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"Of course. What is the server's root password?"

Like Google and pretty much every other tech giant.

Google are extremely keen on supporting open source when it hits their competitors but when it's about their own business they pretty much avoids ot. They took Linux and created Android... they the practically locked it down by moving more and more essentials into Play Services... which by some of reason isn't open source.

Does Bcachefs come with any guarantees regarding my wife's wellbeing?

If not, I'm definitively sticking with my OpenZFS.

Also... No other POTUS has fucked up so many diplomatic relations as Trump did.

When George W Bush did it you at least knew it was part of a planned strategy....

At this point I'm surprised that "X" has employees.

Oh... The home users matters to Microsoft. A lot.

MS have been standing by the sidelines watching Google raking home all that sweet money made from all that personal data Android and Chrome users happily hand over.

Why do you think you're able to install Windows and use it without activating it? Because Microsoft are nice guys doing charity?

No. Microsoft aren't dropping the home market. They've just been repositioning themselves the last couple of years.1

When everyone realizes games work better under Linux and AMD, nVidia will be crying outside the gate.

So you think Microsoft spends 8 billion dollars acquiring Bethesda Game Studios, Arkane Studios, id Software, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks, ZeniMax Online Studios in 2020 and then proceeds to spend 68 billion dollars on acquiring Activision Blizzard...

... just to stand on the sidelines watching everyone drop Windows as a gaming platform?

This! I don't even have to pick up my phone... I just check the code on my smartwatch. Awesome!

...if not in a similar way

Twitch - not different from YouTube since they display ads and they have a premium service. On top of that I can add that without female streamers dressing sexy and not always playing video games Twitch would not have as high revenue.

Tiktok. - still shows ads so they are not financing things in a different way.

Vimeo - yes, they finance their services in a different way. But it still doesn't answer how their content creators make money since Vimeo charge the content creators and doesn't allow ads. But seriously, Vimeo isn't a competitor to YouTube. I have a hard time imagining how they would grow to even a third of the size of YouTube.

It's ok that you have that opinion.

By your reasoning, every single platform should be in the same shitty state of yt

What comparable platforms are you talking about that is not running ads or have some sort of pay-to-watch?

If we talk about Twitch and their revenue I can promise you that they would not be very profitable without female streamers dressed sexy that doesn't always play video games.

We now live in a world where users got used to never have to pay for content or experience. Even though Google makes insane money in different areas the cost for running and developing YouTube is huge. I'm not a fan of ads (I don't see ads when at home because of how I have set up my network) and the subscription plans always seems too pricey for the value I get when using different streaming services

But all of this doesn't change the fact that even though I don't like ads or paying for content I still haven't come up with a better solution myself.

You might criticize the content all you want but it's another discussion for another time. The question is still it still how to finance a site like YouTube, with the content and amount of viewers it has, without ads or fees.

Your solution with content owners/creators paying for the housing of their creation is Vimeo.

Not even close to YouTube

If one video stream to one user uses 128 kilobyte per second out of your 100 megabit internet connection 781 users can watch that stream at the same time. However, the ISP will charge you per transferred gigabyte each month. So let's say that you serve 781 users that video 24/7 in a full month of 31 days ... It will be 100 megabit divided by 8 to get 12.5 megabyte. So it's 12.5 megabyte per second. That's 750 megabyte per minute. That's 45 gigabyte per hour. That's 1 terabyte or day. So around 31 terabyte traffic per month. (If you use this much bandwidth you will get a discount but it's still not going to be

Now, that's just for 781 simultaneously users.

What is we need to serve 781000 simultaneous users?

Now, this far we've only been talking about one video on repeat 14/7. What about 100000 videos and enough programmers and computers to design as system that lets each and every user choose any video whenever they need to? Now you suddenly have thousands of servers and harddisks running in a couple of hundred places on earth 24/7.

Now this is for you to provide your users 100000 different videos even before you start to pay content creators for their hard work.

Also, you need to be available 24/7 so now you have to make backups, redundant servers on different location that can take over in case of an accident, dedicated internet connection (being alone on the internet cable is not the same as sharing it with 100 other sites) and a whole lot of other things you need to take care of.

What about offering the 500 million videos YouTube offers their users?

... and all of this cost is paid out of your pocket?

But do we really want to pay the price for others getting it better?

https://youtu.be/XLGzFQg_1xc

I'm not saying that's how I want it to be but unfortunately his point in the end it's depressingly accurate...

While there are a billion things Google does that annoys me I'm not able to figure out how to create and maintain a video streaming platform without ads or paywall that finances both creation and the providing material.

I mean, who are the competitors and how do they finance it if not in a similar way?

You she?

So you claim that SAAB was already lost when GM heroically decided to step in and do some charity?

You are very wrong and of course GM saw a value in SAAB that was more intellectual property than manufacturing cars.

I'm pretty sure a lot of people said something like "Hmm,maybe the automobile won't replace horses." after reading about the first car accidents.

Countries and contestants have all agreed that doping is not allowed. If you promise something and have no intention to keep the promise you are in fact a liar.

There has been, and probably still is, a government funded doping program in Russia. So not only have their contestants been proved to be cheaters, Russia has been caught sponsoring it all too.

So while you like to derail this discussion towards on whether doping should be allowed or not it still doesn't change the fact that Russia actively promoted cheating.