I’ve moved to Avalon from Memmy, which itself is a great app and the one that spoke to me most when I made the mid year decision to largely cut my Reddit usage. It’s a great app particularly for free.
That said, we probably can’t talk about Memmy in this context without noting the almost two month absence of any updates for the app, which is only early in its life, due to the developers citing burnout. There’s certainly got to be some questions about sustainability for those guys when they have to also carry jobs etc and Memmy for all intents is a hobby for them.
Now maybe the apps in a place where you feel going a few months without updates doesn’t matter, that’s fine. At the same time it’s possible that a revenue stream of some sort would allow the devs to prioritise work on the app over other things. I don’t imagine Lemmy yet has the user base to sustain a developer full time on the single app alone, but having some income from the app may none the less assist greatly. People have even asked the Memmy team to consider adding paid tiers in recognition of some of the issues.
None of that is to say that I didn’t do a double take when I saw the price of Avalon, and did give it a second thought. It’s a decent price commitment, I agree. Apps that are paid for could also be abandoned too which is a risk. At the same time I have noticed a number of the Lemmy apps have had growing pains, burnout issues for devs etc, so while there are good free options out there in the longer term in many cases that may not be sustainable, and there is a place for paid apps particularly where that can contribute to the apps ongoing development.
Personally I dont need a web browser, but there are “OS luxuries” I’d like to see. That includes having the game chat features built into the Switch rather than shipping a seperate mobile app, and more focus on Bluetooth capabilities such as more scope to support concurrent devices (2x audio headsets with 2 pairs of JoyCon, for 2 player gaming on the go).
Monthly $2.99, Annual $22.99 and Lifetime 49.99. This is in $AUD.
Unsure what that comes to exactly in USD but I assume it’s around $1.99 and $14.99 or there abouts. Other posts note lifetime is $30USD.
Prices are there in the TestFlight version. Assume the same error preventing purchases is preventing those being displayed as they probably pull the price dynamically from the App Store.
It’s definitely worth thinking about your use case and whether a second hand mini-pc of some sort is a better option. Along with the Pi itself many people are probably going to need a new case and quite possibly a power adapter too given the new power profile. An older PC where that’s taken care off, and where you probably have a 120GB SSD included, could be the better option for some people.
Yeah, removing EE encryption by providers won’t be effective at all. Back in uni throwing together a bit of code to encrypt files and corresponding code to decrypt it was one of the very first lessons that gets taught. It’s trivially done if not by an existing product, then doing it yourself. Anyone wanting to circumvent this will just encrypt data before they send it over these channels and in the end no one is particularly safer for the laws.
I’m all for laws that help protect children, but I don’t see preventing EE encryption as an effective solution at all to the issue being addressed.
Seems reasonable enough to me as an option staff can take up, but don’t need to if they have other accomodation or would rather live somewhere not operated by their employer.
Based on the article it seems the cost is reasonable for the area. Having a cost on the accomodation rather than it being free probably helps stop an influx of people with suitable accommodation already cancelling lease or subletting, to come stay at that building and limiting access to those that need it more. That and no doubt people who couldn’t take it up may feel shafted that their colleagues are getting a $700 a week perk if Google made it free.
No doubt one can argue the often polarising merits of office work versus remote, but if they’re going to have people come to the office having accomodation available, paid or not, no doubt would be helpful and something many other employers going through a similar transition may not be able to offer.
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I’m on the test flight beta so not sure if this options in the App Store release or not yet though.
I think they’re a bit damned if they do, damned if they don’t, given a lot of users are clamouring for these features however the TestFlight is full so new users that want to be on the bleeding edge can’t get in.
There was talk about removing test flight users that weren’t actively using the app, unsure if they’ve pursued that and if that’s the way forward, but it may be a short term fix if it is available.
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