beefcat @ beefcat @beehaw.org

Posts

0

Comments

230

Joined

2 yr. ago

what does that have to do with the ISA your CPU uses?

These aren't excuses, these are angry employees complaining about the whole situation and shedding some insider light on how it went down.

Yeah Netflix really started taking off once TV shows started getting DVD releases. These DVD sets were expensive, but you could get a 3-disc Netflix plan for $15/mo and realistically binge an entire season of 24 in two weeks. This is what I think turned Netflix from a Blockbuster alternative into a Blockbuster killer.

DVD really started to take off at the turn of the millennium, with prices for new players plummeting below $100 (USD) by the end of 2002. VHS was basically dead by 2005, with A History of Violence being the last movie widely distributed on the format in 2006. Coincidentally that is the same year blu-ray hit the scene.

never heard of itunes? bandcamp? amazon mp3?

these stores have been around for a very long time. newer stores like qobuz specialize in lossless music.

Especially if it is the way it is with movies where you don’t really own it, just a license to play it.

it’s been 15 years since DRM vanished from online music stores, so i don’t understand why people still keep bringing this up like it’s a thing.

the mormon church. it’s the reason he donates money to anti-lgbt causes.

Makes sense given that the Brave CEO is a member of an actual cult.

i’ve never seen ads in discord. they have no advertising program.

no i don’t count those blurbs in the settings menu telling you about features that come with nitro. discord doesn’t get paid for those.

i'm surprised discord has managed to last this long without turning to shit.

seriously, it's 2023 and the service is still free without ads. their entire revenue stream is built on people subscribing to nitro.

i hope it stays like this but enshittification feels inevitable these days.

do you think mozilla is lying in their privacy policy?

Opera is just chrome with a different skin these days, they no longer maintain their own browser engine

Dual-booting literally is a supported use case

they used to be separate wars, with the eugenics wars starting in the mid '90s and ww3 happening in the early-mid 21st century.

this has since been retconned, and the eugenics wars are now some time in our near future, serving as the starting gun for ww3

the burden of proof is not suspended just because said proof would be upsetting.

the one that made me laugh recently was when they tried to paint alternatives to rcs as antiquated.

rcs doesn’t even support end-to-end encryption, something even imessage does.

an open, industry standard that everyone supports would be awesome, but rcs simply isn’t it. rcs was designed to make telecom companies happy, not to be an actually good messaging protocol.

The NYC subway banned dogs on trains unless they fit into a small bag, so this guy trained his Pitbull to sit in a small bag

you have to remember this was 1998, and apple was the first company going all-in on usb for peripherals, using it to replace the aging apple desktop bus.

the cost concern also has more to do with low end machines in that time frame. if the connector included it, then any devices that used it would need usb support. at a time when usb was still brand new, and most pcs that had it shipped with controllers that only supported one or two ports.

i think i laid out exactly why that most likely wouldn’t have happened

i don’t think there is any reason vesa couldn’t have adopted it if they wanted, the connectors are already extremely similar. the problem is they didn’t want a connector that also handles power and usb, because that would have raised costs for pc manufacturers

the adapter is passive since both connectors use the same signaling protocol

the problem is that designing tooling to manufacture a custom connector at scale is expensive, so nobody is going to do that until they know there is enough demand to at least cover the upfront cost of designing that tooling and manufacturing a bunch of these.