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lolcatnip ,

OTOH, you also can't trust humans not to lie to you.

Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off (www.ign.com)

Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off::An executive at Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft has said gamers will need to get “comfortable” not owning their games before video game subscriptions truly take off.

lolcatnip ,

Honestly I love it. I don't typically rewatch things often enough to justify the price they charge to purchase a copy, and I have a shitload of stuff at my fingertips with streaming services.

With music it's a little different by because I do re-listen a lot, but streaming lets me just listen to music I might like instead of relying on reviews to guess what might be worth buying. I listen to way more different things than I would if I had to buy it all.

lolcatnip ,

Who are they selling your data to?

lolcatnip ,

Paying a business to provide a service you use is not ransom.

"They might raise prices later" is an idiotic reason not to pay for something.

lolcatnip ,

So literally no one, then?

I don't know who started this trend of "showing ads is the same thing as selling data" but it's fucking irritating to see so many people confidently wrong about something they could figure out themselves if they thought about Google's business model for 30 seconds.

lolcatnip ,

They sell ads, but data. If you can't see the difference I can't help you. It's not "pedantic", it's being factual. Sorry you apparently think facts don't matter.

lolcatnip ,

Important technologies are almost always important because they result in a net decrease in the amount of human labor needed. The industrial revolution never would have happened if automation didn't result in huge labor savings. If a technology is merely a different way to do what could be done before without the same amount of effort, there's no reason to adopt it.

lolcatnip ,

Reminder: the problem is 100% capitalism, 0% technology. We've built a truly perverse economic system in which eliminating labor hurts people.

lolcatnip ,

*Me dan sed.

lolcatnip ,

I guess corporations are just our rulers and and we shouldn't even try to restrict them because it might make them mad at us.

lolcatnip ,

They don't build land.

lolcatnip ,

Someone strapping on a suicide vest would be a more appropriate image.

lolcatnip ,

I suspect a most people call power bricks "chargers" and forget there are non-battery-powered devices that they can power.

lolcatnip ,

When deciding if something related to making chips makes sense, I think you also need to consider geopolitical risk. From what I understand, a pretty large chunk of the world's semiconductor manufacturing is in Taiwan, and there's a significant chance it will all be taken over by China at some point. Meanwhile relations between China and the West are steadily deteriorating, and semiconductors are constantly becoming more essential to the world economy.

As an analogy, imagine a scenario where most of the world's petroleum production was controlled by the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. It's something a lot of world governments would have a vested interest in avoiding.

lolcatnip ,

So you admit having a walled garden doesn't protect you from malicious apps, but you still want on to...protect you from malicious apps?

lolcatnip ,

I wonder how many of the people who say self-checkout is unpaid labor will also try to shame people for not returning their shopping carts.

lolcatnip ,

I’d like to see an introduction of better social support systems as we replace these jobs en masse.

*cough* UBI *cough*

lolcatnip ,

The problem is the system that requires people to have jobs just to live.

lolcatnip ,

We don't have to let corporations rule us. If voters weren't so fucking brainwashed we could make a system that works for everyone. I'm hoping at some point it will be too obvious for anytime not to notice that a system where give swathes of the population are just left to starve isn't something we can tolerate.

lolcatnip ,

Couldn't you always unlink Google services by using different accounts for them?

lolcatnip ,

I don't understand why people are defending AI companies

Because it's not just big companies that are affected; it's the technology itself. People saying you can't train a model on copyrighted works are essentially saying nobody can develop those kinds of models at all. A lot of people here are naturally opposed to the idea that the development of any useful technology should be effectively illegal.

lolcatnip ,

If you're talking about what he's accused of saying, he did not say that. People kept repeating a badly garbled version of what he said that makes him sound awful, even though his actual words are easy to find and completely disprove the accusations.

lolcatnip ,

A lot less than a billion. The exact amount is negotiable.

lolcatnip ,

Your vehicle could have Bluetooth for about $20. Just sayin'.

lolcatnip ,

I'm talking about Bluetooth receivers you can plug into your aux port.

Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits (www.psypost.org)

Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits::A new study links partisan activity on the Internet to widespread online toxicity, revealing that politically-engaged users exhibit uncivil behavior even in non-political discussions. The findings are based on an analysis of hundreds of...

lolcatnip ,

People in a D&D subreddit aren't playing D&D; they're talking about playing D&D. Those are completely valid topics to bring up.

lolcatnip ,

Why is Lib capitalized when Linux is case sensitive and Lib files aren't a thing?

lolcatnip ,

But if this community community isn't flooded with tech business articles, where are people going to post insightful comments like "fuck Google" and "switch to Firefox"?

lolcatnip ,

It's pronounced like yiff. I have spoken.

lolcatnip ,

Signs like that wouldn't be necessary if we weren't living in a hypercapitalist dystopia.

lolcatnip ,

Those are actually different things and always have been. I don't know what point you think you're making.

lolcatnip ,

You know you're allowed to read the docs, right?

lolcatnip ,

Landlords and groceries can just raise prices to bring the cost of living up

Sigh. People make this braindead argument every single time this subject comes up. No they can't. Markets do not work that way. It's literally just a repackaged argument against minimum wage and it has been thoroughly debunked in that context.

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