circuitfarmer

circuitfarmer , 8 days ago to Technology in Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete

It's almost like all these CEOs and MBAs are just shooting in the dark because of the $$$ in their eyes, but the fact remains that the market is no longer responding favorably to their absolute need for year-over-year growth.

circuitfarmer , 11 days ago to Memes in Hey she tried her best ok

Much love for these teachers. They are not paid nearly enough. I hate the corporate pizza party, but not the public school one.

Edit: I wonder if the difference in financial burden between a corporate pizza party and a public school one is a good metric

circuitfarmer , 13 days ago to Technology in $200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on the Windows 3.1 era

Tell me you've never tried it without telling me you've never tried it.

circuitfarmer , 13 days ago to Technology in $200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on the Windows 3.1 era

Have you tried emulating it while interfacing with some ancient ISA card?

circuitfarmer , 16 days ago to Technology in Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws

I'm sure inflation has affected that too

circuitfarmer , 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to Technology in Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws

With other industries, owning 5, 10, 15 other sites might be indicative of a monopoly. But there is a metric fuckton of porn online.

Edit: pardon me, a *metric fucktonne

circuitfarmer , 16 days ago to Technology in Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws

Can you define what part of PornHub owning a lot of other porn sites makes them a monopoly? Part of being a monopoly is being anticompetitive. What has PornHub done in terms of lobbying or other anticompetitive practices which makes it more difficult for a new company sharing porn to take hold? Because there is a ton of porn online which is unrelated to PornHub.

I'm all for calling out monopolies, but I legit don't see one here. I'm open to being wrong.

I don't believe that the thing about actresses getting work after 22 is reliant on PornHub. Porn has worked that way for 50+ years my dude.

circuitfarmer , 16 days ago to Technology in Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws

"Every other site", obvs, it's right there in the comment. You mean you're not uploading your driver's license to watch someone get railed?!

/s

circuitfarmer , 16 days ago to Technology in Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws

OP's claim here is just BS. PornHub is in no way a monopoly or even close. It reads like someone who has literally never searched for porn on the internet. Astroturf.

circuitfarmer , 16 days ago to Technology in Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws

Yeah, well that's the thing: they like the idea of being against government regulations, but if it is presented to them as a moral issue, they eat it up.

Case in point: a comment in this thread loosely trying to pose PH's response as being against states' rights -- in this case, due to the states tacitly regulating morality. I'm sure if the issue was e.g. raising state taxes, all of a sudden states' rights wouldn't matter.

The right wing learned a while ago that if you can pose anything as morality, there is a whole class of people that will simply lick the boot.

circuitfarmer , 16 days ago to Technology in Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws

Unfortunately they'll go after that next.

I'm legitimately surprised at the number of pro-government control comments in this thread, though. We are truly doomed because of the people in the back.

circuitfarmer , 16 days ago to Technology in Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws

I've never, ever seen anyone lick boots harder than this.

circuitfarmer , 24 days ago to Technology in Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 | The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices

100% they will do this.

But I wonder if the effect will be different to now. I know Apple wants to retain the idea that their users are in an exclusive blue bubble group. But currently, green bubbles are associated with shitty looking images, video, etc, due to MMS. Especially for people that don't know why files come through that way, green bubbles are always presented as inferior by virtue of actually being inferior.

But now, if they do keep the green bubs, they'll just be green. Green at feature parity is different from green with clear differences.

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago to Technology in Reddit embracing all out enshittification

I've been on Lemmy ever since the reddit API fracas. To date, I have not seen a reason to return. I have, however, seen many reasons to stay away.

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago to Tesla in Tesla profits drop 55%, company says EV sales 'under pressure' from hybrids

• Now-famous poor quality control
• Questionable design decisions like shifting with a screen
• Company smells Musky

Yeah, I'm sure it's the hybrids.