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It’s not hardware on Android I want. I want pure Android on these phones. All these overlays and additional OS bits from these companies highlights why they aren’t good software companies.

Back in the day Microsoft cracked down on overlays like HP Personal Page. Some bitched about it, but it was absolutely necessary. Google needs to do something similar.

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What has Marc Anderseen done to be on this list? I must be out of that loop.

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AI is the big, bad boogyman on Lemmy. Unreasonably so.

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That will do it.

Starfield design lead says players are "disconnected" from how games are actually made: "Don't fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is" (www.gamesradar.com)

apparently this is in response to a few threads on Reddit flaming Starfield—in general, it’s been rather interesting to see Bethesda take what i can only describe as a “try to debate Starfield to popularity” approach with the game’s skeptics in the past month or two. not entirely sure it’s a winning strategy,...

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I may not know how the sausage is made, but I do know if it tastes good or not.

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For now.

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Until a Libertarian decides he wants to drive a car. You can’t expect discipline from these assholes.

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GM doesn’t get to sell your data.

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I used to love A&E when it was biographies and Lovejoy.

The major TV networks were so embarrassed by being outproduced in quality by these niche cable networks that they raised the level of their programing to match. LOL, no. They bought out all the niche cable TV channels and turned them into trash. Hurray Capitalism.

Edit: and in the streaming era, the same kind of thing happened to Pluto. They had some great, quirky programs. Like the train channel. Checked them out a couple weeks ago and they look completely different post buy out. All the tech and gaming content gone. No train channel. Bunch of channels that just run reruns of one show.

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You know it is targeted to preteens because EVERYBODY YELLS EVERYTHING!!!

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I remember when the criticism of the History channel was it was the “Hitler channel.” I’m old.

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MTV’s downfall started when they got rid of all the Music freaks in the C suite that liked music and hired TV producers. Then we got Remote Control. We didn’t realize it at the time, but that was the downfall of MTV. Once those TV execs realized they could make non-music content, we got The Real World. It was OVER.

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Yeah, when you bomb someone indiscriminately, you end up trapped in a hellhole.

It's funny how google pretends the music on YouTube isn't straight up piracy and everyone just goes along with it

Most people have extremely weird ideas of what’s considered piracy and what isn’t. Downloading a video game rom is piracy, but if you pay money to some Chinese retailer for an SD card containing the roms, that’s somehow not piracy. Exploiting the free trial on a streaming site by using prepaid visa cards is somehow not...

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No, it’s because they are a trillion dollar conglomerate that PAYS.

what's currently the best solution for a windows install

I haven’t had anything to do with windows in like 5+ years. I need to set up a laptop with it for someone tomorrow, I’m guessing W11 is nowadays recommended? what’s currently the best option for a hassle free experience (no ads, no random game installs, no migrations to onedrive, etc)?...

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Why not Linux? They can surf and do most everything they want. Plus when they have a question, you’ll be in a position to support it.

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The HP LaserJet 4si was the peak of printers. It’s been all downhill since then.

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It’s good relative to what we have now, but it can’t hold a candle to some of the warhorses we had in the past.

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We’re in this situation because the government gets kickbacks to craft policy in favor of businesses instead of the market overall or the consumers. No way they’ll limit the size of companies.

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Exactly. I’d be shocked if they DIDN’T find US munitions.

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And it won’t turn out like they think it will.

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Putin tried that. How did that work out?

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If you don’t want Israel lobbing bombs at you, then maybe you should stop lobbing bombs at Israel first.

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There are no good guys in this one.

Why aren't streaming media contracts negotiated like 'you will provide us the 4K copies of the entire series; we will stream it forever and you will get X% of the profit..margin...etc in perpetuity'

rather than this stupid fucking snip snap game where, instead of, as a user being able to buy into a company that’s building a massive, marvelous, library-of-alexandria-core archive of every good show ever made, you’re paying into some shitty ephemeral bullshit made by stupid greedy dickheads who have no fucking sense

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Because the content creators have the upper hand for now. If you won’t agree to their terms, they go to the next streaming service or start their own.

