Brewchin

Malicious compliance in corporate form. I'll be surprised if this FUD isn't staggeringly effective in minimising their losses.

Standard in Australia. And common in the UK (it's traditionally a dot, but slash is more common now).

But I'm team ISO-8601 when there's a chance of an international audience. At least where locale information can't be used.

"Muh ~~freedums~~ profit" outweighs life. The silent bit spoken aloud. Cool cool.

As expected from this timeline and this garbage conglomerate.

It begins. More of this from media and other organisations, please!

That pretty much describes 90% of Samsung apps, none of which can be deleted (from phone the UI, at least). 😬

Want to know what it does? The app store won't tell you. Worst descriptions I've ever seen.

Want to know how useful it is? The app store reviews won't tell you; same with every other official Samsung resource. They're all spam, unrelated, or (presumably) from people hoping Samsung will reward volunteer sycophants in the same way Google did.

It's so frustrating.

If you're after text, there are a number of options. If you're after group voice, there are a number of options. You could mix and match both, but "where everyone else is" will also likely be a factor in that kind of decision.

If you want both together, then there's probably just Element (Matrix + voice)? Not sure of other options that aren't centralised, where you're the product, or otherwise at obvious risk of enshittifying. (And Element has the smell of the latter to me, but that's another topic).

I've prepared for Discord's inevitable "final straw" moment by setting up a Matrix room and maintaining a self-hosted Mumble server in Docker for my gaming buddies. It's worked when Discord has been down, so I know it works. Yet to convince them to test Element...

The situation definitely sucks.

What's the saying about piracy? It's not a morality problem - it's a service (business model) problem.

"The easiest way to stop piracy... is to give those people a service that's better than what they’re receiving from the pirates." -Gabe Newell

Disagree with you on the BD issue, though. Much more capacity, higher quality video and audio, and drives are dirt cheap. I have a BDROM in an external enclosure, and it handles DVD and BD perfectly. 🤷‍♂️

I don't disagree, but there person to whom I was replying said they were after legal copies. That means you're going to pay for them, digital or physical. 🤷‍♂️

Imagine being a One Piece, Bleach or similar fan and wanting the full collection... 😬

Don't do this. 🤦🏻‍♂️

They already gather and know this information. The quarterly survey shows Linux usage increasing consistently.

What you're proposing will just be noise/spam to their workflows.

Whilst I agree, there's (currently) nothing stopping you from buying the DVDs? Many of the shows I've wanted own for repeat watching are released that way.

Though it's probably a time-limited thing, given that physical media is getting rarer and everything is now all about rent-seeking, where you'll own nothing, have nothing to hold, and be thankful to be able to pay monthly for it.

Interesting. This isn't the "'no' with lots of words LOL" that I expected from a/their CEO, and does more to highlight the problems with Netflix's model.

Can't speak to Fedora specifically, but most package managers let you configure the number of concurrent download threads it will use. Most are 3-4 it seems. Finding yours and setting it to 1 will probably do exactly what you're asking.

Another option is to set it to only download the files, then install manually once they're local to you. The options for this differ (eg. when installation order matters), so an RTFM is worth the time spent.