TheCraiggers

TheCraiggers , 10 months ago to asklemmy in What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?

Also renewing license plates/licenses. Basically if you need to make a yearly or monthly payment to keep using something it’s a scam in my eyes.

Not sure about where you live, but where I live, that money goes towards road upkeep. That money has to come from somewhere.

TheCraiggers , 10 months ago to technology in John Deere brags about sabotaging competitors & customers on hot mic - they're PROUD of it!

Is it? I don’t remember seeing a guy running for Congress that promised he’d prevent huge corporations from running rough shod over everything.

People like saying stuff like “just vote better”, but the fact is the vast majority of people that run for any office are pro-big business because that’s their background and the lobbyists give them lots of money to get elected. Where’s the anti-big business guy going to get his money to run? And without money, you sure aren’t winning.

Through lobbying, corporations have us all by the balls. It doesn’t matter what side of the isle you’re on; both sides have basically been endorsed by big money.

TheCraiggers , 10 months ago to piracy in Is there any Bittorrent V2 tracker?

Eh, you’ll still need something that allows you to search for a file/torrent and gives you a hash or magnet. Right?

TheCraiggers , 10 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in "Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?

but I can use it offline with any software I want on any device whenever I want

Tell that to all the VCR tapes in people’s basements. Finding a working VCR player is nigh impossible these days, and it won’t be too long until optical media is the same. Last car I bought didn’t have a CD player. DVD drives are disappearing from computers. Game consoles a generation or two from now will be download only.

Content owners can’t wait until the only option we have is to stream.

TheCraiggers , 10 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in "Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?

The screenshot literally says “sponsored recommendation”. Not sure how much more clear it can be that somebody paid money for that.

TheCraiggers , 11 months ago to linux_gaming in Linux overtakes macOS users on Steam thanks to Steam Deck

Well, they probably use Macs.

TheCraiggers , 11 months ago to linux in I feel called out

Jesus Christ, did Microsoft rename Lync again?!

TheCraiggers , 11 months ago to retrogaming in I re-purchased a Sega 32X. I don't know why...

I wanted that service so bad as a kid. I terrorized my local cable company by calling every single day for months (sometimes more than once) thinking “if enough people called asking for it, they’d get it”. RIP receptionist lady.

TheCraiggers , 11 months ago to technology in Brands that don’t buy enough Twitter ads will lose verification

With what money?

I know spez is running it into the ground, but it was valued at $10b last funding round. I don’t think he’s got the liquid capital after blowing it all on Twitter.

TheCraiggers , 11 months ago to piracy in Planning on creating a huge torrent. Should I put the files into archives?

Jpeg is already compressed, so compressing them again won’t do anything but make it impossible for people to selectively download just the image/folder they desire.

Metadata on the other hand sounds like text files, which compress very well. Wether the space savings is worth it is hard to answer without more info. I’d personally lean towards not archiving it.