YouTube Ad-Blocker policy - Can it be explained by ad revenue numbers?

First, a disclaimer: I’m no expert, and I only know what is on these documents I linked. I haven’t read in-depth reporting by real investigative journalists, nor any reporting sourced or quoted from YT insiders (When I see articles about the ad-blocking, I knock wood that SmartTube is still working and keep scrolling, keen...

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You have to remember the shareholder mentality: If you’re not growing by 20% forever, you’re losing money.

Question regarding ripping dvds (yes DVDs)

I know the majority opinion is not to do it for various reasons, but basically I started to backup the majority of my dvd collection that I created over the years since I have the time and they were just collecting dust. Turns out though I guess I’m doing it “wrong” or at least not in the original quality since I used...

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Use MakeMKV to actually copy the DVD. Handbrake if you want to transform it to another format/resolution to save disk space.

Honestly, with the Handbrake process so time consuming, I’ve started ripping with MakeMKV then no further compression.

Right now, disk is relatively cheap.

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uBlock Origin
Bitwarden

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It’s not a dying market, everyone still relies on virtualization. But it is a saturated market, no more 20% growth years left, with plenty of cloud and open source competitors. Our financial systems hate a steady hand, and will tear apart VMWare instead.

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Propaganda works. Think of how many of our union workers support Trump.

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Affordable? LOL, no. Affordable doesn’t maximize shareholder value! Capitalism!

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A twitter replacement made by one of Twitter’s founders that completely missed its shot to be relevant by not releasing during the early chaos of the muskrat’s rein. And then when they finally did release, it was iPhone only, so everyone shrugged and ignored it.

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ATSC 3.0 is just a scheme to turn free, over the air TV into another cable. Ever increasing prices.

Is Star Citizen's new server meshing tech plagiarized?

Sorry if this is not the right place to ask, but am I the only one who thinks that Star Citizen’s new server meshing technology is an old hat? I believe it’s the same technology that a few highly scalable Minecraft servers have been using for years. WorldQL introduced this back in 2021, but I think the idea was around even...

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IE, CIG is attempting to do it in the hardest way possible.

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For a day I got the no video but audio playing ads.

On my Shield where I don’t have uBlock Origin, I get bombarded with ads.

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I don’t know, I think the radio shock jock got what he deserved.

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Here in Michigan, we don’t blink about taking Canadian pennies because they are common and banks take them. In Texas, I wouldn’t expect that.

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There used to be.

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Tough shit.

Space sim Squadron 42 is "feature-complete" and gunning for Starfield's lunch with massive new video (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

Squadron 42 is the single player campaign of Star Citizen, that is supposed to launch as a separate game. It's basically a small portion of Star Citizen, but with a story and ending. I'm still not confident; waited too long for that.

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Was there really any gameplay footage released? Looked like the same cinematics they always released.

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My Wife and I talked about this price increase and we’re cancelling. If they ever get around to releasing Stranger Things or Wedneaday we’ll sub for a month to watch them. Or Aarr!

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Then we’ll sub after it has been fully released and binge.

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So this is how the government is going to try and brow beat us back to the office?

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This is why we need more competition in the ISP space. And use a VPN.

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Silicon Valley has become a vehicle to secure VC funding. They’ve forgotten that is just step 2.

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If your default UI is shit, people aren’t going to stick around long enough to figure out how to tweak it.

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You don’t have to pay for Plex.

The sooner Android accepts RCS is dead, the sooner we can choose the next messaging platform that matters (www.androidpolice.com)

I’m just sitting here frustrated because I’m wanting my family to move away from messaging me over SMS (they mainly use iOS), but they refuse to download any extra apps. But Google’s RCS really doesn’t look like a solution either since it mainly just seems to be a way of enforcing Android as an ecosystem, and they...

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Those apps are already proven insecure, you might as well use SMS and take advantage of the interopabily.

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    It’s almost like if for decades you wage war, acts of terrorism, and you state your goal is to kill everyone in a country, that country might treat you bad.

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