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Disney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmel
(www.engadget.com)
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How do you use firewire on modem operating systems? I need to know.
If it's Linux, sounds like it should just work out of box, at least for a while longer.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-to-support-firewire-until-2029
Linux to Support Firewire Until 2029
The ancient connectivity standard still has years of life ahead of it.
Firewire is getting a new lease on life and will have extended support up to 2029 on Linux operating systems. Phoronix reports that a Linux maintainer Takashi Sakamoto has volunteered to oversee the Firewire subsystem for Linux during this time, and will work on Firewire's core functions and sound drivers for the remaining few that still use the connectivity standard.
Further, Takashi Sakamoto says that his work will help users transition from Firewire to more modern technology standards (like perhaps USB 2.0). Apparently, Firewire still has a dedicated fanbase that is big enough to warrant six more years of support. But we suspect this will be the final stretch for Firewire support, surrounding Linux operating systems. Once 2029 comes around, there's a good chance Firewire will finally be dropped from the Linux kernel altogether.
I have a feeling its mostly due to some audio and video hardware that has some real longevity. I've got a VHS+minidv player that I am transferring old videos from using FireWire (well, for the minidv. VHS is s-video capture).
I'm just passing a FireWire PCI card through to a VM though. Though with how old the box is, it doesnt really need to be a VM. Thats a whole different discussion though.
I had some FireWire audio interfaces too, 8ch and 16ch, but I got rid of those a while back. I'm sure someone's making use of it though! Probably the m-audio delta 1010 I sold too, I think they are still going for a few hundred each despite being so long in the tooth.
I have a feeling its mostly due to some audio and video hardware that has some real longevity. I’ve got a VHS+minidv player that I am transferring old videos from using FireWire (well, for the minidv. VHS is s-video capture).
Yeah, that's a thought...though honestly, unless whatever someone is doing requires real-time processing and adding latency is a problem, they can probably pass it through some other old device that can speak both Firewire and something else.
Probably the m-audio delta 1010
That doesn't have a Firewire interface, does it? I thought I had one of those.
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Oh, I'm thinking of the 1010LT, not the 1010. That lives on a PCI card.
That doesn't have a Firewire interface, does it? I thought I had one of those.
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Oh, I'm thinking of the 1010LT, not the 1010. That lives on a PCI card.
No I'm talking about the PCI card, just commenting on the longevity of some devices. I know two people still using FireWire for their interfaces in spare kit (RME fire faces), which got me thinking of some of my old kit I've replaced like the delta1010.
These days I'm mostly pushing dante around
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I have to confess that I don't actually use FireWire, nor have I ever used it to transfer anything. I just thought the port looked cool...
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I bought a PCIe card for FireWire slots, there might be a usb converter though. On windows it worked out of the box, and I used WinDV for importing video.
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Don't roll over for the Orange Turd or you will pay the price.
Go woke or go broke 💪
I like "Go fash, lose cash."
Liberals make up more of the consumer class than conservatives. That highly marketable strata of people that have disposable income tend to be affluent, college educated liberals. Its why they keep winning the culture war and it drives conservatives insane.
Yes, and most of that consumer base needs to stop tolerating quite a bit of reactionary bullshit (yes, American "conservatives" aren't conservative, they don't keep status quo, they actively destroy it for regression, they are reactionary).
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the problem is these corps/media is controlled mostly by conservative ceos, which will lick TRUMPs boot anytime, they are fickle and untrustworthy, but the gop is the most consistent in not interfering with "unethical business pratices", plus they also use these media/ to issue propaganda in many forms, like you said to institute culture wars.
Corporations don't have stable political identities.
They'll promote trans people if it makes them money.
And then sell trans people to ICE the next quarter if it makes them even more money.
And then use a shell company to sell trans merch to the people boycotting them.
That depends on whether the person in charge has any. See rupert murdoch, or the red bull owner basically saying it would be great if he could also be like murdoch.
A company that's controlled by investors (aka mostly banks trying to get returns) will basically always just chase short term profit though, and that's most of them.
To pressure these companies into doing the morally right thing, we would have to pressure the banks, but that seems hardly realistic since shifting your money away from one in response to an event like this is anywhere from majorly inconvenient to impossible, plus there'd be a direct monetary tradeoff that a lot of people either can't or aren't willing to take.
