Usually “expensive money” means that it’s hard to borrow.

“Devalued” refers to purchasing power. “How much food will $1 buy me?”

They’re describing different things. In terms of the economic relationships that result in the current scenario, I’m not even going to try. Ignoring that we don’t really know and a lot of traditional economics rely on the assumption that actors are rational (which we now know is absurd), I’m far from an expert in macro-economic theory. Systems are complicated.

Google’s proprietary “RCS” and iMessage are the same thing. They’re proprietary apps that work on their OS and are useless for intercommunication.

Their proprietary extensions are for the same reason Apple took forever to implement it.

RCS still sucks.

Fraud is pretty broad and covers most things that deliberately misrepresent reality to take money from someone else.

The premise that the school can sponsor programming that parents aren’t entitled to know and discuss the curriculum of is bonkers.

I’m fine with “selling cheats for use in an online game constitutes hacking” as an attempt to degrade the service for everyone else.

I’m not fine with them winning as a copyright issue. That is potentially a very damaging precedent.

To be fair, people having ideas for features is a valuable contribution in its own right.

Entitlement to them, not so much. But feature suggestions have value even if many of them aren’t practical and many more never get added.

Sure thing, bro. 👍

You pretty clearly don’t know what a call to action is, or an ad is, because “please give money” is very obviously a call to action, and many ads make no effort whatsoever to sell any product.

Yes. It is literally impossible for an organization asking for money not to be an ad.

And yes, showing me a single ad once means I never give them money again. I am not OK with ads.

Yes, it is an ad. Any call to action is an ad.

And its mere presence will ensure I don’t give them any more money. The core concept of inserting any ad in an OS is not behavior I am willing to reward.

It’s not complicated.

It’s an ad.

There’s no version of advertising I will ever be OK with.

It’s implemented as a KDE Daemon (KDED) module, which allows users and distributors to permanently disable it if they like.

Eh. I guess good enough.

But I’m still opposed on principle.

Again, you’re ignoring Switzerland’s actual position and their actual history.

Switzerland doesn’t enforce other countries’ laws.

It actually is. Switzerland isn’t part of the EU, and their cooperation agreement with europol is limited to specific things.

They absolutely will not cooperate with bullshit harassment laws against their citizens or businesses.

Not in Switzerland against regulation they consider the dumpster fire of horseshit it is.

Only if they give a shit about some random country’s shit law.

There are some treaties in play that allow copyright law to be enforced in some other jurisdictions, but that’s a far cry from a VPN. Switzerland isn’t going to help you enforce nonsense judgements against companies that don’t break any of their laws or laws most of the first world respects.

Wall of text?

I answered a suggestion with very clear preferences that something not use a trainwreck of a directory structure and you pointed me to a post on how to make a trainwreck of a directory structure, so I wrote a short paragraph again clarifying that I’m not OK with that.

I don’t want anything automated. I just want to be able to do it manually with a database that handles all of the metadata and organization and literally no folders but the top level one containing every file. Calibre’s insistence on me either having incorrect author information or splitting everything with multiple authors into unique folders for every combination is most of the reason I can’t stand it. The actual bulk editing tools are good. The end result of a mess of folders isn’t.

I’m not OK with folders, especially nested folders.

I’m aware of it and explored it a little, but the folder structure requirements are the opposite of what I’m interested in. I want to dump everything in one place and use the UX of my reader to manually build series, adjust metadata, and do everything else.

Most of the benefits of it are really only useful in its browser based reader, which is also a dealbreaker, and it doesn’t really add anything to Moon Reader because OPDS integration doesn’t actually sync anything, which is the whole reason I’d want a dedicated server over just having everything in a cloud drive.

It’s cool if it works for you, but it doesn’t really solve any of the problems I want solved.