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Exclusive Weekly Patroncast - Episode 42 (because I can't count) (Patreon)

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2021-09-06 16:05:51
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2024-03
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Hey everyone!


Here is your exclusive weekly patroncast, this time episode 42, because I don't know why but I forgot that Episode 41 never happened.


In this one, I talk about:

01:30 Themes, and how GNOME doesn't really want them, and the implications if distro makers decide they've had enough

13:02 Ads on operating systems: and is it ok to have ads in them if these OSes are free

18:16 Personal stuff, including my vacation, potential new Patron perks, going Freelance and the Aura 15 giveaway that's probably already done by the time you listen to this.


I hope you enjoy listening to this one!


Nick

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Anonymous

First, I am so glad you're back on YT. I'm sure that was a stressful event. Second, GNOME theme support is a hot mess. In my dream world, Ubuntu would decide to bring Unity back based on xfce or lxqt and dump their considerable development resources on that. Third, I would love the "vlog-style", behind-the-scenes, type videos and I would definitely up my Patreon level to see it. Cheers my friend, Matt @norcalgeekdad

thelinuxexperiment
>>67400431

That was pretty stressful, yeah :D Glad everything is back to normal! Noted for the VLOG style, I think it could be a great idea! Thanks a lot for the support :D

Anonymous

Where did you read about $2 OEM license? As far as I know (although I admit my source was from many years ago) it's more on the tens of dollars depending on the hardware tier (e.g. $50 on a $1000 PC). Also looking at Microsoft earning reports Windows OEM sales are quite profitable. Quoting the 2020 report: "Windows revenue increased $1.9 billion or 9%, driven by growth in Windows Commercial and Windows OEM. Windows Commercial products and cloud services revenue increased 18%, driven by increased demand for Microsoft 365. Windows OEM revenue increased 9%, ahead of PC market growth. Windows OEM Pro revenue grew 11%, driven by Windows 7 end of support and healthy Windows 10 demand, offset in part by weakness in small and medium businesses. Windows OEM non-Pro revenue grew 5%, driven by consumer demand from remote work and learn scenarios." They sum all together but clearly Windows OEM is rich enough to be mentioned. Said that ads are inevitable and I don't think they are necessarily wrong. The main 2 problems I see are: - When ads that are not clearly ads. People could read the ads in windows as a service message and install Edge thinking they have to. - Ads can be tailored to a specific user making them more effective (at what point ads become brainwashing?). That can be easily done considering that all the companies generating revenue from ads (e.g. Microsoft) heavily profile users.

thelinuxexperiment
>>67464495

Yeah, it's true, the fact that some of these ads are shown by the system, about some other products from the same company, really makes them look like service messages, recommendations, or even security alerts! It's even more insidious. As per OEM licenses, since you can buy some of these for between 2 to 10 euros on any key selling website, I assumed that's what OEMs paid for them, but maybe some resell unused keys for less than they paid for?