The world is capitalist and it’s not changing anytime soon.

Meaning, whatever your ideology is, it’s a waste of your and everyone elses time.

Adapt it to reality and push for smaller changes, a big one ain’t happening.

Ah of course, the “everything I hear about is bad” bias.

There’s an insane amount of small businesses out there, have a look at your friendly government’s statostics.

You know how these small businesses start? Often by telling friends and family about them (marketing), posting ads on the local notice board (marketing), having a damn logo on the door (marketing).

People have to know you exist, else they can only come across your shop by mistake, and no way you’re surviving a week like that.

All of these places would fail without any sort of marketing. Concentrating the power into the hands of established players.

Whatever you stand for, it doesn’t work.

So you’re hating on the 3000 assholes who’ve already cornered the market and now you want a world where new companies possibly founded by someone no-as-assholish are doomed to stay unknown and fail?

People will keep choosing what they know, if you don’t allow new players to enter the market, these old massive conglomerates will keep on growing, keep on consuming the competition.

It’s a hyperbole, but only a small one.

What about a thing that would actually change your life for some reason?

Would you prefer not knowing about it?

Of course there’s no reason for the 76th brand of chicken sandwich, but that’s also not what I’m talking about at all.

Marketing itself is fine and a healthy tool for growth, showing ads into people’s eyeholes every chance you get is not.

There’s different types of marketing.

One type is awareness marketing, which is exactly the type that’s the furthest from “forcing shit down your throat”.

Then later, when you’re searching for something and see their name, your monkey brain will prefer the “familiar” option.

And tbh I do have to disagree with “people will come to you”, it’s really hard to grow if people don’t know you exist.

I suggest you read my comment again. What you came up with is completely unrelated.

I’m telling the lad who thinks killing people is the best way to solve problems that he might want to reconsider being a shitty person, and if nothing else, at least not committing a felony (arguably).

Have a nice day, doesn’t sound like you have those very often.

The same judges who did something they had a right to do.

I don’t support what they did, but they had the right to do it.

Blame the lawmakers for not codifying basic human rights, blame the people who didn’t vote, hell, blame the judges for making a retarded decision.

But if you care, don’t threaten to kill any of them. Felons can’t vote last time I checked.

So where does this stop?

Today, we’re proposing killing a supreme court justice.

Tomorrow, we’ll be storming the Capitol.

You’re fueled by hate and it’s destroying the thing you stand for. You hate the republicans so much for the things they’ve done that you’re ready to do the very same.

You are a part of the problem. And if not yet, one day you will be.

I have no idea how you came to this conclusion.

Try again.

The guy legitimately “proposed” killing a supreme court justice.

In no fucking world is something like that okay. Don’t legitimize killing people.

You’re no better than the very thing you hate.

They raised prices and left them there because enough people are paying these prices.

Them asking for bailouts because of their prices hikes makes exactly 0 sense btw, if they need to sell more, they’ll just lower them again. The nice thing about margin is that it’s margin - as long as you’re making money, you’re making money, it just depends how much.

I’m getting Bixby button flashbacks.

Ho well, my wallet’s gonna cry but I’m sure the mechkeyboard community will welcome my ass

I’d be careful with things like this.

If not anything else, it makes you not much better than the republicans calling for the death of “election riggers” and the lot.

Be better.

He won! The election was just rigged…

Oh wait wrong guy

Yeah, let’s tell everyone

The issue is, you can optimize a software encoders continually, you can use tricks for better quality etc.

A hardware encoder is just that - hardware. As soon as it’s burned to the silicon, you’re not making any (at least substantial) changes to it. You might also be limited by what you can actually do directly in hardware without using too much die space.

Tldr.: no, you won’t get the same result

Yep, that’s why I included the two brain cell clause, covers a good 50% of the population, perhaps even more than that

If the caller has more than two braincells, they’ll user a burner phone, rented phone number etc.

These types of things are next to impossible to trace if done right

And thunderbolt/usb3/usb4 M.2 enclosures exist and are quite cheap if you don’t have a slot in the laptop.

It’s a hate on not only DRM, but all paid services pretty much