SamBBMe

SamBBMe , 7 months ago to piracy in I hope someday we'll find a way to pirated a car

I had a 2023 Elantra, and iirc it had these features for $30 a year after my subscription ended.

These prices are way higher. Seems like every company agreed that subscription = $10(ish) a month, regardless of the actual cost the features justify.

SamBBMe , 10 months ago to games in Steam Deck OLED is now available

Yeah, but it’s not really worth spending the money to upgrade to the OLED

SamBBMe , 10 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in Instagram's monthly subscription

It’s weird in that most users would value it at $3.99 a month, but the average user also scrolls for several hours a month, with each one of those hours packed with ads.

This equates to way more than $4 in revenue a month.

SamBBMe , 10 months ago to lemmyshitpost in I wish

return !(number % 2)

SamBBMe , 10 months ago to technology in Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002'

Isn’t direct storage the windows equivalent?

SamBBMe , 10 months ago to technology in The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier.

The US transitioned to SUVs and trucks a long time ago now, so those emissions are already built in

SamBBMe , 10 months ago to technology in So long, small phones

5 years ago, I would’ve agreed, but it’s pretty good today

SamBBMe , 10 months ago to technology in So long, small phones

The s23 is basically the same size as the pixel 5.

m.gsmarena.com/size-compare-3d.php3?idPhone1=1038…

SamBBMe , 10 months ago to technology in AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices

Is there anything even wrong with the default Google file manager? It works pretty well from my experience

SamBBMe , 11 months ago to technology in Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder

Look it up

blog.kagi.com/status-update-first-three-months#ka…

It’s $.0125, so 1.25 cents not double digits like I thought. They also average 27 searches per day per user. So an average of 821.25 searches per user per month, meaning a cost of $10.27 per month.

SamBBMe , 11 months ago to technology in Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder

It’s probably as good as we are going to get.

The best options would be an open source, donation supported search engine, but the money required to host/develop that is immense.

We are all freeloading off of Lemmy right now, unless you are donating to the people who are running the servers. The cost to run a search engine is much higher though – kagi pays (iirc) double digit cents for each search, even before development costs, with the average user doing 700 searches a month. The costs are way higher.

SamBBMe , 11 months ago to technology in Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder

It’s also privately owned by one guy, so it doesn’t have to submit to investor pressure.

Steam, for example, is basically a monopoly for PC game sales, but hasn’t enshittified because it is privately owned.