> And you're missing on that whole important social aspect as well

My RSS reader links directly to HN comments hence how I arrived here. Other than HN most social discussions are not useful to me.

> I do wonder what percentage of Apple stock is owned by pension funds and the like, i.e. The Regular Person, once you unwind the levels of indirection (mutual funds, etc). It is surely a double digit percentage, but high, low? No idea.

Pretty high. The S&P 500 has ~7% apple stock which means many peoples retirement accounts have several percentage points of apple stock.

So Apple takes 30% of your money from one hand and gives you back 3% with the other?

More like the opposite.

If you had $1,000 invested in Apple around ten years ago (a reasonable amount in a retirement fund), you'd have made around another $8,500 by now.

While if you'd spent $1,000 on apps and subscriptions over 10 years, Apple would have taken $300.

So Apple would take $300 of your money from one hand and give you back $8500 with the other.

That's a difference almost 3x larger than the difference you suggested... but in the opposite direction!

"Apple" takes and gives nothing. "Apple" is a collective figment of imagination of its shareholders, which people typically picture as dastardly moneybags living in mansions, but often forget to also picture, like, themselves, in retirement.

So we should let every company charge 10000% what they currently do, because some of the shareholders might be relying on extra dividends for retirement. Hmmm.

Indeed, we absolutely should "let" them. We should let them charge whatever they wish, we should let them sink or swim, and we should apply our laws to them fairly and equally, including antitrust legislation.

I would like to add that IPFS pretty much doesn't run on spinning rust or slow CPUs. A PI or other low end box can easily run torrents with an external harddrive. IPFS can't download large files at a reasonable speed on slow hardware.

In practice libgen uses torrents. The available seed nodes for IPFS are... few. This is largely due to the software/protocol being pretty bad compared to battle tested torrents.

Perhaps if you're downloading full dumps, but distribution of individual books is often done via IPFS.

Running IPFS at scale is horrible. Try to download a few dozen TBs of small files. Its garbage collection is rubbish (ended up nuking the ZFS dataset every couple of days instead), it is very CPU and IOPS hungry, and it has bad network throttling support.

I would claim it has failed the test of time as it has very little adoption.

What did you find for a gallery? I never found an open one I liked other than simple gallery.

Note that the fork Fossify Gallery is already available on F-Droid. The rest of the apps aren't yet.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fossify.gallery/

Thanks to this debacle, I'll actually be trying it out.

What I have used out of Simple Mobile Tools is the Dialer. It allowed me to make my old phone usable for calls again. The phone, which runs an outdated release of LineageOS and doesn't receive updates, developed a problem. The screen would turn off when dialing or on a call. This prevented one from even hanging up. I experimentally installed Simple Dialer to see if the dialer app was the cause. (Because Simple Dialer was on F-Droid, and I had heard about Simple Mobile Tools.) It didn't help on its own. Then I went through the settings and saw one that disabled the proximity sensor during calls. I tried turning on the setting, and that did it.

This apparently used to be an option in the AOSP phone app: https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/80227/phone.... Simple Dialer has been forked as https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Phone.

Aaah that does it, thanks. My phone started having the exact same issue the other day. Finding a fix was on my to do list, and you saved me some time, thanks!

Wow, my phone does this sometimes, like once every 5 or 10 calls.

I love Aves, I switched to it from simple gallery https://github.com/deckerst/aves

Gallery [0] and Glimpse (byLineageOS) [1] are some good choices, both designed with Material You.

I use the first one on a daily basis.

[0]: https://github.com/IacobIonut01/Gallery

[1]: https://github.com/lineage-next/android_packages_apps_Glimps...

Finally, thank you for Gallery. This is exactly how I want my Gallery to be.

Scrolling is a bit choppy unfortunately, though.

I stopped looking when I installed e/OS.

Their default Gallery app is adequate for my needs and integrates well with the camera and messaging app and has never nagged me to upgrade to the "pro" version.

I'm pretty sure it is a modified version from Android open source/Lineage.

Yep, that and the calendar app are the ones I use. I've been experimenting with Aves as a replacement for the gallery app, but not sure what I think about it yet.

There's now liberated version of the SMT gallery up in Fdroid. I already switched Calendar, Gallery and File Manager.

I am happy about this fork. Simple Mobile Tools were some of the better non spying free android apps.

It happens, but with limited effect and restricted to certain jurisdictions. My point is that the social web is not owned or controlled by any one commercial entity, just like the rest of the web.

The pirate bay is blocked by law in Norway by the ISPs DNS servers, but is trivial to get around. It is a very soft kind of censorship, which is the beauty of the Internet.

that's archive.ph's doing because they don't like cloudflare (there is a DNS extension where a DNS resolver forwards the prefix of the users IP to the DNS server of the site. Cloudflare does not use that, and archive.ph/.is says that they break their ability to properly host their site by doing that)

Good point. I am sure the US won't just think of another reason to go to war...

Technically not forced by the EPA, strictly speaking optional with the caveat that if you claim a MPG rating for a car, (I believe) it must be enabled every vehicle start.