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HughJanus ,

They need to ban manufacturers from making exclusive deals with their suppliers.

HughJanus ,

Why would they change the name instead of the version number? 🤦‍♂️

HughJanus ,

And MP3s are perfectly adequate for most applications.

Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation and violence on X (www.cnbc.com)

Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation and violence on X::Thierry Breton, the European commissioner for the internal market, warns Elon Musk about disinformation on X related to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

HughJanus ,

The fact that it’s online-only should be reason enough for no one to buy it and continue enabling this anti-consumer behavior. But whatever, no one cares I guess.

HughJanus ,

Musk has made it clear that this was never about money. Er, at least not about Xitter making money.

HughJanus ,

I’m on Lemmy cause there is no censorship

There absolutely is.

WHO THE FUCK IS OPPRESSING THE PEACHES!? 🍑

HughJanus ,

You don’t get to dictate what the rest of us do.

No one is trying to dictate what you do. I’m making you aware that your choices impact everyone else and expressing my dismay that you and other purchasers don’t seem concerned about the direction of this industry.

I’m not sure I understand why you consider online-only “anti-consumer.”

I mean it’s very simple. It benefits the corporation. It has zero benefit to the consumer, and several drawbacks, including the inability to play anytime there’s not an active internet connection (mobile), and the inability to play when the developer inevitably goes out of business or their servers go down, whether temporarily or permanently.

It’s just the direction this series has taken.

I don’t know what this means. It’s not “just a direction”, it’s an explicitly anti-consumer direction.

I don’t have a graphics card on my PC good enough to support VR, does that mean Half Life Alyx is “anti-consumer” for being VR only?

Uhhhh no? Why would it be?

But to Blizzard, the benefits in terms of design freedom, baked-in multiplayer zones, and anti-cheating capabilities outweigh that loss.

None of these have anything to do with requiring a server ping for single player modes.

HughJanus ,

Thread hijack:

Has anyone found a Tony Hawk PS1+2 file? Not about to pay $40 for some online-only BS.

HughJanus ,

Which megathread?

HughJanus ,

I’m so very confused.

Vimm.net seems to be entirely comprised of emulators.

I found it on c/crackwatch. It links to this predb site which prompts you to download a text file that has the same instructions in it as the website. The first instruction says “extract”. Extract what? It also says I have to change firewall settings so the game can’t connect to the internet and I’ve no idea how to do that.

I don’t see Tony Hawk or any other games on that megathread site.

All these torrent sites just seem to link back and forth to each other.

Search results for a good place to find Torrents turn up nothing but VPN ads.

HughJanus ,

I was looking for the new Steam game…

Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple (www.theverge.com)

Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps… like Apple’s own iMessage.

HughJanus ,

how is iMessage fundamentally any different from texting

Not entirely sure what you’re asking but

  • iOS does not allow you to use any other messaging app for SMS. This is surely intentional to lock you into iMessage.
  • If you’re messaging iOS --> iOS your “text” messages (SMS) are automatically upgraded to the iMessage protocol, and there are a wide variety of features that are enabled without the user downloading any other apps or switching the protocol. It just happens.
HughJanus ,

Kids are idiots and Apple is exploiting it.

HughJanus ,

As I said- you k ow damn well you’d do the exact same thing about it- which is nothing. And collect tons of cash.

No I would make it available to everyone in a fuckin’ heartbeat because I’m not a scumbag but maybe that’s why I’m not a CEO.

HughJanus ,

…why would you do that?

HughJanus ,

Can’t speak for others but mine puts up big intrusive banners if you don’t connect it to the internet.

The rent is too damn algorithmic — DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb is investigating RealPage, a company that helps landlords set rent prices, for potential antitrust violations (washingtoncitypaper.com)

The rent is too damn algorithmic — DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb is investigating RealPage, a company that helps landlords set rent prices, for potential antitrust violations::Attorney General Brian Schwalb is investigating RealPage, a company that helps landlords set rent prices, for potential antitrust violations.

HughJanus ,

Any kind of algorithm used for type of thing is going to be trying to increase rents. If enough people all use the same algorithm, price fixing is what you’ll get.

It’s not necessarily malicious intent, it’s just the way the software works, which opens the discussion about the role of using algorithms in rent calculations in general.

John Riccitiello is stepping down as CEO and president of Unity (investors.unity.com)

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Unity (NYSE: U) (the “Company”), the world’s leading platform for creating and growing real-time 3D (RT3D) content, today announced that John Riccitiello will retire as President, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and a member of the Company’s Board of Directors, effective immediately....

HughJanus ,

I mean the board that HIRED him is still there. No one hires a guy like that and would be surprised about what they got.

HughJanus ,

Is there a guide for using something other than Ubuntu? Is TrueNAS a suitable alternative?

HughJanus ,
  • You can’t actually own movies anymore unless you buy physical copies (which are subject to damage over time).
  • You’re dependent on someone else’s servers to stream the movies.
  • The providers can and have removed movies you’ve paid for.
  • Not dependent on your internet connection, which can be unreliable for many.
HughJanus ,

Yeah this stuff just confuses the shit out of me but I definitely don’t want any telemetry on my server and I don’t trust canonical anymore. TrueNAS is the one I was planning to use but I’m hoping for something comprehensive.

