Cashburn is like projecting profit but instead of profit you are just going to burn the pool of money you have so much your profits won’t mean anything. Anything black on this line is profit, red is cash burn. All companies start in a cash burn state, but if you look at the ones listed, the initial cash burn when they launched was relatively small.

OpenAI is planning to burn more money than most of them profited.

Should be in the mildlyvagina sub as well.

If you don’t need voice, there are a lot of options. Matrix has IRC support and encryption, and has voice options if you self host.

Riot is… A Discord clone without working voice and I found it to be an odd duck.

There’s RocketChat… More Slack like.

Mattermost.

I replaced my voice/video chats with Nextcloud Talk and/or Steam, based on the scenario. Outside of those, Matrix is good for community needs in my mind.

We interacted on the internet for years without discord.

It is far from essential.

Most of the american companies are using Chinese manufacturing for much of the devices. Fairphone is European, but same manufacturing sources.

In 2026, as a Canadian… Choosing between a country that is adopting nazi practices and threatening us with annexation, and one who has a questionable history but is overall doing more for climate change and global stability right now than the other… The choice is easy. Anything but american.

Sure, but then you are also not funding Google’s competition in order to help improve choice.

Buying second hand might make you feel better because you didn’t directly fund Google, but you’re still helping them maintain their position.

AND it doubles as a rudder!

Pressed Xanax bars?

What, like medication based granola? What do you chase that with?

The Graphene devs explicitly only support Pixels. Sticking with Graphene means continuing to give Google the profits from your hardware.

/e/OS is not bad as an alternative. The system wide ad and tracker blocking is nice.

Seriously. Neurodivergent folks like myself stand an iota of a chance of being successful with a cubicle. Open floor plans are an assault on our senses and the wet dream of micromanagers. They are awful and the reason I exclusively work from home.

Yeah, tears wouldn’t stop flowing once they started. It was a good episode.

Those two have a Rimmer + Lister feel to them.

Kube makes it easy to have a lot, as a lot of things you need to deploy on every node just deploy on every node. As odd as it sounds, the number of containers provides redundancy that makes the hobby easy. If a Zimaboard dies or messes up, I just nuke it, and I don’t care whats on it.

Kids should NOT be on social media.

The Sun is fucking trash.

Uh… Probably somewhere around 150?

Snaps should put them in F tier.

The teens arent vapid socialites and theres enough Trek Universe mixed in that it really doesn’t align with the typical teen drama.

EA is the publisher, not the game studio. They just aquire and profit from Studios that make good games.

And then they consistently enshittify them.

RIP Westwood, Maxis and many others.

We’re talking about a company of skids whose sole purpose in the market is to track you with invasive practices and enable SEO titheads to spam their BS across multiple social networks at once.

The bar for them is barely above the floor.