I respect your opinion and I'm not here to change it. All I'll say is that I feel like I've been watching/listening long enough to confidently say at his core, he's not a racist, pervert or many of the things implied by that site.
darcmage
joined 2 years ago
I've been a viewer/listener of the network since its inception so please understand that I'm not unbiased. I've also seen many of these incidents live as they happened and in imho, the characterization of some of these events is a bit misleading but I can see how they might have been interpreted that way. Forgive me if I don't really want to go into the nitty gritty of it.
I think he has his faults and they sometimes interfere with my enjoyment of the podcasts but if he was a truly horrible person, I don't think many of the people I respect in the tech space would associate with him offline. "A man is known by the company he keeps" often rings true to me but it has also steered me wrong at times.
All I really care about is good insightful content about the things that matter to me and (fortunately/unfortunately depending on your pov) twit is one of the few places to get the kind of long form discussion that I like.
Thank you for your post even if I disagree with it.
Do you mind expanding on why advertisers shouldn't associate with him?
Not sure if I missed it but I see no mention of an app. It seems more to do with getting relevant text messages after certain types of calls to the emergency line.
I'm on advanced billing and based on my usage patterns, it shouldn't cost me more than $6-7/year. My main concern is it's a one man operation. The FAQ talks about it but I don't think anything has been put in place if the worst comes to pass.
If you search for vpshostingservice.co/cheapwindowsvps.com (same service) on lowendbox, you'll find a range of opinions. For non-critical use, it seems fine to me. But if you think that deal is too good to be true, you should browse more of the holiday deal threads on there, especially on black friday. It's a decent deal, just not exceptional.
In this case, I think there could be some benefit to exposing the larger meta community to the fediverse. How many more people will try linux/self-hosting or learn to appreciate their privacy by becoming aware of all the tools that are out there? Maybe some of those same people who started with threads will switch over to a foss client after learning about how their data is being used. It's likely going to be a tiny percentage of people but we're already a very small subset of the social media space. Maybe some of those people will have some influence in their family/community. Again, all of this is pie-in-the-sky thinking and weighing the risks and benefits is worth talking about.
If you're not having any issues playing these games in windows, they'll most likely work perfectly fine in Linux. I had no issues running fallout 4, Skyrim and StarCraft 2.
Distro choice is less important than you think but there's always distrochooser.
You'll get better suggestions if you mention the games you play and the hardware you're using. For example, destiny 2 is still unplayable in Linux because of choices made by the game devs.
I was using smtp2go, I'm now testing purelymail for my personal email needs. I don't think the latter is suited for sending a large number of emails.
I'm fine with both of us having different answers to those questions. I engaged initially to see if there was some new information that would change my opinion but it turned out to be the same things I've seen over the years. Thanks again and have a great day.