Two things, mainly. They do a lot of the production steps in-house, as opposed to having a web of subcontractors (who have their own subcontractors)for each component. But the big thing is just efficiency of scale. Building and launching 100 rockets per year doesn’t cost 100 times more than one launch per year.

These people aren’t actually your friends

It reads like different people wrote different sections of it

Pine64 sells ANC earbuds that (for the factory firmware) doesn’t have a companion app at all.

Wouldn’t a centralized database/authentication server have been a simpler choice?

By far, which is why many people assumed that the plan was to start flogging NFTs later (once it became more difficult to back out).

Previous to the switch to snaps, Ubuntu was providing the latest version of Firefox built for each supported Ubuntu release. I’m sure this was more work, but the older system library version issue was not a blocker.

Edit: in fact, Mozilla still provides an apt repo with Firefox deb packages built for each supported Ubuntu release.

Smart card support is still completely broken. I kinda need that to use Linux for my work PC.

The install images that included the non-free-firmware were marked as “unofficial”.

You see the problem?

No. I just looked at that instance’s front page. If the lemmy.world admins didn’t take action, I don’t see how I could continue to trust their judgement in enforcing their code of conduct going forward.

If you trust the judgment of the (admins of the) sites you are syncing with, this isn’t a problem. If you don’t trust that, don’t sync with them.

For instance, if I wanted to run my own server, I would absolutely sync with lemmy.world’s block list. I agree with their stated defederation policy, and have seen no evidence of the admins disregarding it.

Perhaps you are misunderstanding what this tool does?

If the single user on such an instance is so obnoxious as to be defederated from multiple larger instances, making them spend time and money to come back is a good thing.

Having a dream journal (and a habit of using it) can help you retain the dream at least long enough to record it.

If saying what you want to say tanks your karma, the problem might be you and not the karma system.

It might be possible to trick the app’s activation function. But before you can do that, you’d have to understand how it is checking for virtualization, so that you know what aspect of the VM’s behavior to tweak.

Someone on Lemmy might be able to help you with that, if they knew what app you were trying to use…