While it doesn't fit TFA's premise of 100 on one thing, Patreon is used as a donation platform by many groups, for example i know of several online radio platforms using it (when asked "why not Liberapay?", they say Patreon helps take care of business and tax issues, provides an API, etc.). DKFM uses the API to display their Patreon donors on the website for example.
Sci-fi publications use it as well for monthly subscriptions - the general math holds up that some people spend $5/$10 per thing totalling up to $100/mo (or some variation). But I don't think that supports what TFA is suggesting $100/thing/mo), that feels like a lot. They might believe the Patreon user only supports one thing/mo, but I'm not sure that's true - people have varied interests based on my travels.
> when asked "why not Liberapay?", they say Patreon helps take care of business and tax issues, provides an API, etc.
Another big advantage, especially in audio / video formats, is that you can say "support me on Patreon" and people will know what you're talking about, vs. needing to spell out a URL for people.
Depends on the hardware - I run 2x Dell E6330 server-laptops and their BIOS has an option to change the charging configuration to "primarily always on AC" - some Latitudes are designed to run docked all the time as "business PCs".
While we're here, turn off TurboBoost in BIOS to keep them running cooler with the lid closed, I've found it really helps when tasks get a little bursty.
A little late to the article, if anyone is still reading comments I recommend cmus, a console music player with extensive key bindings and library support.
https://freedns.afraid.org has been running forever and a day, has thousands (?) of domain names donated for use, two APIs (v1 and v2), and the free tier is subsidized by paying premium members (premium gets extra features). Highly recommended.
I really like my Anker Bluetooth speaker, it's an old one that just keeps on working, lasted longer than Android phones. Listening to it now, every morning - the Anker love is real. ;)
If you need something cheap that lasts, Anker is your best bet. There are others that have longer lifetime, but they are from Sony, Bose or JBL and thus more expensive. My sister has the Soundcore for 2 years now.
Have had mine for several, don't use it as much as I used to because I prefer the sound signature of my phone speaker for spoken content but still love it for music. Reccomended it to my extended family and still get thrown for a loop when I see them using it all the time, like a piece of my home in their's.
In the USA, the cheapest option I've found is Tello (T-Mobile MVNO) - $5-6/mo for the absolute basic tier, real SIM with a real (non VOIP) number. Accepts number port-in after initial activation.
Red Pocket has their cheapest plan at $30/year ($2.50/month) on T-Mobile. 200 min, 1000 txt, 200 MB per month. Real SIM card. Available only on eBay. No affliation, just a satisfied customer.
I wonder if this is related, specifically the origin and use of the term in the 1890s - it somewhat connects as to why yellow paper was used for advertising, perhaps?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
Everyone has different UI feature desires so ill put that aside for this comment; flexibility is my key reason for Signal losing favor.
What the Matrix solution gives me:
- chat from multiple devices with history upon login (I read they're working on downloadable exports/backups) from any client;
- zero knowledge webapp logins (e.g. the work laptop on VPN, app.element.io in a Chrome tab) just use your Security Key like MFA;
- trivial and easy bridging with other endpoints (IRC, XMPP, etc.) it's not perfect but it works and I use this daily chatting with friends on other networks;
- choice of many clients whether actual apps or web interfaces (yes, it's early days and rough around the edges but the capability is there and happening) unlike Signal;
- distributed (federation) server designs baked in to avoid single company server lock in (Signal is opposed to this, goes hand in hand with using only their clients);
- less trouble and better client experiences about around the above than XMPP ecosystem. I just get annoyed using the XMPP versions of my bullet points above (and I've really tried, honest)
Is Matrix/Element perfect? no, lots of rough edges being worked on especially with the e2ee keys (my opinion). But I see healthy work, continual improvement and a good future ahead.
And yet Moxie spends a ton of time and effort attempting to convince everyone that working on protocols and federated systems (not just "Web3" and crypto-adjacent stuff, as in his article yesterday, but the entire space: he gave a scathing talk a year or two ago you can find a copy of, though he interestingly hadn't wanted it recorded) are useless and that no one should waste their time building them :(.
You may be interested in searX - it refers to data sources as Engines; you have the ability to run your own instance (or use a public shared one) and only enable engines you want results from (reddit, stackoverflow etc.). Build your own meta-engine recipe, basically.
https://searx.space to learn / get started. Find one and visit it, click Preferences upper right then follow your schnoz.
The GP commented about using curated sources. One can disable all those (google, bing, etc.) and choose to only enable results from reddit, wikipedia and so forth in searX, which directly queries based on a config inside the project.
There exists a (niche?) area of cryptocoins which are rewards for producing CPU / GPU intensive work - one example is GridCoin but many others are put there once you start searching. The result is there are work farms out there computing data arguably for good reasons (cancer research etc.) but in effect you have the same environmental cost as PoW chain computations as they chase the coin rewards.
Sci-fi publications use it as well for monthly subscriptions - the general math holds up that some people spend $5/$10 per thing totalling up to $100/mo (or some variation). But I don't think that supports what TFA is suggesting $100/thing/mo), that feels like a lot. They might believe the Patreon user only supports one thing/mo, but I'm not sure that's true - people have varied interests based on my travels.