I think top comment is a reference of some kind.
I heard something similar; the studio didn’t think the movie would be popular if they used too many computer terms so they made them change the function to “battery”. Initially the reason Neo has powers is because his node happens to have admin access.
Really depends on her definition of being a witch. For the most part, hell yeah, I’m on board.
Eh, it’s all just personal choice (until someone starts scraping Lemmy for LLM or otherwise mining for data).
I do agree that $10 is more in line with what I’d expect personally, but to be fair you have a few options before getting to that point.
If you know you’re going to be using Sync and staying on Lemmy, you have no problem.
If you’re staying on Lemmy but just trying Sync, you can just use the app with ads for a while to try it out, or you could subscribe to the monthly subscription which is like $2 a month, and if you are still using it 10 months later then it’s clearly worth the cost to you.
Or if you don’t like ads and you don’t like subscriptions and you’re not attached to Sync, you probably just move on to another app!
Someone should make a list of all the Lemmy apps which are objectively better than Sync and the reasons why. That’d show them.
Honestly, i think Memmy was a step too far. Why even develop more apps than Jerboa at most?
A few points to make and answer:
The app is technically free, but yes it is made by a single dev and it is/was his income, so it’s ad-supported.
The development is still ongoing and so some things aren’t finalized, but there is a one time payment option that will be available (something like $10) to just remove ads.
The Ultra tier which has the subscription cost (and much higher one time cost at $99) is what incurs monthly fees in this case, mostly for cloud storage for things like settings and I believe an OCR and translation API.
Ultimately, use whatever makes you happy and aligns with your principles, but there are at least a few good reasons why it is how it is.
I’ve recently started using Edge as a YouTube TV browser. It’s a temporary arrangement, but it lets me cast from mobile across the room.
It’s both! Yaaay!
In the middle of a move, I hope to homelab a setup at my new location but currently a newb (essentially). Can’t use this yet but upvoting for coolness.
I don’t have any interesting secrets or facts from my current ex-jobs, so I’ll share an interesting fact from a buddy’s. It’s one of those companies that offers automated phone systems (and chats, nowadays) that listen to your options rather than taking number inputs.
This may no longer be the case, but these systems were not actually automated. There are entire call centers dedicated to these phone systems, whereby an operator listens to your call snippet and manually selects the next option in the phone tree, or transcribes your input.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if advances in AI have made this whole song and dance less in need of human intervention, but once upon a time, your call wasn’t truly automated - it was federated.
Super fun, pardner. That horse is looking a little sparse, though. Maybe you could draw that horse winning the lottery and subsequently losing most of that money to gambling debts?