I like the default one in KDE (Spectacle). It does everything I need, and can take both screenshots and recordings. I don’t think it works with other DEs though.

Depends on how much you download. You can pay a once-off payment for a block of data and it lasts indefinitely. I’ve got a 5TB block I’ve had for over 10 years. I think it was maybe $25 when I got it?

Edit: If you need more data, there’s plans with unlimited data for a few dollars per month.

I usually use the “scaled” feed sorting algorithm instead of the default “active” one. It does a better job of showing a larger variety of posts, including posts from small communities.

There’s command line options that work with BSD or GNU but don’t work with MacOS, or some options that have default values on some platforms but not MacOS. Here’s one example I had to fix a while back: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/1984

I’m not sure if they’re open source. Apple used to release “Darwin” which was an open-source OS that only contained the open-source parts of MacOS. You could actually install and run it on a PC. Over time, the repo slowly degraded until the point where it was impossible to build it any more (it started depending on code only available in Apple’s internal repos), and eventually they stopped publishing it.

For one, some of the coreutils are weird. They aren’t BSD coreutils, but they’re not GNU coreutils either. They’re like an old version of BSD coreutils with some GNU features added.

I saw this exact same comic a while back but it was for Fish Linux.

I was pretty impressed with the Samsung Gear VR (and Google Cardboard before it) when it was first released back in 2015. Instead of having to spend a lot on a fancy computer system and headset to experience VR, you could just stick your phone close to your eyes. Of course, it wasn’t as good as an actual VR headset, but it was the first VR experience that was easily approachable for ‘regular’ people, and was a lot better than I thought it’d be.

Scripts/extensions/sites to bypass paywalls can only bypass soft paywalls, where the article is still available in some cases (e.g. you can read a few articles for free, they allow search engines to index the content, etc).

More and more sites are moving towards hard paywalls which can’t be bypassed other than someone paying for the site and downloading the content that way, which is legally much more sketchy.

Some paid news sites let members create free links to share articles with non members, which is another option.

It’s blocked a lot of sites now though.

They seem to block particular IP ranges for some reason. You can tell if you’re blocked because it just keeps showing the CAPTCHA over and over again.

My home ISP is blocked but my phone isn’t, so I can access it from my computer by tethering to my phone. It’s weird and I’m not sure how to contact them and ask about it.

This is awesome!

Some people think the big tech companies literally sell your data though, so IMO it’s important to clarify.

There are companies that do that though, like Acxiom, LiveRamp, CoreLogic, etc. With Acxiom at least, you can buy lists like “high net worth individuals who are likely to buy a new car in the next 6 months” and get a list of names, phone numbers, and email addresses, based on data they’ve collected from both public and private sources.

Those data broker companies collect data from things like supermarket loyalty programs (to determine consumer spending patterns) and other companies who are willing to sell data about you, and compile them into profiles.

Advertisers don’t see any of the data though. What the companies are really selling is your attention.

For what it’s worth, Q4 always has higher ad revenue because of Black Friday and Christmas.

I think the cost per ad went up too (that’s also in the presentation). Google and Facebook both mostly use an auction system for ads, so the price is based on the market. Out of all the possible ads a user can see (active ads targeting their demographic), the one with the highest bid will be shown.

Take the superbowl for example. It’s usually the most viewed event every year in the US

Interesting that you mention the superbowl, since one of the techniques that sales reps at large digital ad networks (like Google and Facebook) use to sell ads to large advertisers is comparing it to the superbowl.

This year’s superbowl had a viewership of around 127 million people. In comparison, 194 million Americans use Facebook at least once per day and 267 million use Google, so your ads on those platforms will have a wider potential audience than the superbowl, while being much more cost effective since you can run the ad just to a more specific audience rather than having to run the ad to every single person watching TV at that time.

Around 97% of Meta’s revenue is from ads. 2.2% is from Reality Labs - things like Meta Quest headsets and Meta Ray Ban smart glasses. The remaining <0.7% is small things like fees from Facebook Marketplace (for orders that are shipped), a cut of credits for Facebook games (apparently that’s still a thing?), etc.

Meta is a public company so all this data is public. See slide #4 in the most recent earnings presentation slides here: https://investor.atmeta.com/investor-events/event-details/2025/Q4-2024-Earnings-Call/default.aspx

Around 97% of Meta’s revenue is from ads. The rest of the revenue is mainly from things like Meta Quest headsets, fees from Facebook Marketplace (for orders that are shipped), etc.

Meta is a public company so all this data is public. See slide #4 in the earnings presentation here: https://investor.atmeta.com/investor-events/event-details/2025/Q4-2024-Earnings-Call/default.aspx

selling your personal data

The major tech companies like Google, Facebook, etc don’t sell user data. That’s a common misconception. The data is what makes the company valuable - nobody else has it. It wouldn’t make sense for them to sell it, because they’d lose their competitive advantage over other companies.

Advertisers can target ads based on the data, but the advertiser never actually sees user data.

I assume you mean the date and time settings page. This is KDE’s one:

I’m working on making it easier to install on Debian systems by creating a Debian package (and eventually a repo): https://github.com/henrygd/beszel/pull/497