I totally agree, but hopefully with some advocacy we can get it from 99 to 98%. Doesn’t sound like much, but that’s 2 million people who have switched then, and whoever else may live in their house using their non-routers.

They actually did. They called it Google Play Music, and Google TV/Google Play Videos. I paid for those. Youtube Music and Youtube premium are the enshittified versions of those, and they will continue to make them worse.

Routers are incredibly simple. You can run your own using openwrt or opnsense. Then some dumb switches and access points and you’re good to go.

Oh don’t worry, I’m there, I’ll happily give money to them

How can you possibly be nostalgic about a concept like a little while ago?

This used to be the case, but it’s a different equation now. Ads used to be one or two per video. Fine, I get there are bills to pay.

Now it’s pure greed and pushing us to a subscription for a service they purposely made shitty so we would think exactly what you are. 4-5 ads, with forced ads interrupting the videos, and auto redirects to more ads after the video fonishes. Unskippable multi-minute ads.

And if you’re thinking “well then just pay for it”, tell that to Netflix, Hulu, and all of the streaming services that were “ad-free” until they decided that actually, pay twice as much or watch ads (even though your paying).

So while I understand you’re saying, you’re assuming Google will play fair. They won’t. They will up the price, they will still force ads, and it will get worse. I’m taking a stand now saying enough is enough. I’m not rewarding them for enshittifying the service.

Yeah let’s smash-cut back 48 hours ago where he told us we were all wrong. Dude is Backpedaling and desperately trying to do damage control.

Oh he’s clearly very desperate for the hype to keep going. His ass is literally on the line. (I mean, golden parachute, but he’ll never work again), so no more infinite money glitch.

I forget who said it, but if AI doesn’t literally surpass all current realms of thinking and automate everything, i.e. what they promised, it has failed. To the investors it means it failed. With that, the stock does not continue up exponentially, which to investors also means it failed. Then they demand he resign, and they put someone else in there.

He could have stayed realistic through the whole thing. “Hey everyone, we’re learning day by day, and we’re proud to be the chipmakers to bring this to you.” Modest growth, but sustainable long term growth. Instead they drank the kool-aid full on, and said that it’ll cure all disease and wipe out hunger and everything else. Now he’s freaking out because all of the latest ideas are duds, people aren’t buying the hype anymore, and that means Jensen might be looking at the end of his tenure.

Mass Effect is the best/worst when it comes to this. It’s such a good game, and you join up and befriend your squad, you go through so many things to get to the ending, and then it’s over. You put down the headphones, you get up, and stand alone in your kitchen for 20 minutes, realizing that it is over.

Honestly trailers are why I’m not seeing it. With the massive spoilers I don’t want marketers to have my money. I’ll watch it at home later, but very upset with them. I know it’s small in the grand scheme of things, but I’m very annoyed at them

I could see those brownies being real. I can see a lot of brownies being sold through this

This how stupid is the best advice. Setting up my instance was easy. Learning how liable I was for what others put there was something completely different.

That’s why whenever I see another 2 day account looking for “free speech” and “no moderation” my answer is always “sure, you go host it then!” I’m not going to jail because you want to say horrible shit.

Definition of an abusive relationship. Treated you bad for years but they do one small nice thing and they want endless praise. They’re just going to go back to hurting you tomorrow

Balkan parents share a lot with Midwestern american parents.

No no we can’t use those plates! Those are your inheritance!

Yah I’ve heard enough “commitments” from corporations to know that it’s written on toilet paper. Let me know when they actually change things, until then it’s empty words

If this is serious, it’s a very centric view of the world there, right and wrong side is localized to where you live. If it was a joke… It wasn’t the most obvious

Edit: when I commented this the person had something like a -4 score and I was trying to explain why for them. It appears that now that people understand it was a joke (because it was explained), now they are downvotimg me for explaining why they were downvoted in the first place. Internet man, freaking internet. No good deed goes unpunished

I uh, don’t think this comic was meaning it seriously.

Shocked. Absolutely shocked. Don’t you see how shocked I am?

This is good. Nvidia and ram manufacturers showed how reliant we are on them, and took advantage of their monopolies. It makes absolute sense that other govs will be looking to make them in house now, china being the most obvious. The nvidia and them will cry saying it’s unfair they have to compete again, and the us go will do something stupid for short term gains while the rest of the world plans long term.

Its artificial. Ever since Barbeinder’s viral success studios now want to make that annually. Its all about hype, its all about marketing budgets. They’re going to try and make it trending, they’re going to pay influencers, they will want it to feel authentic but remember it’s all corporate marketing.

They don’t care if you want to only see one, or if you think the other sucks. They already calculated that. You’re still giving them the publicity they need