> They lost me at putting "overreacting" in the title.

I think you just proved their point for them.

Soooo many comments here cite the "overreacting" point and then go on to prove it.

I donate to Wikipedia on a recurring, monthly basis and don’t get any of this.

Of course, recurring payments work completely differently. A shockingly large fraction of recurring payments are from people who never got around to cancelling it. They're already getting what they want, any email just risks disturbing this situation.

I still get yearly email summary of my donations. They don't need to send more, and they could not send it if their objective is to stay under the radar

That could be true. I guess I could try giving a one-time donation from another account and see what happens.

Mom’s listening along on the other phone with her hand covering the receiver.

They reflect the traits that OP values in others; these criteria wouldn't be universal. I think the thought experiment still holds: If I met myself on the street, would I like that person? If not, why not, and how can I fix that?

I’ve paid for a few licenses so far just to support the guy making it. It’s a crucial tool in my gamedev workflow, and really couldn’t do without.

Something like this could definitely replace my crufty Obsidian + scripts workflow if it ran on Linux.

Interesting, but it would be nice to see some examples of sounds generated without signing up for an account.

Stripe was launched through Y Combinator. It makes sense for their stuff to quickly bubble to the top of their news aggregator.

Exactly, the entire appeal of Thinkpads is their ability to be repaired and upgraded by the end user. MacBooks are designed to be disposable.

It’s really a shame. May last “favorite” MacBook was from 2013 where everything was upgradable. I bought the fastest Core processor with the lowest everything else and upgraded to 16GB of RAM, SSD (granted at SATA speeds) and a second data drive in the optical drive bay. What luxury!

I think it’s because C++ programmers tend to define themselves by the domain they work in. Game developer, embedded systems engineer, firmware developer, etc.