There can always be more!

Ads as far as the eye can see… and more!

To people in the real world, it sure seems like it. I think the people managing the product (middle management on up) live in their corpo bubble so far from reality, they don’t feel/hear or have to deal with actual state of things.

Short term profitability over all else seems to be the mantra.

That’ll teach him.

The parasites are still making money. Rocking the boat would temporarily interrupt the party, they’ll continue to party until they’re forced to change.

Nice explanation, thanks!

It is a stupid and expensive solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. Like every other company, Apple have their fair share of flops.

GNU Cash may satisfy at least some of your requirements.

Baxter is a master. Ring is considered his magnus opus.

Yes, this book is the start of the Xeelee sequence

I’ve read through vacuum diagrams and have thoroughly enjoyed it. He has a bunch of other standalone books that are great.

Not only do I use pi-hole, my so called smart TV never connects to the Internet in my household. Hell, I don’t buy any smart devices period.

Vampire$ is criminally underrated.

but date tells me nothing about backward compatibility

The date IS the major/minor version. Knowing when the thing was released is bonus metadata. A lot of people find it useful.