PixxlMan @ PixxlMan @lemmy.world

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Spez is going full Musk. It's actually insane. Like... Holy shit.

I'm praying for Reddit's downfall here, because if companies are able to get away with this shit the internet is going to get oh so much worse in the near future.

Are there really people who think that there aren't people who think that there really are people that think there aren't people that think incognito does something more than clear your session history and cookies?

I'd disagree here. To me it seems like YouTube isn't a monopoly because Google is being monopolistic with it (if you do have any examples of this, please show me) but rather because of the ridiculous scale and expense of such a project. The infrastructure to support something like YouTube at the scale of YouTube is insane, and I doubt many organisations or companies have the ability to even dream of it, not to mention the extreme network effect with something like YouTube. Google doesn't have to be monopolistic (I'm sure they would be if there were viable competitors, sure, not saying that Google's a saint) because it's almost impossible to compete just in sheer complexity and cost.

It's kind of like how the entire semiconductor industry is dependent on lithography machines from one company: ASML. But that's not because they're being anti-competetive, it's because their products are insanely, extremely complex, precise and advanced. Decades upon decades and billions and billions of RnD.

Stop it! The only words that matter are those that can be written in ASCII! The rest of the world just wants to scare you with gibberish letters!

Lol yeah. 100% profit would mean literally no operating expenses.

^Most ^economically ^literate ^Lemmy ^user.

The amount of times I've seen people misunderstanding this...

When you blast something with a high powered laser it behaves differently, who knew?

I do all of these except one...

^Damn, ^really ^gotta ^cut ^down ^on ^the ^sugar.

I suspect the angle might make the space look smaller too, it's possible that the wall actually extends a bit out without being solid inside

The point of a 100 dollar merch hoodie isn't that you get a 100 dollars worth of hoodie. It's that you support the artist. A less expensive hoodie means less for the artists. That's kinda the point of merch....

Largely this is probably true. One large benefit for the consumer with streaming music over buying it is actually that it is cheaper. Significantly cheaper if you listen to a bunch of different things. So if everyone has moved to a method of listening to music that costs less then there has to be less money available to artists (all else being equal).

Even if 100% of streaming services' revenue went to artists it could still be less money.

The problem isn't Spotify itself, it's the business model of streaming being way too cheap.

Ah yes all those millionaire artists. Poor rich artists. Everyone knows all artists are rich. Right?

Did you.. read the comment? It wasn't about the streaming platform owners.

I didn't downvote you

The way I parsed your earlier comment was that the solution to making a resolution like 4k usable on a laptop was just to lower your resolution. My point is that if instead of lowering your resolution, meaning you're not utilizing the full potential of your screen, you can instead use UI scaling to make the resolution usable while still benefiting from the higher resolution in terms of sharpness in text, games etc.

Just listen to the radio then instead of complaining here?

For when you want to sleep in sub zero temps!

Clock speed isn't improving that quickly anymore. Other aspects, such as more optimized power consumption, memory speeds, cache sized, less cycle-demanding operations, more cores have been improving faster instead.

And waste all those pixels? Scaling let's you keep the sharpness while also getting reasonably sized ui

To be fair - people don't know what they want until they get it. In 2005 people would've asked for faster flip phones, not smartphones.

I don't have much faith in current gen AI assistants actually being useful though, but the fact that no one has asked for it doesn't necessarily mean much.

Same story for me. I've heard it's incredible so I guess I'll have to try again sometime though. The start was just incredibly dull

Translations.... aren't code though...?