That’s it. That’s the only reason.

Manufacturing labour costs are far cheaper outside of China but the skills aren’t available. While labour costs are always a factor, the US just doesn’t have enough skilled manufacturing engineers or the supply chain you get somewhere like Shenzen.

It sounds like this was his personal email account.

Maybe this Lemmy interface is confusing me, is there meant to be an article linked?

I really don’t think this qualifies as enshittification. There’s no evidence they’ve taken funding or have any shareholders they need to appease. They also only increased prices and have not moved the paid/free boundaries in any way.

I think it’s much more likely this is a side project that simply doesn’t pay for itself well enough, and the alternative would be shutting it down. If people aren’t happy with that, it’s totally reasonable to just cancel.

ChatGPT energy costs are highly variable depending on context length and model used. How have you factored that in?

For me there’s a big difference between funding someone anonymous (to me) who might be an asshole vs someone known to me who definitely is. I can tolerate the former, but not the latter.

Do people really have so little self-control that they can’t just not use a network connection if it exists?

Have you ever met any people?

You’re not wrong but culturally and historically, Sony Music is American.

Florida in particular.

Everyone knows that ultrasonic cleaners are great

Mate, wtf is an ultrasonic cleaner?

Edit: this is a rhetorical question, I’ll read the article.

Orgs commonly need idp, fuck managing ssh key auth for hundreds of engineers.

This isn’t aimed at individuals or self-hosters, though you can if you find it interesting enough.

Fuck me, tell me someone else has risen to effective project lead since then?

I didn’t see anything about a backdoor at the link.

Amazon spent 20 years being unprofitable on purpose. You think they don’t have long term strategies?

It’s the old bait and switch, they had to have this feature to build initial trust in ebooks.

Many have moved to or added the GitHub registry. It’s still a corporate controlled registry, but Microsoft are far more likely (and able) to eat the cost for developer goodwill.

I’ve got a registry running on my homelab that I haven’t quite moved fully over to yet.

I can’t tell whether you’re being intentionally ironic. Yes the EU would be up for it. The EU didn’t ban cookies. Putting it simply, you do not need a cookie banner if you aren’t tracking people.