Re: [DNG] Qt, KDE, unbelievable

2022-01-22 Thread Simon
o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > Now if all that advertising was actually good for something except making rich > people richer - - - - Or simply paying for things that people want but don’t want to pay directly for ? The problem isn’t the advertising pe se, it’s the lengths advertisers (and some

Re: [DNG] Qt, KDE, unbelievable

2022-01-20 Thread Jim Jackson
On Thu, 20 Jan 2022, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > Read this: > > https://www.neowin.net/news/ads-may-be-coming-to-kde-the-popular-linux-desktop/ > Yes read it. Qt adding support for ADS. Any Open Source KDE/Qt program that did that would have the code that did it removed by debian

Re: [DNG] Qt, KDE, unbelievable

2022-01-20 Thread Antony Stone
On Thursday 20 January 2022 at 14:36:56, Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE via Dng wrote: > I am looking for a way to fake that I'm opening/reading the ads so the > magazine et all get paid but without having my screen actually littered > with ads and especially my ears not molested. That would be nifty.

Re: [DNG] Qt, KDE, unbelievable

2022-01-20 Thread Peter Duffy
That's a neat idea. Good luck with developing it - keep us posted on how it goes. Reminds me a bit of something that occurred to me a long time ago, when I was having to attend an endless stream of pointless, irrelevant, boring meetings. I wondered about virtual meetings: I'd program a "virtual

Re: [DNG] Qt, KDE, unbelievable

2022-01-20 Thread Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE via Dng
On Donnerstag, 20. Januar 2022 09:30:28 -03 o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 4:49 AM Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Read this: > > > > https://www.neowin.net/news/ads-may-be-coming-to-kde-the-popular-lin > > ux-desktop/ > > > > LOL, I removed every bit of KDE, its

Re: [DNG] Qt, KDE, unbelievable

2022-01-20 Thread Riccardo Mottola via Dng
Hi Steve, Steve Litt wrote: > https://www.neowin.net/news/ads-may-be-coming-to-kde-the-popular-linux-desktop/ > > LOL, I removed every bit of KDE, its executables and libraries, in > 2012. Mostly for the same reasons I refuse to host systemd. Now comes > the possibility of ads on KDE

Re: [DNG] Qt, KDE, unbelievable

2022-01-20 Thread o1bigtenor via Dng
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 4:49 AM Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > Read this: > > https://www.neowin.net/news/ads-may-be-coming-to-kde-the-popular-linux-desktop/ > > LOL, I removed every bit of KDE, its executables and libraries, in > 2012. Mostly for the same reasons I refuse to host systemd. Now

[DNG] Qt, KDE, unbelievable

2022-01-20 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Read this: https://www.neowin.net/news/ads-may-be-coming-to-kde-the-popular-linux-desktop/ LOL, I removed every bit of KDE, its executables and libraries, in 2012. Mostly for the same reasons I refuse to host systemd. Now comes the possibility of ads on KDE applications. But it's even