These platforms seem more vulnerable to alternatives than they ever have been before but it turns out the opposite is true. The hosting infrastructure is so expensive that it prevents competitors from even starting. Datacenters are basically a cartel and getting your foot in the door is near impossible without bouncing in on the heels of someone who’s in. Making compute storage cheaper is not the name of the game when it’s easier to profit by simply limiting access and driving the price up.

On the other hand, YouTube has never been profitable.

Y’all haven’t lived until you’ve had “The smell from when you’re standing in line for E.T. the ride” scented candle.

https://www.thegreenhead.com/2020/06/et-adventure-ride-scented-candle.php

Enshittification continues

I’m starting to feel like this headline is some sort of psy-op.

How do we as the community turn hope into help? Is there a way to contribute directly to the NVK developers?

It does and it doesn’t. The problem I’ve seen with all these new transportation products is the goal to create a “new industry” with it so that the tech can be sold elsewhere in a competitive market.

The problem is that elsewhere is often the USA … and the US doesn’t buy public transportation tech from foreign entities.

Quebec buys their trains from France, many nations but their highspeed trail from Japan and China. (I think a few places actually bought a monorail from Disney). It’s a high cost to get into an industry like public transportation at this stage of the game unless you bring something new to the table.

It does because it’s a national jobs program and offers a boost to the local economy, it doesn’t because in the end it is wasteful, impractical, and eventually too expensive for the taxpayer to maintain.

I just think it’s neat!

Everyone says “just install Linux” so I challenge all of you to do so. Please pawn it off on a small child who’s just getting into computing. Time to pay it forward.

In the eWaste scenario, you can easily get an SSD for 100$ and bring anything back to life. What distro are you giving to your niece/nephew? The best thing you can do is tell them “If you wanna play fortnight, you’re gonna have to figure out how to install windows”.

Most of them will give up, but a small % of them will figure out how to get windows running on that heap of trash in spite of you giving them Linux and at that point your trash has added real value to the world.

Getting a child to install an OS is magical.

Happy Holidays folks

I’m pretty sure that this is because steam uses chromium as its backend and chromium new version doesn’t run on windows 7. It’s still not good because there are some games that won’t run on newer systems and therefore 7 is required for preservation.

As many of you pointed out, yes I agree proton is the answer if possible. YMMV

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Zydrate comes in a little glass vile

I do keep seeing the argument that you can vote with your wallet but I mentioned this in another thread I think a week ago.

I think voting with your wallet doesn’t quite work here because you’re not going to a competitor, you’re simply opting out. What happens is then they don’t see your platform of choice as the issue. All secretly gathered data points like your platform of choice often present a survivorship bias in the usage data.

With that being said, piracy has always been “… An issue of service not price” (GabeN) and I wholly support piracy as the alternative. I just don’t think these services like Amazon are going to ever get the memo.

I do have a weird Tin Foil hat feeling that they’re losing something Linux platform that’s more than support or DRM. What if it’s harder to monitor your usage on Linux platforms and they think that they can encourage you to leave the platform by forcing you to see lower quality so they can get those usage metrics back? (Again, tinfoil hat hypothesis)

Who was he?

There are DOZENS OF US! DOZENS!!

Hi!I see a lot of great suggestions here but I was just looking at your chart and I think just one fundamental change would benefit you.

Think of your switch as the “core” of your network. Everything should connect to that switch (computers, access points, firewall) for your best experience/performance.

If you go with unifi, you should know that their switches are managed but if you intend to self host anything, you’re actually going to want the managed features!

Thanks and goodluck!

They need to stop rapidly changing the terms of the agreement. This is the problem endemic to the platform. It’s starting to lose shape because the ads are the problem.

If this was an issue with the quality of content:

ideally creators would get to choose their ad roll spots. This would make it less jarring to the watcher. It’s also terrible that you can get ads for something like BP on a video that’s basically surmised as “That time BP poisoned a lot of children”. (See climate town) l. Also, if the ad revenue split was better, creators wouldn’t then have to shoe horn in extra ad spots into the content of their videos.

However, I don’t think it’s a problem with quality of the content, but the quality of the ads.

I believe Adblocking is not piracy issue to the end user as much as it is protection measure from malicious content. It’s up to the user to qualify what is “malicious” or not in the end. Users who use adblock do not have a good relationship with online advertising not because it annoys them, it’s because it threatens them. This is less so just a YouTube problem and more of a entirety of Google’s business model problem.

Becoming a better ad platform is a tough challenge when advertisers by practice operate in a manipulative bad faith space. We don’t trust ads.

Did anyone else get the email that said Max is reducing its adfree tier to 2 screens instead of 3 and no more 4k? I just got it yesterday.

Cancelled.

I originally started using brave because at the time it was the most feature complete alternative to chrome. Now I would like to switch but I would still use chrome cast for music streaming (I have quite a few of them).

Last time I checked casting audio was missing as a feature in most deGooogled versions of chrome. Does anyone have any suggestions for browsers that allow me to stream audio from my browser to Google Chromecast?

I read this in Brandon Rogers as Bobby Worst voice.

Can’t wait to hear the new Swedish House Mafia X Swedish Criminal Gang ReMix to drop!