They should not be worried, they should be educated.

If you worry a new user enough they’ll go back to Windows or Apple because there’s less scary warnings there.

We need to make the transition as pain free as possible. Learning about the joys of kernel compilation and SELinux can come later.
The first step is "Hey, this is as usable as Windows, without stupid ads in the start menu.

Depending on your level of caffeine tolerance/dependency actual coffee might be even better.

Alternatively: Decaf.

IF you already have an email domain you control.

Calling “acquiring and setting up an email domain and configuring the mail server for wildcards” “basically no extra effort” is a bit disingenuous compared to “solve a captcha for a Gmail account”

Coconut at least…

Ah, you “work” in “marketing”?

Zur besseren Findbarkeit: Es heißt “Lateral” with Tom Scott, von lateral thinking - Quer- oder um die Ecke denken, aber ohne die Konnotation, die Querdenken seit Corona hat.

It doesn’t. It carries you by having a module for absolutely everything even shooting yourself in the foot.

To a certain degree, yes. If someone at Google decides to wage all-out war against ad blockers they have a good chance. But if that costs more money than it generates, odds are that someone will stop it. Google / Alphabet is publicly traded after all and that means profit above all else.

Embedding ads into the stream would be hard to counter, but it’s far away. That would invalidate caches along the way and need extra performance to reencode the stream with the ads inserted.

That’s extra costs that are hopefully orders of magnitude above the lost ad revenue from ad blockers

Ballistomancer

Spannendes Detail:

Es ist möglich, formal fehlerhafte Rezepte an die TI zu übermitteln. Funktionierende Validierung gibt’s nicht.

Warum nicht gleich ein PDF des gescannten Rezepts ablegen, das wär wenigstens einfacher…

Noch ein Fan des Entgenderns hier. Freue mich jedesmal, wenn ich -ys in freier Wildbahn sehe.

No, No, they don’t understand everything and nothing!