I became fully aware of this when a few months ago, my Xiaomi smart TV turned on by itself and displayed an AD to subscribe to Netflix (I did have the Netflix app installed because I had an account a while ago, but I had already unsubscribed, I simply forgot to uninstall the app).
Needless to say, from that moment onwards, no wifi and no ethernet for the TV. I got an Xbox with Kodi connected to it. I am not saying the Xbox is immune to data harvesting (probably they collect a fair bit), but feels less intrusive and obnoxious than the whole package of the smart TV.
So the ideal browser is a concept that is every day more and more elusive.
For my private use, I am using an older Mac with some memory consumption issues, so until I upgrade, I am using safari because it's the most lightweight, and while the extension support is the smallest of all, at least for very major things you are still covered.
For work, the Mac I am using is way more powerful, and yet I find strange issues. Vivaldi dies if I open more than 60-70 tabs at once but it doesn't even really matter, because all the Chromium based browsers that have said "don't worry, we will keep maintaining Manifest V2" feel like they are on a "danger zone" to me.
And then, I try to use Firefox and while the extension support is the most complete, many times I am finding unresponsive pages (usually tools like Google Meet, which I need to use because of work) or even worse: profile files get messed up and I start getting an error "There was an error, that's all we know" every time I try to log into any service using Google SSO.
So to summarize, at this rate I will have to migrate to Qutebrowser... or Lynx.
SongTradr recently acquired 7digital. They plan to put the Bandcamp catalogue in there, so my biggest fear is that they get rid of Bandcamp as a separate product and just force everyone to use 7digital.
That would make sense, considering they fired most writers (which is one of the things that was making Bandcamp special) and would confirm that everyone who said "The buyer doesn't understand what they are buying" were 100% correct. For them, Bandcamp was some sort of "itunes store for weird music".
If the artist is unhappy with what they get in streaming, they usually withdraw their catalogue and offer their music via some alternative path (bandcamp, etc...) I don't think it's up to the users to decide how do artists want to be compensated.
A totally different story is: "I pirate because I can and because I want", but do not try to pass pirating as some sort of utopian "information wants to be free" BS
Well, you can configure your editor to lint your test files with build tags and that's the end of the issue. At least on VSCode and Goland you can. I think it's way cleaner to have your integration tests with a build tag rather than this extra piece of code.
If you don't have tests all over the place and you are moderately organized with your folder structure, there is no reason why build tags should represent a discoverability issue.
In Spain it became "Tokyo Blues". I think probably the reason was that Norwegian Wood was not a so so so popular song over here for the mainstream public (excluding Beatles fans). It was not "Yellow Submarine" or "Hey Jude" level. I am pretty sure if the song from the novel was "Hey Jude" or even "Eleanor Rigby" they would have kept it.
A old 2011 mac mini with 80GB HD and 16GB RAM. Everything via Docker:
- Jellyfin: As a media server for movies and tv shows.
- Navidrome: My own music streaming service so I can listen to my FLAC collection anywhere (you can use any subsonic compatible app or its own web UI)
- Radarr: Automated movie torrent download
- Sonarr: Automated TV shows torrent download
- Nextcloud: For document and file sharing. It does allow calendar, contacts, etc.. but so far I am doing that just via my own regular Fastmail account
- Photoprism: I upload all my photos to it, via WebDAV.
- FreshRSS: RSS reader
- PiHole: No ads anywhere in my network
- OpenVPN: So I can access all the above from outside my network
I have had experiences with tailors in Vietnam or Thailand able to pick any photo and replicate it easily. If that approach can be integrated somehow in the app, it would be incredible.
Needless to say, from that moment onwards, no wifi and no ethernet for the TV. I got an Xbox with Kodi connected to it. I am not saying the Xbox is immune to data harvesting (probably they collect a fair bit), but feels less intrusive and obnoxious than the whole package of the smart TV.