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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I had a 2023 Elantra, and iirc it had these features for $30 a year after my subscription ended.

These prices are way higher. Seems like every company agreed that subscription = $10(ish) a month, regardless of the actual cost the features justify.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's weird in that most users would value it at $3.99 a month, but the average user also scrolls for several hours a month, with each one of those hours packed with ads.

This equates to way more than $4 in revenue a month.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't direct storage the windows equivalent?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The US transitioned to SUVs and trucks a long time ago now, so those emissions are already built in

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Visa takes a cut from transaction, only a portion of that goes to the bank. I get 2.5% cash back on my transactions, but Visa only charges a 2.24% transaction fee. There must be more to cash back than the transaction fee.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

5 years ago, I would've agreed, but it's pretty good today

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there anything even wrong with the default Google file manager? It works pretty well from my experience

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I looked it up*

https://blog.kagi.com/status-update-first-three-months#kagisearch

It's $.0125, so 1.25 cents not double digits like I thought. They also average 27 searches per day per user. So an average of 821.25 searches per user per month, meaning a cost of $10.27 per month.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's probably as good as we are going to get.

The best options would be an open source, donation supported search engine, but the money required to host/develop that is immense.

We are all freeloading off of Lemmy right now, unless you are donating to the people who are running the servers. The cost to run a search engine is much higher though -- kagi pays (iirc) double digit cents for each search, even before development costs, with the average user doing 700 searches a month. The costs are way higher.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's also privately owned by one guy, so it doesn't have to submit to investor pressure.

Steam, for example, is basically a monopoly for PC game sales, but hasn't enshittified because it is privately owned.

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