Dran @ Dran_Arcana @lemmy.world

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Perhaps I just did a bad job of explaining my position; I agree. I just think it's worth considering the unintended consequences of a rug pull. Maybe we need to wean the industry off slowly or something else entirely. etc. all I was getting at was that caution doesn't immediately mean someone is bought and paid for by industry lobbies. There is nuance here.

Advertising is a core funding model for a lot of businesses. There is the legitimate the argument that upending it now could lead to the collapse of a lot of the tech sector. While I do believe we never should have gotten here in the first place, we should be cautious and methodical when unwinding it. We don't want a recession, and we need US businesses to be able to compete on the global stage.

Sorry I should have said "carbons and carbons related qol extensions"

Did you ever get carbons working properly? (As in, mobile and desktop clients of the same user both getting messages and marking as read remotely between them)

*privacy from everyone except us, which conveniently makes our ad revenue line go up.

We're all thinking it; it looks like someone had a small poo in a seaweed cup.

That's not necessarily true. The thing about TV ads in particular, is there are only so many ad minutes to sell in an hour. More ad bidders = higher prices for those ad minutes. As advertisers leave a platform, the remaining advertisers have more power to negotiate lower prices for ad buys.

I actually had one of these myself. I worked at a college help desk as a student, and I got a call and the guy said "every time I flush the toilet, Xbox live disconnects"

My first thought was that it was a joke, the absurdity of the thing right? I unironically asked if I was being pranked, and he said he knew we wouldn't believe him so he made a video. Sure enough, he walks into the bathroom, flushes the toilet, and like 5s later his Xbox shows a disconnection message on the TV.

Absolutely dumbfounded, I sent the networking guys up to his room, and like all of these stories, it does have a reasonable explanation. They ran the xbox's Ethernet cable under a rug that was in front of the bathroom. Every time someone went to the bathroom, they would step on the cable, and the Xbox would disconnect. The timeout was 30s or so, just long enough that they'd pee or flush the toilet or whatever before they noticed the disconnection.

I support your position in principle, but canceled my own nitro when they did the android app redesign. It went from really snappy (respecting system animation scale settings) to completely ignoring them. It feels like molasses compared to every other phone app that operates at the system set 0.25 animation scale.

They also completely broke foldable support, and if your device changes aspect ratios inside a chat, you have to restart your client to get it to behave correctly again.

The enshittification is real and I am voting with my wallet.

Xmpp is by design, an extensible protocol. There just doesn't seem to be any motivation to develop for it.

I actually did, because once I bought it they couldn't shut down the dlc servers on me when they released the next one.

I disagree, I think words having powerful, negative meaning like that is a symptom of a deeper problem, not a root problem in and of itself. We shouldn't be tackling the problem of people using words, we should be tackling the problem of why do they want to use those words in the first place?

Indeed, they recognize that education is the antithesis of their ideals.

He's not wrong though; you have to battle ideas not words. Education is the solution.

Probably 64gb chips that failed QC and had some registers disabled. Similar to how CPUs that fail QC have cores disabled and are sold as lower-tier skus

sheryl crow - you were meant for me

Unfounded is the correct term here. It's possible that it did happen; evidence, however, does not support a claim that it did.

It has always struck me as odd that people surprisedpikachuface.jpg whenever something inherently highly sexual is... checks notes sexualized by spectators.

I'm with you. Either educate, own it, and lean into it, or get rid of it.

They probably would. As the value of a dollar drops disproportionate to the value of goods/services, the cost in dollars for the same good/service goes up.

• 3.125MB/s to 12.5MB/s

He is right though on megabits to megabytes. Internet speed is advertised in bits/s where files and transfer speeds are usually shown in software as megabytes/s