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That’s what happens when some in society are able to “print” as much money as they damn well please and the rest of us have to work for it …

comes with the company’s most powerful integrated graphics yet.

Not a particularly high bar there…

Inflation has entered the chat

the notes are all saved in a single HTML file.

Oh dear God no…

Literally nothing. But someone on Lemmy will always find a way to air a grievance.

The “I wish capitalism didn’t exist even though I am typing this from my iPhone” crowd will be here soon.

And let’s not forget the “fuck cars everyone should take public transport and take twice as long to not get to their destination” crowd who may even grace us with their presence…

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That war mongering cunt should be in jail.

They just work (usually) if you want to use their products the way they want you to use them.

Well… Yeah? That’s the case for most products.

I’m a funguy too but you don’t hear me bleating on about it.

they arent plants tho.

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Windows 11 on ARM will probably that software without modification.

Assuming it runs on Windows 11 at all…

m68k > *

I will die on this hill.

Winblows

This is you

Now that’s multitasking!

Best keep away from rail crossings then.

Kid had it coming.

I was tempted to state that I was wrong, clearly you have thought about this, but I don’t agree with this perspective at all and won’t be changing my opinion.

I guess we’re done here then.

The ‘nobody has a gun to your head’ approach to laissez-faire mercantilism likes to ignore how important free market access is.

Oh, were still going. Okay.

Erm. YouTube is free. It’s only not available where countries have blocked it.

Lack of access can be just as bad as a gun to the head, if not sometimes worse.

What? YouTube is not a necessity to human existence. It’s not food or shelter.

That’s a stunning level of entitlement on show there.

I don’t think YouTube has ever left me feeling like it had any regard for me as a consumer or even valued my time. It appears, from the many complaints I’ve seen by YouTube content creators, that many of them don’t feel valued or respected either. By the time Premium came along it had long lost me as an interested customer.

Fair enough. So you’re going the ad route then?

There’s no feeling that one should honor a one-sided social contract because that requires an actual relationship. If I felt that YouTube actually cared about anything other than being the middle-man that ensures that I get served ads, and demands–but not delivers–respect for it, then maybe I would reconsider.

Ah, so you’re freeloading.

Until then, I will enjoy their competing products. Ad-Blockers and supporting alternative hosting sites that make me feel more valued. They’ve assisted in creating their own black-market for ad-avoidance, and that’s the free market working.

If you don’t want to pay, or view the ads, you should opt out and use an alternative or go without. That’s the ethical choice.

Did YouTube make all of those videos?

Nobody is claiming they did

If not, then how much should YouTube get from hosting them?

Whatever the free market will pay. Like with any other product.

This whole argument that people just want free shit isn’t just wrong, it’s also annoying.

A paid option is available to those who find the ads annoying.

Those who refuse to pay and try to block the ads are freeloading. Simple as that.

People have proven time and again that we’re willing to pay for quality and convenience.

And yet here we are. Yet again on Lemmy. Yet again with the crybabies wanting ad-free and cost-free shit without considering that someone somewhere has to pay for it. Google is not a charity.

Once again it’s an issue about access, how they’re fighting tooth and nail to gatekeep that access

What? Competitors exist. YouTube is free for nearly everyone.

You are free to use the alternatives if you disagree with how YouTube works.

That’s how the free market works; nobody has a gun to your head.

Messages like yours are so off base that it’s hard to believe you’re not projecting your own shitty world view, but also somehow think that because you’ll gargle some shitty ads every once in a while that you have some moral high ground.

I pay for premium. I’m happy to pay for content I enjoy and I’m happy that the creators I enjoy watching get a cut without me having to watch annoying adverts.

I do not expect handouts. There is nothing “shitty” about paying for things.

Maybe tone down the extremism and personal attacks against a stranger, huh?

AKA; one of those people who believe they’re right and that’s all that matters and you don’t actually have to think any deeper.

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Shhhh. We’re hating on YouTube as we want ad free videos but don’t want to pay for it and we’re hoping that bitching about it on a tiny social media platform will somehow get Google to pivot their entire business model.

We don’t need no facts here.