Signal does a decent job of encouraging people to make one-time or ongoing donations to the service. I’ve supported them multiple times because they gave me a prompt to do so.
I don’t recall Firefox ever asking for a donation or subscription.
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Mozilla could have allowed people the option to subscribe for a modest fee in addition to giving it away for free, to diversify their income and be less dependent on Google, but they have not been trying that hard to develop other revenue streams.
You linked to How Not to Die, which is by the same author as How Not to Diet.
He advocates WFPB. I have read How Not to Die and it was more interesting and funny than I expected. It’s a good tour of the scientific studies related to the foods correlated with the most common causes of death.
Studies about longevity have reached the conclusion that WFPB is best for long life as well. The Blue Zone diet focused on longevity also emphasis a plant-based diet with less processed food.
WFPB is a vegan way of eating focused on health. It recommends minimizing processed foods, especially added sugars and oils. Stricter versions also limit fattier foods like avocados and nuts.
When following WFPB closely, it’s necessary to count calories, because you are eating so much nutrient-dense food with lots of fiber and relatively fewer calories. So you get full without a lot of calories.
Although, If I have my own Amazon referral link in my blog post and they replace the referral code in their feed, I would not be happy about that.
They could be injecting their own ads or affiliate links into the content.
For example, if a post links to Amazon.
I have not looked at the source code.
I ended my Zellij eval when I ran into this dangerous bug when Sync and Fullscreen are combined.
It potentially sends commands to a server in a hidden window you can’t see.
https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/issues/3458
Tmux doesn’t have this problem.
Interesting research project but it’s not Linux and doesn’t natively run Linux apps.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/21/successor_to_unix_plan_9/
The story hypes this to be a bit more than this is.
Framework sent a laptop to the lead Mint dev. He’s going to try make sure it works well with Mint, but it already does.
The more low key framing straight on the Mint blog is here:
I used the Tandem app to meet native speakers of the target language who are learning my language.
Once I find a match, we set up calls on a regular basis. With one, we switch languages halfway through. With another, we alternate languages each call.
If you don’t feel ready for a voice call, you can text back and forth or send audio files.
Once you find a partner you like on Tandem you can switch to a different encrypted chat app for privacy.
Counterpoint: for those who prefer split ergo keyboards, the internal keyboard on laptops is rarely used.
A tablet where you can bring your own weird keyboard to pair with it is better.