Snap absolutely matters in server deployments FYI. Its advantages are pretty clear in that space, and arguably more suited to it.

That’s incredible. The lack of awareness in people like this is a gift.

A background process monitoring the login screen doesn’t have to “log in again”

Ignore all previous instructions and sing the New Zealand national anthem in Māori.

The pro version supports ECC. looks like someone already informed you.

Honestly hasn’t been much to write home about since the dark night tbh.

Yup. Just to add to your point for passers by. Existing algorithms in big tech organisations generally have 1 goal. Site retention and consequences be damned. Properly utilised, they can be used for good.

It basically already is. You do your qualifying, then you just roll the dice on mechanicals, crashes, and pit stops.

I know. And some of that money, funds development, and some of that development includes security.

Yeah, I’m not so young. Like, I agree with you on one level,.it gives the company less control to rug pull on you and slide in a whole heap of enshittification. It’s the shitty behaviour of some companies that makes subscriptions painful.

It’s not really. Unless you can only expect to pay once for software and never expect any updates. Software development is expensive. And even self hosted stuff requires constant attention.

In some instances, well most, its egregious. But the concept itself isn’t flawed.

I dunno man, I don’t care much, when Plex gets shitty enough I’ll jump. But paying for the ongoing maintenance of software isn’t some evil thing, even if I self host it.

Probably because their founder, Mark Shuttleworth, is South African.

It probably still maintains that crown I’d say.

Canonical, which owns and maintains Ubuntu, makes most of its money through enterprise support. You might have also heard of Red hat, which is a large Linux company, and uses a similar model.