bothered, but it’s not convincing that it’s reasonable.

I’d have no problem with them making Bluesky account, but why not both that and spinning up a Mastodon server?

It’s just short-sighted

Oh indeed, don’t disagree there, we are as in most respects, at the mercy of our corporate overlords