If using an Apple silicon Mac, it will be way faster after if you install (compile from source) via Mac ports.

As far as learning curve, I agree, but I have had a lot of luck as a beginner asking ChatGPT how to use qgis to do specific tasks and it walked me through them in detail correctly.

Citation needed for “improve the product”

Sure seems more and more like some person or nature is seeking to destabilize us. Seems anti-American to blame the other side and not realize we are better together.

You are fully capable of doing it to yourselves.

Their corporate video hosting is great for platform hosting, but guess I need to find a new provider for next years renewal.

Bending Spoons usually doubles-down on the core of the product. They buy companies because the product is good not because they want to acquihire developers to put onto something else.

> [...] They buy companies because the product is good [...]

It was already mentioned above: Bending Spoons bought Evernote. That is a product that has become entirely stale and barely usable, unable to compete with something like Obsidian, a tool made by a company with fewer than 50 employees.

Perhaps it's not just about good products alone. I imagine that Evernote had a pretty stubborn subscriber base at that point. ...and they had no more socks to sell.

I wonder if they're successful in converting free users to paid users after they gate all useful product features behind a paywall.

I was always a light user of most products they bought and their changes just pushed me away. But as a light user, I wasn't planning to pay a subscription anyway, so going away might just release them the resources used to keep a user that generates no revenue.

However, it looks to me that the communities they buy thrive on free users. If the free users go away, will the community and usage remain? For how long will they be able to make money out of those communities until there aren't any users left?

Good question. My gut is people over value the importance of free users. Especially so if there's good business or corporate sales for the product. Free users are not zero cost on either infra or product/dev/support time.

Perhaps this is Bending Spoons real business model - understand which customers bring you revenue and pivot to product development for them not the free loaders. Sounds obvious but there aren't too many software product companies actually do it. Takes a lot of discipline as an org - generally orgs listen to the loudest voices which are most likely the ones not bringing any revenue.

Companies like Microsoft show that you can coast on a successful product for many decades and still be incredibly financially successful. And the world is a lot bigger place than selling MS Word & Excel in the 2000s.

Have you considered Cloudflare R2? It seems like that's one of the very few unmetered-bandwidth file hosting providers?

It doesn't do HLS out of the box (it's just S3-compatible storage, unlike the pricier Cloudflare Stream). But you should be able to do the transcoding yourself: https://github.com/wesbos/R2-video-streaming

Or what are some other good options for Vimeo replacements?

Or consider Tigris object storage service.

All models are so uninteresting to me. Maybe its finally time I try the Nothing Phon

When they do release small phones not enough people buy them so they don't see the cost as worth it. Simple market dynamics I assume.

Honest question - How is it helpful to know a car is coming? On my commute to work I have a bike lane and 100s of cars pass me in their lane, knowing a car wouldn't be helpful, knowing a car was going to hit me also may not be helpful if I couldn't move over, exactly what is the benefit?

When getting coding assistant from Claude I find it opens up and doesn't kill a bunch of development ports so I made a small CLI to help list and kill them. You can certainly do this many other ways but just typing in devports was nice and easy for me.

This is my first CLI script.

It says it's disabled on Outlook's web client and it's not clear why or how to enable. If I can't use this to proofread emails what is the point?

I don't post here often, but I hope someone at Apple is reading this as this is one of the worst designs I have seen from this company. Even in their own presentation they shows text hard to read, text on top of text. It's an accessibility and usability nightmare. I really don't want to give up iMessage but if what ships looks as bad as this I may jump ship.

They are probably used to the outrage. Apple removed the floppy disc drive, optical drive, headphone jack. Most people don't care. I don't think that buttons people pressed a thousand times before that are now slightly less readable are a big issue.

truly contender for the worst redesign of the decade. It's hard to see how a trillion dollar company would stumble so bad here. They must be real zealots on AR to even go here.