Right? Elitism in this thread is strong. I have never been in a situation where I NEED to use 7z instead of zip.

Sync for Reddit and Sync for Lemmy are separate, so the license and all don't transfer. You'll see ads sooner or later if you didn't do anything to block it.

Uhm, then don't pay? No one is forcing you to pay or even use Sync. I don't think it's worth it for me too at this moment to pay that much for an app to browse Lemmy (because in my opinion it's still riding the hype train, it's long term future is still to be determined). So I accept that I will have to see ads.

Sync is an app by a private developer, who has his own rights to set the price for something he produced. He can put the price at 100€ and still no one has the right to whine about it. If you think it's not worth it, then don't buy it. It's not like you need this to survive.

or use patched third party clients

I believe it's mentioned in an issue in the official Thunderbird repo that from now on the Flatpak is maintained by the main Thunderbird dev team, so the Flatpak repo is archived and all Flatpak packages from now on will be uploaded directly by the devs.

It's supposed to be on sale digitally today on Prime Video, iTunes, and Microsoft Store in the UK.

You don't buy that it's the law?

not when you have the obscene money and power that Meta has. They could have fought it and resisted,

What you're saying is because Meta is rich, they don't have to obey the law?

Standard business practice. Every company create their own proprietary stuff and try to make them the standard via lobbying etc, then earn money from other companies when their stuff becomes the standard.

How is "GNOME is bloat" an objective fact? Maybe to you GNOME is bloat because you don't use it. But they use GNOME, so it's not bloat to them.

Conversely, if they don't use XFCE, then having XFCE installed by default is a bloat to them.

Don't be so dense.

And they say Lemmy will not become Reddit. Pfft. The culture of reading only the headline and immediately take the rage bait is already seeping in.

Maybe I shouldn't have said all, but it's annoying to me when the they put a "k" in the name in a very awkward way just because it's an KDE app.

I don't think so. These are heavily regulated and that's why Google Pay/Apple Pay is still not available in all countries after so many years.

So unless your bank allows that, which I doubt they'll, Google Pay is probably the only way to do contactless payment the traditional way.

Unless your country/city has a widely accepted third party payment system that doesn't go through the bank, like a digital wallet that you'll have to top up its credit, then maybe.