We take those, I suppose. Sweet!

Regional pricing rates. Argentina has similar woes.

Considering the east german border patrol dogs were adopted into loving homes after the wall fell, I think so.

It’s a question that doesn’t have a simple answer (even with publicly available data), but for the individual, it wouldn’t be much if the service was decentralized and the burden of hosting is placed on the user or a small community (think about how most game servers work that can host tens or hundreds of players by community members out of a surplus PC or cheap VPS, or something like a forum for a small website), but the issue is once we factor in scale to the equation.

If Youtube became a paid subscription, a majority of the userbase would cease using the platform overnight (and single-pay is outright unsustainable due to the costs of being a hosting platform for video content), and it’s more than likely that users would turn to piracy or sharing accounts rather than paying the fee directly.

Windows does have a one time license fee, but their issue is less about monetization and more about monopolistic enshittification. The only cure for that is owning what you buy and not having centralized control, which is only seen in open source/free software platforms such as Linux Distros.

Facebook has the same issue as Youtube to a degree, and largely is sustainable purely due to the network effect brought by the low entry cost of $0 to the user (despite being able to make plenty of money off them through telemetry and ads). A price tag of any sort would break their model as well, along with any other social media platform such as Snapchat.

tl;dr: the only reason the current incumbent platforms are profiting to begin with is because they have a “free but at a hidden cost” as their entire business model, so any price above $0 erases their userbase and relevance, along with being unsustainable for their current infrastructure.

Amateurs… XD

But my post quality… It’s awful! (Comments are easier ;-;)

It depends on the area, but it’s not uncommon to drive more than 30 or 40 miles a day for a work commute in California (especially if you’re trying to live in a cheaper area away from where the jobs are located).

At my university, one of my professors told me his commute to campus was about 2 hours, so I’d interpet that to an easy 50 miles from his home (my 4 hour commute to move onto the campus was roughly 100 miles)

I wonder how much Krita being on steam has generated alone.

“If I smoked, I would not be here, because smoking causes die.”

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Is that the same rule for destructive devices? Genuinely curious - I know privately made firearms have different rules.

This already would fall under an FFL for legal citizens anyway. As is the nature of the internet though, this open design will be preserved and available for those who seek it.

Nice art Jory!