TechnoBabble

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[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

All Google domains are transferring to SquareSpace, and you get 1 renewal at the old rate before SquareSpace can charge you whatever they want.

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

It's a little bit of both, but you're right. Google has had years to improve their algorithms.

But as an advertising company at heart, the more time people waste on those bullshit sites, the more Google profits.

There's definitely a need for regulation, but I'm not going to pretend I know where to begin.

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago

She's speaking to those who get all their "news" from alt-right sources. But if you haven't been paying attention to alt-right media, none of this will make sense.

I'm not sure it's an effective campaign strategy, because as we've seen, the broader public doesn't understand the intended message behind these convoluted narratives. And the people who do understand them were never going to vote for a democrat in the first place.

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

All a civil war will do is put a bigger boot on all our necks.

Nobody rational wants to see that happen.

Unless you enjoy the thought of American military might amped up to 11 and deployed on it's own citizens.

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Sounds like a town so devoid of life that it would be more productive to just let it collapse.

There's a bunch of tiny rural towns that have basically no jobs and no real reason to exist anymore.

Globalization was not kind to rural America. And people listen to snake oil salesmen like Trump because he's the only one talking at them with a distorted compassion.

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 54 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I buy steam games, even ones I've already pirated, for a few reasons.

  • Quick and easy downloads

  • Seamless updates

  • Almost all my other purchased games in one place.

  • Cloud saves

  • Durability, just knowing my games will be available to download on my next PC for the foreseeable future.

And I pirate just about everything I watch mainly because I'm not willing to play musical subscriptions to watch the shows I want to see at the end of a long day.

If the film industry had a service that offered a similar experience to a Plex share, I'd pay quite a bit for it. But instead they have this system designed to extract maximum value from every viewer, and I'm tired of it.

Gabe Newell was right on the money when he said piracy is a service issue, not a price issue.

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I thought it was insane that they take apart a fully built laptop to sell the diy version.

It's way more work for Framework, but they charge less for the diy model.

I wonder if user comfort with modifying internals on the diy model creates more sales in the long run, because customers can visualize what they'd be doing when installing an upgrade.

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

And if the state is going to legislate that way, there's even more reason to pull coverage.

It's half climate change related, and half their own doing.

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

I can't fathom why these media companies still love to do exclusivity agreements. There's no way it's more profitable than just allowing everyone to watch your show from any service, with commissions for the number of views.

I'd probably start paying for a streaming service again if I could watch every show in one place. But I'm not interested in playing musical subscriptions.

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

Except, that's not how real life social networking works.

So, the opposite of based, unless based now means "pandering".

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I'm not saying your personal choices are bad, I'm saying if you live as sustainably as possible, you're only delaying the inevitable by a millisecond at best. Change needs to be forced, globally, or we're still in the same situation, just by 2051 with a massive "green movement" instead of 2050.

But this talk we're having, it's all too late.

We're entering an era of climate induced super weather that will force the hand of leaders across the globe.

It's gotten to the point where it's becoming cheaper and more strategically significant to do something about climate change, than it is to ignore it. That's when the change happens under our system.

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A mobile only platform is pretty much destined to be the lowest quality social media site around.

Just having a keyboard and mouse makes thoughtful expression so much easier.

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