HughJanus ,

Jack Nicholson

HughJanus ,

I’m mostly going to complain about bezels on any mobile device with a screen because I really want to maximize screen real estate. But at some point I’m just like “really?”. Like you are going to make SOME compromises to be repairable and upgradeable and that seems like a fairly minor one.

HughJanus ,

Sure we can but will we? No.

Twitter has only lost ~10% of it’s userbase after repeatedly abusing its own users. Reddit probably less. After everything we’ve learned about Meta, tens of millions of people signed up on day 1 to join their new service, Threads. Google Chrome still has like 80% market share.

Changing is honestly a trivial ask, but we won’t, because no one cares.

HughJanus ,

LOL that makes zero sense. It takes 5 minutes to switch to a different browser or service. If they were tired or didn’t have time, they wouldn’t be spending it on Twitter and Reddit.

HughJanus ,

This just sounds like a bunch of non-sense, making up excuses for people making poor decisions. Like you can’t blame every bad decision on “wahhhh life is hard!”

HughJanus ,

It takes 0 minutes of my limited spare time to use what already works.

Uhhhh nope, it takes way less time than it does to simply continue using it. All the time you’re using could be spent finding and switching to something else. It literally only takes a few minutes. Way more than people are actually spending on these other platforms. And if they’re spending time on these platforms, they can’t possibly avoid learning about competing platforms.

How someone chooses to use their corporate allotted time off is none of your fucking business anyway.

How an individual chooses to use their time is none of my concern. How millions of people choose to use their time directly impacts everyone else, myself included, so yes it abso-fucking-lutely is my business.

HughJanus ,

No, it’s not excuses, it’s just reality. It’s hard.

It’s not hard. It isn’t. Not even a little.

If that doesn’t leave room for people to support FOSS and privacy friendly browsers that’s ok.

No one is talking about “supporting” FOSS. We’re talking about using less exploitative software and services.

Spend 3 seconds Googling and install and use anything that’s not Chrome. It’s literally that simple. They just don’t care.

HughJanus ,

Sorry I don’t understand the question?

HughJanus ,

…why bother to respond to my comment? Why does anyone write comments? We’re all here for discussion.

HughJanus ,

That’s incorrect

HughJanus ,

I interpreted “we” as the general public. And yes, that was kind of my point. ActivityPub exists. NOSTR exists. Probably a dozen other decentralized social media protocols and services. And yet no one leaves the garbage-ass, bot-riddled, insanely-popular social platforms.

HughJanus ,

YouTube, I’ve been using ad-blockers since the advent of pop-up ads in the late 90s. You’ve never been able to stop this, and you aren’t going to now.

I don’t use the YouTube app or watch your videos on my browser. I use FreeTube on desktop, LibreTube and GrayJay on mobile and FCast on TV so 🖕

HughJanus ,

My guy there are like 34 different ways to get around YT ads on mobile and TV.

HughJanus ,

Nothing. It’s dogshit.

HughJanus ,

You’re welcome. I recommend disabling the Piped API as it will cause constant connectivity issues, and you don’t need it if you have a VPN.

HughJanus ,

If you can’t understand the difference between “extracting” and “exchanging”, that’s the type of thing only a dictionary can help you with, sorry.

HughJanus ,

Reading comprehension, indeed “homie”. Just re-posting quotes is not helping.

HughJanus ,

“Us” the people who pay taxes and are hypothetically responsible for paying for UBI.

HughJanus ,

And yet you’re expected to pay for UBI nonetheless…

HughJanus ,

No, I don’t know any of that.

Maybe you’d like to explain who and why people would choose to work when they entirely don’t have to?

HughJanus ,

people tend to want more than just the basics, and deciding to work provides additional income for luxuries.

Doubt.

We need to decouple being able to live from employment.

Well it’s a nice utopian thought but not realistic.

HughJanus ,

That people often choose to work more to afford more stuff is utterly uncontroversial.

No. It isn’t. Some people? Sure. Many people already live off of welfare and already choose not to work.

Because of troglodytes like yourself.

The personal attacks are uncalled for…

Here I thought you were asking in good faith.

And now you think I’m not? Why? Because I didn’t roll over and agree with everything you said?

HughJanus ,

Same reason people have hobbies… they like doing things.

LOL your hobbies are not work…

HughJanus ,

And who cares if some small proportion of people just want the basics and aren’t willing to work more?

Not “work more”. Work at all. Because society needs people to work to function. Money doesn’t grow on trees, it represents other people’s time. If there’s no time, there’s no money. Money just becomes completely without value .

Do you literally want to force them with death to make them work?

What even the fuck are you talking about?

Because you responded to something easily observable with the brainless “doubt”.

Buddy your position is the only thing here that’s brainless.

You are either trolling or just remarkably stupid. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt.

I see we’re persisting with the personal insults. I think it’s pretty clear you have no interest in an honest and productive discussion and simply desire to lambast those who disagree with you. I have no interest in such a discussion, so you can be gone, thanks.

HughJanus ,

Possibly, but they wouldn’t do it 8 hours/day by choice. Anyone who has made what they love doing into their job will tell you this.

Nobody picks up garbage for fun. Whos going to pick up the garbage? Who’s going to wait tables? Who’s going to be a nurse?

HughJanus ,

Antisocial people, prosocial people, and people that want to be nurses?

You guys are a fuckin’ riot 🤣

HughJanus ,

I’ve been watching Reddit and Twitter, nothing can surprise me anymore.

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