Before people get worried about this, this is how literally any online service works. If you have an account anywhere, you trusted that service to not record your password.

Only exception is oauth, which actually might be a good idea for Lemmy.

That is a lot of words to say ‘they can’t see your password, but they can try to guess it. Make a secure password and you won’t have any problems’

You want descriptive answers? Make a descriptive question.

It can be as simple as ‘what is “x” and why?’

If you are logged in they still have access to your activity and usage statistics which they can sell to third parties.

So it’s true that you are not ‘directly’ generating profit for them in an easily measurable way, and they would consider you among the ‘freeloaders’ that they called all third party app users.

However, you still indirectly benefit them just by using the platform. Especially if you leave comments or post content. If you just use it, lurk at most and come to lemmy for the discussions.

I always use milliliters and grams for cooking, unless it’s measuring volume of something solid.

I also use time for long distances.

Edit: whoops I read the question backwards

Embedded media and media hosting in general.

I’m not sure what our solution is for this. A good CDN is tough to make. It’s one of the few things I’m pretty sure are better off being centralized.

Politics aside, yeah I would consider that a $500k ‘shack.’ The value clearly comes from the location.

Username does not check out.

I kept my account purely to post the occasional comment telling people to move to Lemmy.

I mostly get downvoted because it turns out people don’t give a shit that Reddit controls everything they see and do.

I like how their admins still show up as Admins even when commenting on a post on another instance. At least in voyager they do.

Honestly probably a bug, but it’s cool.

The MacBook Air I just bought would disagree :)

I think these can officially be called laptops again, because they are cooled passively and you can absolutely use them on your lap.

They might not now but who’s to say what happens in 10-50 years. You should assume that law enforcement (and other malicious actors) will have your genetic info.

No. They have that data forever. You can’t take it back.

Who knows what’s going to happen to it in 20-50 years, people never seem to consider those timescales when handing over their data to companies.

Worst part is, there is a solid chance they already have all your data from a sibling or close relative.

Blops2 mob of the dead is all you’ll ever need.

Zombies perfected. Not too simple, not too complex, anyone can complete the Easter egg, many without a guide even.

Map layout is perfect, wonder weapon is super fun to use. I couldn’t ask for anything more.

YouTube hardly classifies as free.

No love for VLC player?!?

You only need the app to set your preferred temperature and led colour. Once that’s done you can forget about it and even uninstall if you want to.

I got one as a gift last Christmas, use it daily.

I would 100% buy another if it broke.

If Lemmy continues on the path it’s on it will get there, but this is a long path.

Think 10 years minimum before we start to see maple syrup level niche.

Rome wasn’t built in a day.