I mean, I don't have anything against this quote as it's directly from the films, but I can't guarantee some of my generals won't get a bit trigger-happy haha
I find the usual large and long SNES/PS1 era JRPGs quite bloated and grindy, to be honest. A while ago I played Phantasy Star IV, which is a lot more lightweight, linear and shorter than say, FF6, and I found that quite refreshing. Maybe you can try that as a change of style.
As long as they sell spare parts and make schematics available, they can sell as much stuff as possible.
I guess there is a small incentive to buy more phones for friends and family, that's not a bad thing.
But they should stop with the ewaste earbuds and rather think of something else people might use. I hear home automation is a big market, and lots of space for open, sustainable products.
I think that's pretty normal, honestly. Especially for an artist where praise is the only reward, having low engagement can be depressing. It's just what it is.
I don't have any advice, and I don't think advices "think of..." or "take it as..." are any useful. Maybe I can say try to do the art primarily for yourself rather than for others?
Or if you feel like it, you can try doing more niche/different stuff. People who like very specific, oddball things, tend to be more appreciative, and there's less "competition", if you will. And challenging yourself to do something different and new can be good for you too, but it depends on what you wanna do.
I can only guess it'll eventually bump out, maybe you'll post less, or find a small hardcore audience, or maybe stop caring about it. Or not. An artist's life is weird.
The surveillance of this scale isn't necessary. I'm not against serving me ads based on the current web page I'm on right now. Or based on the current email or search, since the provider has access to that anyway (unless it's e2e). Or make a profile of me based on a voluntary questionnaire.
Some companies work like that and they survive just fine. It's absolutely not necessary to collect every little bit of detail of my life to serve me ads. It's only the predatory companies that do that, and especially the multi-trillion corporations.
Furthermore, those "free" services in exchange for user data may not even be good. Take Google, how they push everything that serves their needs, even if better alternatives are available (or were, before they were smothered).
I.e. crappy quality of Google search is well documented, Chrome no comment, Drive is pushed so hard that you can't get a Pixel phone with decent storage and most phones don't offer memory cards because Google makes it difficult... Etc.
So yea, I'm totally for limiting the collection of data to the barest minimum. There's literally no downsides to anybody except to the dystopian corporations.
Ed: that's not even mentioning all the dark patterns these corpos use to sign you up, or how you can't opt out or you have no choice because of monopolies. That's not "choosing" or "agreeing", that's extortion.
They shouldn't be able to obtain data beyond what's strictly necessary for the service, never mind sell it.
People don't understand the value of the data, and there's no good way to put a price on it, honestly. As in, no, just because Reddit or whoever can make 5£$€ a year off me, doesn't mean I'd be ok to sell it for 2£$€.
I always know I can never be 100% sure of anything. That removes some of the pressure of needing to be right, and ironically some of the uncertainty too. Other than that, well, just gather as much information as possible and go for it... Then don't look back
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