It’s a good point

But the accusation isn’t flippant. That’s exactly what this is.

The first one is pretty much down to, as Gabe Newell puts it, “piracy is a service problem”. Spotify came along and (initially) provided a much better service compared to pirating your music at the time. Once they created the market segment, competitors started their own streaming subscriptions. I’d also say the Google music “upload 50,000 tracks for free” got a lot of former pirates to jump.

Now the services are going through the same enshittification that most popular online services seem to be going through, we can see piracy increasing again. Someone will notice and fill the gap in providing a good service again at some point and the pendulum will swing once more

I’m not sure I agree with you on the former, DLSS is pretty remarkable in its current iteration

Honestly if the gameplay and/or story are good enough, I don’t care one bit about hyper-realistic graphics

Hell, the more stylised the graphics of a game, generally the more interested I am.

Games like Obra Dinn, Lisa or Undertale that lean into the graphical limitations of the past are some of my all time favourites

Plex is probably the easiest and most convenient, I think jellyfin is viable too, but I don’t use it.

If you’ve got the money, Roon or Audirvana are the gold standard of self hosted music

If you want something similar, but free, look into things like volumio or subsonic based solutions.

I feel like there should be a prize for this

Perhaps involving a french antique with a place to rest one’s head

That was super interesting, thanks for the response

Tell me more about these lobsters

Should we send someone after him?

All these subscriptions I’m paying don’t seem to be that free to me

Particularly the ones that are double dipping and throwing adverts in too now

Forgive the basic response, but they’ve yet to earn a better name:

Poobisoft

Legitimately the Japanese convenience stores are peerless compared to anything outside their country.

Family mart over 7-11 though IMO

Made me go and check, but surprisingly lemmy doesn’t have an emojipasta community

I would have thought that one would have made the jump

I’ve been an engineer for about two decades now and pretty much everyone I’ve ever worked with has expressed that they would never work for Facebook, betting companies or defense companies.

Amazon is probably next on the shit list and then Google, but each to a much lesser extent than the ones before. Working for Google still holds a level of prestige for some people.

Every company I’ve worked at for at least the last decade or so has an internal social media thing of varying quality.

Facebook even wraps up its own product for internal use.

Admittedly engineering always generally ignores it and we just use slack

My view on this is that Ofcom fucked it on this long ago really and the horse has already bolted

We should have gone with an openreach style model for the infrastructure rather than doling out exclusive rights to chunks of spectrum in an entirely uneven manner.

This model can’t really sustain more than a few companies because, using this as an example: three has a fantastic 3G network and the best 5G network, however they have no 2G network and got shafted on 4G spectrum. Vodafone has almost a polar opposite of the best 2G coverage (still useful for very remote customers) and 4G coverage comparable to EE.

The only way for these two companies to cover the patches in their service and complete with the market leader effectively is a merger, which is how EE came to exist in the first place.

I’m not sure I buy the pricing-people-out angle either tbh, we have a pretty rich market of MVNOs who act as an anchor on the MNO pricing, and it would look like anti-competitive market collision if suddenly the operating costs for these companies went up after a merger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Home_Server

:D

I guess out of fear that we get another gitlab situation, where the open source offering has a load of key features eventually kept behind a paywall

I specifically don’t comment on people that give off the vibe they might be one of those kind of nutjobs, precisely because it gives them a notification with my username attached if I do. I’m on this site to kill some time with low effort, I want to minimise the risk of attracting the attention of some weirdo.

I downvote in those scenarios and then report if appropriate. If enough other users feel the same way the comment goes down to the bottom of the thread and fewer users see it. Especially if it’s something that a mod eventually removes, as it reduces the reach until a mod can get to it.

If I risk retaliation for doing that, I (and others) will just stop, meaning those comments stay up front & centre and we lose that soft moderation plus that engagement in general. Going into the comments will just end up being a worse experience

Hard no from me

I don’t want some nutjob with too much time stalking me because I upvoted something about climate change or downvoted some bigoted shit. We all know those fuckos are out there

Voting on Reddit-like platforms is soft moderation by a community, and if you disincentive that, the whole model kinda falls apart IMO