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corbin OP , 25 days ago to Technology in I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun

I didn't buy those adapters, I just used a computer that had a FireWire 400 port. I haven't found any evidence of those direct USB cables working with old iPods.

corbin OP , 26 days ago to Technology in I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun

I’m not quite that young.

corbin OP , 1 month ago to Technology in Steam is a ticking time bomb

Yep, never tried to hide that.

corbin OP , 1 month ago to Technology in Steam is a ticking time bomb

The issue is Steam and Valve being held up as the ‘one good company’, when there are plenty of examples to the contrary. Valve does many of the same practices as Epic, EA, etc., but there’s a double standard with Valve because it’s the default experience. The inevitable decline of Steam is going to be much worse after people spent a decade giving it a free pass on lesser issues.

corbin OP , 1 month ago to Technology in Steam is a ticking time bomb

The benefit is improved performance and a better user experience. The Chromium-based components of Steam (like the store) are slow in part because of that.

corbin OP , 1 month ago to Technology in Steam is a ticking time bomb

Steam only being 32-bit isn’t improving compatibility, it’s being lazy. You can write code that works on both architectures for the best performance and compatibility across all PCs, like Chrome, Firefox, MS Office, etc.

corbin OP , 1 month ago to Technology in Steam is a ticking time bomb

I meant more that the Steam client needs to be fully functional on modern macOS. Dropping older operating systems is more justifiable, but does still add to the picture of Valve not treating Mac owners all that well.

corbin OP , 1 month ago to Technology in Steam is a ticking time bomb

It's a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B. Apple very obviously doesn't want the Mac gaming ecosystem to exist in the same capacity as Windows and Linux, but Valve also has an obligation to its customers using Macs to keep the service running well.

corbin , 2 months ago to Technology in Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

That's not how hosting a platform works. The storage might be cheap per GB, but the database management for something on Discord's scale is a complicated and expensive feat of engineering: https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-messages

corbin , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to Technology in Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

Revenue is not the same as income. Maintaining cross-platform apps and hosting nearly a decade of messages and media attachments is gonna eat into that. Also, Discord is in fact a private company.

corbin , 2 months ago to Memes in Apple

I mean, even those old iPhones have better software support than a lot of low-end/budget Android phones. The iPhone 11 still has iOS 17 and will probably get security patches for another year or two (assuming it gets dropped with iOS 18, maybe Apple will try pushing it another year).

corbin , 3 months ago to 196 in Cookie Rule

"moisturize me"

corbin OP , 3 months ago to Technology in Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating

In my case it was an addendum to the lease renewal, so it was a completely new agreement. The only other option was leaving after my original lease was up but I'm not in a position to do that right now.

corbin OP , 3 months ago to Technology in Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating

Starlink wouldn't change anything in terms of cost, if a specific ISP is force-bundled into a lease then it doesn't matter which alternatives exist. There isn't a technical solution to this problem, only a legal one.

corbin OP , 3 months ago to Technology in Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating

It seems pretty well established at this point that AI training models don't respect copyright.