ilickfrogs

ilickfrogs , 2 months ago to news in Maine Took the US One Giant Step Toward More Democratic Elections

Basically they are what the 13 colonies were. Taxed to shit without support and rep lmao

ilickfrogs , 3 months ago to news in Truth Social hit by major outage

overloaded with truth

ilickfrogs , 4 months ago to technology in Meta takes down Chinese Facebook accounts posing as US military families

lmao chill. A broken clock is still right twice a day.

ilickfrogs , 6 months ago to piracy in Looking for good USENET primer

I agree with almost everything you said. I’m not referring to services like Netflix as owning. More specifically the recent debacle with Sony removing access to PURCHASED content. I would happily buy my movies and TV shows on something like Google play movies or Apple TV. My issue is I can’t trust any of these corps not to pull the rug out from under me. Their track record says they will. It’s a question of when not if. We need a streaming equivalent of Spotify for TV and movies. Obviously it would be much more expensive than Spotify, but I would happily pay for the convenience of having anything I want as much as I want on one platform/interface. Streaming sucks right now where libraries are spread across platforms with varying interfaces, bitrate etc. shit just sucks lol

ilickfrogs , 6 months ago to piracy in Looking for good USENET primer

Mandatory reminder that if buying isn’t owning then piracy isn’t stealing.

ilickfrogs , 6 months ago to world in US F-16 Fighter Jet Crashes into Yellow Sea Off South Korea, Yonhap Says

What are you on about? The Osprey is a piece of shit that should never have been flying to begin with.

ilickfrogs , 6 months ago to world in US vetoes UN Security Council resolution on Gaza ceasefire

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8f19a61e-e6aa-4344-b1ec-f5a7d0971de1.jpeg

ilickfrogs , 6 months ago to memes in venture capitalism goes brrr

I wouldn’t really use that comparison. The discord update resembles the old one. But old reddit and new reddit are damn near unrecognizable to one another.

ilickfrogs , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Best VPS for gramps

Oh absolutely! I wouldn’t trust them with anything mission critical but for little projects here and there they’re absolutely amazing.

ilickfrogs , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Best VPS for gramps

I’d recommend racknerd. Their black Friday pricing is available year round and they have super good annual pricing on some of their VPS options www.racknerd.com/BlackFriday/

ilickfrogs , 6 months ago to technology in Nvidia CEO: US chip independence may take 20 years to achieve

I think there’s a little more at play than just not reading it lol

ilickfrogs , 7 months ago to technology in Ubisoft Allegedly Interrupts Gameplay with Pop-Up Ads

Loading screens got shorter as tech improved. Now tech is too fast for proper ads so I bet there’s going to be intentional delay time added in the future for more ad impressions.

ilickfrogs , 7 months ago to technology in A secret Google deal let Spotify completely bypass Android’s app store fees

Isn’t Netflix exempt from these fees too? Or do they just not allow you to sign up in app and redirect to a browser?

ilickfrogs , 7 months ago to world in Russian court fines Google for failing to store personal data on its users

I think there’s some irony in Google getting fined for not storing ENOUGH user data lmao

ilickfrogs , 7 months ago to technology in Google turns to regulators to make Apple open up iMessage

Well didn’t they initially want carriers implementing RCS with interoperability between each other to sunset sms? But that didn’t quite pan out. IIRC there was a time when Verizon had a limited number of devices that supported RCS but only on their network, similar story with Bell in Canada. Hell at one point even Samsung had RCS but only with other Samsung phones. Fragmentation was rampant so Google took matters into their own hands. Not saying I’m happy Googles at the helm but they didn’t start out with that intention.