I’ll trade you my 3D TV for one.

Does anyone here know how money transfers like this actually work? Stacks of $100s? Armored carriages full of doubloons? Briefcases exchanged at the train station?

I love the spectral view in Adobe Audition and would be happy to leave it if Audacity (or whichever fork people like) would implement something similar.

ripping off people who already paid for the content.

They didn’t pay for the shows. They paid for access to the shows. That’s all anyone gets these days.

I’m curious, when was the last time you were surreptitiously recorded?

$P$G

It’s not - it just feel more dangerous somehow.

One of these days I’ll read through the PEP and figure out why Python doesn’t have do-while. I understand that it’s just as bad, but while(True) feels so dangerous.

are non carrier phones not available in USA

Sure they are - you can buy directly from Google if you want. Phones from carriers are subsidized / free to hook you into a contract, but you can also just buy a phone and pop your SIM card into it.

Or the app requires root.

If you just want to distance yourself from Google, give OpenBoard a try. It’s GBoard without the G. It’s been working just the same for me, except for some reason it spontaneously decided to stop automatically capitalizing “I”.

Looks like you meant “SyncTrayzor”.
I’ve considered SyncThing before but it looked very fiddly. SyncTrayzor should be very helpful.

I’m happy that they aren’t scabs. I would like to see them point to alternative communities ahem in their top post, though. The more people we can drive to the Fediverse the better.

C++ for kids… C++ isn’t even for adults.

IMO, for the average user, leading with anything about self-hosting is just asking for trouble. The basic pitch should be “Go to Lemmy.world. Sign Up. Search for communities and join them.”
You can replace Lemmy.world with the instance of your choice, of course, but even asking people to choose a server is enough of a deterrent that you’ll lose casuals. Now, maybe that’s a good thing, but that’s a different argument.
If you encourage people to look into self-hosting, or imply that it’s required, they’ll run the other way as soon as they look into the details.