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lolcatnip , 20 hours ago (edited 19 hours ago) to Technology in Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.

And yet you can still buy phones with headphone jacks. Because there is demand for them. The reason you didn't see many is because the demand is a lot less than what Lemmy users would have you believe.

lolcatnip , 21 hours ago to Comic Strips in Capitalism

I don't see how anyone can look at 99.9% of history and not endorse violence.

lolcatnip , 21 hours ago to Comic Strips in Capitalism

From this day forward, every day that Biden doesn't have the Republican judges killed is a betrayal of democracy.

lolcatnip , 21 hours ago (edited 19 hours ago) to Technology in Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.

I found 8 brands of DVD±R discs—none of them Sony—before I stopped counting. If you think one company stopping production is going to stop people from using physical media, or that demand hasn't been falling for years, YOU are the one who's badly out of touch.

Let me spell it out for you: as long as there is demand, someone will find a way to make money filling it. No company, no matter how evil it is, can remove a product category from the market just by leaving the market. Suggesting that a company choosing to stop making a commodity product is an attempt to prevent you from having access to said product is nonsense no matter what company and product you're talking about, because such a plan could never work.

lolcatnip , 23 hours ago to Technology in Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.

Or... they're stopping production because there's very little demand. Nah, that can't be it.

lolcatnip , 1 day ago to Technology in Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.

Damn, that's some Qanon-level shit.

lolcatnip , 2 days ago to Technology in Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more

I think it means something similar to YOLO.

lolcatnip , 3 days ago to Technology in Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising

Seems to me it's mostly complaining about Google.

lolcatnip , 5 days ago to linuxmemes in That is an act of cruelty towards the poor pokémon

Asking "who still uses $thing", where $thing is the most popular thing in its category, is peak Lemmy.

lolcatnip , 8 days ago to linuxmemes in bin or bin??

Surely it should be "cleaned the bin", right? Dialect issues complicate things but the basic problem seems to be that the joke is just ungrammatical.

lolcatnip , 10 days ago to Technology in Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp

But the one in your pocket is fine?

lolcatnip , 11 days ago to Technology in China's AI-Powered Sexbots Are Redefining Intimacy, But There Will Be Limitations - Are We Ready?

Same general idea, yeah.

lolcatnip , 11 days ago to Technology in China's AI-Powered Sexbots Are Redefining Intimacy, But There Will Be Limitations - Are We Ready?

Look up a brand called Tenga.

lolcatnip , 12 days ago to Technology in EU attempt to sneak through new encryption-eroding law slammed by Signal, politicians

I can't take anyone who says "commie" seriously. It's like hearing an adult say they need to go potty.

lolcatnip , 15 days ago to linuxmemes in Many such cases

It's absolutely trivial to convert either format to json if necessary. The real killer for me with json is the lack of comments. Human-maintained files absolutely need comments.