Everything comes full circle.

Companies own you - they pay a subscription (your salary) to rent you. Wouldn't it be great if they could pay a one-time fee to own you forever?

> Companies own you - they pay a subscription (your salary) to rent you.

They rent my work, not me, and if I am paid for project or contract work, they get to keep what I made after they've stopped paying me.

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This is ranked by Bayesian Average: https://www.top-rated.online/countries/United+States/cities/...

https://www.top-rated.online/cities/Rome/place/p/10807332/Tr... here you go

It is quite time-consuming to go through the reviews due to this exact reason - 100s of low effort reviews and also fake reviews to hide negative reviews.

https://www.top-rated.online/ re-sorts the reviews (on individual place page) based on reactions and number of reviews user made. It makes it easier to see the full picture and avoid fake reviews.

Chromecast Ultra also uses 20W in standby.

I was going through the all devices and found that a TV which is most of the time off, was using that much power. Now I keep it unplugged.

The chromecast ultra comes with a 5w power supply (I know, I have one and just checked) so this cannot be true.

I don't know about you but I literally don't care about 5w, it's getting converted to heat anyway just a bit less efficiently than my gas boiler.

https://www.howtogeek.com/825416/how-much-energy-are-your-st... lists a much different measurement.

Gmail works but I can't send any emails - so frustrating.

This is super helpful for mobile devices.

But it makes rather confusing on how to connect it on an e.g. laptop without having to scan the QR code with the mobile device first. If the password is 63-char length, typing it wouldn't be 'quick'.

There should be a laptop app which can import a QR code picture from a file. Most of the laptops also have a webcam nowadays, perhaps it could be used too.

exactly. although an iPhone can share the credentials with a macbook I think.

I am the founder of https://pagecrawl.io and this is exactly what can you do with the service.

I have been considering releasing a product only for tracking ToS only but haven't managed to release it yet.

With the proposed 1$/yr/user it is going to take around 19 years to become profitable (with 1bn paid users). Facebook obviously wants a return earlier.

The founder did take those billions, so not sure what he was expecting to happen, ads looks like the only business model to turn profit quickly in this sort of business.

Besides, there are so many people using WhatsApp in developing countries that wouldn't pay if they can get something similar for free and competition in chat apps is big.

I never understand why ads and subscription fee needs to be an exclusive or for how the big players monetize.

I'd happily give Google $5/month for Gmail, $10/month for YouTube (I already do), $10/month for google search etc or $40/month for their complete package if they remove ads and respect privacy then. It's less than other "semi-essential" services I have to use like my ISP or car and if they make more than that of me from advertisements the advertising/marketing market must be bonkers.

Youtube is still useful when not all of your friends use it. Chat apps are not

If you can afford $40/month to use Google, then they can make much more than that simply showing you ads.

You hear that sometimes but I don't buy it. If that was the case than 1st class in an airline would be plastered with ads, but it isn't.

> ads looks like the only business model to turn profit quickly in this sort of business.

Tencent makes relatively little from ads in Wechat. They earn most from games and payment fees.

Because selling loot boxes and other in app consumables is so much more ethical....

Exporting is easy. On desktop you can select photos and download a zip. You can also download them with Google Backup and Sync if you enable the option to show photos in Google Drive.

There is a limit thought when I tried to export from web some time ago. It was 500-2000 photos or something.

I probably have over 30000 photos there so it's a long process to download them all.

The desktop sync client is probably the way to go then.

Google takeout was great for this. I did it last month and backed up 60gb of photos.