It also helps that the conservatives constantly shoot themselves in their foot by defining their own reality. They decide for example that people don't like "the gays" but really it's only the right wing thugs that really have an opinion. The moderate conservatives aren't bothered one way or the other. So now they're trying to sell policies to subjugate a group of people that probably only about quarter of their membership really care about.
It is really obvious with Trump, they just invent entire new things to be mad about, like this Tylenol thing. That just came out of thin air because they couldn't think of anything else to distract people with, but even their own supporters don't really care about it because until about 3 weeks ago it wasn't a claim that anyone was making.
Nice. None of those “go woke go broke” boycotts ever actually materialize into meaningful business pressure.
Unless you’re fucking Cracker Barrel.
Cracker Barrel is so far in the red that the logo redesign was a hail mary move. They couldn't afford to lose the tiny number of people who still frequent their trash diners.
Unless you’re fucking Cracker Barrel.
Which was manufactured outrage, spawned by a few Shitter posts which were then amplified by a huge bot network.
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It may seem like a small percentage loss when talking dollar for dollar subscription loss vs Disneys massive revenue, but the scarier thing for their board of directors is damage to their brand.
The thought that a situation like this could cause any long a lasting or irreparable harm to the iconic mouse ears in any way would make keep them awake at night.
Streaming services are very sensitive to the ups and downs of anything that's a standard deviation of from normal. They're too new to have 10+ years of data to fall back on, so the same overreactions that canceled Kimmel also uncanceled him because of panicky reactions to repercussions.
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And they sold the list of people who cancelled to the US government!
Wooooah, there, buckaroo. Gonna need a citation for that.
it's a joke
Don’t give them ideas…
Probably...
The fact that you need a /s makes me very sad.
I do a lot of privacy and cyber advocacy and research. Selling lists is what already happens, so this is more real-sounding than I expect Damage@feddit.it knew when saying it.
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So far.
tbh, I expect a lot of subscribers to resub sooner than later. Sadly
I think this is how boycotts are supposed to be. Protest and return if it's successful.
If companies know they won't ever recover from the mistake, why walk it back?
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This just shows that the whole "muh, it is the corporations fault for the climate emergency, there is nothing I can do about it!" is a load of BS. You can vote with your wallet. Become anti-consumption.
It takes two to tango, they say. Corporations have a lot more wallet to vote with, as it were - but we are not powerless or blameless when we support them out of complacency.
That's an incredibly naive and misinformed opinion you've got there. Most of the companies polluting are not businesses that members of the public buy services from. The vast majority of the largest polluters are business to business providers, Joe public can't do anything about that.
Just look up Monsanto, if we took them out the total pollution worldwide would probably drop by about 50% but they sell to farmers, so you might say well don't buy from farmers that buy from Monsanto but the problem is all farmers buy from Monsanto, so there isn't another option.
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It hurt itself ~~in its confusion~~ doing exactly as it was told by the orange diaper man
Vance was recently on tv saying carr isn't responsible because "look, Jimmy is still on tv, so what'd Carr do wrong?", trying to sweep it under the rug.
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Almost everyone I know who cancelled their subscription is happily renewing it now that Kimmel is back on the air. I'm sticking with donating to PBS every month instead.
We're not. We were halfway out the door already with the lack of good content and increasing prices. This just gave us a needed push to actually cancel. We won't resubscribe.
That's how I feel about it too. Literally nothing I wanted to watch over there anyway. I'm not missing anything.
Let them know that I said that they are spineless for renewing
Surprised it was only that many. Needs to triple.
I unsubscribed. Wasn't really even using it.
And then they raised the price, so anyone who goes back sheet this is punished for leaving in the first place. Screw Disney.
I wonder what is worth more to ABC/Disney, all those direct subscribers, or these affiliates that are consolidating into two or three big media companies?
This might be the beginning of the death of the affiliate model. What would happen if Sinclair simply stopped affiliating with ABC altogether? They own enough stations that they can do their own thing. Would it matter if there is no ABC station in Mobile, Alabama, if people who still want to watch can stream it?
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Is there unpaid subscriptions?
Some subscriptions are part of a package. Like my cable internet package includes a 'free' Disney subscription that I can't cancel.
free with purchase of course
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