Freakonomics covered this back around their inception. The data shows wine tasters and critics generally rate expensive wine as better. In a blind trial where expensive was replaced with two buck chuck and a $5 option, researchers proved there’s not much difference in ratings when the price isn’t known. Tell them two buck chuck is the most expensive thing on the table and it’s then rated as such.

I believe this was part of their coverage on experts not being experts, iirc.

So, like the $5 Trader Joe’s wine tasting with wine enthusiasts.

The issue here is going to be discord users picking one, en masse.

FOSS

Pick the best replacement option and run with it.

Increasing RAM (from 16) and SSD space (from .5TB) on a laptop now is easily +$1k and up.

We need open source, non subscription camera/app tech. For safety and for keeping an eye on Pops when he ages out.

This is both expected and mystifying at the same time.

How dead in the head do you have to be to RELY on such things?

The only way this stops is if people give up their RING cameras.

That’s a yes.

If they could say they were not then they’d just say it.

I just assumed that’s the entire reason for phone number collection. Oh, look, this person on FB Messenger is the same on YouTube on Signal on …

No. I blocked all the anime, furry, porn, and any aggressive subs that consistently read like screaming. If that matters, maybe do the same.

What is the free and open source alternative?

Good odds that type of thing is happening more than is being told.

To what end? What authority? At this point it could be you or me in a mask with a body cam, for all the credentials authorities are showing these days.

Spoiler: it was a random thief in need of hardware.

Fusion, mostly. Latino coworker from Texas told me Burritos are neither Mexican nor American, but a beautiful Texas border food fusion. Anecdotal, but the guys son is a professional chef.

How about just AI content. A logo tag at the top of every web page, and every vid. Especially cat vids. It would be nice to be able to tap into them again.

We’ve all seen some of the cool elements on RedHat. I especially like the local farmer trucks rolling through towns with fresh veggies. And watching how much easier it is to grow tea there than in my backyard.

But let’s not play pretend.

I’m aware. I still think they’re the country most in need of labor unions.

China needs unions.

To be fair, there are a fair amount of Linux users on Lemmy.as for the millions who’ve never heard of Lemmy? I’m not confident they are not. Especially given the crap we have to clean out of my parent’s computer every couple months.